Posted on 02/14/2024 10:04:11 AM PST by Heartlander
Over a hundred million people, worldwide, watched the Super Bowl. Many, like me, are more interested in the commercials than the actual game. As a creative professional who loves creating stuff that’s fearless, factual and freeing, I enjoy some of the annual, overly-priced, creativity.
Well, it came time for a commercial break. INXS’ “Never Tear Us Apart” played as highly stylized photos, made to look like illustrations, showed various scenes of people washing other people’s feet. The visuals were beautiful. Each image showed contention, sorrow, brokenness, and humility over a pensive piano ballad. It seemed to cover every social issue under the sun. And I was moved.
Then, a jarring thing happened. The peace was interrupted by distorted musical hits and the words: “Jesus Never Taught Hate. He Washed Feet.” Wait. What? As the #HeGetsUs website came up, I sighed. That was an $18 million rebrand of Christianity gone woke.
I hate to see ads claiming hate. It’s lazy. “Jesus Never Taught Hate”? Yes. And No. Certainly, He called us to “love one another as I have loved you” in John 13:34. His Word, however, also clearly tells us to “hate what is evil, cling to what is good.” Notice the Bible says “what,” not “who.” Loving every human being is not the same as loving every human doing. This ad campaign seems to get these things confused. You can still love someone and passionately disagree with the something they are doing.
As a marketer, I have to ask the question: “Who was the ad for?” If it was for those who are not Christians, who know little of the Word of God, what message does it send to them? What does feet washing even mean?...
(Excerpt) Read more at stream.org ...
These are the people that think Jesus was an illegal alien
Translation: Christians need to sit down and shut up.
Yeah they seem to wanting to market Jesus as “come as you are and stay as you are”. What Jesus wants is for us to come as we are but change...stop sinning...repent and follow God’s way no matter the cost.
Great article. Thanks for the link.
Bkmrk
Same distortion of the gospel as The Chosen. Jesus was not a cool hippie. He is transformational.
I love how someone said in another thread that Jesus wasn’t a shoe-shine boy. LOL
“If you have a lot - nevermind how hard you worked for it - you must serve others, and don’t question it.”
Shoe-shine boy?
That’s Underdog, not Jesus.
Mathew 24:24.
I thought shoe-shine boy was Joe Pesci in Goodfellas?
I’ve seen a number of ads put out by that group and they are all annoying. They push a leftist issue subliminally while implying that you are a hypocrite or a poor Christian if you don’t agree with the message. I doubt the people who make the ads are Christians.
all white people doing the feet washing of minorities. Nuff said
They wouldn’t dare do it the other way around. Just imagine the hysteria.
I was halfway OK this ad, it was a bit sketchy, until that came onscreen. A swing and a huge miss. It is total leftist finger-pointing at people. What a waste.
Did they have an Antifa washing a cop’s feet?
Asking for a friend…
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