Saturday, October 19, 2013

The Big Problem

Aaah Sabbath morning, what a blessed day! Our holy day to worship our heavenly Father and to be in communion with Him. We all look forward to this day here in the Adventist church for it is a day of rest and spiritual refilling. The day we come to church to see our brothers in Christ and to listen to the Pastor’s latest reflection, the day to take our minds off of worldly things and set them on Godly things and maybe even gain some more biblical insight through our weekly Sabbath school lesson. Yes, this is the best and most fulfilling day of our week!
That is what any good seventh-day Adventist will tell you if you ask him about it at church, and in an odd and contradicting manner,  he may turn straight back to his game of Temple Run on his smart phone! You may be standing there in confusion thinking, “These Adventists aren’t very consistent!”, unless the said Adventist explained to you how his smart phone is somehow sanctified by the presence of the Bible app he’s got, slowly collecting cyber webs between it’s virtual pages. It’s funny, you may even notice that there is a lack of an actual Bible or a Sabbath school lesson on his person. And sadly you may leave the church and never come back, in search of a better spiritual experience.
This is a huge problem among our church youth, and the church as a whole when this youth becomes the leaders! We have this terrible notion that we can be Adventists AND be involved in worldly things at the same time! We keep on following our sinful passions and we fail to realize that we’re being watched, and that this very conduct is one of the biggest obstacles people have to face when deciding whether or not to join our church!

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