I was listening to someone the other day who was expressing some "frustration" with the fact that people in the church and others who claim to be Christians believe we have to act and look a certain way in order to be considered a Christian and to be listened to. So, he wanted to create some t-shirts that had messages on them that would display a sense of "you matter to me and I care about what you say". He wants to tailor them to different sectors that are not usually "accepted" by many churches, such as homosexuals, single moms, skateboarders, tattoo artists, teen mothers, divorcees, etc. This is interesting to me...
What would I think if I saw someone wearing a shirt with this on it? How would I interpret what is meant by a shirt that says: "Jesus loves teen moms and so do I!" The shirts will be modified for all of the sectors that he is trying to reach...so you have to fill in the blank for each of them. When I started thinking about it, I pictured the t-shirt on different people, different situations. Example: The teen mom shirt can be worn by a teen mom, a woman who is not a teen mom, a man who is not a teen father, a man who is a teen father and etc.
Another shirt might say "Jesus loves tattoo artists and so do I!" and so on and so forth. Yes, Jesus does love all of us, but I'm not sure how Biblical it is for us to interpret things in such a way. Example: The Bible says not to harm the temple of God (our body). Although He still loves each of us, does it make it right for someone to be a tattoo artist? Isn't that like "love the sinner, but hate the sin"? How does Jesus interpret this??
Thinking about this just makes me just want to say "hmm..."
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