What Do Christians Have Against Weddings?
August 21, 2009
I imagine you’ve heard of ImprovEverywhere. If not, you may have seen their No Pants Day stunts, Frozen Grand Central, or their takeover of Best Buy. If you haven’t, you must watch all of those videos and the many others on their website. They are hilarious, albeit a bit strange.
On to the topic at hand. At few months ago, they performed a stunt which they titled Surprise Wedding Reception (HD video embedded below). It had a simple premise: their large group of pranksters would dress up in formal attire, wait outside of a city clerk’s office, and offer a free wedding reception to the first couple who walked out. I recommend you watch the video, but in summary the reception went wonderfully and the participants and guests of honor had a fantastic time.
Immediately when I saw this video, I had only one thought: why can’t Christians do this? This basic act of fun must have meant the world to a couple who had planned to not have a deserved celebration on their wedding day. Inexpensively, a group of people banded together simply to brighten the day of a few strangers. I would submit that this was a pretty darn loving act if I ever saw one.
Why aren’t Christians thinking creatively like this? I don’t want to downplay at all ImprovEverywhere’s actions–by all means, what they did was no less loving because the Gospel was not their motivation. At the same time, however, I firmly believe that Jesus-followers should be doing this sort of thing all the time. What holds us back from this? Stereotypes of city-clerk-wedding-goers? Laziness? Lack of creativity?
Personally, I think we need to steal that idea.
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1 Comment to What Do Christians Have Against Weddings?
by Carico
On January 19, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Pretty funny video. I think some of the nicest people are those who are less religious. Its like Christians are wrapped up in believing they forget to live and do right by people.