My Take on “Jon & Kate PLus 8″
John & Kate Gosselin
Yes, I’ve watched TLC. Sarai’s got to get her tv time, as well as me getting mine, mostly with the NFL network. I started watching Jon & Kate PLus 8 in the 4th season, and although I protested watching a reality show, I warmed to the family after learning that Jon & Kate were professing Christians. The children are cute and any family that can survive multiples (excluding Nadia Sulman) is somewhat an inspiration.
Jon & Kate have fallen into some rough times lately; you can read Us and People if you haven’t already been exposed to their crisis.
It seems good media coverage always involves someone “losing it”. It’s not exciting t.v. to watch people live normal lives. If Jon & Kate had two or three kids, an average size house, and were determined to live within their means, their show would probably not be as popular. The media loves it especially when the one “losing it” claims to somewhat have it together, or even better, professes to be a Christian. When Christian celebrities make mistakes there never seems to be a lack of cameras.
You watch the show because you want to see how regular people handle irregular circumstances. Most reality t.v. shows (which are mostly staged) depict individuals doing some of the most ridiculous things that most people just would not be dumb enough to conjure up.
But Jon & Kate’s show seemed to me a bit different. The show seemed to have a good Christian tilt to it, an acknowledgment of God’s ability to bring harmony to irregular circumstances. Jon & Kate’s book “MULTIPLE BLES8INGS” deals with the couples dependence on God during some of their most difficult times. Because of this honesty, coupled with a dependence on God, they have experienced a great level of success within their show and business.
But would you buy their book? Would you be encouraged by their story if you knew that it ended in marriage and family ruin? Would you still be encouraged by “Kate Plus 8,” or “Jon Plus 4?”
If I Were Their Pastor
If I had a word with Jon & Kate I would tell them that their success is dependent on their relationship with one another. Not the success of their show or the success of their business ventures, but the success of being able to say after this crisis is over that “God is still our Sustainer.”
I would tell them to come out of the public eye and to get back in each others eyes with painful honesty. No one knows the true story behind their crisis, but God does. When it comes to the swarming media, silence can never be quoted or misquoted.
I would tell them to put away for a while the need for recreation and find satisfaction in meaningful conversation.
If I were their pastor, there would be alot of things to sift out. But I would tell them that God can give them marital bliss, happy and healthy children, and a place of influence in popular culture. Jon & Kate have to do here what they have done before, and that’s depend on God.
God has a way of taking some of the most jacked up family circumstances and making them inspirational. To see Jon & Kate work this out and stand in front of their t.v. audience having prevailed through a tough season of life, would in my opinion be their greatest victory. And that kind of victory, in my opinion, is worthy of reality t.v..
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September 7, 2010