A few days ago I saw an interview with the CEO of a new website called GodTube.com, and was reminded of my deep frustration toward the commercialization of the cross. And how I am even more frustrated with the shallowness of so much of modern Christianity that embraces this kind of thing as what defines our Christianity. But, that aside, and for another day, the thing that really stood out to me in the interview was how cheesy he made the gospel sound, and how using catchphrases was more important to him than the truth of scripture.

The thing that sent me over the edge, was a comment he made about the website being built on Jesus 2.0 technologies. Which, just like the name GodTube was a rip off of YouTube, the idea of Jesus 2.0 was stolen from the Web 2.0 concept that many of today’s websites are built upon. Web 2.0 is the idea that while Web 1.0 was a primitive, non-interactive, catalog of data, that Web 2.0 is better and more dynamic, allowing easier access to data and more user involvement. And thats just the problem. The Bible teaches that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” (

) He is always the same and to suggest that He needed an upgrade is just pure idiocy. He has always been dynamic and intimately involved in our lives. And He’s always been easy to reach (and in fact, has always been reaching). It’s my belief that anyone who thinks that Christ was outdated before GodTube and has now been made better, has no understanding of who He actually is. How can the God of the universe, creator of all things, be upgraded by some internet technology that He gave humans the ability to think up?
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I guess it’s finally time I said this. Of all of the worship choruses that I sing or intimate prayers that I pray, or all of the time I spend personally with the Savior of the World, I must not love Him. No matter how deeply I understand and thrive on the love and grace of Christ, and no matter how much I think I know and love Him, I must be wrong. Over and over, no matter what I put first in my life or how I live it, I am told that my faith in Jesus is not enough. I’m told over and over that I really don’t love Jesus the way that He wants me to. And this comes not from teachers or preachers, theologians or psychologists, but from some random guy or gal through email.
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