Rock Stars on the Loose
# Jan 23, 12:41 PM
With all the excitement and hype over the release of the video game “Rock Star” and the continued success of its predecessor “Guitar Hero”, I decided to to a blog on the subject. You can also read the article below to get a better understanding of the mania. I also thought it would be good, since we are having auditions for our very first youth worship band.
Let me start by giving my biblical reference for the importance of rock and roll. It comes from the book of 1 Samuel in the 17th chapter. It is a story of a young teenager who through God’s blessing uses rock and roll to save Israel from a giant. The teenager, David, finds himself face to face with an armored giant with only a sling and a couple of river rocks. With accuracy and power that can only come from God, David took the
“Rock and Rolled” the giant. (lol)
Ok, on a serious note, there are some great lessons we can learn from this new fad, and by the way, I have played “Guitar Hero,” and I love it. So let’s look beyond the questionable lyrics and messages to the songs for just a moment and find application for us as Christians.
In both of these popular video games, gamers try to emulate popular rock songs by pushing and rocking switches and levers. It is kind of like Dance Dance Revolution for the upper body. The better the player gets at pushing the right buttons at the right time the closer they get to rock mortality. In Rock Star, up to four players combine their skills to create a whole rock band. Here is the key! No matter how good they become at the game, they are never really making music. They rely on the creator of the music for the original sound. People spend hours playing this game so they can be a part of the music.
As Christians we are similar. We are only playing along with the song that God has created. The more time we spend on God things the closer our song can become to the original. Even my greatest effort amounts to a bunch of nothing compared to what Christ has done. Jesus is the master guitarist, laying down a riff that no guitar hero before or ever will match. My goal is like Paul’s in 1 Corinthians 9, “24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. 26Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. 27No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
So you want to be a rock star like David? Let’s spend more time with the true “Hero” than with our “Guitar hero”
Rock on!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/01/16/rock.star.gamers/index.html
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