Jeffrey C. Long

I just picked up the new issue of Wired magazine. The cover story is about Steven Spielberg’s production of the new War of the Worlds. The picture of him shows that he is a mature elder in the world of filmmaking. He has a distinguished greying beard. He’s not the young buck who produced ET and Jaws. Following the Spielberg article are the new Xbox 360 gaming console and the digital animation competition between Pixar and Dreamworks. The combination stirs in me the excitement that it must be for these people to be making these new worlds and telling these stories. And suddenly it hits me that this is how I envision the church. Exciting! Creative! Wow! How much more remarkable then the $2 billion investment in a gaming console is the excitement of the Kingdom of God. We have allowed it to become droll. Hohum. But the landscape of the church is not a digital universe, it is the human soul. We need to not let the virtual reality that the media feeds us to dilute the awe that we should feel in the face of the Kingdom of God.

Church is Wow!