FAILED FAITHFULNESS - WND
IS THIS WHAT THE END OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE LOOKS LIKE?
Exclusive: Craige McMillan traces Christian institution's journey into 'obscurity'
A recent poll indicates that by a 53/42 majority homosexuals are better regarded than evangelical Christians among a key portion of the electorate. This is all the more remarkable when one considers that homosexuals make up somewhere between 2 and 3 percent of the population.
Certainly,
this is a staggering accomplishment by homosexual activists, who
infiltrated so many of the leading-edge cultural institutions over
the years, labored in the closet so-to-speak and have now come out
openly in so many areas of society.
It also represents a staggering failure of the American Christian church to sit on both sides of the fence without being impaled by that position.
The
mainline protestant churches ran around like spiritual Chicken
Littles, loudly proclaiming, “God loves everybody! Come and worship
your deity of choice with us!”
The
evangelicals were more circumspect, proclaiming that “God loves the
sinner, but hates the sin.”
Yet
it is the Catholic Church that bears the scars of its clandestine
affair with homosexuality in the priesthood, both its lost
credibility and its financial well-being. It stands before us as a
silent witness.
The
Christian church (in all its separate splinters) has been
shell-shocked from its unwitting involvement in the culture wars. In
this condition it has largely retreated inside of itself. This makes
it an easy target for both Satan and the world.
God,
of course, is not the Christian church. God is who he is, and he does
what he does. He created the church against unspeakable odds during
the Roman empire. It grew upon the blood of its martyrs. The church
prevailed and became Western civilization, with its blessings of
individual freedom and accountable government, because to God
unspeakable odds are meaningless.
So
when the church’s mission has been completed, it would only make
sense for it to fade into the background. God loves it no less for
its failure. But what, then, lies ahead?
As
so often happens in life, victory is not always what it appears. The
church’s journey into cultural obscurity has not brought about the
secular nirvana the anti-Christians were praying for.
Rather,
wealth and power have been consolidated among a corrupt corporate and
political elite. The middle class is being ground down into the dust
of economic oblivion, under a government machine that grows without
end. The welfare rolls increase unceasingly. In most major cities,
public education is a sick, self-serving activity targeting the
underclass for attendance but being played out against the taxpayers
via the powerful teachers’ unions.
Crime
syndicates offer the best employment opportunities for “youth” in
the major cities. Corporate chieftains clamor for ever more overseas
workers to be brought into the country to address the skills shortage
and keep wages down. Medical patients are now trying to deal with a
medical system rapidly becoming comatose from the bureaucratic
“healing” delivered by a corrupt, paid-off Congress and
power-hungry executive.
All
these things the Christian church at one time in its past spoke
forcefully against. As its voice in the culture is silenced, the law
has attempted to replace it. More laws, more agency regulations, more
bureaucracy to enforce them, more police to intimidate or arrest
offenders and confiscate their property. More courts, jails, judges
and prisons. But at least those pesky, moralizing Christians no
longer bother us with their hateful speech.
And
so it goes. Yet another culture falls into the classic yet fatal
mistake of believing that power will not quickly expand to fill a
vacuum.
The
church has failed. The culture has failed. But God is who he is, and
he does what he does. The stage is being set now for the final act.
Armageddon
Story. Reconnaissance
is only the first step.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/is-this-what-the-end-of-christian-culture-looks-like/#2yh2IhGhiXcyzaTz.99
My
comments: Christ Jesus said: “I AM the Way and the Truth and
the LIFE. (John 14:6) There is no other Way to live successfully in
this life, no other Truth in this life and no other LIFE in this
life. All else is DEATH and of the Devil. What has happened in
America proves what Christ Jesus spoke. What does the future hold?
Exactly what Scripture has foretold.
Yet, in the midst of all the corruption inside and outside the Church, there is a body of believers who upheld the Faith that Christ Jesus imparted to them. And they will share Eternity with Him.
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