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Thursday, July 14, 2005
Another quote, from Paul David Tripp in "Age of Opportunity":
"The church of Jesus Christ, the Christian family, was never meant to exist as an isolated ghetto in the middle of a darkened and broken culture. We are called by Christ to be participants in the world as His agents of redemption.
So we need to prepare our teenagers. We need to train them in truth and to teach them evaluative and analytical skills. We need to model how to think and interpret life biblically. We need to engage them in the decision making process. We need to teach them to recognize common grounds and to speak to the cries of the culture in language it understands. We need to teach them how to recognize the idols that underlie what the culture produces. We need to teach them to participate in cultural debate, to be people of influence, and to be rebuilders. And we need to teach them to do all this without giving way to self-righteous isolationism or the personal compromise of assimilation."
So, are we an "isolated ghetto" apart from the culture as Christians? What do you see that supports your answer? Is the Church (not just CBC) doing those things in the 2nd paragraph among teenagers in our area? If no, what can be done to change that reality? If yes, what evidence do you see?
Brent 10:10 PM
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