In my work with the church throughout my life so far, I have talked about religion and faith with many age groups--including adolescents. When conversing with these young adults, I have found that unlike many of the elders in our Christian faith today (including the Pope, young people are not afraid to ask questions as to whether their faith is "real" or whether God has listened to their prayer requests. However, I have never given great in depth thought to these questions, that is until my dream or perhaps "vision" one night.
This particular dream/vision God sent me has been of great interest to me and at the same time, a great fear of the fate of Christianity has begun to grow within my heart. My vision went as follows:
Three young adults were standing in a room. This room contained two unfamiliar objects which I shall try to describe: the first object was a sliver-colored large box, but one side of the box was missing- instead, there was what looked like a glass-panel upon which picture s of people were moving and speaking; the second object was also a box, yet smaller, and had no screen but instead had all sorts of buttons and dials. Noise of music and singing was blaring from within this box. The volume level which was issuing from these two boxes was very great.
Meanwhile, the three teenagers standing in the room were talking to each other amidst the noise. I then heard the girl say, "I think that God is there to help me when I ask Him to- but otherwise He just lets me live my life". One of the boys then spoke, "Yeah I totally agree with you, God is, like, just a therapist who fixes all my problems or whatever. He just wants my life to be good and happy and stuff". The other boy then added, "Yeah dude, we just need to be good and nice to people- then we can go to heaven when we die". After this last person finished speaking, the volume from the devices around the people grew even louder and more distracting.
I woke up.
What I conclude from this dream or vision is that maybe this is what the future is going to look like. If this is indeed a glimpse of the future, I must confess that though I am fleeing for my life right now, I am glad I live now, not then. How could these people take so much of their "faith" for granted? DO they honestly believe that God exists, if at all, only to serve them? These people of the future must remember that our purpose in life is to glorify GOD, the one who came to save us from our iniquities, and not ourselves!
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Wow. I'm amazed by this post. You did a really nice job of contrasting your culture to the adolescents' culture of the future. It made for a very interesting and thought-provoking reading. Thank you for your thoughts, Mr. Tyndale.
Very interesting, my visit to the future left me with a similar encounter. The first box is called a "TV" and the second one a "stereo" or a "boombox." The thoughts are accurate though... It's too bad.
Tyndale, you were so creative with this post and showing it as a dream instead of just listing what MTD is and your opinions.
I found it most intiguring that your have your own translation of the Bible. I would like to know more about how and why you decided to translate it the way you did. I am so happy that you pushed for the translation of the Bible so that common & poor could read it. Did you mention if the King agreed to?
(Alana Asay)
very good! I enjoyed the dream section. not very creative: most people took this approach. I enjoyed the blog very much!
(Maria)
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