Well, once again my church doesn't know how to handle anything. I thought we had gotten to the point where we could be normal and Christen at the same time, but apparently not. Recently our sermons have been about boundaries. Alright, fine, we do need to have boundaries as Christens or what makes us different? OKay, I can see that and I have a lot of boundaries in my life; however, this is going too far. In every sermon lately there have been mentions of 'blogging' and 'the myspace' and 'the facebook' as if it were some malicious monster waiting and ready to snatch our salvation right out from under our noses. Blogging is self-centered and mean, myspace is---well, they don't really know because they don't really know what is it. The same goes for facebook, they don't really know, but since someone at a sister church said it was bad--it's bad. They think that it's as simple as that; says it's bad from the pulpit and the rest will fall into place. They said something about texting but that was only during church which I don't do or approve anyway. What I'm worried about happening is that Mom and Dad will feel super bad about this things ( this is already happening really) and begin to forbid them. Mom and Dad don't know a thing about these sites and so feel free to make us feel badly about them. Mom and Dad also have a bad habit of feeling convicted and translating that to us children. They don't like to feel bad so they transfer the feelings to us so they feel like good parents. Or something like that. See, instead of trying to moderate or control things ( like they should) Mom and Dad just want to get rid of them all together. If it's not there --there's no work to do. Also there is no room for the older children and I to be trusted to moderate ourselves. I'm just extremely tired of this pattern. They feel convicted by a sermon, come down hard on us for a few months or weeks and they lack off because they don't actually feel that way. If we follow the same course that's fine until they hear another convicting sermon. It's an endless cycle of wishy-washy Christanity. Not to mention that no one is happy about any of this while it happens. It's not as if they ever say, "You can do this and this." it's just a lot of don't. It's gotten to the point that I feel we're supposed to be afraid of the world and live in fear of what thing might lure us to be worldly. I can't have confidence in my parent's faith because they seem to doubt its strength themselves. But I guess I shouldn't say that, it's worldly. | 
