The Gospel According to "Wifeswap"
First off I apologize to you Google searchers, this is not what you were looking for. (old joke, but could not resist)
Secondly, I will admit it. I am hooked. It's a show with an intentionally provocative name, as a "good" Christian I should probably boycott it, but it is like good car wreck I've got to look.
The producers have hit on a theme the last few weeks that seems to be working. Conservative christian vs. Atheists and or liberal and or hippy family. It really shows how different our families in America are. Our values, our division of labor within the home, economic sitiuations, racial differences and parenting differences.
Sometimes the Christians don't come off too well. Of course if I had a camera in my home 24/7 I doubt the cause of Christ would be advanced a great deal either. Especially if you put some liberal whack job in my home telling me there is no God , Jesus was just a carpenter, and our country stinks.
The one real redeeming quality of the show is that everyone learns something. Either how good they had it, but did not realize it, or how they could change certain habits and behaviors to make things better in their own homes. Like the old Indian (or Native American) saying goes, Don't criticize a man till you have walked a mile in his moccasins, or something like that. Or maybe you don't really know someone till you have done that.
I have to ask myself am I like the too strict parent or the too leniant parent? The workaholic dad or the lazy dad? The neat freak or the slob? The loving husband or distant preoccupied husband? Sometimes I don't like the answer. So I guess there is some value in reality TV after all.
Secondly, I will admit it. I am hooked. It's a show with an intentionally provocative name, as a "good" Christian I should probably boycott it, but it is like good car wreck I've got to look.
The producers have hit on a theme the last few weeks that seems to be working. Conservative christian vs. Atheists and or liberal and or hippy family. It really shows how different our families in America are. Our values, our division of labor within the home, economic sitiuations, racial differences and parenting differences.
Sometimes the Christians don't come off too well. Of course if I had a camera in my home 24/7 I doubt the cause of Christ would be advanced a great deal either. Especially if you put some liberal whack job in my home telling me there is no God , Jesus was just a carpenter, and our country stinks.
The one real redeeming quality of the show is that everyone learns something. Either how good they had it, but did not realize it, or how they could change certain habits and behaviors to make things better in their own homes. Like the old Indian (or Native American) saying goes, Don't criticize a man till you have walked a mile in his moccasins, or something like that. Or maybe you don't really know someone till you have done that.
I have to ask myself am I like the too strict parent or the too leniant parent? The workaholic dad or the lazy dad? The neat freak or the slob? The loving husband or distant preoccupied husband? Sometimes I don't like the answer. So I guess there is some value in reality TV after all.
1 Comments:
Lyle you are going to H. E. Double Hockey Sticks for watching shows that pollute your mind like that trash:) Good post, sometimes God uses varied forms of communication to force us to evaluate our own lives.
I'm a fan of the Super Nanny and the naughty chair personally.
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