Chris Castaldo, a Gospel Coalition contributor, offers this insight into the pop-hero who is Lady Gaga:
Lady Gaga, a mother to her fans, claims that she loves her Little Monsters. While exhorting them to break the shackles of self-imposed weakness, she performs in the foreground of the cross. When viewers try to peek around her theatrics to behold the man with outstretched arms wearing thorns upon his head, she reclaims their attention with provocative display of eroticism. “Keep your eyes on me all you who are rejected, ridiculed, and out of place in society,” she cries. “I am your Mother.”
But that Man will not be silenced. His love is too broad to be concealed. His redemption isn’t a performance. It was a real cross, with real nails, in real time. Truly God and truly man, he died a physical death for actual sin resulting in genuine redemption. This one Savior, truly rose from the grave and really lives. Therefore, his promise is unyielding: “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matt 11:28). He is the Savior of the world; his name is Jesus.
Read the rest of his article here.
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