Worldview is learned. Which means, it is also taught. It is observed and caught through many forms. To shape it, you have to be proactive. Sitting back is refusing to take the reins in your own life and the lives of those you’re leading and passing along the God-given responsibility to shape the proper worldview. There are teachers of every kind that we encounter on a daily basis. The books we read, the shows we watch, the music we listen to, the movies we see, the crowd we associate with all aid in designing a lens for us to wear. It is the lens called worldview that we interpret with. We see events and we look at our culture and interpret what we see through the lens that has been built in front of our eyes.
You can see this with kids. They’ll express thoughts or ideas and you can quickly realize that you didn’t teach them that. So then the question comes to mind, “Where did they pick that up?” If we aren’t engaged, we’ve lost. If we aren’t proactive in learning and molding them, we’ve lost!
There are those (MTVs words literally) that have set out to own them (youth). In many ways they have succeeded to this point. They quickly realized that these kids control about 350 billion dollars (150 themselves and 250 of their parents) a year in spending and decided they would take any action to get the largest piece.
They look at a generation and literally see dollar signs. And when all you can see is a dollar sign, you don’t care what you’re selling them, the effects it may have on them or who you’re selling to. The want hypnotizes them until moral lines don’t exist any longer. Consequences are a myth. Did you forget, the lens they look through was built by a system that taught tolerance, relativism, no absolutes, random chance and survival of the fittest at any cost? Looking through their lens, there doesn’t seem to be much wrong with making a buck. Even if it does include crude humor, apathetic lifestyles, sex, abuse, violence or a “if you got, flaunt it” mentality. After all, they bought it, we just provided it.
You can see this with kids. They’ll express thoughts or ideas and you can quickly realize that you didn’t teach them that. So then the question comes to mind, “Where did they pick that up?” If we aren’t engaged, we’ve lost. If we aren’t proactive in learning and molding them, we’ve lost!
There are those (MTVs words literally) that have set out to own them (youth). In many ways they have succeeded to this point. They quickly realized that these kids control about 350 billion dollars (150 themselves and 250 of their parents) a year in spending and decided they would take any action to get the largest piece.
They look at a generation and literally see dollar signs. And when all you can see is a dollar sign, you don’t care what you’re selling them, the effects it may have on them or who you’re selling to. The want hypnotizes them until moral lines don’t exist any longer. Consequences are a myth. Did you forget, the lens they look through was built by a system that taught tolerance, relativism, no absolutes, random chance and survival of the fittest at any cost? Looking through their lens, there doesn’t seem to be much wrong with making a buck. Even if it does include crude humor, apathetic lifestyles, sex, abuse, violence or a “if you got, flaunt it” mentality. After all, they bought it, we just provided it.
