TAKING OUR CUES FROM THE YOUTH Proverbs 23:13 - Withhold not correction from the child:for if thou beatesthim with the rod, he shall not die. I greet you friends in the Wonderful Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Remember Sunday School? Remember the lessons, scriptures, answering the questions in class and before the church? Remember when we enjoyed the simple things about going to church and working with the youth group? I can remember Christmas gifts, etc. but my most memorable church experiences are the scriptures that I know now! Back then, the church would instruct the children. They would discipline us instead of encourage our foolishness. The church was likeour home back then! Everyone cared about our well being and whatever they had to do to make sure we were quiet, attentive, and receiving the Word, they would. But they would never cater to our fleshly wants or desires just to lure us into the church. I suppose there would be no text messaging and video games during service! The church would just be church and whether we liked it or not, we had to go. We live in a different time now of course, but are children and youth different today? Will they obey, and follow rules if we teach them to? Can they learn and grow in Christ if we properly train them up, or do we just take our cues from them and cater to the secular, fleshly side of them to lure them into church for the sake of numbers? Whenever a culture takes its cues from the youth and conforms to the ideals of the youth, it is a sign of bad leadership! Just like in your home, if your children dictate your actions and cause you as a parent to behave like their peers, then you have lost the respect and position of leadership and are now equivalent to a friend or buddy in their eyes. This is a bad move, and yet its happening more and more because the leadership of our communities and churches are catering to the young in a way that is causing them to lose their authority in the eyes of the young. Youth now feel that if they cant do the club-styled dances, the BET parties, and the electric slide in church, then the church is not youth oriented! This is why God would not allow Lucifer to exalt himself in heaven because being a musician, his influence would have been too great and his desire to sell himself would have changed the course of worship and praise in heaven. But we are now allowing the enemy to change the very flow of our church services by following recording artists and performers that are trying to sell CDs. The way we reach out to youth has been totally recreated because of the secularized antics of Gospel Recording artists instead of the leadership of their parents being their essential means of instruction. Now we feel to reach the youth, we have to cater to them by allowing them to express themselves and secularize the church. So we have to let them dance, sing, and learn through their secular identity or else, they wont come? Have we ever thought that if we could teach their parents to make them come, they would be there? Have we ever thought that if we show and model proper leadership, their parents would become their own childrens leaders and lead them to church? Why are we luring children and youth to church when its the responsibility of the parents to bring them? Why are we constantly taking our cues from this generation when this generation is lost? Shouldnt we be the models, the leaders, the examples? Ill tell you this, whenever a youth feels that you are thinking, acting, and behaving on their level, then you have forfeited your position to lead them and in their mind, your authority is equal to theirs. For I know that my Redeemer lives! Ps Tati
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 07:02:01 +0000
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