I may be captain obvious…but I am seeing more and more that the statistics regarding people NOT reading the bible are absolutely true, if not conservative in their estimation…
What I am also experiencing more and more is that this issue plagues my parents, and grandparents generation just as much my own…in their case, it is not just an issue of not reading and therefore not living by the standard of the bible…but it has more become an issue of their preferences becoming theological in nature…
Example…recently had an older gentlemen told me that in HIS day, there “weren’t any kind of rock and rolling guitar’s when he went to church”…now, as much as this runs all over me I refrained from addressing at least one major THEOLOGICAL issue in his argument, that being the idea of GOING to church…the church is the people…not a place…
In fact, there are several stories that I have heard over the last several years of personal or group preferences being treated as moral imperatives, and often theological foundations for belief…
Example…the length of ones hair…in fact there is an old song attached to my denominational affiliation that goes a little like this… “If your hairs too long, there’s sin in your heart”…now I personally have not been able to find a reference to hair length and the level of sin in one’s heart, but maybe I have missed it…
Tattoo’s…piercings…Mohawks…motorcycles…pants…shorts…loud music…and too much bass guitar can all be found in this category…
The point is this…there is great value in examining the scriptures…not only because they communicate the heart of God to us, and strengthen our faith, and belief in a very real God…but also because it keeps our personal preferences from drawing a line in the sand as to who we believe is or isn’t faithfully serving Jesus, and following Him everyday…
