Zombies!

Ever since the classic “Night of the Living Dead” America has had some fascination with zombie movies, it seems like a summer doesn’t go by without at least one major zombie movie being released. Personally, I’m not a huge fan of the genre, I’ve only seen one or two of them, but I do find some of the concepts interesting.

Zombies are these no-longer humans that have died and come back to life. With that transformation, there is radical change in the Zombies look, behavior, actions and thoughts (or lack thereof).

I think that there are some things that we could learn from those zombies. Obviously, I don’t recommend that we all go out and start to attack people, there are some differences between evil zombies and us, but lets think about the idea of being radically changed for a minute.

Romans 6:3-4: “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father, so we too might walk in the newness of life.” (NRSV)

“So we too might walk in the newness of life”, what a powerful statement! What a radical change that comes from this death and new life. Paul goes on to say that we are no longer enslaved by Sin, but are dead to it. With this freedom, this death to Sin, we are given new life.

Perhaps our culture is enamored with zombies because they represent a huge change that can take place in a person. While the becoming-a-zombie process is an evil and perverted change, the change of becoming a Christian is Holy and blessed. We are called to live a different life, for a purpose. While the zombie has no leader and does not have a purpose, the Christian follows Christ and his or her purpose is to show others what Christ is like. Lets try to think of ourselves as radically changed followers of Christ.