I was thinking about secret Christians recently.
Are you a secret Christian?
Are you such an "unobvious" Christian that no one knows you are a Christian in school or in your work place?
Are you something that I drew below?
I just watched a documentary on channelnewsasia about underaged parties in clubs in Singapore.
The idea of underaged parties is that you get the music, the atmosphere, the dancing, the socializing, except cigarettes and booze(beer, alcohol etc).
The organizers (events company) are actually young people themselves (17 years old).
After watching the documentary, I really wanted to ask the organizers these questions.
1. Underaged parties disallow alcohol. But there are people who are of legal age with LOADS of alcohol in the same club at the same time, partying at the same time. How sure are the organizers that there will be no exchange of drinks in the club between underaged and those above 18?
2. There was a scene of parents calling to complain that their children get home drunk, even though the organizers did not allow alcohol. The organizers simply replied that it was not "really their problem" as their rule of thumb was no alcohol. But come on, you think parents are fools? The events company encourages such a clubbing atmosphere, and allows such close contact between underaged people andpeople above 18 years old with alcohol and they can tell parents not to blame them if their underaged children got home drunk??
3. Also a question for young people: If you want to dance, you want to socialize, and you want to know more friends, you do know that clubs and pubs are not the only places to do all these right? The atmosphere of clubbing is one that encourages young people to attract attention by wearing skimpily. Clubbing atmosphere also encourages young people to flirt around with their peers. Clubs are also places for guys to touch and girls to be touched. Seriously, if I had kids, or younger siblings, I would tell them to get a life and not go clubbing.
I hope our young people in YI will never step into underaged parties in clubs or "legalised" partying in clubs when they are 18. Clubbing is just useless and unhealthy.
When I used to club, I tried to trick myself that I would not drink and smoke. In the end? I ended up smoking and drank almost every week I went. And they say clubbing was fun and meaningful! YA RIGHT! Clubbers use Sundays to get over their hangovers and headaches from the drinks and alcohol! What a "life"!
Young people, stay healthy and avoid clubs. Life can be abundant and exciting without going into clubs to be smoked, to be touched, to get drunk, and to "grind"!!
