Folks, we Christians are not a peculiar people anymore. We are a Republican people. We hardly resemble the churches that Paul ministered to even as our society is increasingly resembling Rome. Can you imagine some of the members of the church at Rome saying....."We're going down to the big boat show at the coliseum on Dies Solis (Sunday).....come over to the house later for a party"?
I might turn on Christian television any time of the day and see thousands of Christians gathered in some beautiful hi-tech sanctuary listening to what can only be described as a Gnostic rendering of the Bible.
I know you have caught a glimpse of headlines of the surveys that are released often on what Americans believe about God but have you actually read the entire surveys and meditated on the findings? Can there possibly be more than 10% of the American public that are Christian?
Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism....from who knows what.....do you think the President is concerned one bit about that? And we don't care that he doesn't care. (we are still allowed to believe that Jesus is the only way...aren't way?) We like to think that Donald Trump banished forever Jezebel in Hillary Clinton but he may have actually brought that pagan idolatry into the White House in Ivana (Ivanka) Marie Kushner...Trump...whatever....and her husband.
We are becoming a cashless Christianity....so there is little to no cost of discipleship.....no more cost than being a Republican.....frowns....awkward conversations....maybe a few fractured friendships. Whereas the cost to a new believer....one who has actually been born again....might be their spouse threatening to leave them....with the kids....or it might be isolation. I'm referring to America here, for Christians in many other nations already know the true cost of discipleship. There is a winnowing coming to American Christianity where isolation may turn into condemnation and worse as we are increasingly being perceived as becoming divisive.....even unloving....with too much emphasis on being born again....and maybe even a threat to making America great again by not getting on board....no questions asked.... and following the political agenda.
We are under a delusion right now. If you are genuinely born again you will see it or eventually see it. It's difficult to identify.....it may even seem at first as an answer to prayer.....but there will come to appear to be something terribly wrong with it that only one of the redeemed will be able to spot. Many of those whom we would not expect....will fall as grain on the threshing floor along with the rest of us....and a winnowing will then take place....as many fervent church goers are blown away by the wind or sifted in their Laodicean ignorance. May God....if it be His will....and if it be alone to His glory.....increase the harvest....even overflow the storehouse....enough so that grace and mercy might be bestowed on America in these difficult days ahead.
I might turn on Christian television any time of the day and see thousands of Christians gathered in some beautiful hi-tech sanctuary listening to what can only be described as a Gnostic rendering of the Bible.
I know you have caught a glimpse of headlines of the surveys that are released often on what Americans believe about God but have you actually read the entire surveys and meditated on the findings? Can there possibly be more than 10% of the American public that are Christian?
Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism....from who knows what.....do you think the President is concerned one bit about that? And we don't care that he doesn't care. (we are still allowed to believe that Jesus is the only way...aren't way?) We like to think that Donald Trump banished forever Jezebel in Hillary Clinton but he may have actually brought that pagan idolatry into the White House in Ivana (Ivanka) Marie Kushner...Trump...whatever....and her husband.
We are becoming a cashless Christianity....so there is little to no cost of discipleship.....no more cost than being a Republican.....frowns....awkward conversations....maybe a few fractured friendships. Whereas the cost to a new believer....one who has actually been born again....might be their spouse threatening to leave them....with the kids....or it might be isolation. I'm referring to America here, for Christians in many other nations already know the true cost of discipleship. There is a winnowing coming to American Christianity where isolation may turn into condemnation and worse as we are increasingly being perceived as becoming divisive.....even unloving....with too much emphasis on being born again....and maybe even a threat to making America great again by not getting on board....no questions asked.... and following the political agenda.
We are under a delusion right now. If you are genuinely born again you will see it or eventually see it. It's difficult to identify.....it may even seem at first as an answer to prayer.....but there will come to appear to be something terribly wrong with it that only one of the redeemed will be able to spot. Many of those whom we would not expect....will fall as grain on the threshing floor along with the rest of us....and a winnowing will then take place....as many fervent church goers are blown away by the wind or sifted in their Laodicean ignorance. May God....if it be His will....and if it be alone to His glory.....increase the harvest....even overflow the storehouse....enough so that grace and mercy might be bestowed on America in these difficult days ahead.
