Question(s) of the Day

So recently I came across this subject on a blog that I read and I wanted to pass it along because I think they are excellent questions for us to be asking ourselves as Christians in this culture we live in but are not called to be a part of.

***If you were to answer your door one day and there were two scantily clad women standing there that wanted to come in a play with your kids, what would you do? If one day you had visitors at your home and one of them began to curse at you with every word imaginable, what would you do? If your family sat down to dinner one night and across the room you saw two people having sex on your couch, what would you do?***

If you are anything like me, you would not even hesistate in your answers to these questions. I'd ask them to leave and explain to them that is not how we go about our lives, we don't tolerate that kind of behavior in our home.

HOWEVER, in today's world we are allowing ALL of these things and much worse into our homes through television and movies. We are quick to say "Well, it's just one "F" word in a PG-13, it could be worse" or "Well, there's nothing on anymore that doesn't go against every belief that we uphold so I guess we'll just watch it."

Nobody enjoys cuddling up to a movie more than me, but these questions and this perspective have awakened an awareness in me that I think we all need to be awakened to. We are not called as Christians to "just deal" with our culture and what it force-feeds us. We are called out of our culture into a relationship with God and it is our duty as His people to uphold HIS standard in today's world. Over time we have become desensitized to things that would have appalled us a few years ago.

If we need answers to pregnant 6th graders, rampant drug-use in our schools, or a higher divorce rate than ever, we should all walk into our homes, turn on the big black box and watch for a minute or two. Questions answered.

I tell you what, if we'd started standing up to some of these things 20 years ago, our children wouldn't be subject to television/movies that are allowed to say and do things people would never dream of doing in their own homes or in front of their friends.

Just food for thought.