Yet another Metaphor from the world for the Modern Church — Who needs it?
May 22, 2007
We have Christian education based on Fight Club, Spiderman, Shrek, and more. Now we have this, something called ArkALMIGHTY.
What is ArkALMIGHTY?
ArkALMIGHTY is a good deeds program that matches up the needs in your congregation and community with the talents and skills of the members of your church. After gathering the needs of church members, these requests are compiled on a Craigslist-type website, easily administered by your church. Then, the members of your church can simply search through the needs and find ways they can help.
The ArkAlmighty.com website is designed to enable youth groups and churches to easily get involved in practical and tangible volunteer outreach. Can you balance a checkbook? Can you hang a picture frame? Can you throw a spiral? You might not think of these everyday activities as volunteering, but for the people around you who can’t do them, your ability and your willingness to help is exactly what they need. You’d be amazed how a simple act of kindness can change lives.
Since when did the Church need movies and programs based on movies to motivate Christians to do what the Holy Spirit should be leading them to do every day. Christian, if you need motivation consider being obedient to the words of Jesus in Matthew 5,6,7 (the Sermon On The Mount) or consider Pauls description of love in 1 Corinthians 13. Just read the bible, it’s all you need.
The actors we see here are ’spiritual giants’ right, think again. Our youth know these guys all to well as having played questionable roles in the past. Imagine bringing John Goodman into your church or youth group for a 4 week DVD series. John Goodman host the DVDs from what I can tell.
This program, in my humble opinion, is just another social gospel experiment.
It should come as no suprise to see Youth Specialties and Willow Creek Association as sponsors of this effort.
Finally, the media company on this project, Grace Hill Media, boast of past campaigns on some of Hollywood’s most successful movies and television shows. Click on campaigns above and you will notice titles like The Exorcism, Constantine, and The Notebook (all family friendly shows, not).
– Shane Trammel
Posted in Modern Church, Modern Gospel, New Evangelicalism, Social Gospel
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May 22nd, 2007 at 5:28 am
Willow Creek also has a spiritual inventory that can be filled out that will tell you what your spiritual gifts are. It doesn’t surprize me that they are involved in this project as well. We have become a media driven church, really no different than the society around us. Very sad. Christians are so easily mislead.
An act of kindness that can change lives is making certain that we present the gospel to those that we reach out to in kindness. Now that is kindness!