Yes, we have unprecedented mass entertainment and mass communications, but so many lonely crowds. The togetherness of technology is no substitute for the family. Much as I lament the resulting and gathering storms, there can be some usefulness in them. Our context is challenging, however. We have many overwhelmed parents, more and more marriages in meltdown, and dysfunctional families.
Destructive consequences impact steadily from drugs, violence, and pornography.
As you and I observe the valiant cope successfully with severe and relentless trials, we applaud and celebrate their emerging strength and goodness. It may be too late to fix some communities, but not to help those individuals and families willing to fix themselves. If still others experience a shortage of exemplars, they can become such. Therefore, desperately needed is longitudinal perspective, the hope of the gospel. But Christ's unique submissiveness has always been in place.