so a video has been blown up these recent days within the Christian community.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1IAhDGYlpqY
Yes i really did like hearing what the guy had to say about Jesus and false religion. and what came to me as a great help was reading an article on Gospel Coalition that pointed out certain things within the verses that he spoke that could have been misleading to people who were listening to it.
I was, honestly speaking, encouraged by the video but also at the same was rebuke by the article because it pointed out certain things that the generation that i am a part of lacks certain things. A part of the article that made me think and honestly dwell deeper in God’s word and prayer as a leader in a Christian ministry was:
“The strengths in this poem are the strengths I see in many young Christians—a passionate faith, a focus on Jesus, a love for grace, and a hatred for anything phony or self-righteous. The weaknesses here can be the weaknesses of my generation (and younger)—not enough talk of repentance and sanctification, a tendency to underestimate the importance of obedience in the Christian life, a one-dimensional view of grace, little awareness that our heavenly Father might ever discipline his children or be grieved by their continued transgression, and a penchant for sloganeering instead of careful nuance.”
To say that I don’t see these weaknesses would be saying lies to myself. So then as a leader and a brother to those within my community how do i teach and share so that these weaknesses cease to become weaknesses but things that we as Christians of this generation ‘practice’?
