INTRODUCTION
When America was founded, the main
outlook on life, held by just about everyone, was the
Judeo-Christian world view.
Today, that is not the case! The ‘freedoms’ that
were pioneered by the Baby Boomers in the Sixties have increasingly
become mainstream in this Third Millennium and have pushed back the
Christian world view into the ideological backwaters of our culture.
DISSOLVING BORDERS
The current ‘diversity’ of views fits into the relativism that
tends to rule today.
This is a very dangerous threat to the future of America, one of the
last bastions of sovereignty in a world of dissolving borders and
increasing globalism.
The problem is just as serious in the church, with
the majority of professing Christians not able to understand or adhere
to a pure Christian world view. When the church begins to become
more like the world, the world loses interest in the message of Christ.
OUT OF THIS WORLD
Jesus told Pontius Pilate that His Kingdom was
'not of this world...' (John 18:36). He also told His disciples that the
Kingdom was within (Luke 17:21). However, when He instructed His
followers to pray, He exhorted them to pray '...Your Kingdom come, Your
will be done on earth as it is in Heaven' (Matthew 6:10).
Christ left us as His representatives to enforce
the victory that He had already won through His death and resurrection.
Although His Kingdom is not of this world, He wants it to come to this
world! When the Father's will is done on the earth, the Kingdom is
indeed established and Heaven begins to come down and invade the
darkness with the salt and light of God.
THE THEOLOGY OF MODERNITY
For the Church, a compromised world view means our
salt and light loses its integrity. I long for the day when the American
Church will return to its roots and put off the theology of modernity
that has crept in and watered down our message. That message is eternal
and uncompromising! How long can we rely on God's grace towards this
nation. For a few righteous, He might spare this nation for a time... but
for how long?
Let
us pray that each one of us can have the courage to re-evaluate our basic
world view to see if it needs to be adjusted according to scriptural
standards and not bow down to the ways of the world!
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