The Weekly Perspective
by Burke Shade, Associate Pastor
With Super Bowl weekend in the rear view mirror, we should spend a moment reflecting on its impacts, on our nation, on our families, and our children.
Obviously, the half-time show was a calculated risk to not only advertise to the Hispanic potential audience in South and Latin America, but it was also a Satanically-inspired culture-pushing advertisement. According to Congressman Ogles, it was full of explicit ungodly sexual immorality, pushing everything from fornication to sodomy to transgender and beyond.
On top of that, you not only have the cheerleaders who are prominently displayed in skimpy clothing, but you have endless commercials of women dressed with low necklines to high skirtlines. Not to mention the rampant fornication and adultery of the football players themselves, along with their off-field thuggery.
What this communicated to your children, both girls and boys, is that football is all about sexual licentiousness, embraced by our American culture, at total odds to all godly Lord’s Day activities! If the goal in life is “fun,” it isn’t hard to see who has the overwhelming tug on the hearts of unbelievers and believers.
So in the coming year, take some time to think about how you want men and women portrayed to your children (and to yourselves): as objects to be used and thrown away, or as persons made in the image of God and worthy of immense respect and sacrifice? Is the purpose of man “fun,” or the glory of God and the service of fellow images of God? Is it pure sexual lives of one man and one woman following after Jesus, or destructive sexual narcissism? Meditate on Psalm 119, and make your viewing plans accordingly!