Today's Journal
BLAME IT ON THE COFFEE
Apathy is lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern. It is often blamed on any condition or person… as long as we are not the cause. For example, I have recently read many reasons why we are now what’s called post-Christian, or cultural Christians, or secularism, progressive Christians, or dechristianization. Or back to apathy, it is simply called, Apatheism: Indifference or lack of belief in God, often linked to post-Christian trends.Many things get blamed for the spiritual conditions that now exist. Some are saying it is politics, some the economy, or education, technology, lousy leadership, broken family structures, unemployment, AI, housing costs, or the price and quality of coffee. Blame it on the coffee.
‘The standard “golden ratio” for coffee is 1:16 – that's one part coffee to 16 parts water by weight. For example, if you're using 20 grams of coffee, you'll need 320 grams (or milliliters) of water.’ And that’s exactly why people should blame the coffee… a weak, tea looking, watery one-to-sixteen coffee is reason to become apathetic toward coffee and everything else. Get some Cuban Coffee and start life over again.
Apathy to our faith is a serious matter. As one writer comments, “apathy is far more corrosive to our faith than opposition. It is where religious claims were not debated so much as dismissed.” The prevailing atmosphere was a closed horizon in which religious claims were not debated so much as dismissed.” Opposition may come, apathy already has.
The reason for decline in Christian interests may be all or some of those mentioned above. I blame and fault none of these as much as our own apathy as card carrying, dues paying Christians toward faith, power, joy and fellowship in the Holy Spirit. Ho, Hum, Whatever.
“Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.” Jesus