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Christ Cubical


Jesus Christ should permeate and pervade in every part of our lives. He should not be confined to a church cubical. Our Lord and Savior belongs in every sphere of our lives. Too often churches today say "come meet Jesus on Sundays or at Wednesday meeting." But our Lord is not isolated to a building or sub-culture. No! Jesus Christ is omnipresent, He is everywhere! The time has come to let Christ enter every closet, cubical, confine, and circle of our lives!

It is getting quite irksome that many Christian writers and moviemakers feel like they can only insert Jesus in either contemporary ways like "God's Not Dead," (great movie) and "Left Behind" tribulation type tales. Even in these stories Jesus is not featured physically, just in word. If Jesus is depicted in the flesh we get a Biblical epic like "Son of God." But more often He is only represented via a crucifix or on the cross of a crusader savagely killing people (Ridley' Scott's Kingdom of Heaven). What ends up happening is polarization,  where companies fall into polar opposites like PureFlix that make Christianized movies and Scottfree Productions that makes distorted atheistic retellings of the Bible.

Why can't Christians penetrate the fantasy genre? There have been attempts by Frank Peretti, Ted Dekker and some others. But these authors tend to emphasis evil and the demonic powers get their depiction (screen time), with God, particularly Jesus does not get a chance to appear! Shouldn't Jesus permeate our stories? Why cant' Jesus show up?! I have written two stories on Amazon.com that have Jesus as the focus and even as a participant! But for most writers having Christ appear is treated like a cardinal sin, but why?! I thought these people called themselves Christians!!!

Why is that Oiden, Zeus, and pantheons of all other people can get their depictions and honor in films like "Thor" and "Pryce Jackson," but if a Christian dares to put Jesus Christ in their story, it is considered religious?! This is a double-standard! Those depictions of Hercules and Thor are religious! Greeks and Romans believed in those gods (some still do, in fact there is resurgency called neo-paganism)! If false gods (fallen angels) like Oiden and Zeus can get a chance to be in a story, then the True God, Jesus Christ should get to be in chapters of books and cinema! It is time for the double standard to die! And it must start with Christians who cease being afraid to share Jesus in their stories!

Jesus Christ should be everywhere in our lives. We have two cultures that try to put limits on where Christ can be. The first is the world which would have the Witness of Christ cut off, the second is the church which confines Christ to cubicals and cells in the Christian sub-culture that ultimately diminishes His witness and has the audacity to put an Omnipresent God who is everywhere in a building, radio station, and etc.

The time has come for Jesus Christ to be our world! He should be on our lips and in everything we do! The Lord should be with us when go to the cinemas, when we read, driving, riding bicycle, writing, and everything else! Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ said, "Whoever confesses and acknowledges me before men, I will confess and acknowledge before my Father in Heaven, but whoever denies me before men I shall deny before the Father." (Matthew 10:32). This verse does not just apply to when you get up to give a sermon in church or when you share the Gospel with a friend. It is lifestyle! It should be read on your shoulder, heard on your lips, found in your writing, and felt in your presence. We should be daily confessing Jesus in our lives and letting him permeate every sector of us!

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