What if we all started training all the children of the next generation in a different language?  From now on all the schools are teaching only in Russian.  You know there are the standard reasons, Russia is the future, says someone with some fancy title.  Russian is statistically something, bla bla bla. At some point there is going to be a battle between the old timers who speak English and their damn kids who now speak Russian.  That’s just the reality.  Groups of people need unifying language, instances of different languages, are cause for division.  Oh sure you can carry out the daily business of government in one language and translate it, or alternate or some such.  But it really doesn’t work.  At some point you have to pick a language.

No I didn’t make it up. This is real from some sort of ministry training site.

The funny thing is we are literally doing this in our country.  We are raising up a huge population of people in Spanish.  But the church has also done this with the language of worship.  We scuttled off all our little ones during the service so they wouldn’t interrupt the taping of the sermon with their beautiful cacophony of little voices.  Then we scuttled them off in junior high and high school, to their hip praise bands and messages catered specifically to them.  Then in college we scuttled them off again.  Oh aren’t they so cute.  With their rock music and their progressive, contemporary dumbed-down messages.  But then they got a little older and they wanted back into the main service.  And they didn’t want adult fodder, they wanted their special pre-formed chicken nuggets.  And now the battle is being waged in churches across this land.  The leadership of old has built disunity, they have encouraged schism.  Oh sure you could have ‘traditional’ services in the morning and ‘contemporary’ services in the evening.  Really you just have two churches that meet under one roof.  Or you could alternate each week, but eventually there will be a division.

I remember noticing this as I was growing up.  You had fun camp songs for camp and youth group and then adult songs in church.  I always wanted to be an adult, which I still believe is actually the point of raising children, so I was always waiting for my peers to grow up and become adults.  It never happened, and what did happen was that the adults all started acting more like kids.  The message was dumbed down and the standard for music became,  about how it attracted the young people.  This is bad.  These young people never spent time learning how to be adults, because they were always off by themselves, with some ‘leader’ slightly older than themselves, teaching them to love being children.  And if your church doesn’t cater to them they will take their ball and go on a Journey to a church that will.

The same is true of our culture at large.  A few years ago I went back to college again.  The first core class was a sit-in-a-circle and dialogue Kool-Aid party, about how your parents and every Judeo-Christian is completely wrong.  Embrace our new atheism or else!  So I left, I’m sick of paying people to lie to me.  This is semi-rural Montana.  Do you think the ‘Universities’ in the rest of the country are teaching traditional values?  No, they are teaching the next generation a different language.  The post-Christian language of warm fuzzy socialist utopias.  This has been going on for a few generations and so you have and will continue to have battles.  Occupy Wall Street, comes to mind.  And it is a joke.  Little children unable to cope with a real world where six foot children with three degrees in anti-Christian b. s. , have a rough go of it.  The conflict will continue.  And I might actually put my money on Putin’s Russia.

It seems to me that the first thing we need to do is train our children to be adults.  Stop catering to them and feeding the mentality that every generation is supposed to rebel.  Civilization is quite the opposite, what distinguishes us from the animals is that we can pass on wisdom and achieve more every generation.  But we have instead become animals, too stupid to pass on the rich wisdom of the ages.  We can’t pride ourselves in how much we destroy and then expect civilization to continue.  Of course there will be many challenges in dealing with the perpetual children we have already created, but we need to stop the bleeding.

Second we need to stop feeding the culture of academia.  Why do seminaries accept pagan education as a prerequisite?  Why are the few remaining orthodox colleges selling out more each day? Why do missions organizations and churches look at secular academic credentials before character and faith credentials?  We need to stop pretending it is doing anyone any good.  Like Christian reformers of many generations we need to separate ourselves and behave like the God of the Universe told us to behave.  Don’t let the idolators of the world teach your children another language.  Teach them to conform to the living God.  Build your own schools, the world’s system will fall apart and they will come running.  The same way they flock to this country.  It has happened many times before.

So stop sewing division, and plant some unity.  Unite your children with the vast wealth of wisdom historic Christians have to offer.  It will be difficult, admitting that you are not all you could be.  It will be difficult growing up yourself.  But by the grace of God, this is what we are called to do.  We are a people of light to the world.  We shouldn’t be following their silly ideas of multiculturalism and agnosticism.   We should be eating meat and not sucking at the tit of academia for all the godless drivel they spew. We should be following the commands of Almighty God and emulating the life of his Son.

I was sparked by this sermon:  https://www.christkirk.com/sermon/state-of-the-church-2014/