I’m not really a doctor, I just play one on tv…
Oct 22nd, 2009 by ljkim
Actors play other ppl for a living. Duh. So if you wanted to get to know the real person you’d have to know them in-between their acting gigs. Even when Jaime Lynn Sigler played “herself” on Entourage, it’s not really her. I mean, I don’t know her personally, but it’s still a role she’s playing. Even on reality tv, you don’t really get to see reality; just what the people are willing to show, and what the producers think is interesting. The key is: you only get to see what they want you to see.
Now in the modern world EVERYONE is an actor. At work you put on your work persona. Friday nights you put on your Fri night persona. At church ppl put on their church persona. And because our lives are so compartmentalized we can get away with it… You can get away with only letting people see what you want them to see. But the real “you” is who you are in-between. It’s the people who see you in-between your gigs, when you’re not acting, not trying to impress or convince people of anything – those are the ones who see the real *you.* Uncut. Unedited.
It is possible for an actor to start to believe they are actually the people they portray… But they’d be delusional in thinking so. In the same way we’d be delusional to think we are the sum of our performances at work or play or anywhere else we’re putting on a show…
So what does it mean to have real community – real Fellowship? The kind of fellowship that God wants to have with you, and that God wants us to have with each other is that we’d share who we are when we’re not playing a role… This can be hard to do sometimes. It’s not natural for us to be natural. It means people will see parts of us we don’t want them to see. It will mean having to apologize or repent or ask for forgiveness sometimes. That’s what it means to be a real person.
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