What If God Was One Of Us…But He Was Wasn’t He?

Why was there no outrage about this song, “What if God was one of us?”

Don’t get me wrong. I’m really pleased that there wasn’t.

I always live in hope that the church started to look at things as opportunities to engage with the non-Christian world rather than reel against it. At least we didn’t embarrass ourselves this time.

After all that is the usual response to anything that is even slightly off-centre of the orthodox perception of God is it not?

I don’t know about you but the idea of God being just a slob seems to be considerably off-centred, to say the least.

How Embarrassing

I remember well when I was younger the controversy of “The Exorcist”. Christians stood out the front of theatres with anti-Exorcist placards trying to convince people not to go in. How embarrassed I was to be a Christian every time I walked passed one of those theatres thinking, will we ever learn to have a positive response to the world, asking spiritual questions?

I also remember the whole anti-Jesus Christ Superstar thing.

Seriously! Here we had the whole English-speaking world asking the question “I only want to know” and the best response we had was “this is a work of the devil”. Talk about blowing it.

I fear that with this song we missed the boat again.

We had yet again another perfect opportunity to speak to a whole generation who were singing the song “What if God was one of us” (below) and yet again we blew it. But I suspect that this time it was worse because instead of outrage the lack of response was quite possibly apathy. I wonder if that is why the church is in decline. The fact that we miss so many opportunities

What if God Was One of Us

You see God was one of us. He was just a stranger on a bus trying to make His way home. His name was Jesus and He is great because He died on the cross for you and me. So that, not only He but all of us could make our way home: if we wanted to. More than that, He rose from the dead to prove that there was a way home.

Well, at least we weren’t embarrassed this time. Or were we?

Enjoy the song
Richard