The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our media whether it's a sports star or a movie star or a writer or a politician. They are people that have received media exposure and have become important to us in a way that's not realistic.
CrowderIn media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.
CrowderAn authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our community to voice things back to God. If it's unsuccessful in that, then it's just self-indulgence.
CrowderTo follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey.
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