…wasn’t about impact; it was about obedience ☀
I am growing increasingly convinced that if everyone of these kids burning with passion to write a hit Christian song or make that hit Christian movie or start that hit Christian ministry to change the world would instead focus their passion on walking with God on a daily basis, the world would change…. So why do I believe a thousand kids walking with God will have more impact on the world than one kid making a hit movie? Because the world learns about God not by watching Christian movies, but by watching Christians. —Phil Vischer (via azspot)This quote doesn’t even make sense. Here is a guy who makes christian based media for children, and is telling people not to do it. Proves a perfect point that evangelists like this guy have no fucking idea what they’re even saying.
SHIT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. Although it does, because it’s a quote from a Christian given to other Christians, and that just takes any logic out of the equation altogether. It’s kind of the unofficial credo of all christians to accept, “Do as I say, not as I do” as truth.
As Vischer had an about-face in the wake of the demise of his grand endeavor to create a “Christian Disney”, this “quote” is cast in retrospect. Yes, he’s advocating against the very career trajectory he embarked upon in his younger years.
Here is another quote from Vischer (as I do not have the time available to research this matter further, which, unfortunately, is a story for many stillborn posts in my thought laden mind) on his “questioning the authenticity of his faith tradition” (my source is Skye Jethani’s wonderful The Divine Commodity):
The more I dove into Scripture, the more I realized I had been deluded. I had grown up drinking a dangerous cocktail — a mix of the Gospel, the Protestant work ethic, and the American dream… The Savior I was following seemed, in hindsight, equal parts Jesus, Ben Franklin, and Henry Ford. My eternal value was rooted in what I could accomplish.
