Marriage is for people who want a lifetime of hassle think most millennials these days. This is a result of what our parents called the ‘me’ generation but what I have coined the ‘selfie generation’. Jesus clearly told us that; “in the last days people would be lovers of self” and he was bang on the money – I wonder if had he known about mobile phones he may have altered that to; “in the last days people would be lovers of selfies.”
The fact is that marriage is for men – not children. People that are looking to please and serve someone else – not themselves. And it’s not surprising as even in the church we see the doctrine of self pervading and being taught either consciously or unconsciously all over the place; what can I get from going to church today? What has the Lord in store for me today etc instead of; what can I do to serve my neighbour today?.. or what can I do to make someone else’ life better?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to pretend to have been any different and might as well be called one of the new ‘selfie generation’ Christians (I was born in 1971 but been little different to most people – i.e mostly concerned with self, but I’m working on it every day). I was churched on a diet of emotionally driven self-serving churchianity teachings (as well as some good stuff I have to admit) that often did not resemble to servitude and sacrifice of Christ.
We simply weren’t told it was all about picking up your cross and serving others was the main part. Having said that there are and have always been many great churches and pastors that do teach and model that we are to emulate Jesus’ servant attitude – and that our needs should come last – or at leat not always first.
In this post I wanted to encourage people to go back to that original servant calling in The Bible, as our servitude of the needs of others is needed by our Christian friends, and our unbelieving friends family and neighbours more than ever, in a world where the light of the gospel is being actively obscured and replaced by the meebies and their doctrines of ‘me’.
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