You Might Hate Me For This!

Well, our fall launch that we've been working on at Yiyi is releasing, I guess has just released this past Friday.

And the theme of the launch is faith over fear.

And it's a really common theme.

You kind of see it all over the place, this faith over fear.

Like there's a lot of different t-shirts with it.

There's a lot of different people's Instagram bios with it.

And it kind of had me thinking, I was like, should this not be the theme of the launch because it's so... common.

And then I thought, well, maybe it is a good opportunity for us to kind of clarify some of these kind of Christian values, taglines, sayings that are surfacing around the culture becoming popular in this day and age.

And then for us to kind of like sit back and be like, faith in what and fear of what.

And there's just like into, in today's world, I just think there's like a very generic optimism and kind of just a generalized belief in the existence of God.

And I think that that's overall better than a society that outright rejects the existence of God.

Like I want to be clear, like there's good things about this like nominal Christianity that we've talked about in the past, but like, it's also not the whole truth.

And so I was thinking about faith over fear.

I was thinking about how it's popular.

I was thinking about how like I've been working on like a lot of the stuff that just released for like a year.

So I've been thinking about this.

And I was listening to a podcast from Johnny Artavanis at Dialed In Ministries.

And he was talking about the different types of Jesus that people follow.

and he said that there was an award show like a year ago with jelly roll and jelly roll says like something along the lines of i couldn't do anything with i just want to say i couldn't do anything without jesus and he was like i want to take his like what he said as sincere but then he said i just noticed that it then panned to reba mcintyre in the crowd who was like overwhelmingly applauding and reba being one of the most outspoken advocates for the lgbtq community known for saying that um you know, something along the lines of God bless those men in high heels.

And so you just think, are we talking about the same Jesus here? And somebody could say that they believe in Jesus.

And a lot of people in America and the world would affirm that and applaud that, but then they would also reject his teaching of, which is offensive, which is the gospel, which is like the affirmation of scripture and like what the Bible actually teaches.

And so it's interesting to think about, and then I'll shut up and get off my soapbox here, but...

I was just thinking it's interesting to think about basically faith over fear.

And then I was like, well, faith in what? Okay, faith in God.

Well, you could even say faith in Jesus, but then you have a whole stadium of people applauding this faith in Jesus.