There is a severe irony at work in all our blog posts about uncool people needing Jesus and paragraphs that aim to describe what hip Christians like and dislike. The problem that we can’t get away from is that all this talk of coolness, with all its sarcasm, is itself, well, cool.

Anyone can sound cool and make something else look stupid if they are creative enough with their words. Who is cool becomes the one who can make fun of everything else. It is the battle of sarcasm. And I am afraid that we are all infected. We can make fun of door-to-door evangelism. No. Wait. Let’s make fun of people who make fun of door-to-door evangelism. And then let me write a post about people who make fun of people who make fun of door-to-door evangelism.

It is important to evaluate, to become aware, to step outside a get a good look at things. It is good to write about it. To show how silly that thing is, how silly we can be. But, we shouldn’t get lost in this. We have to keep our eyes on the cross. Watch out that we don’t buy into the sport of criticizing the critical, of getting the upper hand in situating everything in its respective realm, influenced by this or that cultural trend, and on and on. Let us get lost in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let us have tunnel-vision in that. Let that transcend and overpower everything else. Everything else.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4