Life in America has changed. It’s not the same “happy days” environment we once lived in where children were safe in school, where Moms took care of a household, where Dad’s came home and played with the kids, and where almost everyone you knew went to Church on Sundays and had big family dinners in the afternoon.
Twenty-first Century America is different. Police patrol the schools but no one is safe in spite of their presence. Most Moms work outside the home and don’t have time to do the little things that once made a house a home. Most Dads are locked into the corporate trap of 40 hours of pay for 60 hours of work and are too tired to play with the kids when they finally get home. And how many of your neighbors actually show up at Church anymore? It’s just not politically correct any more.
So what do we do? Can we complain and hope this rampant apathy will go away? Nope. It will never go away. It will only get worse. America has lost a generation of Christians thanks, in part to the methodical elimination of Belief and Faith in God from our classrooms.
The Church has to rise up again. We must remember who we are in Christ Jesus and do what it takes to get our own lives and our own families back on the right path…the Highway to Holiness. Belief in God isn’t everything; obedience is. Talking about being a Christian is just stupid. Start acting like one!
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I am not surprised that the world's authorities took the Bible from their schools. I am surprised that they permitted it for so long. Bibles out; scanners in in some places.
ReplyDeleteFrom the beginning of modern entertainment, the theme has been violence very frequently. Even Thomas Edison's movie was about a train robbery! What American culture has created and even exported! It still makes BIG money, sadly, even from churchgoers.
The saddest truth is that most often parents have abdicated their responsibility under God to rear their children in the admonition of the Word. Those we might term the "Daughters of Eve" have neglected the New Testament instruction for young mothers to be "keepers at home", as you pointed out. What did these mothers seek? They were tempted not merely by a piece of fruit, but rather by a larger house, a newer second car, fancier clothing, club memberships, etc.? These desires (greediness) are called idolatry in Colossians 3:5.
The Church should indeed rise up - by sitting down and paying attention to the third chapter of Paul's letter to the Colossians. It might be called a biblical examination of conscience.
The way to show love is to obey the One who is Love and who gave all for us sinners at GREAT price to Himself. How many of us really care? How many of us churchgoers are indiscernible from the unregenerate?