The Cultural Commission

It Begins With The Heart

Want to hear the poets of the day? Listen to the music. POD’s hit song Youth of The Nation is a good case in point. It expresses the mood of our culture and the search for meaning that is felt by many youth today. Shocked and dismayed by school shootings, teen suicides and widespread violence, the songwriter expresses the question many are asking … “Will it ever make sense? Somebody’s got to know. There's got to be more to life than this. There's got to be more to everything I thought exists.”

I saw a picture in World magazine of a smiling, innocent looking teenage girl who attended the recent marriage rally in Seattle. Unfortunately, she was on the wrong side. She was protesting against traditional marriage. She wore a T-shirt that bore the same message as the large sign she was proudly carrying. The sign simply read “Going to hell and proud”.

How do we restore truth in a culture that so clearly lacks a moral compass? How do we convince a skeptical culture that hell is real, God is real, and the Biblical worldview corresponds to reality? How do we deliver *the* message of redemption, hope and meaning to a culture which is searching for answers? Let me suggest it starts with the heart.

Your heart needs to be broken. You need to care. Like Christ gazing at Jerusalem, you need to weep when you look at our culture. It begins with having a heart that beats like Jesus Christ’s heart.

We often think that the yelling, red faced, vein popping protesters of the pro-abortion or the pro-gay marriage crowd are the enemy. May I suggest the true enemy is apathy, indifference, and coldness in the hearts of Christians toward those lost souls in our secular culture.

The poets of the day express the question everyone is asking … how do I make sense of it all? As followers of Christ, we must both tell them the truth and show them the love of Christ. How do we do this? It begins with caring. It begins with repenting from our indifference. It begins with a desire to engage the lost in our culture with the love of Christ. It begins with our hearts.

posted by The Dawn Treader @ 6:32 AM