Typical Christians

Last week, during my time away from blogging, Mark Rose of Right-Minded authored this post about the upcoming NBC show The Book of Daniel.

His lament, and those of my brethren on the conservative side of the aisle is that the show doesn't portray a typical Christian family. I tend to agree that Christians are usually woefully misportrayed by mainstream television and film. Just like the white guy's Geisha book, when you try to write about a world you don't move in it often comes off as japery.

The beautiful thing about Christianity is that it is for everyone. That's precisely who Christ died for. So let's get rid of this idea that there's a right type of person to be a Christian. My typical Christian life? Looks something like this:

--The main character is Katherine Coble, a 35 year old woman ridden with anxieties and struggling with major health problems. She doesn't know what she wants to be when she grows up and is struggling with the drama of approaching 40 in a childless state. She takes drugs.

--Her husband is consumed by his work and his passion for cycling. He deals with a startup business and the stress that entails.

--She has a 29 year old gay brother and is on friendly terms with him and his partner.

--Her two adopted children are gay dogs.

When I was a kid the assumption was that a beer in the fridge meant eternity in hot hell fire. So often Christians extrapolate these societal codes into larger inferrances about the nature of our salvation and our faith. No, we shouldn't continue in sin so that Grace may abound. Yet we can't assume that our Father's Grace for our brethren has limits along our design.

There are approximately 2 billion Christians on this planet. Each one is unique and none are typical.