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Can you be an effective Christian if you compromise?
By Dan Langerock
How do you judge what is right and wrong? Is the Bible your source? A moral code you have heard about or have made yourself? Does the code you use change with the circumstances of life as situations dictate?
If you are using the Bible as your guide, then compromise is not part of your vocabulary, or should not be. For instance, you will not find God differentiating between a white and any other kind of lie. A lie is a lie is a lie to God.
In the Ten Commandments, murder is one of those listed, but in the Gospel of Matthew Jesus brought up the fact that hating someone is also murder. God is trying to show us that it is not just the physical act that is wrong, but the attitude of the heart.
Mankind has created gray areas of moral code, but God does not see it that way. What was wrong several thousand years ago is still wrong today, no matter how you slice or name it. If you think back 40 years, you will remember behaviors that were considered wrong in society, yet today that are embraced. The Bible says, “There is no shadow of turning with God.” God is not ruled by what humans think. Therefore, if we call ourselves by His name, Christians, we must not be ruled by the shifting sands of public opinion of what is right or wrong. There is a time to tolerate and there is a time to stand up for what is right. God’s standard must be our standard if we are sincere in what we believe. Compromise is not found in God’s dictionary. Is it in yours?
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