Kids and street talk
By GARY TOOLE
To stay up with the in-crowd and be cool, we take on almost every old word that society dishes out without even really thinking about what we are saying. Of course, it's so much stuff I guess you could say it doesn't really matter, or does it?

I gr ew up being called a young'n or a child. We were called children. The Bible calls us children. Of course, so many of these cool cats want to say that the Bible is old and outdated, so now they have got a sack full of different versions -- even a "street talk" version. That's right, folks. You heard it here.

I have never seen one and don't care to, but I think that it probably goes like this: "The big guy is a cool dude and He's my man and He gives me all I want. He asks me to come along to some right-on green grass, not the kind you smoke. This cat takes me to this cool mountain stream and I lay down and rest a while. I am a happy camper because I get to stay in His crib."

Now, that was the 23rd Psalm in the street-talk version of the Bible.

Now, back to the kids. Back in the 1960s when they wanted to change everything, they started calling children "kids." The first time some of these country boys and girls were called kids, some got mad and said, "I ain't no goat!"

The dictionary says that a kid is a baby goat. The informal definition is a young child. Now, Jesus said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me for thus is the kingdom of Heaven." In other words, for us to get into heaven we must take on the spiritual disposition of a young'n. Little children have child-like faith. They are so trusting and so forgiving. They can fight and fiveminutes later be hugging each other.

Anyway, when Jesus spoke He spoke with power and authority. When Lazarus was in his grave Jesus didn't say, "Come forth." He said, "Lazarus, come forth." Because if he hadn't done it that way then everyone that had ever been buried would have come forth.

So, Jesus said, "Suffer the little children." Now, if they had used the term, "kids," for children back in those days, then all the baby goats in the country would have come-arunning. Well! Well! That's a deep subject. Can you say amen?

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