Why Everything is not Right with the World
First you must watch this comedic yet somewhat true clip from Craig Ferguson. *************
Second you read the following post and comment. *********************
I just have to say that I wish we had this subject was reversed back to the way it used to be, when the old were the leaders and we listened to them as the youth, not the youth determining the culture. I think that youth is simply a blank slate, that if properly taught, will learn from all the hardships, wisdom, and guidance from the old and then build off of their predecessors success and go further than the previous generation. That is the way it worked for us to go from era to era and progress as humans and cultures. Now we have youth leading other youth, instead of the old leading the youth.
If you are looking for a church or a movement that is truly doing things the way God intended, look for the youth to be openly receiving counsel from the old, and actually listening to them. Practically, can you actually look at culture and say that the order that God intended is not out of whack? And if you look at culture and see that it is out of whack, what are we doing to put in back in to order in our spheres of influence? I mean what do we really want the old to think these days when you flip on the tv or radio and the people that our culture has placed as the best “artists”, “actors”, “politicians”, etc. are there because they have completely sold their soul and in order for them to sell records they have to first sell their cleavage to the public, and for them to be popular with the public they have to endorse the gay agenda, and in order for them to be elected they have to be Pro-Choice just so it makes them more youthful and relevant in their views.
My grandfather was a very old school type of guy and he was gentle and kind, but if you really dug deep in what he thought about certain things he would be open and truthful with what he thought. I once asked him what he thought about my music that I was writing at the time and he said “I just don’t like the rock music cause it doesn’t seem to be Godly”. Now being a rocker I took offense to it at the time, but now that I am older and see things a little different I know and realize some things that I didn’t then. See my grandfather was a pastor for most of his life. Very old school and traditional (not a bad thing, when it’s not religious). He was a great shepherd. And love people more than I have seen any other person in my life. In the last years of his life I watched a change happen to him that breaks my heart in a way because I saw some dreams die in him.
See, in the past years of the rise of the “relevant church” concept, there has been a pushing out of all the old and a rush of the new. I believe it has been the most rapid and detrimental changes in all of church history, and I believe that my grandfather saw it and silently bore a grieving that he could not share. I saw in the last 5 years of his life, after his retirement, when he moved to the city we lived in and attended our church where I was worship leader and my father was the pastor. We were so much more “progressive” than he was and all the other churches around him were moving that way too and he eventually stopped coming and went to a church of 20 that he found on a back road somewhere. Now I know that doesn’t mean we were completely wrong in all the things we were doing, but it makes me ask the question……… “Why was there not a place built in our lives where the man who had been in ministry for over 50 years was able to counsel us on what we were doing?”
Things should progress in life, but they should be done under the wisdom of God and of our elders or you end up having youth leading youth. Amuse me by thinking about this example…….. take 50 years of experience and then add it to a youth’s 10 years of experience, you’ll get a youth that is far more equipped than the one who takes 15 years of experience from a fellow youth and adds it to their 10 years of experience. 50+10=60 15+10=25.
Yes, the video was comedic in a sense but there was so much truth to what he was saying. I don’t want to be 50 and listening to what Hollywood thinks is morally acceptable and is trying to sell to the general public. Why are the elderly not in most of the big churches anymore, there is simply not a place for their wisdom. The culture change when it started putting all the power in the youth and now we are a just plain stupid nation when it comes to our decisions, morals, and beliefs.
Why is Molly Cyrus leading a generation?
Why does she have more of a voice to our kids than the parents and the grandparents?
Why is the music on the radio all crap?
Why does it just talk about sex and material things, that people would rather have than financial stability and a bright future?
Look at the decline of our nation since the 30’s. Who has become the most powerful voice? The youth or the old? Who has more power? Some would say the old since they are the ones in office or have the money. But I say that the youth do right now because if they choose to not like something, the people who are power and money hungry will change everything just to pacify and make the youth happy so that they start buying again.
I know this isn’t all that is wrong with this picture, and that’s why I’d like to open the discussion. What are you seeing? What do you feel about this? Do you really want to live your life where the young have more of a say than you? I mean, really think about it. At this rate. The little morals we do have in our generations will be even more demoralized by the next if we go the route we are going.
Think about this.
“He who has the gold, makes the rules”
“And everybody works for somebody”
If these two statements are true, then you have to ask yourself this question. Who really has the gold, and do they really work for someone. Now think of a spoiled bratty kid…. do you really think he works for anyone? Do you really think he cares what he does, when there is no consequences for his actions? Now ask this……. do the big executives on Wall Street, or the people in Hollywood and Washington have all the money and are making all the rules? Or are they working for the youth, making them happy, and meeting all their desires, and conforming to their values, and working hard to make products for them, making music talk about sex all the time just because that is all a hormonal teenager is thinking about………… are they working for the youth because they have figured out the youth are the ones with the money and they are truly the ones who make the rules?
That should open the doors for discussion enough now……….. what are your thoughts?????????????????
Caleb Ripple 9:27 pm on August 26, 2009 Permalink |
God has all the gold and we ALL work for Him…
Great post! The Holy Spirit has been dealing with us as a church when it comes to this very thing (the importance of being intergenerational). It is my firm belief that as the church goes so goes society and this problem didn’t begin in society or in the world but rather in the church. I would go so far as to say however that if we deem our solution to be simply elders, we have missed the point. The solution is the Gospel, the apostle’s doctrine. Lets face it doctrine has become a four letter word to a good portion of the “relevant church” and in the cases where they (*speaking generally) hold to doctrine it isn’t the apostle’s doctrine at all! (case in point: http://bit.ly/14BrFr) I also don’t believe for one second that if “the youth” all got together and said “to hell with your health care Pelosi, Reid, and B.O., and while you’re at it enough of the Public Education scam!” that the money and power hungry government would budge on what they would do if it were afforded to them.
All this being said, i do heartily agree that there is an ailment due to a lack of intergeneration oneness. It is my belief that the unadulterated Gospel is the perfect remedy.