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Color me Uncool

March 31, 2006

My friend Tony shows a film each Thursday evening over on campus which is open to everyone and then hosts a discussion following. The film we watched tonight was Almost Famous.

I hadn’t seen it before and I really liked it. It’s a story about a 15-year old boy who gets to go on tour with a band called Stillwater in the early seventies. His task is to write an article for Rolling Stone Magazine.

My favorite line from the movie was from Philip Seymour Hoffman who plays Lester Bangs. He says, “The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” How true is that. No one wants to be uncool but it’s only when we are uncool that we discover who our true friends are. Why? Because coolness is a pretense – we spend so much of our time and focus so much of our energy on hiding who we really are with all our baggage, confusion, and brokenness.

Imagine the great power communities of Christ-followers could exhibit if we were known as those peculiar people who don’t seem to have to put on any kind of a pretense for others and who love like crazy anyway!

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