Does Jesus Love Misfits?

I am totally fascinated with Lady Gaga. She appears to have become the patron saint of misfits, and I don’t use the term misfits in a negative way. I’m talking about people that genuinely feel that they don’t fit in current society. I watched a video online where she appeared at a Best Buy for a CD release. It looked like hundreds of fans had camped out all night for their place in line for the chance to see their icon. Devoted fans of pop stars waiting in long lines for long periods of time has been going on for millennia, but I saw something I can’t ever recall seeing. Lady Gaga took time to personally connect with each person that came by to get their CD autographed. Whether it was a hug, a handshake, or just a touch of the hand. She refers to her fans as family. She’d (or some paid assistant) bought pizza to the folks waiting in line. It seems she is intentionally reaching out to the people out on the fringe of society. The telling thing in the video was the sense of connection her fans feel with her.

Can you imagine how repulsed the angels must have felt when Jesus left the pristine perfection of heaven to be born in a dirty stable? He even had to dress like them humans, talk like them, oh no wait, he wasn’t a mere imitation of humans, he was a human. Not a single human at the time was fit for heaven. Misfits the whole lot. And yet he had family, friends, and enemies. He was famous and despised at the same time. He didn’t wear the decent clothing of the of the religious esteemed. He even touched lepers! Was Jesus assigned to do this? It turns out he wanted to.

I’m not endorsing Lady Gaga, she is certainly not the model of virtue and decorum, I’m just totally fascinated by how she has rocketed to stardom by identifying with misfits. I know of believers doing the same thing, rocketing into obscutity intentionally giving their lives away, receiving other misfits into their lives like family. That’s what I’m seeing is touching lives.

bob humphrey

Posted: July 1st, 2010 under General.
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