First of all, I really enjoy the "youth group" aspect and fun stuff we do, but -and I'm sure most of you who read my blog have had to deal with this sort of thing at one time or another- not so much where they're connected to church. If it were *just* a "youth group", it would be great, but this is a "*church* youth group". It's nice to have a group of people to do stuff with: go bowling, caroling, playing flashlight tag, holding a Sweethearts' Dinner. The youth group is also paying for those of us going to For You NC next summer. They're fun people, and I'm getting to know them well enough that we tease each other and stuff. I *have* been here 5 months after all.
However, then there are the "church" aspects of them. They're buying T-shirts. CCT T-shirts. CCT is like CCM except with "T-shirt" replacing "music."
From a distance, the people wearing these t-shirts look like LOST and C.O.P.S. fans and drinkers. I'm sure you've all seen the originals of these: they *were* exactly what they seemed. These ones aren't. It's like that moment when you're listening to bad rock music and realize that those people are singing a love song to Jesus instead of their girlfriend. If you want to proclaim your Christianity on your T-shirt shouldn't it at least *look* Christian instead of copying well-known secular T-shirts? If you want to go around wearing a T-shirt about COPS, fine, but don't mix that with a lot of Law. So anyways, my youth group is choosing one of this sort of shirt out of a magazine for the youth group kids this year. They also advertise CCM. The youth group is planning to go to a basketball game/CCM concert. The leaders aren't completely pro-CCM, but they do go along with these things when the opportunity arises. I'm slowly working on that. Despite this stuff, I really do like my youth leaders.
posted by Heidi @ 8:06 PM
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Here's a good place to buy Christian T-Shirts,
http://higherthings.org/store.html
:-D
If they're gonna get knock-off T-shirts, why not one of these? :P http://www.thoseshirts.com/oldschool.html
The heavy drinker one is in extremely bad taste, if you ask me. Not that I particularly like the other ones, either. < heavy flood of homework pulls blogger back under >
Glub glub.
Shirts like this are a bad idea. They could be a satire on the shirts they imitate--but the Bible verses are obviously meant to be taken seriously. So what you are left with is self-righteous smugness, "My shirt is morally superior to yours because it has Bible verses and yours glorify sin," sort of thing.
The only t-shirts I like less are the ones that take off of Lord of the Rings, which is already an inherently Christian work. So beside the above-mentioned smugness, they also seem to be saying LotR isn't Christian enough.
Hem. Just my two cents.
Post Scriptum which I should have added a long time ago but didn't:
It's like that moment when you're listening to bad rock music and realize that those people are singing a love song to Jesus instead of their girlfriend.
That sentence made me laugh very hard. :D
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