Blog Two - February 1st 2026
The same applies to those leading New Zealand at the moment. The Coalition is powering along making changes in the hope of restoring the New Zealand that used to be? The reality is they are working within a system that is implementing another agenda altogether, again within reason. Education is an example of this.
Last year the government brought out a curriculum update and issued new texts to support it. This has only had one year of operation and a new even more austere update has been rolled out which smacks of nineteenth century Prussian educational dogma. We will make our children a product of the state. Will teach them all what they need to know. Part of this is teaching the same content at the same time every day in every school. Don’t get me wrong, there are benefits of this type of system but it is not the type of system that we Kiwi’s would choose for ourselves. Far too constricted and proscribed.
Christianity is another area that has been undergoing changes in this modern world and has arrived in an odd state of equilibrium. When I grew up the Christian church was strong and virtually everyone, whether a church goer or not, held to christian values. Doing the right thing, bringing up your children in a family with a mum and a dad and with love and discipline in equal measure.
With the advent of secular culture and the focus on godless evolution enshrined in pseudo science. Honestly, you don’t have to go to far into this nonsense to realise that nothing begats nothing and the complexity of life around us, from the cell on up, screams at the top of it lungs “There is a God!” However, the church has dissolved from the inside out and only the cults are left. Adventism, Calvinism and Pentecostalism have inherited the mantle that used to belong to simple bible and gospel based Christianity.
So how does this all fit together. Well when we talk of politics or education or, the Church we are really talking about systems. For me as an older person the systems I grew up with and which seemed to work have changed and in my opinion don’t work so well anymore. I have a feeling that as a kiwi in my sixties this isn’t my world anymore. It belongs to the younger generation. I fear for my children and their children.
Particularly, when you add activist driven biculturalism, rampant immigration and the impacts of one in one hundred year weather events every few months. The systems they are changing and not for the good. One way or another, this little country isn’t the way it was and as change comes in so does the age old question. “Is this my country anymore?”
We have governments that seem to be hell bent on global elitist chaos. We have free education and health systems in deliberate decline. This with the implication that education and health will only be for the wealthy in the future. This goes for the insurance industry as well, as even insuring your house is no longer a given when it used to be a government guarantee.
The church is no longer what it was and in many ways doesn’t do the job of proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ anymore. Which is what it is there for. Of course, God has got this and there will be a remnant working in the background and following the great commission. There always has been a group of dedicated Christians obeying Christ.
Matthew 28 verses 19 and 20: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to follow all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
As an older person I guess these are the types of thoughts are very common. As you pass the age having a real impact on life the world seems to pass you by. However, these are real issues of concern for the next generation. As I mentioned before I worry for them as they face them. The implications of those issues could be life changing.
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