Christian Living

---

There have been some shocking changes in our Country, especially over the past few years. To those of maturing years, it has left them in a state of bewilderment and confusion. Political decisions have carried much of our Country into schisms and camps of opinionated philosophies. Instead of being a Country with common goals and objectives, we have become a melting pot of concoctions that has defined a Nation destined to self ideologies. The United States is a land of equal opportunities, but not all opportunities have the equal goal of bettering our society. Freedom without morals and ethics becomes grounds for a godless society. Whenever a country forgets its heritage and ignores its roots, it is on its way to extinction. The United States is only an infant compared to civilizations that have been around for multi-centuries, yet we display arrogance and self-promoted pride that we are the living example of the perfect society. In spite of the status and the direction our Country is taking, I still love America and would not want to live anywhere else in the world, but to see what is happening to Her is heart wrenching.

It is not only the leaks in the Constitutional foundation of the United States that trouble me, but it is also the cracks in the Biblical foundation of the Church. It seems the Church is paralleling the direction of our Country. The Bible is being tampered with to make it more relevant to an every changing society. Christians are challenging the intent of the Scripture. They believe our “founding fathers” (Biblical authors) intended to convey a different message than what has been thought for years. The acceptance of same sex “marriages” has and is being endorsed by a number of main line denominations. One denomination, by majority vote in their annual meeting, declared that same gender “marriage” ceremonies could be conducted in the church. Another denomination voted to leave it up individual pastors to determine whether or not to join same sex individuals in their church.

It is not a question of denying a persons identity or personal freedom to chose their own direction, but the issue is do they have the right to make the Word of God irrelevant by their own actions? What it comes down to is our understanding of the Bible. Is it the Word of God or not? God meant what He said and said what He meant. There is no wiggle room for opinionating and redefining what He said, when through the Holy Spirit men wrote as instruments at God’s direction. (II Peter 1:21)

If a denomination chooses to disregard its Biblical foundation, it needs to take the name “church” from its identity. The founding fathers of certain denominational churches would “roll over in their graves” if they saw what was happening to the church which God directed them to start. Denominationalism is not a divergence from the unification of the Body of Christ, but each has a direction that will compliment each other in a common goal. (I Corinthians 12:5) Some bring the lost into the fold. Some nurture them in the basics of the faith. Some reach out to the struggling, while others establish personal foundations. Some are world-wide mission orientated, while another is community orientated. All in all, they have the same objective: to bring glory and honor to God, and that is being unified together in Christ. We are one in Christ, but when part of the church is acting more like the world and questions God’s intended Word, then only the remnant will survive. The United States and the Church are on a dangerous course. When you take God out of the country and the Bible out of the Church, you have a nation moving toward extinction and a church that loses its identity as the Body of Christ. “EVEN SO, COME, LORD JESUS” (Revelation 22:20)

---

PLEASE ENCOURAGE AUTHOR BELOW LEAVE COMMENT ON ARTICLE AS A MEMBER OR VISITOR