A Call for Faithful Plodders

From Kevin DeYoung’s Tabletalk article:

“My generation in particular is prone to radicalism without
followthrough. We have dreams of changing the world, and the world
should take notice accordingly. But we’ve not proved faithful in much of
anything yet. We haven’t held a steady job or raised godly kids or done
our time in VBS or, in some cases, even moved
off the parental dole. We want global change and expect a few more
dollars to the ONE campaign or Habitat for
Humanity chapter to just about wrap things up. What the church and the
world needs, we imagine, is for us to be another Bono — Christian, but
more spiritual than religious and more into social justice than the
church. As great as it is that Bono is using his fame for some noble
purpose, I just don’t believe that the happy future of the church, or
the world for that matter, rests on our ability to raise up a million
more Bonos (as at least one author suggests). With all due respect,
what’s harder: to be an idolized rock star who travels around the world
touting good causes and chiding governments for their lack of foreign
aid, or to be a line worker at GM with four
kids and a mortgage, who tithes to his church, sings in the choir every
week, serves on the school board, and supports a Christian relief agency
and a few missionaries from his disposable income?”