So who is Miss South Carolina?
Posted: September 1, 2007
Category: Pastor Steve's Blog
Our society loves celebrities. We love to see the rich, beautiful, and successful showing off their gifts. We live vicariously through them. But, for some reason we also love to see them fall. This past week a pretty young lady from South Carolina messed up a question at the Miss Teen Beauty pageant. Her mistake landed on YouTube and ended up receiving millions of hits to watch her. She ended up on the Today show to share what happened to her at the key moment. What is it that causes us to be so interested in the rise and fall of these individuals? Does it reflect our own inner challenges? Does it have anything to do with our own struggles with success and failure There is another vicarious substitution that deals with our own inner struggle. Christ on the cross for us was more than a vicarious experience, it was a vicarious substitution for our failures, mistakes and hurts. Christ took it on (vicariously) and became our substitute for our reality and experiences. Holding to the cross is more than YouTube experience.
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