I started reading CBMW’s new e-book they released online. If you read the Foreword by John Piper it seems this is a introduction to the NEW group of complementarian leaders of our future. ,
Owen Strachan is continuing the theme of humans being ‘confused’ by their gender. How if you allow him to show you the truth about gender and God? Things just magically work I guess. WELL at least you are doing it the biblical way anyway right?! Problem is they are taking the same approach as the past leaders, and using scenes, stories and descriptions in a way that only their ‘group’ can relate to. Sadly, not their intended audience. Isn’t that whom they are trying convince…I would think right?
Owen Strachan spoke about a movie scene in ‘Juno”, and it made me realize they just plain see things differently compared to how they truly play out. They read things into circumstances that might not even be there, and apply assumptions that totally miss the mark.
Owen Strachan’s description of a scene from the movie, “Juno’.
The lips of the young woman quivered. Tears rolled down her face. Her angry father stared at her. “I thought you were the kind of girl who didn’t get into this sort of trouble,” he said. She looked back at him confused and adrift: “I guess I don’t really know what kind of girl I am.”
This exchange came in Juno, a poignant film made a few years ago. It’s a quick scene, but it has stuck with me ever since. In this young woman’s reply, I heard the confusion of an entire generation. So many young men and young women don’t know who they are.
Now you can see the scene in question online, and you just google Juno telling her parents she is pregnant. Otherwise, just click my highlighted link.
There was no lips quivering, tears rolling down her face – no an angry father telling her he didn’t think she was that type of girl. It was a pretty matter of fact scene, and I’m not going to say her father wasn’t disappointed. He was indeed disappointed.
Juno announced that she found a couple that would adopt her child, and pay for all her medical expenses. Dad wanted to come with her to the meeting to make sure she wasn’t taken advantage of.
Then he says to her, “I thought you were the type of girl that knew when to say when”. Yes, she did indeed say she didn’t know what type of girl she was. In the very next scene, the father felt the blame was clearly on his shoulders. Was he NOT a good enough father?!
Her sense of confusion is NOT what he describes – or approaches within this chapter. He just plucked out, and used it. Sadly, that’s what’s confusing.
