This is bigger than a cup. We don't like that it is but, there it is. This isn't really about a red cup. And it isn't really about how current culture has taken Christ out of Christmas either (google greek symbol for Christ). Christians have done some pretty dumb things in the name of Christ but it goes so much deeper than that.
This is about us as a church, as the body of Christ, as the kingdom on earth and we are failing because:
This is about not working together, this is about division and inner turmoil. This is about fear and not having trust. It is about not believing "for reals" that He. Is. LORD. Over. All and stepping down and letting him BE.
This is about Christians thinking the world owes us anything, as if we should want anything the world has to offer. It is about telling people we are the answers instead of telling people the answer is Jesus. This is about "Let us say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays" memes as if that is real persecution even though Holiday means Holy-day. This is about being unwilling to admit that we don't have it all figured out and we HAVE to live by grace.
I think sometimes the random cupgate is a good thing for the church. It is a wake up call. Brothers and Sisters, we are asleep. We have forgotten, or maybe we have never really learned what it means to follow him - to take up our cross, to die to self, to consider everything loss to gain Christ.
We need to wake up. We need to stretch our limbs, throw off the covers and wash our hands and feet to prepare to love our Lord by serving others as Christ came to serve.
And how did he serve?
You know the answer.
So why is the occasional cupgate good for us? It reminds us that we, the Church, are not perfect, it reminds us what we believe, who Christ really is. We remember how God is actually about love and redemption and resurrection.
God didn't come incarnate as a cup.
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