myspace.com - Crossroads of the double life

With all of the backlash about myspace, I wonder if it might end up being a blessing in disguise. So many of our teens testify that they have lived a double life. They are one person at school and someone totally different when they are around their "Christian" friends.

When they first started using sites like myspace, they assumed they were operating within their "school" world. And so, their sites reflected who they were at school. So, when we adults wandered in, the shock was two-fold. We were shocked at what we were seeing and they were shocked that we were looking.

Without realizing it, the two lives our teens were leading came to an intersection. They quickly realized that the spectators from both of their lives were mixed on the street corner watching to see who they would be when forced to merge those lives.

What we have seen following our recent Youth Councils is that many of our teens have begun to trust the Lord to make them teens of integrity. They desperately want to be the same person in all the settings of their lives. MySpace seems to have forced them to make a decision and the Holy Spirit is giving them the courage to make the right choice.

Please pray that He would continue to move with power. This generation is different and I can't wait to see what God is going to do through them.

The hunch I have though, is that the person they are at church may not be any less of a facade for them than the person they are trying to be at school. Pray that they would discover exactly who God created them to be and that they would have the courage to allow Him to make them into that person.