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What IS Wrong With Us? Do We Value Any LIFE? Where oh where is the church in all of this?


My heart is broken.

 The church has let down our world.

 Societies have let down our world.

 We have let down our world.

 I have let down our world.

 Children are killing for fun.  Sex is entertainment.  Churches are being destroyed
As parents, we are too busy wrapped in our own lives to adore and value their children.  Oh, we spend time with them.  Running them from here to there and directing their lives.  Have our children become a project or a nuissance or a to do list?

 Children today come after; recreation, entertainment, drugs, friends, prestige, jobs and hobbies.

 As a church, we are so busy DOING our thing that we wear families out in a race to be the most righteous.

 My kids have been neglected at times in my zeal to be helpful.

 Don't get me wrong.  If we are going to raise children who are not as narcissistic as we are, then we have to model and engage them in serving!

 Whether we are immersed in our own things in our lives, activities, social status or at church...it CAN become the same thing.  It can keep us too busy to value those around us.

 Valuing life is shown.  Babies have great value.  Old people have tremendous value.  Yes, even if they no longer can speak or care for themselves.  Our handicapped and our different have the same value as our CEO's.  People we disagree with have the same value as us.  The homeless, the mentally deranged and the completely off the wall...have equal value and worth.

 Where have we as the church modeled any differently?  Do we show our value and view all life as equal? 

 Or do we have list of ways to tell people to BECOME a person of value and then you are valued?

 I.e.  "Get saved," and then we will help with your electric bill.  Change and you will be welcome.

 When we value a person and love AS IS...then they change.  

Love and rebuke in a healthy relationship go together.  It is all wrapped up in our viewpoint of people and their value. 

We can be honest and direct while loving and valuing.  In fact, I adore my youth.  They will tell you that I will tell them the truth and keep loving them like crazy.

 How to Change The World:

 1.  Commit to believing that every single person has amazing value.   I believe the truth that we are all created and beautifully made.

 2.  Commit to believing in the amazing potentional in a human being.  See people in two ways...who they are and who they are becoming.

 3.  Ditch our own agenda and expectations.  

 4.  Spend our energy on today.  Not on our past nor on the future but on Loving God and Loving others today.  Oh yes, we need to sometimes deal with the past and we need to plan and hope for the future.  Today is what needs our energy.

 5.  Decrease ourselves.  The world is not about us.  We didn't make it.  It's not ours to run.  We will never be Queen of the world.

 6.  Pray.

 Geepers.  I have a lot of work to do within myself today.



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