Facebook, Twitter, news feeds, and mobile apps are all
information sources that didn’t exist just a few years ago. And not only do they affect
the way people get news and information, but more importantly, how they form
opinions. With the swipe of a finger or click of a mouse, opinions
are set, and values altered. Without any universally accepted moral standards, determining what is ‘real’ in our amorphous culture is getting exponentially harder. For a biblically-ignorant, culturally-adaptive, and socially-sensitive population, it is getting almost impossible to find a place for Scripture’s strict morality and “one-way” exclusivity—Even in the church. How else can you explain why half of young evangelicals are now accepting the inevitability of abortion, the moral ambiguity of gay marriage, and a pluralistic world view?
Incongruously, the “information” age is disseminating a lot of
“misinformation.” And at a time when the church should be exalting
a biblical worldview, it is bowing down to
the spirit of the age by bowing out of its role of defining reality. For the
remnant of the church still holding fast, this may be its last chance to
influence the reality-seeking ‘Millennial’ and ‘Z’ generations.
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