Chasing your tail!

Yes. I am a Harry Potter fan.

 I became one after looking into Harry for myself.  I had been told to stay away from Harry Potter.  That Harry Potter was the satanic and the books are a ploy to lure people to the dark side! In Christian circles books were written and entire ministries sprung up to battle the ebbing darkness of Harry!  He had to be stopped!!

Is Harry Potter a threat to Christianity?  Can the entire body of Christ be undermined by a English school boy who waves a wand?  Think about that!  This is insanity!!!!  Yet, as a Christian, and a Pastor, I have seen this type of thing repeatedly in Christian circles. These are things that get our focus off the real issues and place them on something else.  It all reminds me of a dog chasing his tail!  A lot of action but leads to nothing productive.

Why is it that Christians will spend so much time chasing their Harry Potter Tail?  Deflection!  Rather than addressing the real issues of the world, we find something else to vilify and persecute!  Why would we do that?  Because it takes attention off of what we are not and what we are not doing! 

Jesus refers to His followers as light and salt.  Both of these things are agents of change.  Light changes darkness and salt changes the flavor of what it comes in contact with.  That is what we are suppose to do.  But, it is far easier to focus our energy on Harry than focusing on becoming what Jesus wants us to be. 

Jesus said that when ever we feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and prisoners it is as if we have done this to Him.  When we spend all of our time chasing our tail, we neglect those who need Jesus the most.  We miss the point.  Social Justice is at the heart of Christianity.  This fact cannot be denied.  And it saddens me to think we have made Christianity an enterprise rather than an agency for change.  It is time for all of this craziness to stop. 

It is time to stop arguing that Jesus is more like a Republican or more like a Democrat. Just think how crazy those statements are?  They are only more of the same sectarian bigotry that divides God's people.  It is time to stop creating multi-billion dollar church organizations that are more concerned with self-preservation rather than fulfilling God's purpose here on earth.  It is time to stop placing limits on who is love able and who isn't.  It is time to stop saying who can worship at the local church and who can't! It is time to stop chasing our tails.  It is time to start doing what Jesus intended for us to be: Agents of change. 

Harry Potter isn't the devil; complacency is.  Harry Potter isn't evil; greed is.  Harry Potter isn't wicked; showing no compassion is.  It is time to stop chasing our tails and do something that really matters.