Friday, November 25, 2005

"Super-homers" and Sixties Hippies

My definition of "super-homers" are those people who believe virtually everything should revolve around the home, and the family.

Super-homers, typically, want to be born at home, learn at home, work at home, "worship" (as a "church") at home, and die at home. Super-homers seem to confine their sphere of authority to themselves, with the father being "god," the mother and children, the "god's" underlings.

It strikes me that there is an intriguing similarity between super-homers and sixties hippies. Both of them abhor and question all authority, (except their own). There is a suspicion about anyone who does not fit their mold. And there is a strong "counter-culture"--that though imitating the genuine call of Christian heavenly citizenship (even on earth)--yet falls woefully short of God's truth.

Some super-homers are professing Christians, others are not. The same might be said of many sixties hippies.

Both of these groups need what everyone else needs, too: that being the church. There, they would learn that they are not the end-all of their existences; and that they are happier bound to, and bonded with other people.

This is another example of where the church is key to a sane, balanced, and fulfilling life. Only from within it will you find the King of Life, the Lord Jesus Christ.