From the heart of the
pastor:
Troublers address issues
with the temperament that those they address are
purposed to remain unpersuaded by the clear evidence
of the gospel because they are content to rest in
the continuing failure of the status quo, though God
says, “Woe to those who are at ease in Zion” (Am.
6:1). Troublers are not opposed to crying out in the
wilderness because none are listening. Troublers are
as an attorney with but one Client.
Look with vital yet
piercingly searching eyes at governmental and
institutional America, because Christians in those
spheres are at best blind and at worse knowingly
looking the other way from God’s truth. The majority
opinion is consistently out of balance and out of
favor with God’s word. Western licentiousness
masquerades as liberty (Jude 4). Christians should
have no patience and zero tolerance for biblical
intolerables. Modern Christianity is as far from
biblical Christianity as the seed of the serpent is
from the Seed of the woman.
Until saints begin to
touch the pupil of Christianity, they shall continue
to fail in their pursuit of Christianizing the
society God entrusts to the godly. The holy ones of
God must have a battle in order to win a war, but
then they must engage in that battle. If Christians
continue (in Laodicean fashion) to withdraw from the
conflict between righteousness and unrighteousness,
the societal plummet from Christian ambience shall
escalate at light speed toward a damning medieval
darkness.
As sons of the Fall,
Christians understand fallen reasoning because for
too long they were its practitioners and
encouragers. The arrogance of a culture that
feels rather than thinks is contributing
to cursed selfish indulgences that affect corporate
America in every aspect of its development. The
services westerners are rendering and the products
they are producing are of inferior performance and
grade because the producers have forfeited the
concepts of integrity, goodness, rightness, honor,
justness and equity. This land is no longer able to
endure the words of the Lord because the truth of
God shames this land.
Lives have become
eviscerated of content because people have become
mere commodities driven by and into economic
slavery. People exist to make a living rather than
living to embrace eternal life. Their focus upon
financial benefits rather than cultural values is
resulting in a sacrifice of genuinely living for
good and instead living as dogs chasing vehicles
that they cannot catch and would not want to catch
if they knew the eternal consequences. The time has
come for you and those you love to cease the
forfeiture of the Christian legacy handed down by
the prophets, apostles and martyrs throughout the
ages.
Non-conformity is God’s
way for Christians to bear witness to God’s glory.
Non-conformity is always inconvenient because it
demands indefatigable effort. Obedience is abrasive,
expensive, scorned and yet meritorious.
Have you placed your
life under the authority of Scripture? If so, why do
you continue to live as though certain areas or
arenas of your involvement are demilitarized zones
to the extent that you leave your Christianity out
of that zone of influence because manifesting your
Christianity could cause militarized engagement?
What would be the advantage to you and the
generations following you for you to place forth the
effort to develop a distinctively Christian
society?
SOLI DEO GLORIA!
