tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post7805719437018491029..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The West cannot be saved, because it wants to die; but persons can be saved, and their lives transformed into joyBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-54273308371832196252019-06-15T12:36:12.097+01:002019-06-15T12:36:12.097+01:00(as always, please feel completely free not to pu...(as always, please feel completely free not to publish anything I send you, I know how much of your heart and soul you have poured into this wonderful artwork of yours) - <br /> I completely agree with what EDf said in his first sentence.<br /><br />Second sentence - well, I am not going to make fun of rock concerts. Not my style, of course, rock concerts, but the "worship music" at megachurches is often not simply the "bad art" that people think it is, but rather a simple good-hearted attempt at waking people up so that when they listen to the Biblical sermon - often rather long - that follows the "rock music" they will be less sleepy than they usually are!<br /><br />That being said, the desire to help a few people experience divine joy is the greatest desire we can have .... as you said ....<br /><br />but some people in this world (not me) may be the parents of someone who may, in years to come, be a vessel of the Lord in the sense that such a person may be the closest thing we who live in these days can have to a human and simply human "prophet" of truth, and may bring about a revival, and may be someone who may, for any given nation, not just for a few people (although the two different actions - bringing a few friends, or even just one creature who never had a friend in this world, to a point where they understand the joy of being loved by God ----- and bringing a nation to that point - are equally wonderful) bring that nation back to decent respect and heart-felt appreciation for the Lord ....<br /><br />so while you are completely correct to say that it is our ultimate task in this world to help others, sometimes not many others, to be what God so passionately wants them to be, and that it is not really our given task to, in any sense of the word, "save the world" ....<br /><br />and while you are correct to say what you said, I am sure you also know that some of us, certainly including you, pray for our friends to be parents of great saints.<br /><br />Each generation is called to be better than any generation that preceded them: <br />and, as much admiration as I have for Adam and Eve, I think it has never been impossible for any generation to be much much better than the preceding generations, <br /><br />Nothing new needs to be said, it is just simply that many people would be so happy to hear the old words of truth that have always been true.stephen cooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277962223155674985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-68111537841362660292019-06-14T08:31:48.111+01:002019-06-14T08:31:48.111+01:00@EDF - Thanks. I stumbled across it yesteday, and ...@EDF - Thanks. I stumbled across it yesteday, and it was originally posted in that dead time between Christmas and New Year of 2014, so it wasn't much noticed, although it seems pretty striking (I had long since forgotten writing it!). So I thought it was worth revising and republishing. Of course, I have been making this kind of point since 2010-ish - but sometimes manage to find a refreshing restatement that can be helpful, not least to myself. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-73679237451994852212019-06-14T06:56:25.553+01:002019-06-14T06:56:25.553+01:00This is probably my favorite post you have written...This is probably my favorite post you have written, and I thank God there are people like you and the others who read this blog and resonate with what you write. Many of the real Christians I meet (not the megachurch "Christian-Pagans" who are mostly interested in going to a rock concert) sense something very wrong with society, but can't articulate it. Thank you for articulating it every day!EDFreenoreply@blogger.com