It Had to Happen: Reality "Christian" TV

In what I can only call disgusting, a new reality "Christian" TV series is going to air in Britain, where a group of 13 non-Christians have volunteered and agreed to "live by the teachings of the Bible for three weeks."

Dubbed "Make Me a Christian," four so-called pastors from various religious Christian backgrounds - Anglican, Catholic, Evangelical, and Pentecostal – are supposed to mentor these people into how to live like a Christian.

One of these pastors had this to say: "Viewers will be deeply moved by the participants' personal journeys. I believe that a major nationwide evangelism initiative could be launched on the back of the series."

Of course to make it interesting to gullible viewers, they've included a mix of extreme people to draw in eyeballs.

For example, they have the necessary lesbian, and then a lap-dancer, party animal, tattooed militant atheist biker ... you get the idea. In other words it's a circus and mockery for all those involved. It's hard to believe these four pastors are allowing themselves to sell out to get name recognition.

It's nothing other than idiocy to say that off the back of this sick show a nationwide evangelistic effort will be launched. It's shows the warped state of people purporting to be spiritual leaders to allow themselves to be brought to the spotlight for the purpose of fame. They can say what they want, there's no other purpose in this.

But worse to me, is the exploitation of the participants, who have many obvious issues which are dealt with in an anemic way.

What are some of the suggestions offered by these spiritual counterfeits? "The lesbian is asked to throw away her porn, the witch is encouraged to toss her Tarot cards, the womanizer is instructed not to look lustfully at women and so forth."

The entire show is based upon showing these people how to outwardly conform to a "Christian code of conduct." In other words, teach them how to be hypocrits.

The only way people can be changed is by Christ within them. That requires believing in Him and then learning to fellowship and walk with Him inwardly, which results in a changed life if it's pursued over a lifetime.

To lower Christianity to a reality show to exploit Christ for ratings, and to have these alleged mentors participate is about as low as I've seen things go. Evidently opportunists have no shame whatsover, and promoting themselves at the expense of everything, including the Lord and His people, as well as the non-believers involved, is an abomination.