This is difficult….typing a post on my iPhone….but it at least demonstrates how I really do not believe that we have much time left. I am sitting here with an elderly person…..taking care of their basic needs…..but watching them….literally watching them….waste their final opportunities…on things like daytime television….while it seems as if everyone else seems to think that this is just sweet! We live in different worlds….and I do not want to go back.

         We have in the church….lost….what it is to be….lost! What happened on the cross….is also lost to us. This life through which we pat ourselves on the back….is Laodicea. We think we are spiritually rich….but we are not.

          There is so much evidence that we have strayed from the evangel….that it is like an obstacle course….an obstacle course that we have become proficient….even professional….in swiftly and safely running through it.

        No one….most likely….is going to agree with me. All that I can add….is to keep the admonitions in mind…as the days pass….for in the confusion that is ahead….the answers will be in recognizing and then admitting to the mistakes that we made….in ignorance yes…. but also willfully….that will have brought all these disasters upon us.

Update....six hours later....and after a severe thunderstorm halted everyone in their tracks until it passed over: I will observe as major denominations hold yearly general assemblies....and this folks....literally decade after decade....where they do not address what the church needs to address...but rather play a little game of Robert's Rules of Order....and pastor after pastor....year and decade after year and decade....preach a lullaby from the pulpit! Why is this? Why have they so failed the sheep....to warn them or to protect them from the wolves that are everywhere? Whatever the answer to these questions....it will soon be moot. Maranatha....Lord Jesus come!