Dinosaur Thinking @ Church

Caution:  In no way do these words suggest changing the church’s MESSAGE of Salvation. 

Dinosaur thinking relates to the chasm between a toddler’s attraction to a computer game and the church’s total neglect in teaching scriptural computing principles. It moves me to tears to see children walking toward their Sunday school room playing a two-thumbed video game and then be taught lessons with absolutely no mention of God’s technology gifts to man or Bible directions on how to honor Him with them. 

In a similar way a pastor will step into his pulpit with pockets and a sound room full of communication technology. But surprisingly his message sounds like technology and the Internet doesn’t exist nor scripture that addresses their use. Dinosaur thinking prevents him from asking himself if parents hearing his voice hunger for God’s direction for today’s ‘toys’ in the hands of youth and adults. 

Dinosaur thinking refers to the church’s willful stubbornness in their attitude: “Well, we’ve done it this way for 30 years and we’re not going to change.” And yet their youth attendance changes in decreasing numbers and spirit. 

Dinosaur thinkers don’t believe what 2^nd Timothy 3:16, 17 promises. They can’t comprehend the difference between ‘Don’t change our MESSAGE of Salvation’ and ‘keep our METHODS consistent with the tools our church folks use in their daily lives’. 

Now listen very carefully…

NOONE knows for sure that dinosaurs EVER existed. No one has seen one, dead or alive. I agree that parts of them (???) have been found. But I must tell you that my God has enough power to create fossil imprints in stone or even just fossilized bones, if He wants to. 

Does your God have the power to instantly create a stone that if immediately carbon-dated would ‘test’ to be thousands of years old? To think otherwise is spiritually absurd. And yet churches fill their nursery toy boxes, walls, and curriculum with dinosaur items and images IN PLACE OF God-honoring images that draw our attention to His infallible Word. 

What Should I Do First?

Because God wants us to tie technology use to His Word, step one is to see how the word ‘all’ is used in three sentences:

1. In John 1:3 we see that God has made ‘all’ technology for us.
2. In 2^nd Timothy 3.16 we briefly see that God’s Word, cover to cover, is applicable to safe creative use of that technology.
3. In the next verse we see the phrase ‘all good works’. This definitely includes computing in all forms.

 

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