Revolutionary
The church today should be getting ready and talking about issues of tomorrow and not issues of 20 and 30 years ago, because the church is going to be squeezed into a wringer.
If we found it tough in these last few years, what are we going to do when we are faced with the real changes ahead? …
One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative.
Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary. To be conservative today is to miss the whole point, for conservatism means standing in the flow of the status quo, and the status quo no longer belongs to us…
If we want to be fair, we must teach the young to be revolutionaries, revolutionaries against the status quo.” --- Francis Schaeffer
"...what are we going to do when we are faced with the real changes ahead?" ....
ReplyDeleteYesterday as I taught my second grade Sunday School class, I found myself repeating this phrase over and over to a couple of the students: "You need to pay attention." For some, it's just an hour for fun and games; for others, and hour of learning. How can I reach those who are so easily distracted by the smallest things?
Your post reminds me that it's not just the kids with short attention spans and behavioral problems that are at risk for "not getting it"--we only need to look at ourselves and how little attention we pay to things...how easily we're distracted....
Sometimes we're distracted by what we perceive as a need to preserve the status quo!
ReplyDelete"If we are to better the future we must disturb the present." --Catharine Booth (co-founder of the Salvation Army)