This is Our Generation: God's Pottery

Please tell me that you have had the privilege to see God's Pottery. These two guys form a dynamic and optimistically Christian comedy duo that was recently featured on Last Comic Standing on NBC (all rights reserved, or whatever). I have NO IDEA why they were voted off - because they were obviously the funniest and most original people there - but they were sent off of the show a couple weeks ago. Yet they did not exit before leaving their mark on the viewers of NBC and in the hearts of Christians everywhere. Even though these guys look like two innocent, virgin, home-schooled Bible quizzers (which incidentally they actually literally are) - God's Pottery connects with This Generation in ways that churches only dream of.


I saw a miracle the other nite on tv. It was on Last Comic Standing, and God's Pottery did it. These two innocent Christian guys - along with their creativity, humor, and cheesy smiles - had three minutes to entertain a Los Angeles audience. But these guys not only entertained the crowd and made them laugh, God's Pottery did something that I would have never thought possible. These guys had this secular audience all singing together a song about how "I love Jesus so much today". Within three minutes, the entire crowd was laughing and smiling and singing this song about Jesus together. They forgot whatever qualms they had with Christianity, whatever prejudices against old pastors or churches, and whatever they had against religion. These people didn't care that they might not know about Jesus' divinity or how the Trinity works or anything else - all they knew was that these two wide-eyed Christians just made Jesus fun and relevant again.


This is what our generation responds to. This is what our generation needs. This is what we need to see more of for This Generation. Why? Why does God's Pottery connect so much? Why could God's Pottery get a crowd full of non-Christians from Los Angeles to sing about Jesus within a manner of minutes? Why?


It's simple. These guys are honest. They are genuine. They are fun. And they are fully open and accessible with their faith. They live their faith (even if its a fake for a skit or show) 100% in their life. They do not have an agenda other than making people smile and laugh. They are themselves, and they focus on the good parts of their faith. If you ever see these guys, you will know exactly what I mean. God's Pottery connects with people because people trust them - and therefore they trust their faith.


God's Pottery: two wide-eyed, innocent, optimistic people who fully live their faith fully through all of their words and actions - a faith that attracts others because its real and honest and fun.


This is Our Generation.

Commercials and Comparisons: Two Commercials that Define This Generation

Not that I watch a ton of tv or anything, but, well, lately I have been watching a ton of tv. And during this bout of lameness, I have actually been pretty impressed with some recent commercials. Two commercials really stood out to me. The more I thought about this two commercials - another bout of lameness - the more I realized that these two commercials define who This Generation is and what we are all about.

The first commercial is that Heineken commercial where everyone shares their drinks with people. (Please don't think that I am saying that alcohol defines our generation, I am totally not; I am just comparing the concepts). But this commercial has an excellent message and a really beautiful concept. The commercial starts out with one person sharing his drink with another. Then that person takes the drink and gives it to somebody else. This continues on through about eight different people. But the beauty of it lies in the actual people. The commercial shows people of all different backgrounds and types sharing with each other. There is a ballerina, a Hispanic cowboy, a huge hair logger, an Indian woman, and many others. All of these people connect with each other despite their many differences. The commercial shows how this one thing connects these people that probably do not have anything else in common. These diverse individuals 'share the good' with each other and connect despite their differences.

The other commercial is those VISA commercials that show everything running smoothly with something - a cafeteria or a greenhouse. The reason why everything is running so smoothly is because the people are all using debit cards. But then when one person pulls out a check to pay for their puchases, everything stops. After the person is done paying for their stuff, then everything starts flowing again as normal. It is a great commercial that shows how things flow and run and go smooth with the use of certain things, but then something old can disrupt that. This is not to say that This Generation does not like anything that is old. But this commercial helps to show that there are certain things that make stuff flow and go smoothly.

These two commercials help to portray some great things about This Generation. We are a generation that connects with each other - despite our many differences. We are a generation that shares and cares and seeks to find things in common with each other. Even if the only thing that we have in common is a beer - This Generation is all about relationships and community with each other. Also, This Generation has a certain feel to it. We do things a certain way, and we like how we do things. This Generation operates in this busy life with technology, communication, internet, and many other things. We have flow to how we do things, and sometimes that can get messed up when other generations try to impose things upon us. This Generation is a lot different than other generations, and we do things and live our lives a certain way.

Connection with people. A flow to our lives.

This is Our Generation.

The Generation With a Voice...and a Story

Viral videos, blogs, youtube videos, reality tv, cameras and videos on all computer and cell phones - This Generation is known for having things to say and using technology to be able to say them. But it goes a lot deeper than that.

This Generation has a voice. We have a strong voice. We like to share our lives with the world on our blogs. We like to write what is going on and put a little piece of ourselves out there for all to see. Also, we love reality tv. It gives us - us normal people who are nowhere near being movie stars - a chance to be on television. It gives us a chance to share with the world who we are and what we are all about.

Why are there so many youtube videos of just people sitting in front of their computer talking? Why are there so many personal videos made through cell phones and computers? Why do we blog so much? Why do we love reality tv? We love all of these things because it gives us an outlet to share our voice. We have a voice. Each and every one of us in This Generation has a voice. And we want to share it.

But why? As we go deeper into who This Generation is - why do we want to share our voice?

We want to share our voice because we have a story.

We all have a story to tell. We all want to share our story with the world. This Generation doesn't just talk and blog and make videos for no reason. We share our voice because we have a story to tell. Our stories are a part of who we are. They are everything about us - no matter how small or large. We are a community driven generation that seeks to share our voice with others because we have a story to tell.


Videos, youtube, reality tv, computer cameras, blogs...

Look deeper and you will see a Voice.

Look beyond that and you will see a Story.

This is Our Generation.