A university library represents the pinnacle of literary scholarship and exhaustive research. It’s one of the signature places where minds expand, values are shaped, and causes are born. So, who would have ever guessed on an otherwise vacant wall of one of our nation’s best, some unremarkable student scrawled his ideological conviction that shattered the silence of that famed repository of erudition? He simply wrote: “Apathy rules!”
Now just in case some of you don’t know the meaning of the term, “apathy,” let me simply say, “I don’t care.” Oh no, don’t get me wrong, I really do care. I was merely supplying the definition to the word; it actually means, “I don’t care.”
I hope this young man’s perspective sits more-than-slightly askew of reality; I hope his apathy doesn’t reign in our country’s institutions of higher learning. But more than this, I pray that apathy doesn’t rule in our country’s churches. Here’s the question for you to ponder in anticipation of this coming Sunday’s sermon, “Do you care about spiritual matters and what God is up to?” If you do care, you’ll probably worship somewhere this Sunday; but if you want to know more about Malachi’s (Old Testament prophet) answer, you may want to worship with us.
