Spiritual beings living a human existence

Our pastor, Jeff Benefield, has recently and frequently used the phrase "We are spiritual beings living out a human existence." Or at least something really close to that. Fact is, it's a very true statement, especially proven in recent conversations that I've been involved with. For instance...

A couple of days ago when working at BestBuy, one of my favorite managers was passing the time with me (we were brutally slow), and was telling me that he had found a great movie about vampires. I asked him why, and he said it was because that the movie a lot of the cast of Aliens in it and that immediately made him a fan. He said it was just cool. So how is that spiritual? People innately gravitate to spiritual things. It's not the first time someone said they loved a vampire movie. The whole vampire thing is, to be sure, a spiritual topic. Demons, crosses, Holy Water, life after death, etc. It's fascinating stuff to a lot of people. We are spiritual beings living a human existence, even if the most popular spiritual topic isn't "Christian."

Another example can be found in my oldest daughter. She's enamored with the thought of the spiritual, sometimes with spiritual stuff that isn't founded in a Biblical worldview. Just last night, I went downstairs to grab a book and found her watching "The Exorcist III." While she had only watched just a few minutes of it, I was a bit ticked off and made her change the channel. I chose to use the event as a chance to disciple her....We ended up having a great discussion about the reality of demonic activity and the misrepresentation of the majority of Hollywood's portrayal of spiritual things. My ultimate response was that she couldn't watch crap like that without knowing exactly what the Bible says about it.

Since Christians are spiritual beings living a human existence, we should take advantage of the insight that Scripture gives us into the spiritual. It's just plain lazy to let Hollywood or the journalistic establishment drive our worldview of spiritual things. So get on Biblegateway.com and search demons, angels, heaven, hell, and anything else that movies like The Grudge, The Ring, Underworld: Evolution, or Constantine portray as truth. While there may be entertainment value for some in those kind of movies, it's important to remember the following:

As a spiritual being living out a human existence, you've got to know and understand the Truth.