To Save a Life.

I watched this show and my first thoughts were, wow, the youths should see this! Okay, i shan't spoil it but here's a little synopsis (from their official site)...

Ever since Jake Taylor was a kid, he was the type of guy you couldn't help but like. For Jake, life is good. He has a ton of friends, a basketball scholarship, a hot girlfriend and a really bright future. Not much to get down about, right?

Enter Roger Dawson. He was Jake's childhood best friend before Jake's growing popularity pushed him out. Tired of not fitting in and having a place to belong, Roger walks onto campus and, with a gun in his pocket and pain in his heart, makes a tragic move.

Jake is devastated by what Roger has done, and something in him changes. In seeking answers in his own life, one question plagues him the most: Could I have saved him? He finds himself deeply compelled to reach out to kids on the fringe -- kids who aren't viewed as cool enough. But this decision among other things, threatens Jake's world. He may lose his friends, his scholarship and even his reputation by asking "What do I want my life to be about?"

One word that kept ringing out in my mind was "relevance". I am really challenged by this word and the questions that followed. "Have I lost my relevance as a Christian in wherever God has put me?", "Have I deem myself too holy for other people?", "Have i camouflaged myself, blending in so nicely that Christ can't be seen in me?"

God has called us to be the salt and light in this world (Matt 5:13-16), but what are we doing? We have either blend in with the world, choosing rather to hang up our identities as Christians in our lives outside the four walls of our church. Or, we may have, in our pursuit of holiness, adopted a certain judgmental mindset against non-believers, thus segregating ourselves from them because they are just not good enough.

And the casualties of our failures are usually those that are around us; the classmate who always seem so rebellious but deep down inside needs acceptance; the platoon mate that's always the target of jokes and pranks; the friend with low self esteem; the kid whose parents set nigh impossible standards and always spots cane marks; what bout the schoolmate with a handicap? There's so many lives that God have yet touched, so many lives wasted and broken, and deep down we know that God really is their answer, that only He can mend their broken hearts, that He can grant them new purposes.

Oh how He loves them.

We are called to be His agents. Agents of love, change and difference, set out to reconcile the world to Him. So what do you want your life to be about?

p.s. here's the trailer for the show!