We had a nice time with friends for the 4th of July yesterday. I elected to bring my little ones home and not attend the fireworks because they started so late but my older kids decided to drive back down and enjoyed celebrating the anniversary of the founding of our nation.
I was frustrated coming home, however. I hope that someday our youth (I know some adults are this way too) wont spend so much time speaking about movies and personal entertainment. I wish we could get back to speaking about what God has done and is doing for us, the work we hope to achieve, Lord willing, how much our families and friends have blessed us, getting help for problems we may be struggling with and in turn helping others with what they are struggling with. Perhaps we can talk about how to better the culture through God honoring movies as the San Antonio Christian Film Festival strives to do. I would hope fellowship could be a time of support for leading a set-apart life (simple, separate and deliberate as the folks at the Highland Study Center would say) not a comparison of how much we continue to be like the culture around us, partaking in music and movies that I don't believe God would find glorifying to Him or "pure, noble and lovely".
Off my soap box for now - more on Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner tomorrow...
AMEN! We can not hope to make a difference in a culture gone awry if we look just like the culture gone awry. Our entertainment choices say quite a lot about our thought processes and the focus of our hearts.
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