Children And Authority
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By John Morrison
We live in a time of
significant social upheaval as a result of our culture’s bas of traditional
values being replaced by the politically correct notion that there is no
absolute standard of truth. Nowhere do we see evidence of this any more that
in our youth. They are perhaps one of the most troubled generations in our
national history, with their Nihilistic value system leaving them drifting
in a sense of purposelessness. For many, their greatest goal in life is to
live for immediate gratification without any real sense of vision or
direction.
Sadly, we see
little difference between the values of the general culture and those of our
Christian youth. One would think that the traditional values of the church
would make more of a difference. But somewhere there has been a
disconnection; many Christian parents and a large segment of church
leadership have somewhere missed the boat when it comes to successfully
imparting traditional faith and values to the next generation. Even as early
as the mid-twentieth century, theologian and philosopher Frances Schaeffer
observed that the children of evangelicals were ill prepared to stand on
their own in the face of the growing pressures of secular culture.
