What's Going On?

No, that's not a reference to the Marvin Gaye classic, although that's a great song. There have been several stories in the media lately about celebrities and their "mistakes". It begs the larger question of what's going on in our world, our culture...our churches?

We seem to cast blame on everyone else around us instead of taking responsibility for our choices and actions. Isn't it easier to let someone else take the fall for something you did rather than admitting that you broke that expensive lamp? We need to be reminded that we are responsible for our own actions. We need to be reminded that when we look at what's wrong with the world, that we are included in the world.

G.K. Chesterton was reputed to write the following to the editor in response to a request by the London Times for an essay on the topic, “What’s Wrong with the World,”

  

          Dear Sir:

  

          In response to your article, ‘What’s wrong with the world’

          – I am.

  

          Yours truly,

  

          G.K. Chesterton.

Taken from www.churchandculture.org