Why this lack of enthusiasm in Christianity by our present-day youth? Of course this has always been a problem, but what number would properly represent this failure today? Why this deficiency in religious fervor regardless of race or sex? I don’t feel this is a deliberate disbelief or even indifference, but directly caused by nothing but ignorance. Many parents who profess to be Christian have scarcely any idea of what the faith is all about, so where does this leave their children?
Are Christianity’s essential truths nothing but a mass of non-essential facts, alleged facts, distorted truths, or even discarded facts? Where are the smiles, where is the fear of judgment? Is the fetish sacredness of Scripture bound up in some antiquated family Bibles; it now reduced to an image found on a night stands, or coffee tables? Do these things confuse the minds of our youth?
We Americans have been blessed with much, yet have we been astonishingly inefficient and ineffective in passing on our Christian Faith? What’s the problem? Could the languages we use to expound the Scriptures be too dogmatic? I have asked myself, “Do kids dislike dogmas because they are dogmas, or because dogmas are usually set in a language which has partially lost any clear meaning?”
How do we get it across to any person that morality and religion have the relation of consequent and antecedent, result and cause? Train tracks and a train are not the same, although one is necessary to the other. Indigestion and hot peppers are not two names for the same thing, although they are related to one another. Falling in love is the parent of parenthood, but who can claim that parenthood and falling in love is the same thing?
The Lord meant for Christianity to unite us to each other and than govern us by the supernatural power of His Holy Spirit; He shall than bind us so closely together that we get strength of will that will help us live up to His Godly moral principles. We know what we ought to be; but we are not it! We know what things we should not do; but we do them anyway.
We do not make good; but we need the power and help of our Lord and Savior who is good. Than with all certainty, Jesus Christ will give us the confidence of strength to do well. “Whatever a parent sows unto their child, so will that child reap.”
Phillip LaSpino www.seekfirstwisdom.com