Catching Up?

Psalm 119:160 "The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever."

The NCAA basketball tournament is in full swing and the field is now down to the "sweet sixteen".  One of the interesting stories of the tournament is the team from BYU.  The Cougars have been ranked as one of the best teams in the nation, and they are still in the tournament in spite of the fact that one of their best players was kicked off of the team the last week of the season.  He was kicked off the team because he had broken the schools honor code.  Though it was never released how he had broken the code, word got out that it had to do with his sexual relationship with his girl friend.  BYU is a Mormon school, and we are worlds apart from them as far as Biblical truth, but I have to give them props for sticking to their rules.  I'm sure it must have been tempting to hide this, or put off any discipline until after the season, but they didn't.  All of this made for a good deal of conversation on sports talk radio.  As I was listening the other morning one of the commentators who was stirred by "unjust" way the school handled this, decided to give advise to churches and religious people on how to reach young people.  He said if we are ever going to reach young people we need to catch up with the times.  Now this isn't word for word, but he went on to say that the world is evolving at light speed, that morals and what is right and wrong are evolving.  Then he compared religious people to some grouchy old man behind the counter at a local hardware store with a dial up phone yelling at little kids to get off of his lawn.  What this sports guy said is really pretty main-stream, and I'm sure most off his listeners were nodding in agreement.  The idea of sticking to Biblical morals truly is out of step with society.  The belief in absolute truth and absolute morals is thought to be really out of touch and almost backward.  The world tells us, things change, you need to catch up with the times, open your eyes, get out a little more.  You religious folks are stuck in the past, we have cell phones now, color televisions, micro waves, and computers.  Don't you see, abstinence is like the dial up phone and eight tracks, you need to catch up, it's time to evolve, and stop judging.  I know we don't stand on the popular side of this discussion, but we old backward Bible believers have to stick to the truth that God has revealed to us in His word.  Society will always change and follow it's whims, but the word of God does not evolve and change with the times.  His truth was true six thousand years ago and is true today.  His truth and righteousness are established from eternity to eternity.  Our job is not to change truth, or water it down to make it more palatable to the taste of modern man.  Our job is to know His truth, live His truth, and to share His truth as clearly as we can.  Rest assured in these dark and unstable days, the best way to reach young people will be to present to them the unchanging true gospel of Jesus.