Da Vinci

In the sixties it was wildly believed that if you played certain records(remember those?) backward there was masked messages. Now we get some guy who wants to make money and creates a fictional conspiracy surrounding Leonardo Da Vinci's painting The Last Supper and the church gives credibility to this ridiculous fairy tale by dissecting it as if it needed to be disproved. And by doing so we not only give more publicity to this story, it again puts evangelicals on the same side as the Roman Catholic Church which completely muddies the entire message of the gospel. We love a good conspiracy and we love to be right. I'm sure, by God's grace, some people may come to the true knowledge of Christ during this controversy, but doesn't it say something about the true church when after two thousand years we must warn believers not to believe that Jesus was married and that He was just a man?
Our mandate from the true Christ Himself is two fold, know Him and make Him known. If we continue to jump through fictional hoops provided by the spirit of anti-christ we will lose the power of the message itself. The average Christian is so Biblically shallow that we ourselves need to experience a major revival among our ranks before tastefully presenting shared arguments to counter the devil's latest lies. Even the most seeker sensitive churches have their "Breaking the Da Vinci Code" sermon series. People enjoy it and they leave with a "us verses them" feeling of victory. Do we pray more? Do we send out more missionaries? Do we spend hours more in the Word? Have we significantly impacted our city for Christ? Are there less affairs? In six months, after the Da Vinci Code movie has made its hundreds of millions(they must tithe to get that kind of return), the church will move on to respond to the next offering from the world. Let's see, we went through Jesus Christ Superstar, to The Last Temptation of Christ, to Harry Potter, and now The Da Vinci Code. What's next? Maybe some kook will write a book that Jesus was actually an alien and he'll prove it by Christ's own words that "I am not of this world". It will be centered around a cryptic message from one of Picasso's paintings which you have to have special glasses to see. And our rebuttal sermon series will be entitled "Alien Jesus? It's alien to me!".
Remember, judgment must begin at the house of God. It is time to seek the Lord with all our hearts, He is coming soon!!!