This is one brief expression with the whole Tiger Woods drama. It’s also the same expresion of the pains of bureaucracy, racism, entertainment, and life. In a world whereHomer v. Plessy is more than glorified unconsciously into life, blasphemy is known (bad experience at school!) and indiference tips off our bones, I think that we Christians only have one thing to do: pack up our backs and move to ChristYork. Not New York, ChristYork, a city totally made for Christians, by Christians, from Christians.
Here’s how I view this city: it’s located on the other side of the Hudson River in New York State. (Picked that place ’cause NYC is the “crossroads of the world!”) We drive out unbelievers out of the place, like God commanded Joshua and Israel in Canaan, and we establish a city with the flag of His blood. We then make a big worship service and declare ourselves independent from the rest of the world, although we still make people “escape” to this Christian haven. Everyone who’s a Christian and holy will be in there! Our mayor will be a Chrisitian (denominations will rotate), all councillors will be Christian (a spot per denomination) and politics will be based on God and what’s best for the citizens.
Do you know about Times Square? Not in ChristYork, for there is a Jesus Square, wherer we will hear Jesus’ name be praised 24/7, 365. (Jesus will love the place!) Christian radio, no alcohol, the “city that never stops worshipping”… unlike the pagan New York, ChristYork will strive for our Savior! Unbelievers can visit the city, yes, but they can only be for a week, so they don’t “pollute” the holiness of the city. If we’re successful, ChristYork can make extensions around the world, in London (ChristDon), Tokyo (ChristTokyo) and Christ Church (Christ Church!… though there’s not much of a difference!). Of course, our url will bewww.christchurch.<3Jesus.com! So full of Jesus! So full of God! And do you know the best part out of everything? Do you really want to know?
It’s… not gonna work. Really! For if this world is extremely flawed as it is, what promises you that ChristYork in the other side of New York City would even work from the get-go, if not destroy itself before fifty years? We are sinners, and sin will ever follow us. Sin is worse than swine flu, and it ticks off a bigger hell! What about those who get tired of hearing “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus” all day long? They’ll pack up for another city! And what does not promise you that there will not be “Christian ghettos” in the same city? (e.g.: Pentecostals in one place, Catholics in another, Baptists in other place, Adventists further) The list of flaws will go on, but this will not happen on God’s green earth… until Jesus comes to make things straight.
With many things happening in my life that I struggle with, I was thinking today about this “imaginary city”. What illusions can we put ourselves into creating our own ChristYork, a terrestrial haven for everyone and other Christians while escaping this world? This can be a great idea, but the concept of mere utopia is not here. I draw the example of ChristYork to see how much do we really want to “avoid the world”, but what about shining in it? This, my friends, is the tough part. How willing are we (youth mostly) to stop fantasizing about an eartly heaven, and realize that God’s purpose is to know His love to everyone? We know that we are already sealed for Heaven, yet our Savior will not return from a ChristYork… He will return from the Heavens, awaiting us in love.