PRAISEWORTHY ACTS OF THE LORD

Richard Beck, professor and author wrote this comment on Psalm 78:

“My people, hear my instruction;
listen to the words from my mouth.
I will declare wise sayings;
I will speak mysteries from the past—
things we have heard and known
and that our ancestors have passed down to us.
We will not hide them from their children,
but will tell a future generation
the praiseworthy acts of the Lord.”

‘The take home point in all this is that churches are not holding their younger cohorts. Churches are losing their children. 

Which brings me back to Psalm 78. We tend to think that evangelism is taking the gospel to the lost, to those outside the church. But the reality is that the majority of the Nones have grown up in churches. Evangelism, therefore, needs to pivot to focus on the home and the pew. Churches have become mission fields. Which means that evangelism is increasingly intergenerational. Telling a future generation the praiseworthy acts of the Lord.’

I say if winning our own children to the Kingdom way isn’t a generational emphasis…we soon will have no one to tell about ‘the praiseworthy acts of the Lord.’

“But you, “who do you say that I am?” Jesus