The Appearances of Christians

With Susan Boyle's England debut, there is a lot of talk about the natural person. Sadly, that conjures up the thought of "ugliness." We all have seen a proliferation of great looking, star-like folks on Christian TV programs as well as the congregations of TV megachurches. But is that really what most Christians look like? Well, actually, where I live, which is about 10 miles from Hollywood they do. has a big effect here. I have to say that most people in churches here do look I'v'e noticed in the past 15 or 20 years there are very few obese people around in my area, even in the inner cities here compared to what I see on the TV news in some other places in the USA. We do look good I think out here in Southern California. But what about the less-than-Hollywood-looking Christians elsewhere? In many parts of the world Christians are just trying to stay alive much less look good.

Along these lines, here is just the greatest blog post from the Internet Monk entitled, We Interupt This Religion to Recognize....All the Ugl....Unatra....Uh, "Ordinary" Christians.