Lessons from an OLD youthguy part3

Something keeps popping up in conversations lately with pastors, youth pastors, lay people is what is wrong with the world.

Youth Pastors can I beg you to stop ranting on twitter and stop ranting on Facebook.

• Rather than bash Twilight and the sin it represents use your pulpit and communication skills to talk about the value of righteousness and living a Holy life?
• Rather than talk about the evils of Lady Gaga could we use our gift of oratory to inspire creativity without sacrificing holiness?
• Rather than point out how gay Glee is and it’s support of homosexuality can we have a honest compassionate conversation about sexuality?

It is easy to rant and it is easy to point out what is wrong with the world but coming up with solutions and alternatives is much more difficult.  Whoever told you that youth ministry was going to be easy?  If they did, go find them give them a hug and punch them in the mouth.  They lied to you.  The conversations that need to be had on the issues teens face are incredibly difficult and deserve to be handled with compassion and respect not rage filled rants that simply make you look over emotional and under educated.

I am not a guy that believes we must keep ourselves removed from culture…quite the contrary I believe we must engage culture.  I believe we need to engage in the conversation with wit and wisdom.  Holding fast to the scripture in the spirit that it was written.  To use it as a sword not a club.  To aspouse the love communicated by our Savior as opposed to the anger filled rants.

What do you think?