The We Too Church

Ps 145:1-5
I will extol You, my God, O King;
And I will bless Your name forever and ever.
2 Every day I will bless You,
And I will praise Your name forever and ever.
3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised;
And His greatness is unsearchable.

4 One generation shall praise Your works to another,
And shall declare Your mighty acts.
5 I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty,
And on Your wondrous works.

One generation shall praise your works to another. As I look around here this morning I see moms and dads with their children. Faithful grandparents who are seeing two generations declaring the mighty acts of God and that makes my heart leap for joy. For in too many places in our American culture we have become the "we too" church.

The world loves basketball, we too and so we join the gospel to an exciting game of hoops. The world loves music you can dance to, we too and so we make our music bouncy, forgetting the significance of the words we sing. Snappy short stories are what goes with today's short attention span, we too hate boredom and self-discipline and so we cut our preaching down to the bone in the hopes that the world will love Jesus (and us too while they are at it). The humanist says I want a Godless education and the church says we too. The only difference is the church by and large does not know they are presenting to the world a Godless alternative to the Godless standard.

There is only one true God, revealed to us in the person of Jesus Christ and His greatness is unsearchable. However, the church is not trying to get Jesus back into school. The prayer we are trying to get past the plurality police is a prayer to a generic God of questionable power and finite greatness. Like generic beer, this God will do what the heathen wants but it leaves those who are capable of tasting the difference between gall and hops strangely dissatisfied.

It is time that church quit saying we too with the world and instead meditate on the glorious splendor of His majesty. And after our meditation we too will declare with the psalmist…

He will not be mocked forever.