Singer Micah Tyler is receiving national attention following the release of his video that pokes fun at and disarms many of the negative stereotypes about his generation.
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"As a millennial myself, I've heard so many hard stereotypes that have been firmly attached to my generation. Instead of shying away or ignoring any of them, I figured we might as well laugh about them together! Humor is such a disarming force," Tyler told The Christian Post, explaining why he created the video.
The song emphasizes stereotypes that are commonly said about the millennial generation. Tyler sings about coffee shops, man buns, Instagram selfies with inspirational quotes, and the attitude of entitlement. The 33-year-old created the video to debut at a leaders conference at Watermark Church in Dallas, Texas, in hopes that it would to break down barriers between the generations.
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"As I stood before over 750 church leaders from all over the world at this conference, I knew we needed to get every elephant in the room out of the way so we could focus on living beyond the labels and link arms as one Body."
https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-singer-micah-tyler-break-stereotypes-viral-video-youve-gotta-love-millennials-163455/And what is the Watermark Church like?
While the elders and leadership of Watermark hold to the full doctrinal statement, we understand that there is room for differing interpretations in what we consider the “non-essentials.” Consequently, it is possible to become a member of Watermark even though you may not agree with the full doctrinal statement. Every member, however, is required to agree with Watermark's seven essentials:
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We believe God created mankind in His image, forming each person in the womb from conception (Psalm 139:13-16; Isaiah 44:2, 49:5; Jeremiah 1:4-5) until the point of death when they breathe their last (Genesis 25:8; Luke 23:46); and assigning gender to His people, male (man) and female (woman), as He created them sexually and biologically different, but with equal personal dignity and value (Genesis 1:26-28).
We believe that God ordained marriage as a lifelong union between one man and one woman (Genesis 2:18; Matthew 19:4-9; Ephesians 5:31-33). Those who accept and live within God’s design for sex, biological gender and marriage experience the blessing of His good design (Psalm 1:1-3, 128:1-4), and decisions to change, alter or modify God’s will in marriage, sex or gender are part of man’s brokenness and lead to despair. (Romans 1:21-22; James 1:13-15).
http://www.watermark.org/about/beliefsThat's in their shortened, "must-believe" section, the rest of which is about God and other theological matters. But the 'Man' section, although lacking anything basic like "love your neighbour", is anti-abortion and anti-LGBT. That's their basic message on humanity.
What does that mean in practice?
A viral storm has erupted around a Richardson man in the last few days. On Facebook, he posted a letter from Watermark, an evangelical church in Dallas. It said his membership was revoked. The reason: He’s gay and in a relationship.
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And that’s what he tried to do. He attended a church 12-step program, he went to a local conversion ministry, he prayed desperately to wake up one day and feel different. He never did.
“At some point I realized that people don’t change, you can’t convert from gay to straight," he says. "So when I realized that, I decided I’d be single for the rest of my life.”
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Eventually, Thomas started a relationship with another man. When he refused to break if off, the church removed him from membership.
http://keranews.org/post/my-faith-shattered-viral-letter-watermark-church-revokes-gay-man-s-membershipSo that's what the video was designed to do - get the kind of people who belong to that kind of church to say "hey, some millennials think like us after all!"
So, again: Fuck It.
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