USA TODAY [International Edition -- Aug 16, 2013] Online, suggests parents "rethink mandatory minimums" in letting your teenagers have romantic sleepovers. They explain: "As youthful cohabitation rises, parents should see it as an opportunity to teach."
Responding, Jim Denison, writing in The Christian Post, looks at how it worked out for Angelina Jolie. He says "when Jolie was 14, her boyfriend was allowed to live with her." "The actress plans to raise her children the same way."
So, how did it "work out?" Jolie says of her first sexual experience, "I got knives out and had a night where we attacked each other." She says she still has scars from that episode and continued cutting herself until she became a mother [adopting 6 children, with Brad Pitt -- whom she still refuses to marry].
Of her marriage to Billy Bob Thornton, Rolling Stone magazine [at the time] proclaimed theirs to be America's most dangerous marriage.
After her divorce she had a lesbian relationship. Her father [actor Jon Voight] once said publicly that she had serious mental problems. "She's my kid. And if she gets help, I pray that she will be able to know and to feel true love in this life."
The Times, They Are Achanging! Traditional Christians are shocked by these ideas. New Evangelical, Contemporary, Charismatic and Emerging Church-goers: not so much. This is not to say all these folks approve of teen romantic sleepovers, but traditional Christian values are changing and these groups are at the front of the line that accepts them.
Relying more on how things 'feel' than what The Bible actually says [if they even know]; interested in how things work, rather than the doctrines upon which life-choices stand or fall, the growing Christian influences are doing little to build godly character, let alone convict hearts and condemn sin.
So called "Thinking Christians," "Loving Christians," have little or no problem with the contemporary lifestyle. Divorce, Cremation, Friendly Sex, Homosexuality, Foul Language, and a host of other sins and/or demeaning attitudes and behaviors are commonplace in the world of Christianity, today. We don't want to be judgmental! "No one is perfect!"
Problem No. 1? Many of these folks aren't saved! Aren't really Christians, at all!
Problem No 2? Culturally-popular Churches aren't focused on God's Word!
Problem No 3? The preachers....aren't! Preaching, that is.
Our society would not be where it is, morally and politically, if The Church had been doing her job! For 200 years, the Holy Spirit restrained evil in this culture, as a relatively small group of churches, preachers, Christians stayed focused on biblical values and spiritual commitments, providing moral and spiritual guidance / conviction. All that changed after WWII. Between 1964 and 1973 America underwent a Cultural Revolution. U.S. Supreme Court decisions removed God and biblical morality from the culture.
The public expression of Christianity ultimately accepted these changes under the guise of 'tolerance' and of not being 'judgmental.' The fact that the culture and so-called Christians now embrace homosexuality as normal is evidence of our failure. The forces of evil 'smell blood in the water' and are emboldened. More and more Christian Religionists are caving to social, political, economic, religious immoralities. The culture is rotting from within.
Of course, this is all within the spectrum of God's Over-Arching Plan and Purpose! Jesus said things would be as bad as they were in Noah's day, before He returns. How bad is that? A lot worse than it is now! Those people [estimated to be in the billions] incurred the wrath / judgment of God and were pre-emptively destroyed by a monumental catastrophe that changed the very face of this planet, along with it's climatic systems.
How long, O Lord? "Not Long, My Child!"
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