Perhaps I’ve grown a bit more tolerant on social issues in old age. I find myself not getting as upset as my fellow Christians. Maybe I’ve become jaded or just not necessarily worrying about things that don’t affect me directly.
Today I attended a seminar meant for church teachers of youth. “How we respond culture” was the theme. Abortion, homosexuality, negative influences in the media were all discussed. The first two have been discussed at length during sermons and Bible classes at church. The third one, especially in the aspect of the internet, not so much.
Parents and Bible class teachers may not know how to respond to the internet in response to their student’s/child’s surfing habits. The problem much of the time is the teen is much more computer savy compared to the adults trying to police it. Teens find ways around the filters and monitoring.
Parents seem to have their hands tied and are unable or unwilling to learn more about their child’s internet habits and therefore fail to do anything about it.
Time and time again I’ve run across a church member’s MySpace page which doesn’t reflect the persona they try to reflect on Sunday mornings. It’s gotten to the point that nothing shocks me anymore. What is discouraging to me is that no one seems sincere about their Christianity anymore. It’s more a projection they want to portray to their parents/youth ministers/elders. And it doesn’t seem to me that anyone is willing to do anything about it.