The Church's Score: -10
LGBT ACTIVISTS:
Supreme Court gives a boost to Gay Rights
This
may sound really odd coming from me, but I'm having a good laugh right
now. I saw all of this coming years ago. I have a love/hate
relationship with being right. I'm human so I love being proved right,
I've been telling Christians for years and years now, "God isn't in what
you've been doing in the past. You're going to have to change." The
truth is the Church doesn't have to change at all, and that is the part
about being right that I hate. I knew Christian's attitudes and
behaviors were all wrong, but I also knew that the more firmly
entrenched Christians became in their positions, the harder it would be
to dig out. The Right condemns sin and sinner alike. The Left turns a
blind eye to sin, and simply swallows it whole. And today we have the
fence sitting Christian who has no strong opinion either way. No one
can find the way through. No one can find the way, because no one wants
to do things God's way.
Somewhere
along the way Christianity became grounded in the world. Instead of
God calling the shots directly someone decided if we hated something,
and God loved us, then God must hate what we hate. Then came the next
leap in logic:
"If
I can make an argument for God hating something, but that God loves me,
then I can make the argument that God will bless whatever I do against
what we both hate."
The
Bible, of course, goes completely against any argument that if God
loves me, and we both hate sin, that God will bless whatever I want to
do against sin. The message of the Bible is that Jesus is God's answer
to all sin problems, and Jesus also presents to us the way Father
desires to deal with a sinful world and it's sin. Thus we have many
approaches to a sin problem, but the Church is failing miserably because
the Church will not obey God. In the process of attempting to use the
same means a very sinful world uses the Church has changed nothing, but,
ironically, Herself. The Church hasn't allowed God to overcome the
world's sin and brokenness, but they have become as impotent as the
world at dealing with beliefs and behaviors which deal death and
damnation to themselves. Instead of leading a broken humanity lost to
sin, to a new hope, peace, and eternal life, the Church is in the throws
of her own identity crisis. And since the Church has sold out so much
to a worldly way of doing, they've lost how to work with God toward his
eternal goals.
Am
I now giving over to complete and total pessimism? No. If the Church
will repent, and Christians will deny themselves their ways of being and
doing, as Christ commands, then everything will change for the Church.
Not much will change in the society around us, the hope for a positive
impact on the culture's conscience is a train which left the station
long long ago. The road for the Church is going to be a much harder
one, than we'd have had if we'd repented and turned back to obeying and
following God's ways.
So
Christians you have choice to make. Were I a betting man, and I'm not,
I'd bet against Christians doing the right thing. Once you start doing
the wrong thing doing the right thing gets harder and harder. The
Church has been doing the wrong thing for a long time, but that isn't
the problem. The problem is Christians have found it easier to settle
for a great deal less than God's best, and keep hobbling along without
change. It's sin of settling for less that's the real problem.
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