An Essential Element

If there is only one thing that you, as a student, can take away from our class, I would hope that it would be the ability to articulate the difference between absolute truth and relativism. If we do not hold to absolute truth, then nothing else matters! Our ideas, our beliefs, have consequences. Truth matters. "According to a recent George Barna scientific poll, only 6% of all teens believe in absolute moral truth. What’s more alarming is Barna’s statistic that only 9% of all evangelical teens believe in absolute moral truth.How are Christian teens going to act differently than the prevailing culture if they think and view the world the same way?" (1)

Truth is absolute, universal, objective,transcendent, and immutable. Any other approach to truth is relative, subjective, and as unstable as shifting and sinking sand. I will not define all these terms here since we have already done so in class; however, I do hope that you will resolve to articulate the difference between these two worldview approaches. In today's society, the communication of the gospel depends on it. ( You may want to revisit an earlier post: "Rooted in the Absolute")

(1) Commentary on the Rewired curriculum series co-produced by Chuck Colson and Teen Mania. Available at www.breakpoint.org/generic.asp?ID=2540; accessed August 29, 2006.