Has it really come to this?

 

A few days ago, a good friend of mine, Courtney Weber  tweeted something that’s stuck with me, and its something I hope stays with you too.

Last night I was able to have dinner with her, and talk some about her gap year, and youth group this year, and other things coming up, but we also got a change to talk about what has become a normal practice, an acceptable trend in todays world.

I remember in High School, when it was “cool” to go to parties, and to drink, and to date and have sex. People strived to do such things, because they wanted to be “cool”. Today, things have changed. Its no longer the cool thing to drink underage, and get drunk all the time, no longer the cool thing to get high all the time; no longer the cool thing to have sex with anyone other than your spouse. Now, its just the norm. It’s the social norm to drink, to get drunk, to sleep with people before you're married, to get high. It’s the norm to see the “cool” kids drinking, the norm to see the “geeks”, the “jocks”, the “artsy” kids, the “nerds”, and even the Christians drinking, smoking, having sex. Honestly, its sad.

I just don’t get it. As Christians, we’re called to save ourselves for whoever we marry. Were called to live up to the standards of of Savior, which doesn’t mean not drinking, but just to follow the law, and to not get drunk, or to sleep around, or have sex before marriage, or to get high. My hope is that I can live according to these standards. My hope is that my life would be pleasing to God, and that when people look at me, they wouldn’t see some “normal” guy, but instead that they would see someone who doesn’t fit in, someone who doesn’t conform, someone who lives with a purpose, with a greater calling, and someone whose live can be a living testimony to the INCREDIBLY full life that we have in Christ.

The question is what will you do about this? How can you change the current trends of society? Its a lot more than a hashtag on twitter, but a slippery slope that we have taken a dive off of, and its time for our generation to believe, and to take the power of Christ and take it to the world, to take it to the hungry, the thirsty, the “least of these” and the lost.

“Do not conform any longer  to the patterns of this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind” Romans 12:2

“You're just a conformist if you're drunk and naked, and driving around on a motorcycle, smoking cigarettes and breaking commandments and getting pregnant out of wedlock. Everyone's done that! That's so tired. If you really want to be a rebel, read your Bible, because no one's doing that. That's rebellion. That's the only rebellion left!”- Lecrae, Rebel Intro