Don’t Call Me a Christian Trailer from Granger Community Church on Vimeo.
Listen, listen,
Don’t call me a Christian.
All we hear in that word is
division.
So heads can be held… a
little higher.
Us vs. them, we haw an we
hem,
We judge and condemn
And tie our Sunday ties…. a
little tighter.
Your label is choking me, Provoking
me
You’ve got to be joking me
If you think that’s all I am.
Evangelistics tallied up in
statistics
Analytical, hypocritical, too
political,
And you think this is my
scam.
Like I see you as a project,
SO I can inspect, dissect,
and inject,
My smug truth into your
reality,
That I’m some teacher’s pet,
hoping to get,
Some extra credit
If I can just make you- like
me.
You think it’s all just one
day,
Go on Sunday, back to Monday
With a checkmark and a grade.
Regulations set, Obligations
met,
So we have accusations and
threats,
From this monster in the
shade.
But let me tell you about the Son.
How it all began with a plan,
one man
The root word of this label.
This privilege turned insult
Who made it all difficult
When he said All can come to
the table.
That one word ALL, the proud
fall,
Hit face first the wailing
wall
That looks a lot like a
mirror,
How’d we get so confused,
history misused,
His name abused
His image blurred as we claim
it’s clearer.
The twisting of His grand
design,
As we stand in line with our
pickets signs.
Red-faced in our anger not
our shame.
What if we could erase,
retrace, embrace
In one unified about-face
To answer anew “What’s in
this name?”
So yes, I confess, I’m a
broken mess,
A work in progress, done
trying to impress,
Just trying my best,
To… rearrange.
So, don’t call me a
Christian,
Just let me shut up and listen,
To you for a change.
‘cause all this
weapon-hauling, is just shame-stalling,
No more name-calling
Just His name
with a calling
to love.
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
― Mahatma Gandhi
"God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun."
