[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Ideas Have Consequences, citation #1.
lilrabbi has left a new comment on your post "Ideas Have Consequences, citation #1":
Justin, I think this link summarizes my answer: http://www.centralseminary.edu/
publications/20060825.pdf
be sure to put the whole address in the address bar, I had to split it in half so it would fit.
~"Can we take things from our pop culture and apply them to ministry as the Fundamentalists of the past did? Is it a double standard to say no?"~
You know what? Fundamentalism used pop culture. Fundamentalism saw where that was going, and the put the brakes on. They didn't try to reclaim something meaningful, they tried to say where they were. That is where the double standard came in.
My point is that neither what they did, nor what they are doing is right.
Youth Pastors should absolutely flee from Pop Culture and should have their teens do the same.
On second thought, prepetuating a love of Pop Culture is a kind of job security for youth pastors. As long parents and adults are "out of touch" with pop culture's latest (as is quite normal), then the Youth Pastor still has a job to do.
To my way of thinking, if churches understood culture and acted accordingly, they wouldn't need Youth Pastors at all. Youth Pastors are there to inculcate the religion of the older generation in the minds of the younger generation. That is exactly what culture does. The problem is that the adults have a love of old pop culture and the kids have a love of new pop culture. There is a natural disconnect because neither the old or new pop culture is meaningful. It doesn't take one to eternal things.
If we train our sensibilities now, as adults, with meaningful things, and we train our kids' sensibilities with meaningful things, there is not that disconnect. If anything, our kids will be better off than we are. And all of that would happen without a youth pastor. There would be no need.
Posted by lilrabbi to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 7:42 PM
Justin, I think this link summarizes my answer: http://www.centralseminary.edu/
publications/20060825.pdf
be sure to put the whole address in the address bar, I had to split it in half so it would fit.
~"Can we take things from our pop culture and apply them to ministry as the Fundamentalists of the past did? Is it a double standard to say no?"~
You know what? Fundamentalism used pop culture. Fundamentalism saw where that was going, and the put the brakes on. They didn't try to reclaim something meaningful, they tried to say where they were. That is where the double standard came in.
My point is that neither what they did, nor what they are doing is right.
Youth Pastors should absolutely flee from Pop Culture and should have their teens do the same.
On second thought, prepetuating a love of Pop Culture is a kind of job security for youth pastors. As long parents and adults are "out of touch" with pop culture's latest (as is quite normal), then the Youth Pastor still has a job to do.
To my way of thinking, if churches understood culture and acted accordingly, they wouldn't need Youth Pastors at all. Youth Pastors are there to inculcate the religion of the older generation in the minds of the younger generation. That is exactly what culture does. The problem is that the adults have a love of old pop culture and the kids have a love of new pop culture. There is a natural disconnect because neither the old or new pop culture is meaningful. It doesn't take one to eternal things.
If we train our sensibilities now, as adults, with meaningful things, and we train our kids' sensibilities with meaningful things, there is not that disconnect. If anything, our kids will be better off than we are. And all of that would happen without a youth pastor. There would be no need.
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