RANT

Begin RANT:

I grabbed a bottle of Pepto and headed for the landfill known as MySpace for another game of FSWNC. (Former Students With No Clue) This is a game where me as a youth pastor browses around blogs to check on students and see how they are doing. More often than not, I find a link of some former student with no clue as to what they are doing with their life!

Tonight’s version was quite interesting. I read about specific people involved in specific ministries with a specific faith claiming absolutely nothing of specific consequence. In fact, I found quite the opposite. I mostly found young students categorizing their faith as separate from their reality. Faith was a tool to be used when life called for that tool. Not a faith to be lived in the midst of every moment of life.

There seemed to be a disconnect in the matter of calling your religion “Christian” and then everything else on the page pointing to anything but Christ.

Notice: If you fit in this category, please do everyone a favor, please re-label yourself. I’m sick of reading one student after another saying, “I’m a Christian”, but I break the law and drink. I’m a Christian, but I had sex less than 3 months ago. I’m a Christian, but I still party.

In order to help those with this misunderstanding, I would like to provide some alternative labels to your religion:

1). Lover of MySelf
2). Hello MySpace, GoodBye GodSpace
3). Can’t Trust God Yet
4). Faithless
5). Looking for the benefits of Christianity with out following Christ.
6). Who’s Christ?
7). Present World Lover

End RANT.