Truth? Come Get Some

One of the complaints I hear from time to time is that “those young people aren’t interested in church,” sometimes followed by “like we were.” I’d like to shed some insight into that, at least from my perspective.

There are many mainline protestant denominations nowadays which tend to shy away from believing in the Bible as being literally true. “It’s a nice book of poetry,” some say, or “I think that we can learn a lot about treating each other with respect from Jesus.” Frankly, it doesn’t surprise me that among those Gen Xers I know, our BS detectors are wildly going off. “Bible, poetry?” I find myself asking. These weren’t some great Greek orators, these people were a doctor, a tax collector, a fisherman amongst others. And they wrote like it! Thank God we’ve finally rid most of the KJV from daily life.

One reason we don’t like the uncertainty espoused by these progressive, humanist clergy is that it doesn’t really give us anything to fall back on. We do believe in truth, and we believe that each person has to find it for him or herself. We get led to the truth by the Holy Spirit. If you’ve got nothing of the sort and freely admit that, well, that’s not much to offer. Switchfoot speaks for us all when they sing “We were meant to live for so much more.”

That something which will resonate is when we share the gospel in its truth and purity, living out our faith in actions, in love for others, and sharing the reason we have that love…”We love because He first loved us.” Whoa! We stand for something. That’s cool! We all know that if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I’m tired of sitting on the ground. Arise! Jesus said "I am the truth...and the truth will set you free."