Kris Allen (winner of American Idol) singing God of this City – Does it matter?
A few days ago I posted a video of American Idol winner, Kris Allen, preforming “God of This City” at New Life Church. To my surprise it has caused quite a bit of discussion on the comment section of that post, and on Twitter. It seems to boil down to this questions :
“Is a person’s faith a deciding factor on who you vote for (if you vote) on American Idol?”
In other words does the person you vote for (or would vote for) have to be of the same faith as you in order to get your vote? Is that something that is important to you? Do you google every contestant to find out what their faith views are before you vote?
I’m sure many of my Christian friends will quickly proclaim “YES – it does indeed matter to me!”
To which I ask “Why?” (or “Why not?” – if your answer is no)
I’m not saying there is a “right” or “wrong” way to look at this – I’m just curious to hear your thoughts on the matter.
Also – I’d like to take it a step further. How does the faith of another person effect your decision to interact with them? Does it matter?
For instance; The dentist who cleans your teeth – does his faith determine if you’ll use his services or not?
If there was two dentists next door to each other – one who had really bad service – but was a believer, the other, the best dentist in your city – but he hated God – which dentist would you choose? Why? (and it just so happens that these are the the only two dentists in the whole world, the other ones all retired – sorry – you have to choose!)
What about your boss? If you are a person of faith, could you work for a person who hated God?
What about the products you buy? If Steve Jobs hated God would you still use your iPhone?
{SIDENOTE – Did you know that Jews for Jesus has attempted to share the Gospel with Steve Jobs? In fact they even made a tract just for him – take a look}
I Just wanted to throw those thoughts out to get you thinking. Please leave a comment, I’d be very interested to here what you have to say in regards to this topic!
(by the way – here is the link to the post with Kris Allen’s video of God of this City in case you want to watch it again, or read the comments.)
-Rick
I think that by picking according to religious status, is judging that person for their faith, not their talent, which is what the show was supposed to be about. Even Kris was saying it shouldn't be about religion or God, and respected Adam for his talent! We are all in this boat together, and I think we, as christians, seem to think we are better than others. People try to be God, and I find it hard to believe if Jesus was here choosing, that he would choose the "Christian" over the "non Christian", he didn't when he walked the Earth, he hung with the sinners, etc. Why are we any better than any one else, that we choose someone, because they claim to be a christian. Are you in and about their private lives? Do you know what goes on 'behind the scenes?'
(continued) You should choose someone because of their talent, their profession, what they are good at, not for their 'title' as a christian! How can you be a light, if you are only allowing yourself christian influence? Just because you say you are a christian, doesn't mean you live it anyway, doesn't mean that fame won't overtake your faith! Don't judge a book just, because someone claims they know the title…!
I pretty much agree! I voted for Adam a couple of times! I thought that contest wise he and Danny were the more tallented in the competition. Do I support Kris? Sure I do! Because he's a christian? Maybe. Would I NOT buy Adam's record? Depends on the lyrics really, not his faith or lack there of. People are people and there are things that Christian's can learn from and teach to non-christians. Life is about how we choose to live it and what God has planned for our lives and our obedience to what HE has ordained for OUR life is what we should be concerned about. Not whether or not we choose a christian person over a nonchristian. How we interact with nonchristians is REALLY the issue.
Simon Cowell is soooo bad, still funny to watch him take people down though