22 April 2008
A Fatal Dissconnect - Part 2
So what does the see-saw generational thing have to do with us today?
Oh, I’m sorry. This makes no sense to you if you didn’t read yesterday’s post. Why don’t you trot on over there and I will wait.
You can find it below this post, or you can just click here.
See where I’m at now?
Good.
But ‘so what?’ So there was apparently a bit of Old Testament schizophrenia way back when. Surely we’ve progressed beyond those Neanderthals, right?
Well, even if I believed in Neanderthals, I wouldn’t agree with that statement. If anything, we’re worse!
Today we have far less of a chance of breaking generational sin because we don’t see it as sin. We see ourselves as ‘victims.’
You’ve heard the routine, right?
People who are angry or violent just need to say they were raised that way.
Sexual predators?
Dad left his playboy magazines where any red–blooded young kid would have found them. Not your fault.
Homosexual?
Born that way.
Wife beater?
Saw dad do it.
Alcoholic?
It’s a disease.
Can’t focus?
ADD.
REALLY can’t focus?
ADHD.
Bottom-line?
No one today is responsible for anything. I mean society is really messed up and there is a lot of bad stuff going on but apparently it’s all perpetuated by aliens because surely no one on earth is responsible.
Who wants to be first to tell the Emperor he’s naked?
Not me. I’m afraid of confrontation.
I blame my mom.
* Note, some of you want to blame me for this post don’t you? Whenever light is shown on some things we prefer to keep in the dark it’s the one holding the flashlight that takes the mortar fire. But why not give my words some serious consideration instead?
Saddest thing? There are real people with legitimate struggles in all the areas I mentioned and more. People who need help, counseling, medication but what we all need most is Jesus.
And in order to get a relationship with Him started we all need to receive His forgiveness.
That’s tough to get if you’ve never done anything wrong.
Just a thought.
3 Comments currently posted.
Elizabeth says:
Stephanie says:
Rob,
You are so right!!! And unfortunately now when our children get in trouble for something the parents always seem to be there to bail them out….After all it wasn’t their fault…. We need to suffer the consequences for our wrong choices and not be told its ok it wasnt your fault. This type of mentality i see over and over again with my neice. I swore that i would teach my children that wrong choices bring conseqences and i wont always be able to BAIL you out.
Sharon says:
“There are real people with legitimate struggles in all the areas I mentioned and more. People who need help, counseling, medication but what we all need most is Jesus”
For most of my life, I’ve felt like this, but lately, I’m started to realize all I need is Jesus! I listen to your podcasts, read your blogs and sometimes attend SB. When I listen/read your messages, you always say something that is “me” or has happened to me. I am still struggling with lots of “guilt and baggage” but I’m healing thanks to your messages. I know God is talking to me through you….even in the sermon when you went walking in the cemetery at the church I attended when I was a child. My grandparents are actually buried there along w/other relatives. It’s things like this in your messages that hit home for me and make me realize I need Christ in my life. Thank you.
PS-When you went to the cemetary, did you go beyond the gate in the back, down the path to the spring, well, what used to be a spring? If so, you should have seen to old markers on your left. Those are also very old and I was always told they were slave gravesites. Anyhow, it’s very peaceful back there, eventhough there’s lots of development there now.
I couldn’t agree with your more…. Accountability for self is almost non existant anymore.
WOW what a concept!!