The Problem Of Finding Heroes

Yesterday I went shopping with my wife and we visited the Gift & Bible store to pick up some Bibles for the graduates who attend our church.

While in this Christian bookstore there was a huge book display pushing a book written by Jon & Kate Gosselin. Now, I know little about this couple except that they have a bunch of kids and a reality TV show (which I’ve never watched) and that recently Jon had adultery rumors floating around. I didn’t even know, until I was in the store, that they were “Christian.”

So, here again, as in the Carrie Prejean beauty case, we have Christians making heroes out of morally suspicious people. Don’t get me wrong … I’m all for heroes. I don’t even mind if my heroes have warts. I’m not against esteeming people. What I am against is how the Christian world keeps coughing up the wrong people to be heroes. Indeed, its almost as if they are finding anti-heroes to be heroes. What we are constantly getting are heroes that are celebrities but who have little or no character.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

One thought on “The Problem Of Finding Heroes”

  1. Ah yes, the “lovely” couple who are role-modeling genocidal miscegenation and amalgamation to the Christian Church.

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