Vent
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It has become increasingly obvious to me that people are stupid. I wish that I could say to you that this is not the case. I especially wish that I could say that this is not the case within the church. However, perhaps more than anywhere else, stupidity reigns supreme in the church. And most of the stupidity resides in the minds and hearts of adults; not kids, as most people ignorantly assert.
Today, I got a call from a good friend of mine, a youth minister, expressing his dissatisfaction with a particular group of church leaders that I am all too familiar with. Apparently, these men confronted him in his office and blamed him for the world’s problems, casting down their disdain and holding up their persona of perfection. He was taken to task for the behavior of other people. Now, maybe I’m weird, but I am the only person who controls my actions. My youth minister had no control over my decision making. Could he help me make good decisions? Yes. Did he? Yes. But when I made dumb decisions it wasn’t his fault. He did what he could to teach me not to be an idiot. I chose to be an idiot anyway. Nothing my youth minister could do about it. He wasn’t there holding my hand while I did the stupid things I did.
This particular buddy of mine got chewed out for some of the content on his blogs. Apparently some well-intentioned parent (or perhaps someone with malicious intents) brought some printed out pages to the elders containing some less than youth-group friendly material on it. Someone had clicked on his friends list and come to some questionable material that those people had posted. What can he do about the content of people on his friends list? Nothing. And to make matters even more laughable, the questionable content was 6 CLICKS FROM HIS PAGE. 6 clicks. That means that the content was not linked directly to him at all. Someone clicked on his friends list, followed a link from their site, followed a link from that site, followed a link from that site, followed a link from that site, and then followed a link from that site. It was at this point down the line that the people found some questionable content. You ever played 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon? Same thing here; you can get anywhere on the internet that you want to go in that many links, including the Kevin Bacon homepage. It is interesting to note that these same men concerned with the content of the webpage of a friend of a friend of a friend, etc… of the youth minister are the same men who pay Charter Cable $60 every month to pump sin directly into their homes via cable. I bet that won’t make the agenda in the next elder’s meeting, though…
My advice for these church leaders: stop wasting your time and your youth minister’s time on garbage like this and be shepherds. Care for the flock. That’s what God called you to do and that’s the job you signed up for. Do it.
If you are reading this blog and would like more info on these leaders, I wrote a whole album full of songs about them specifically. You can listen at www.boochieshepherd.com.
