Conspiracy

 Conspiracy.

Gurri's 'The Revolt of the Public' explains a lot. He claims we're in the Fifth Wave of information. #1 was writing, #2 was alphabet, so this is BIG. He wrote before Trump or Brexit. When information doubles in a year, and more have access to it, People wonder. His solution?: More competency, honesty, and humility by 'authorities'.

I propose that this is a maturity test for pastors. And with all this information out there, it is easy to find someone who agrees with you. This is called confirmation bias.

Let me give an example: We have one of the greatest educational tools ever invented, yet school administrators want to ban it. Why? Because they are not mature enough to engage students, who in previous eras fought wars, were raising families, etc. (My mother and her sisters taught grades 1-8 in country schools immediately after graduating from HIGH SCHOOL. Cleopatra was 17, how old was Joan of Arc? Farragut was supposedly prizemaster of a ship at 11. You could look these things up, if the up-looker machine had not been banned).As I learned from Titus, preach authoritatively. Chuck