Comments on The H Blog - Contemporary, Philosophical Jive: Is Bono better than Jesus?

"So Bono, if you happen to be reading this (w...

2009-08-20T07:43:26.452-06:00

"So Bono, if you happen to be reading this (which I highly doubt), maybe tone down the rhetoric, take a year off from your touring schedule and spend some time and money on the ground, doing hands on stuff with the poor. Maybe The Edge and the other lads would pitch in too. If you have, then I apologize."

He does. You can read about it if you want to.

Hey "Anonymous", thanks for the great fe...

2009-08-12T06:48:49.777-06:00

Hey "Anonymous", thanks for the great feedback. I'm still astounded that anyone reads my stuff (lol). I'll briefly reply to your questions & let you have the last word if you want to respond. Yeah, it does seem a little odd that it's ok for Christian bands to play U2 but you can't buy U2 in Christian book stores. I think it's because Christians simply can't agree whether Bono is a Christian in the first place.

Second, while I can't see into Bono's heart I "know" that people can only grow in faith through relationships. Hebrews 10:24-25 says "And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching." And Ephesians 4:1-16 talks about how church leaders equip the body to serve and become like Jesus. All of these things happen in the context of relationship with the same people, week after week, year after year. No one can know who you really are unless you stick around on a regular basis.

Thanks for the links, I'll check them out when I have more time (I'm off to work soon). And thanks again for the feedback - what others think is important to me, because I don't have all the answers :)

Peace,
Hendrick

Hendrick writes: "I hear re-makes of U2 song...

2009-08-12T00:56:24.561-06:00

Hendrick writes:

"I hear re-makes of U2 songs on Christian radio, and Bono has spoken out on social issues for years."

Doesn't that strike you as strange that Christian radio will play remakes of U2 songs, but rarely, if ever, play songs by U2? Why do you think that is?

In 2004 I read this post from Darrell Grizzle on www.getreligion.org

Darrell wrote: "I recently saw a CD in a Christian bookstore of U2 songs covered by Christian artists ("In the Name of Love"). When I asked the clerk if the store carried CD's by U2 themselves, I was greeted with a shocked expression and told "No, we only carry CHRISTIAN CD's here." Apparently the exact same song is "secular" if sung by U2 but
"Christian" if performed by Toby Mac."

Hendrick writes: "Bono sees the church through the eyes of Irish sectarianism, and while understandable it keeps him from experiencing a deeper relationship with Jesus. But when we commit ourselves to a church we can form deep relationships that form the life of Christ in us."

How do you know Bono has been kept from experiencing a deeper relationship with Jesus and with others simply on the basis of him not attending one church on a regular basis? Are you able to see into Bono's heart?

Jesus said in Matthew 18:20
"For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."

See:

FORSAKE NOT THE ASSEMBLY?"
by Dusty Owens
http://www.theexaminer.org/volume7/number5/forsake.htm

Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the roots of our church practices" by Frank Viola and George Barna (revised 2008, BarnaBooks)

U2 QUIZ: 30 QUESTIONS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR
By David Buckna
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2005/s05120086.htm

Comments on The H Blog - Contemporary, Philosophical Jive: Is Bono better than Jesus?

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See also: http://www.paganchristianity.org/

Hey "Anonymous", thanks for the great fe...

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