Are you one of the many many Christians who got excited that Mathew McConaughey thanked God in is Oscar speech?
My second question is if you are one of those people did you see the movie that he won the Oscar for and if so, why and what did it do toward bettering you walk with Christ?
My third question is if you didn’t see the movie, do you know what the movie is about? (I did not see the movie, nor did I know what it was about until I read to blog that is listed here.) Be careful my friends, as I can say from experience, about jumping on the band wagon just because others around you are doing it. The Bible tells us to be in the world but not of it. Romans 12:2 “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Trust me when I say I have to remind myself of this often. I am learning more and more all the time that it is so easy to be deceived if we spend more time concerned about the world we live in and how to fit into it rather than spending time being concerned of how we as Christians are to live in this world without becoming a part of it.
Melissa Edgington posted on her blog about this issue and I 100% agree with her. What she describes here is what scares me the most of how deceived Christians already are. If Christians are this deceived now because of celebrity what will happen when the anti-christ comes who will be the biggest celebrity of them all??? I urge you to wake up and pay attention to what is going on around us and to not be a crowd follower because everyone else is doing it also but instead become a leader sure of what you believe or at least be willing to stand alone if it comes down to that. Yes, I watched the speech online and was a very confused about why Christians were so excited about Matthew's speech! I didn't see any Biblical value to what he was saying... as believers we are not chasing ourselves we are told to achieve Christ likeness, not self- likeness. There are many many verses that I would share with Matthew if I could and I have listed several of them here. The number one verse that I would share with him about being his own hero is Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
From Melissa Edgington blog
http://yourmomhasablog.com/2014/03/03/matthew-mcconaughey-is-not-my-hero/
Matthew McConaughey is Not My Hero
POSTED ON MARCH 3, 2014 BY Melissa Edgington
Matthew McConaughey won an Oscar. And, boy, are Christians happy about it. I mean, Christians are jumping up and down for this Texas boy for his big win because he actually thanked God in his acceptance speech. He did, he gave God credit and he thanked his wife like he should and he gave a rambling speech that really made me wonder why they weren’t starting up the music to cut him off. They let Matthew talk for almost four minutes, and the clip of his speech is all over the internet.
Christians are so proud.
And, I can’t blame us. I mean, how often do we hear a major celebrity, an Oscar winner, no less, identifying with us? How often do we get that kind of star power in our corner? It almost makes us seem sort of cool and legitimate.
I liked his speech, although I thought it was a little heavy on the Matthew McConaughey. He’s chasing a hero, who is himself in ten years? Really? But, no matter. He mentioned God and that’s all that counts. It obviously shows that he loves the Lord and lives his life for Him and we will all be fans of his forever because of this speech.
But, there’s one tiny issue with setting Matthew McConaughey up as our next great Chris Christi Patterson Penningtonian idol. And, the problem is the movie he won the Oscar for. And pretty much every other movie he’s ever made. (Anyone remember a little film called Magic Mike?) According to pluggedin.com, Dallas Buyer’s Club opens with McConaughey’s character having sex with two girls at the same time in a rodeo stall. That’s only the beginning of the explicit sexual content in the movie. In addition to the nudity, masturbation, and pornography, the film contains over 100 f-words and God’s name is used as a curse word over 20 times.
Matthew McConaughey made this movie, which he was rewarded by Hollywood for making, which goes out into our society and poisons the hearts and minds of our men, women, and young people. And then he gets up to accept his award for making filth that turns hearts away from God, and he thanks God for the opportunity, and Christians applaud him as if he has done something incredible.
We have got to get over our obsession with celebrity and start making connections between what people say and what they actually do. It is never going to be a good thing for Christianity for us to hold these celebrities up as examples of what a Christian should be. If we want to show the world examples of Christianity that should make us cheer, it’ll be our faithful pastors, our grandmothers who have lived quiet sacrificial lives, our friends who would lay down their lives for us, the teachers who go to school every day and live out the commands to love the unlovable and to value every life.
Not Matthew McConaughey. I’m sure he’s a fun guy to hang around with, and I bet he’s a great dad and probably a really good actor. But he is not the next great champion for Christianity.
1 John 2:6 ESV Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
1 Peter 2:21 ESV For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Galatians 3:27 ESV For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
