Last night was one not to be forgotten soon. From our room at the convent where we are staying we had a magnificent view of the sun setting over the Mediterranean Sea. Pictures are not downloading easily but hopefully I will be able to get some on soon. Then it was time to hit the town and off to City Mall we went. Because it is “winter” here now – this is the place to go. It was amazing – there were people EVERYWHERE. It looked like a scene from Willy Wonka’s with hundreds of people on the escalators which looked like conveyer belts throughout the 4 story mall filled with US and European stores and any food you could imagine. It was worse than the last week before Christmas at any of our malls. I made some comment about that and I was told that Christmas is much more crowded then. That is hard to imagine!
In Lebanon, with a few exceptions, one is allowed to share openly about your faith. Very different than Jordan. We got into a discussion at dinner about the youth and their faith. It is very much like the US where the youth are leaving Christianity by the droves. I asked about the family and their role in a child’s spiritual development. Because people relate here on shame, parents are reluctant to lead spiritually and depend on the church to do it. They think they cannot do it well but the church would do better. (Hmmm, sound familiar?!) But the kids are leaving the church for the things of the world.
I have been pondering what the Lord is doing with this movement of turning the hearts of the fathers back to their children and having them become the spiritual leaders in their own homes and not relying on the church. Is God preparing His remnant as people learn to have family worship in their homes? What is the future of the church as it currently is operating? What will revival look like for this generation? God is faithful and is at work – it just might be very different than what we are thinking.
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