I don’t know why, but I find this article by Carl Trueman to be rather comforting.
Yet baldness is nonetheless a great gift from the Lord, in that it imposes a certain dignity on the ageing process by cutting off the various less dignified options (e.g., ponytails, which shouldn’t be sported by anyone over 30; and mullets which, frankly, should not be sported by anyone, anywhere, anytime. Period.). Of course, there are those, even Christians, who fight against this divinely-imposed dignity. Dreadful toupees abound in the church, along with frightful transplants, and the ubiquitous `comb-over’ or `sweep.’ The latter seems predicated on the false notion that, if you have six hairs to stretch across the barren landscape of your otherwise shiny pate, nobody will notice that you have gone completely bald. Or perhaps there is a belief somewhere that, in the country of the bald, the one-haired man is king. Come on, gents, parade your baldness with pride and accept the dignity which your divinely-imposed hair loss brings with it.
Actually, the whole article is excellent, and well worth a read giving an excellent critique of the church’s obsession with youth culture. Does this mean I have to stop using Facebook?
Third, the gospel just is not cool. I don’t think I need to argue this one further, but just in case: Steve McQueen was cool; Bruce Springsteen, if the new album is anything to go by, is still cool; but being a helpless lawbreaker dependent solely upon God’s grace in Christ for salvation has never been cool and never will be. And if the gospel is not cool, then being a minister is not cool; so why try to pretend otherwise?
HT Henry’s Web
One reply on “To Baldly Go”
No, Eddie, you don’t have to stop using Facebook etc and avoiding youth culture, you just have to redeem it for us over-40’s by continuing to use it despite your age and baldness. Perhaps, not being bald despite being older than you, I should grow a ponytail just to redeem that of its lack of dignity for us over-30’s. But then I don’t think I will.