BattleCry Update
See my previous post on emails from the BattleCry organization...
Received a new one this past week about "National Youth Awareness Sunday" (if you're wondering, yes, there are youth in this nation. Were you aware?).
Not war, or the ongoing genocide in Darfur, or the future of the planet we share.
Do you wonder why, as a people, we are preoccupied with the superficial and the trivial? With contrived left/right - blue/red divisions and tired debates that lead nowhere? (With drink and nudity, which are not evil but I think are quite fine in appropriate contexts?) Why we swim in a sea of satire (not necessarily bad) but cannot manage to make a statement of faith, or even substance, with a straight face?
Perhaps if our faith as a people spoke to our real concerns and fears, challenged our ideas about ethics and led us to re-evaluate our priorities, and confronted our certainty with holy questions, doubt, and humility... we would find ourselves engaged in meaningful service to the world, in the image of Jesus Christ. God, I hope. -h
Received a new one this past week about "National Youth Awareness Sunday" (if you're wondering, yes, there are youth in this nation. Were you aware?).
What are BattleCry's big concerns? The pressing issues facing people of faith in a troubled world? The major questions of life and ethics? Alcohol, and naked people on TV.Imagine a United States of America where only 4% of the population is [sic] true, Bible-believing Christians... Many European countries are already there with dwindling congregations of believers and where churches have been converted to bars; where mainstream television depicts nightly erotica and open nudity.
- BattleCry email, "Unite the Nation on Youth Awareness Sunday Sept 24th!" of 9/15/06
Not war, or the ongoing genocide in Darfur, or the future of the planet we share.
Do you wonder why, as a people, we are preoccupied with the superficial and the trivial? With contrived left/right - blue/red divisions and tired debates that lead nowhere? (With drink and nudity, which are not evil but I think are quite fine in appropriate contexts?) Why we swim in a sea of satire (not necessarily bad) but cannot manage to make a statement of faith, or even substance, with a straight face?
Perhaps if our faith as a people spoke to our real concerns and fears, challenged our ideas about ethics and led us to re-evaluate our priorities, and confronted our certainty with holy questions, doubt, and humility... we would find ourselves engaged in meaningful service to the world, in the image of Jesus Christ. God, I hope. -h
BattleCry Update posted by St. Peter's UCC at Monday, September 25, 2006
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