One of the blogs I enjoy following is The Resurgence, which comes from the folks at Mars Hill Church in Seattle. It's a weird mixture of scholarly papers on theology and pithy commentary on life & God & all that stuff from Pastor Mark Driscoll. What follows does not fall into the "scholarly papers" category.
But I'll let Mark explain himself a bit...
With the fifth and arguably best season of the hit television show 24 now concluded, Jack Bauer can take a much needed shower, get something to eat, and power up his cell phone battery which magically lasts forever. At the risk of sounding blasphemous, I would like to offer the suggestion that perhaps 24 is incredibly popular because Jack Bauer is a lot like Jesus...
You can read the rest of the post at Is Jack Bauer a Type of Christ?
As a huge fan of the show & a follower of Jesus, I'm interested in hearing your responses to this. Heck, I'm not quite sure what my response is...
Thursday, June 08, 2006
The Gospel According to "24"
One of the blogs I enjoy following is The Resurgence, which comes from the folks at Mars Hill Church in Seattle. It's a weird mixture of scholarly papers on theology and pithy commentary on life & God & all that stuff from Pastor Mark Driscoll. What follows does not fall into the "scholarly papers" category.
But I'll let Mark explain himself a bit...
With the fifth and arguably best season of the hit television show 24 now concluded, Jack Bauer can take a much needed shower, get something to eat, and power up his cell phone battery which magically lasts forever. At the risk of sounding blasphemous, I would like to offer the suggestion that perhaps 24 is incredibly popular because Jack Bauer is a lot like Jesus...
You can read the rest of the post at Is Jack Bauer a Type of Christ?
As a huge fan of the show & a follower of Jesus, I'm interested in hearing your responses to this. Heck, I'm not quite sure what my response is...
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I understand the point that is trying to be made here. I see the connections.
But still, something about the metaphor of Jack Bauer as a type of Christ just really bothers me.
Jesus was a peacemaker. He transformed the world by choosing not to fight, but instead to lay down his life.
Jack Bauer actively chooses torture and violence as a means of completing his mission.
I see such a wide gulf between those means of accomplishing their respective motives that it is difficult for me to see a helpful comparison.
Even though I agree that 24 may be one of the top 3 or 4 tv shows based on writing, acting, production values, etc. I wonder if it is helpful for those in Church leadership positions to endorse a show that relies on so much violence. Shouldn't we also be peacemakers? Perhaps we should have a conversation on what our tv viewing habits have to say about our following of the sermon on the mount?
Well, those are my humble 2 cents. I would be willing and grateful to anyone who could convince me otherwise, because I would like to love 24 again. But as it stands, I chose to stop watching the show this year for the above reasons.
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