Listening To Freddie Mercury…..

[We are all the same people.
With sinning hearts that make us equal.
Here is my hand, not words said desperately.
It is not our job to make anyone believe.] [Emery]
God’s grace is a truly great thing. Wouldn’t you agree? It is something that I don’t think that can ever be fully understood, explained or fully realized how amazing it is to find and live under God’s grace. But there has, I believe, become a gave problem in this Christian world when it comes to grace. This problem is something I see in myself on a daily bases. It is a problem that I believe is so ingrained in our minds that we are all but unable to fight it because we don’t even know its happening. This problem has become a mindset that we seem to not notice either because we don’t see it or because we think that this mindset is right.
Before I explain what this mind set is let me talk a little about the song I have put at the top of this post. This song is entitled “Listening To Freddie Mercury”. It is a song by a favorite band of mine named Emery. Now Freddie Mercury is a Singer/Song Writer best known for his work with the band Queen. He is also famous for having homosexual relationships and for dying of Aids. Which seems like a strange person to know a song after when all the members of you bands are Christian, or is it?
So what is this problem I talked about earlier? I guess the only way I can think to describe it is “elitism” or “Specialness”. What this looks like is something you most likely see everyday when you are around Christian people. Its that feeling when you start talking about people living in sin, like people having affairs or homosexuals or murders, that the people around you are thinking some where in the back of their minds “Oh how sinful those people are!” Or its the reason why you are so slow to admit to your close friends that you have a sin problem of any kind and so you try so hard to keep the mask of being perfect up as high as possible. Or the reason why you are so slow to admit you are a Christian around non-Christian people because you think they will right away think you are “one of those people”.
So back to the song by Emery. The thing I love most about this song is when the singer sings “We are all the same people.With sinning hearts that make us equal.” And I think that is something we are missing quite often these days we are missing the viewpoint of being equal. Do we understand that? We are Equal to even the Greatest of sinners. I mean isn’t that the great thing about grace? The fact that it takes our sinfulness and throws it away. I mean doesn’t Paul call us “Objects of Wrath”? [a] Doesn’t Paul talk about how grace is the thing that brings us to God not our being elite?
So now I must tread on some thin ice. Homosexuality today is an issue that is talked and fought about all over Christendom and the reason why I believe Emery picked the song title that they did. (This is not a post about Homosexuality but rather another sin). But in this song they don’t even address homosexuality because that is not what they are trying to get at. What they are trying to talk about is Judgment. And more importantly how Christians Judge people who are not Christians well not looking at themselves and understand that they are sinning just by Judging the people they view as such horrible sinners.
And isn’t this what we do so often inside the Church? We sit there and Judge rather than loving first and foremost. We sit there and act like we never sin when in fact we are just as guilty of the sins that we condemn. I could go on on this topic but I feel like this is enough to think about so I will end with a few questions. Why do you think we, as Christians, start with Judgment so often? Do you agree with the idea that we are all equal? Do you agree that God’s Grace is all that has saved us from being just like anyone else in the world?
(Once again please comment and ask questions. Also this topic will be revisited as I keep writing.)
[The Idea behind him calling us objects of wrath is to show that we at one time, before we accepted God’s grace, were against God. The link to the passage is below, please read.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%202:1-10&version=NIV1984]