Change is good ???!?!?!?!?
Well, that's it. I'm old! I don't mean chronologically (though 30 is only a few weeks away), I mean that I have finally reached that point where I want things to stop changing. Specifically the folks at Warner Brothers need to leave the Looney Toons alone! If you want edgy, fine. Do another Batman cartoon, don't go messing around with Bugs Bunny. The Looney Tunes crew should never be crime-fighters for more then one laugh laden short (um, forgot you don't know what a short is, it's a cartoon that lasts about five minutes instead of half an hour...trust me, it is good stuff!). Daffy Duck as an incompetent Superman wannabe, it was so funny thinking about it makes me laugh out loud! Mostly, though, it is the change that I fear. Yes fear. What if the new cartoon is better then the old? What if they never play the classics again? After all you can no longer watch them on ABC on Saturdays, you have to go to the Cartoon Network. Or worse, what if it is so bad that all anyone ever remembers of my beloved cartoons is what they were forced to be in 2005 just to accommodate some executive's idea of the future and no one even wants to hear about the glory of the past! No, I just won't risk it.
Change is scary, in our favorite entertainment and in our youth ministry. Do we avoid inviting friends, unsaved lost friends, because we are afraid of the reaction they will have to us? That the church will have to them? Do we hide behind our comfort levels in the Youth Room content in our place while we watch in fear others who may join. Hoping that they do not enter our special place? What can we do to reachout to those around us? Do we have to lose what is good about us to bring in a sense of the new?
Only time will tell us if Warner Brothers has made the right choice (in the mean time the DVD boxed set of originally Looney Tunes makes a great birthday gift to new thirty year olds...trust me ;D ). Their risk will either flop or be the next big money maker for the network. What would happen if our Youth Ministry took a risk like the WB? Could you lead it? Would we dare?
posted by Adam @ 8:59 AM
7 Comments:
I think this show won't last more than a season and will be one more failed attempt by WB to save its ratings after neglecting original production in favor of re-hashing bad Japanese shows from the 90s to save a buck.
Taking risks as Christians can be good as long as they are not risks strictly for the sake of risk.
Christ dined with tax collectors and left his comfort zone to change lives. That is a good risk.
Handling snakes in church just to liven things up a bit, that is a bad risk.
But I would note that there are no certainties as to where God will send us or what opportunities he will use. In James it says always leave room in your plans for God to act.
The show idea seems like a sad, desperate attempt to do something like Tiny Toons that will actually bring children back to watching the WB. How many Digimon spin-offs can you watch? And Pokemon is so 90s.
I guess the Christian version of this would be people who try to change the teachings of the church to be more politically correct.
This is like making gay guys deacons, or lesbian pastors, or saying hte church is okay with things it hasn't been cool with for about a thousand years.
I am looking forward to the new cartoons. Teh old ones are so datd. Things have to change iwth the times or they become something no one cares about.
I think taking risks is good for christians and churches. Christianity needs to come into hte 21st century or it wll become old and outdated just like the old bugs bunny cartoons.
For example, they need to get used to the different ways people live nad learn to accept those people instead of getting other people to hate htem.
I like your blog, and I hope you get the cartoons you wnat.
To the last poster, that is so ridiculous! Looney Toons are a brilliant piece of American humor that transcend any age. Bugs rocks!
So is Christianity. If we bend to every passing whim we are no longer an eternal institution established by God, but just one more overbearing political institution established by man.
Keep your alternative lifestyles out of my mainstream faith.
What are you from one of those backqard states like Texas?
Don't you remember the old parable about the reeds? The one that bends survives, the one that s toorigid braks.
Toonhead, come into the 21st century.
Heck yeah I'm from Texas. What, are you like from the land of fruit and nuts?
In Texas we know that if something ain't broke you don't go fiddling around with it like you folks out in California who get all hyped about every little idiotic idea that comes down the pipe.
How many cults do y'all have out there now?
"As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord."
Toonhead,
And you wonder why the church keeps losing people year after year after year. It's that rigid attitude and inability to accept people that turns folks off.
Come into this century!
Adn if CAlifornia is so bad, why are so many peole movnig here from Texas!?
Mr. Adam2, what do you think?
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