Quote From Good Night and Good Luck
Posted on 10.08.06 in Faith and there are 0 comments.
This was a quote from Edward R. Murrow as read in the movie Good Night, and Good Luck. It really stuck me when I heard it.
“And if there are any historians about years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes of one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, and in color evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.
We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable, and complacent.
We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information.
Our mass media reflect this.
But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us then television and those who finance it those who look at it and those who work at it may see a totally different picture too late.”
-from Good Night, and Good Luck
At first I just thought that it was so true of television and mass media, but then I realized that it is also true of many of our churches. I challenge you to read it again and replace the television references with ones for our churches/Christian culture.
How often are you uncomfortable in your church on Sunday morning? Ties, heels and starched clothes aside, really, how often are we truly challenged at church?
Sometimes it seems like the American Christian culture is based on being “safe and fun for the whole family.”
But maybe safe and fun isn’t what we need.
Maybe we don’t need to be distracted, deluded, amused or insulated.
There is no growth without discomfort.
Do we, as Christians, have enough of it in our churches, our families, our devotional lives?
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