Here's the point to ponder with me:
"As long as we don't care whether or not church leaders disciple their wives and children... we will never require other men to take seriously their role as family shepherds..."
Baucham's talkin' reform here, but the outcome reverberates beyond the pew. Men with new minds are what revolutions are all about.
The cultural ramifications reach into every strata of the North American experience, beyond legalized abortion, normalization of same sex attraction, graffiti, illiteracy and litter.
My favorite example:
As long as colleges don't require classes in basic record keeping, the essentials of the stock market, investing and check book balancing, they are NOT DOING THEIR JOBS, AND PARENTS GET ROOKED. They are paying all that tuition for a half baked, HUGELY inadequate education. Why don't colleges require life skills training? Because parents don't demand it. Why not? Because they are compromised idolators*, lazy, embarrassed at what they haven't figured out themselves, and too caught up trying to pay the horrendous college tab. (*it is idolatry to imagine college will cure what ails us)
Similarly, as long as churches do not major on the men, on mentoring them, exhorting them, discipling and training them to BE MEN, families have little hope of winning the battle for their children in a post-Christian culture. If the home life of every family remains of little concern to pastors and church leadership in general, men will continue to go home to the privacy of their compromised lairs, mediocre in character and luke warm in their role as shepherd-priest.
An armorless fool in the battle against sin and stagnation.
Ken Burk, where are you?
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