Is there something funny about moral degradation? It can happen very slowly. The fact is not that you will quickly become immoral if you have no moral restraints, but that one day you will become immoral. Moral degradation that occurs slowly is just as damaging as that that occurs quickly.
Think about the music our children listen to. I’m pretty sure my grandparents were very worried about their children when they danced what we now consider music: Elvis. Between generations came the Beatles, who played dressed in costumes and whose moptop-style hair was more mischievous than rebellious. When I turned on the radio, my parents opposed the suggestive words of Aerosmith or Red Hot Chili Peppers. no more suggestive music, because “suggestive” implies a certain subtlety.
- We arrived here not because we slept during the Rubico 1 crossing.
- On the contrary.
- We insisted that.
- Because our grandparents objected unnecessarily (compared to our parents).
- Our parents had to object unnecessarily (against us) and therefore we would have to refuse to unnecessarily oppose our children.
- Knowing that their children will be much worse.
- Have we come to wait and accept rebellion.
- Through music and moral rebellion?as a normal part of growth.
- Some parents even start to worry when their children don’t rebel.
All this is proof that, even in the church, we accept more suggestions from the culture of the world than from the Word of God. Take a moment and look for the word teen in your bible deal. Try the word teen. Look for a generational gap. See if you can find youth culture. There are no words or concepts, they are not biblical categories. These destructive elements common in our homes should suggest that we are doing something wrong.
However, deleting is not enough. In other words, it wasn’t mere permissiveness that got us into this mess, the problem is deeper. It is not that we do not treat young people well, but that we always admit the existence of young people, the Bible joyfully recognizes the reality of children, affirms the existence of adults. What she doesn’t do is accept something between them.
Doesn’t the Bible affirm anywhere the existence of a youthful culture, because in all this, we are encouraged to adopt a different culture, that of the Kingdom of God, when Paul exhorts us to raise our children according to the Lord’s instructions and warnings?(Ephesians 6:1), the root of the Greek word instruction, translated into our Bibles, is paideia, which communicates the notion of culture. This includes shared beliefs, shared language, and shared heart habits.
When my older children were still young, my wife and I worked to make sure their identity was in Christ, in our common identity as a family that, like Joshua before us, would serve the Lord. This I instilled in my children, in part, through some basic family liturgies. While Hollywood and Madison Avenue were looking for my daughter to meet their social group, she wanted her to see herself in the light of her Savior. So I taught him, when I asked him his name, this answer question: I Darby, who are the Sprouls, Darby?Are the Sprouls free? I and the Sprouls, Darby, “The Sprouls serve the King Jesus. “”Who are the Sprouls afraid of? Darby – The Sprouls fear no one; Do the Sprouls fear God?
Darby is no longer a child and one day she will probably no longer be a Sproul, but in reality, my daughter is an arrow in my box, because her identity is in Christ and not in her social group, she spends less time walking. in the mall and more time proclaiming Jesus outside our city’s abortion clinic. Because her identity is in Christ, she sees her father not as a grumpy old man, but as the man who fully loves him. It is linked to the principle of first seeking the kingdom of God and his righteousness, because that is our vocation.
Perhaps the cutest thing about my daughter is that she not only serves, but also loves her father, brother, little sisters and two younger brothers, seven and three years old. She interacts happily with young and old, because she loves all saints and not everyone. only those who share their fashion sense or musical taste.
Nathan Hatch once revealed the infiltration of particular American ideals into the church in his ledger?The democratization of American Christianity? [The Democratization of American Christianity]. Today, we are witnessing the demographic division of American Christianity. At best, we establish programs based on age, gender and state of life. At worst, we have a church designed for country music fans and Mountain Dew in one place, and a church designed for jazz and Starbucks fans elsewhere. We share what Christ has united, we are the Corinthians, but we divide the Church by tastes and not by income.
But Jesus makes several. We are a family, a bread, one body, one culture, one love. Could the culture of the world say about our culture: “Oh, how do you love each other?”
1? N of E: Passing through Rubicon means making a risky and irrevocable decision. This term refers to the fact that occurred in Roman history, in 49 BC, when Emperor Julius Caesar took his soldiers across the Rubicon River, located in northern Italy, to pursue Pompey, thus violating the law of the time that forbade Pompey by crossing any Roman authority accompanied by his troops , because this could present risks to the central power of the Roman Empire.