Bad Theology

When Bear was about 2, we noticed his love of music.  He is always dancing, always drumming something, and always singing.  In the bathroom, in the shower, in his bed, in the car.  It doesn't matter when or where he is, he seems to always have songs rolling through his little brain.  Pey is a little quieter about it.  But there are times when I will catch her in the rear view mirror, with her mouth open as big as she can, singing like she is center stage.  But if she sees me looking, she buries her head and stops.  

As I have seen their love for music and how they pick up the lyrics to songs, it has forced me to be a little hard core about what we listen to. Nothing like driving down the road hearing your precious little children singing...Some Spice Girls "If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give, taking is too easy, but that's the way it is". 

I have not only seen their love of music grow but I also have seen their little inquisitive minds growing as they begin to ask what are songs about. So imagine me driving down the road needing to explain to a 5 year old what a "Lover" is. Nope....I'll pass...anybody want some icecream. 

I am asked on a regular basis about what songs mean.  Bear asked yesterday, "What are angel armies?" (Chris Tomlin). Or he has listened to the Sanctus Real song Lead me and we had a conversation about him being a husband one day.  

I was on the way home the other night and I was all alone.  Which means I get to listen, sing, dance or just think, to whatever I want.  It was a thinking night :-)  The Christian radio station was on but I deep in thought about the Gospel.  I had been reading Follow Me by David Platt so my brain was there in David Platt land. Early in the book he talks about how we go about presenting the gospel.  Just ask Jesus into your heart. Simply invite Christ into your life. Repeat this prayer after me, and you will be saved. He goes on to talking about how "simple" we make it for people to come to Christ. I was thinking how we either on purpose or unknowingly deceive people for the sake of the Gospel or for the sake of our own pride. We feed them a bill of sale that their life will be better,safer,easier, full of joy, happiness, prosperity.  But show me where it says that in the Bible. 

And then it happened.  There was a song on the radio that went something like this, "Sin is powerless, we will not be shaken, Our God is for us."  The song goes on and on quoting different bible verses completely out of context.  

God showed me that we can make the Bible say many different things.  It can say the truth like He meant it or it can say whatever we twist it into.  I can say cute little "fortune cookie" phrases.  Or it can call you to die. 

  2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, ⁴ and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

So what does one do when they realize that they are listening to bad theology?  

How do I protect myself, my family from false teaching?

How do I get in the car, turn on the radio, and let my littles memorize songs that are about Jesus, but twist    the scripture?  

What"s the alternative?  

I don't know, but what I do know is that God is stretching my brain.:-)  by giving me knew things to think about and be on guard for. He is telling me to KNOW my bible.  How do you test if something is "sound teaching" or not if you don't know your bible?

He is showing me that He did not call us to an easy life. He is showing me that the eye of the needle is a narrow path that is not simple, quick, or easy and He is showing me that to give Him glory in everything that goes on, requires focus. 

God please help us to not be distracted.

~LL