After two months on the air, ABC announced this week they would not renew the controversial comedy satire GCB. In fact, they went so far to announce this would be the last month GCB would be aired on their network.
No doubt there are PTAs and various Christian groups, who organized petitions for ABC to halt the series before it could air, dancing in the streets. However, I think we were called to more important things than watching television and complaining when something ruffles our feathers a little too much. Much like when we adults find things in the Bible that are "so B.C." and too counter to what is happening all around the world, we ignore them and the thousands of years God spent preserving that doctrine to live a "real life", do "what feels right", and "what feels good to us"; our kids are smarter than we think, after all, and even they are taking using our "logic" to bypass other sections of the Bible because they get in the way of "real life" and "what feels right". Imagine a day when the Ten Commandments becomes "The Ten Suggestions" or "The Ten Things You Are Asked Not To Do, Unless You Are Dying or About to Perform Surgery" o_O
The next generation will be in the driver's seat one day, and what better time to get involved and interested in their lives, what they are up to, and how they are doing than right now? Honour begins at home, and if you want your children to live in a better world than you did, then it starts with sitting down, turning off the television, and being the role model they look to for hours on end, and not some satirical, fictional character on the tubes.
Just a thought...
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