We live in a broken world should be obvious to anyone. That our fallen world needs changing is beyond question. When our newspapers and films glamourise immorality, undermine traditional family values and encourage selfishness, greed and lust; when criminals escape justice by legal technicalities; when half the world suffers under totalitarian dictatorships and persecution; when pornography, perversion, abortions, terrorism and the occult are increasing – then we must know that this is a broken world that needs to be changed.
But most Christians have abandoned their moral responsibility to bring the Light of the Gospel into heathen darkness. Many Christians are allowing their own children to be brought up by godless humanism in state schools and entertained by occultism and pagan magic through Hollywood films and television.
There are many anti-Christian forces seeking to undermine and destroy the Christian Faith, including persecution by Muslim and Marxist dictatorships, secular humanist domination of educational institutions, brain washing by the Hollywood entertainment industry, rearranging of reality through secular humanist news media, and even false Gospels and un-Biblical heresies within many theological seminaries, and all too many churches.
We have allowed ourselves to become misinformed, brainwashed and intimidated into feeling guilty for the great achievements of Christian missionaries and Reformers over the past centuries. Christians who are ignorant of history have ended up apologising for those faithful Christians who converted cannibals, ended inter-tribal genocide, abolished child sacrifices, eradicated widow burning, defeated witchcraft and won whole nations to Christ.
Many Christians today have surrendered to the forces of darkness, entered into negotiations and cooperation with idolaters, removed “offensive” Bible passages from their preaching, and lowered standards to allow the unconverted easy access to the church.
In the past the church went out to conquer the world for Christ. Today, in all too many churches, Christ is being sold for thirty pieces of silver, or less. Instead of the church changing the world, in all too many cases the world is changing the church.
For decades now, many Christians in the West have been turning away from the God-oriented, Bible-based, Christ-centred foundations of the Reformation. Instead, many Christians have been turning to the man-centred humanism of the Renaissance, which has always inevitably led to the extremes of permissiveness or totalitarianism, as seen in the French Revolution and the Soviet Revolution.
The results of this apostasy are plain to see in the abortion holocaust, the pornography industry, the AIDS plague, the political protection of perversions and the drug epidemic.
The results of abandoning God’s eternal standards as revealed in the Word of God are: families that fail to nurture, governments that fail to provide security for their citizens, courts that fail to punish the guilty, schools that fail to educate, and churches that fail to be houses of prayer for all nations, making disciples and teaching obedience to all things that the Lord has commanded.
We live in an age of guilt manipulation when all too many Christians are being prepared for slavery by the abuse of Scripture and by the manipulation of our emotions.
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