We can look at our current culture and see how horribly men have failed in their relationships with women, both wives and daughters. Even a brief glance, and it should be brief, reveals a generation of women craving male attention and leadership. I'm not talking about patriarchy or male domination. I'm talking about simple, traditional male/female relationship. Feminism aside, people function best when roles are defined and fulfilled in this manner.
The failure of men in this regard had turned into a vicious circle. Men become self centered and begin to view women as just another object. Women in turn lose their proper sense of self and begin to objectify themselves to try to gain back some of their needed attention. This in turn fuels improper passions in men, which only further denigrates women. And the cycle continues.
All of this is fairly easily recognized. But I would like to view the question about the other side of this coin. We look upon the young men of our culture and what do we see? We see angry, self centered, and immature young men with no focus or long term goals. What is driving this? What is happening in our culture that produces young men like this? Why are they angry and why are they so short sighted? Is it tied to what is happening with young women, in some fashion?
I could suggest some ideas or theories, but I'm not too sure this would help. Instead, we, as the people of God, need to recognize what is happening and make a concerted effort to remedy the problem. We need to address it in our own children and speak about it when opportunity arises.
The church has all the answers. We need to be ready to give them. As happened in Rome, when Rome fell from within, the church stepped in and took the reins so too in America, when America falls from within (that's my theory), the church needs to be ready to fill the needs that will be present. We must not fall into laziness and simply be like the world. We need to apply the gospel of Christ to all areas of our life and give a reason for the faith that we have.
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Two fold failure
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