- Acts 2
This is a really harsh thing for Peter to say. What might he be talking about? "Generation" is a pretty broad, sweeping term! But if I say anything about a "generation" I must be referring to traits that make a particular generation distinct.
If we discuss The Greatest Generation, I must take the good:
- Defeat the Axis Powers
- Survive The Great Depression
- Build Post-War America into the greatest super power in history
With the bad:
- Racial segregation
- Pollution
- Harmful personal habits: drinking, smoking
And there will be a lot of moral practices that future generations will find repugnant.
The same would be true of the Baby Boomers, the Gen X-ers, the Civil War Generation. There is good and bad. But the person of God knows that there are distinctives in his or her generation, that have a great effect on him/her. You cannot escape the assumptions, for good or ill, of your generation. Its practices may become so ingrained that you can no longer see clearly enough to call evil evil, and good, good.
Generations will be evil, and not know it. They will be narcissistic, and not know it. They will be implementing reforms that, in fact, take society backward, without knowing it. When things go wrong, they will blame anyone, but themselves. A Generation is the worse form of stubborn, willful human. For, it has lots of support to stay down the wrong path.
By definition, setting yourself apart from your generation, will not be a popular thing to do. People will hate you. They will call you judgmental. They call you a "hater" because you do not accept their assumptions, nor their conclusions.
What's Peter's compelling case for why one must be saved? Well, among all the good reasons, is a hard one: Save yourself from this corrupt generation.
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