Most films in Holiday show the human beings are
looking for a new world order. Sadly this is seen as being outside Christianity. Christians for a long time have been looking within and have lost the plot. If we are always looking in we never grow either as individuals or as a corporate body. So when we speak about waiting for the Christ who comes in glory during Advent people can take us for confused or fanatics. Why? Because what Holly Hood has painted is an era of alien life forms coming from somewhere else and in some cases these aliens are living amongst us, so when we talk about Christ coming in Glory it sounds farfetched. The reason being is that we are not seen as being relevant any longer. The world by its action tells us that there is a growing need for salvation. The world needs to hear that Salvation has come through our Lord Jesus Christ. Christians need to make Christ really in the world where Holly Hood has dominated with its futurist movies. Think of the Transformers, Harry Potter, Star Trek, Twilight, and Space 99 all these and many others have an underlining theme of saving humankind. We as Christians have this knowledge or do we understand that we have this knowledge? That all human beings have been saved and are being saved by the name of Jesus Christ! It is not up to Holly Hood to tell the world it is really our mandate and task. In Matthew 28 vs. 18. “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, make disciples of all the nations; baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” This is our mandate, to tell the World that God came amongst. That is why we have the incarnation. God breaking into human history through the birth of his only Son Jesus Christ Our Lord. He is the one that come to bring the new earth and the new heaven, we look to the Christ. We as Christians should constantly point to the Christ, who is not satisfied with the status quo, who challenges our unjust world. Then the world will stop looking to Holly Hood for answers for Salvation for we have this knowledge which has been tested. Christians have to stop having this serial complex of inward looking but be an outward looking people. To move away from self-preservation and be a community that takes risks and only then can the world seriously engage us. An inward looking Church is irrelevant to the world. Jesus by practicing his ministry among the people and responding to their needs become relevant. On the other hand Jews Leadership increasingly lost its place of authority and its relevance in the community. That is what the Church has become and people do not take Advent seriously and Christmas is just a big party. The significance of Christmas has been lost completely. The reason being, the Church has been too busy with its in house business. There is less going out and less of taking risks. Fr. Barnabas Nqindi
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