Atheist dramas stealing our clothes

[mindlight]

I was watching a TV series recently called "Misfits". American superhero productions seem to me to dwell more on the powers and exceptional qualities of their characters and emphasise their successes and moral integrity. But this British production focused on the flawed humanity of the lower class people accidentally blessed with powers after a strange storm. It was nihilistic and ultimately brutal in the ways in which it dealt with the accidents of history and the random and mainly selfish motivations of those who had the gifts.

But in both American and British dramas of this sort I feel that there is an assault on the Christian view on what gifts are for and the spirit in which they should be used. Christians when portrayed are done so in a mainly hypocritical or manipulative light.

In the church people can read minds and hearts, heal the sick, deliver the oppressed, prophesy the future, teach the ignorant and miraculously impact on peoples lives. God grants all sorts of gifts to build up the body of the church. These things I have experienced. But they are rarer and less predictable that with these atheist dramas. My worry is the ways in which these atheist dramas dull the mind to distinguish between the miracle and the fantastical and attempt to make the atheist read on these gifts to be more appealing.

How can we as a church compete with dreams of the godless?

They have the money to sell their copied fantasies as a kind of substitute reality to the spiritual world of the church. The minds of needy people are dulled to the reality of God and what it means to know him.

How can we share the gospel with power in an age where fake miracles are the usual diet of evening entertainment?

Is this a deliberate thing or just an overflow of a culture gone wrong?

 

[HjartaoHamast]

A wicked and adulterous generation seeks for a sign. None will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

A man was in the belly of a fish for 3 days. They thought he was dead and nothing would come of it. He was cursed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. When people were not ready, he came out of the sea and back into the world. He proclaimed God's message and Ninevah repented. Christ came to bring salvation. That is the greatest miracle. He brought the Spirit to us when He left.

Yet the miraculous is visible within God's kingdom. The world is brought a message to repent. But even if Moses and Elijah came from the dead the world would not know or receive them. Because the world doesn't know or receive Christ Himself. The two witnesses in Revelation die and are called up after 3 days. But the world won't repent of its wickedness. Instead the miracles we should seek are God's compassion and faithfulness. He will do the rest for us.