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Yeah - hmmm....life is changing all around us.




Vitamins used to be horrible to take, but good for you. (Think "cod liver oil" here.)

Now vitamins are delicious and like candy.  This is not inherently bad, but we ought to be aware that taken to the extreme in all areas of life it can be construed by our children (and us) that what is good for me is what I enjoy.

Learning used to be an obligation and a privilege, whether you enjoyed the experience or not.

Now Sesame Street, "Learning at the Speed of Thought", et cetera are going on the presupposition that kids ought to be catered to in their learning.

When that thought ("it is only useful if I like it") gets imported into the church, and we expect church, and it's teachings to cater to us; to our likes and dislikes; to our need to be entertained...and we find that it does no such thing, because it is a Proclamation from the King...we get disenchanted because the lies that the culture around us has fed us undermine the possibility of listening to, let alone understanding and believing, the truth claims of the Word

We teach our children to find the rhythm within (in music as well as school and morality, etc.) as opposed to discovering the inherent rhythm in the order of things that corresponds to what is as created by God.

And this is no good thing.

Citation:

Cartoon found at <http://naglly.com/Generations.png>, accessed 9 February 2011.
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