Old Fashion

I have been listening to some short sermon clips lately especially from preachers from the early 60s, 50s or so and I found it rather fascinating how messages were like then. Even in their monotonous delivery which in today's attention would have been lost without humor and such but the core of the messages pack a punch in every word. I got to the edge of the seat hearing some of these messages that surprised me by their radical points that I resonated with so much.

I wonder if I am really getting older seeing how I am beginning to think so much like old timers. But then it is unusual that I know some of my peers who are seeing it the way that I do when it comes to certain things, which makes me feel like I am now in my 50s. This thought could give me 2 possible reaction and that I am either maturing in certain areas in my life that puts me in an advance understanding of where I am and where I will be going, or that I wonder what it would be like if I were to be in my 50s but feeling and thinking like a 70 year old.

But in all fun in wondering, I am now being drawn towards old preachers and what they have to say about scriptures. It would be interesting to see how much in relevancy their messages reflect in my current context.

Hermeneutics is the study of understanding scripture and its interpretation and redelivering them accordingly to the context of the listener. I remembered taking this class and learning about how stupid I have been in so much presumption that I have made in my understanding of scripture, let alone trying to teach people what they mean. Such is that there is a difference in the preachers of today and several decades ago where a lot of preachers today have blurred the lines of relevancy for gaining approval.

This makes me think over and over again about old fashion values and how much more truth it speaks than those of contemporary fads. Are what our elders preach worth considered by the young people of today? Have we thrown out what is considered aged wine, mistakened for old milk? Have we lost significance of God's unchanging laws because people wants their itching freedom of their own indulgence?