A wise professor of mine once observed that, if the discussion leader is not careful, most Bible studies and adult Sunday school class devolve into hemming and hawing about “kids these days.”
I think he is exactly right.
This speaks to the larger sinful tendency we have: pointing out the sins of others before dealing with our own.
What if, instead of discussing “kids these days,” we dealt with our own sin and began with questions like, “How does this text invite me to repent?”
Log out of our own eye first… then the speck of sawdust out of our neighbor’s, as it were.
[And, yes, I am aware of the irony of this post.]