Can You Get Wetter?

The mainstream media is concerned (Oh my!!) about how sexual the commercials during the superbowl might be. What a bunch of Puritans. The fact that their eyebrows are raised, with one hand over their mouth, while the other hand continues to grease the wheels for our culture to slide further into the pit is amazing.

That untold millions of Christians will open the spigot again to let the world dump its junk onto them, all in the name being relevant. Or worse, that it is not even in the name of reaching the lost, but rather we will pay the price and let the world splash its garbage on us if that's what it costs for us to "enjoy" the Super Bowl.

That many believers won’t even notice is another mark of how wet we are. Can you get wetter?

Even years ago we would watch nothing live, it would all be taped so we could fast forward through the commercials. Back then they could make a coffee commercial too sensuous for crying out loud.

Because we have lost sight of how the Old Testament was Gods frame work, how it is the basis of a Godly world view (how the creator of the world has declared it to be), and might I say it should also be the basis of a born again Christian's world view! We only need to look at Christ's life to see that it was the starting point for all that he did. He worked from it, and never once dismissed his Fathers standard for life.

So most of the church has lost the understanding of discipleship . Even thinking of showing new believers anything besides how they must now be more loving, would be seen as legalistic. Who is influencing whom? So with each new generation that enters the church, those who are being redeemed from a culture that is ever more pagan and has left them even further desensitized it is now "they" who influence the flock. If the church has lost the understanding of what discipling is, how can they show fathers how to disciple their own kids. I would venture that they cannot and don’t.

It would be like letting children decide for themselves what is best for them. But that is how our culture approaches that subject too.

We lower expectations in the name of loving people. But it is an affront to the God of the universe because it is his expectations and standards that are left unsaid in favor of allowing all to have an individual understanding of what God calls us too. But you cannot pass on what you don't have, and for too much of the church the Old Testament is seen as just a bit of a patch job, something to get us by till Christ could come. Rather than words of life, honey from the honey comb and sweet to the soul.

If we are no longer salty, what good are we?