Have you attained the celebrity status?

Human beings tend to flocking themselves to one who is famous, who has attained celebrity status, who is often televised and in the news all the time. The factors of preferences change depending on people tastes and choices. Christendom isn't spared from this. There are two things to it, one a particular minister of God with a special gift or may be with the opportunity for him to appear in public gained fame and starts establishing a strong fan club. The next is the common people whose needs are being met by this one man/woman of God, or he/she felt God speaking to them through this man/woman of God, totally clings to this person and starts depending on him/her all the time.

 The next thing the people want to do is identify themselves with this Christian celebrity sharing his/her fame and feel good about it. Sadly, they even go to the extent to mobilize money, resources and promote all his commodity and be satisfied emotionally or sometimes be profited. How do we address this? Does it even hit us? God keeps reiterating again and again by saying I am the savior and there is none beside me (Isaiah 43:11, 44:6) Paul addressed this in 1 Corinthians 3:2-3 ‘because you are still worldly. For since there is envy and strive among you, are you not worldly and behaving like mere humans? For whenever someone says “I belong to Paul”, and another “I belong to Apollos”, are you not acting like mere humans?

There is an incident narrated in Acts 14 where a man without strength in his feet, lame from his birth was healed by Paul.  The crowd immediately jubilant and remarked that Gods have come down in human form and intended to sacrifice bulls for them. In (Acts 14:14) We see Paul and Barnabas tore their robes and immediately clarified that it is Jesus and they have no power. They did not  come up with a plan to build a club rather directing their attention to Jesus always. At any point of time in their ministry they never encouraged the celebrity status.  Do we see this happening today? This same Paul now when he writes to Corinthians condemns people who are flocking to a group.

There is a warning for both, one who have attained a big status and not conscious enough to keep correcting the attention of people and the followers who are just so happy to be identifying with their fame. God Says in Isaiah 42:8 “.. I will not give my glory to another..”. Also in 1 Corinthians 3:21 MSG Paul warns, "I don’t want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else...". We read so many stories of miserable fall of so called great people and the news are there everywhere. 

Unfortunately, Christianity is judged by the abuse of such people who were used by God or whom the ordinary lay people made them gods.  “Being Christians does not mean we’re any better than unbelievers. We are still as sick as anyone - we just have found the doctor.”.  “We are all broken”, it is assured. “we are all miserable failures is the refrain. ". Stop promoting yourself openly or subtly and stop creating a fan club and be deceived miserably.  Christ is the only Savior and God, don’t try to replace God.
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