Popcorn! (Cause it's the moviegoer and all that...yea)

In class we talked about how in The Moviegoer, he seems to be searching for something. He even mentions God a time or two but then emphatically says he doesn't want it. We said that 98% of America believes in God. He never sees anything good from people who claim to be Christians. He says he doesn't want to believe in something that so many people do and yet their lives are still meaningless. I feel like Christians should take this as a warning. So many people in the world are like the moviegoer and they won't want what we have if we live empty and meaningless lives. It seems like a lot of things in my life have been reminding me of this lately, especially in the last two or three days. Something was said at church tonight about it. They used a scenario where you go to church then afterwards, you are out in a store and you are tearing down someone at church. The whole time you don't know that the person behind you was visiting your church and they saw you. They were on the fence about Christianity, but after hearing the way you talked about people, they didn't see any point because you were no different than them. Could you live with knowing that you were the reason they gave up on Christ? I wonder if the Christians in this book could have lived with themselves knowing how their lives effected another person.

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