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CHRISTIANS: DON'T ISOLATE, INFILTRATE!

Exclusive: Greg Laurie asserts, 'The world needs light because it is getting darker'

Is it possible that the best days for America are in our future and not just a part of our past? 

Is it possible for our country to make a change? 

I believe it is possible, because the Bible says that with God all things are possible (see Mark 10:27).

I have traveled around the world quite a bit, and I still believe that the United States of America is the greatest country on the face of the earth. 

Although we have our flaws and weaknesses, I still believe this to be true.

Our country, however, is facing a spiritual and moral crisis right now. 

The family is under attack as never before. Politically correct speech reigns. 

If you dare to say what the Bible teaches, you are branded a bigot and accused of hate speech.

This attack on the family is critical. 

Why? 

Because you can take almost every social ill in the nation today and directly trace it to the breakdown of the family and, specifically, to the absence of the father in the home. 

We tamper with God’s order at our own peril.

Abroad we are facing problems as well. 

To name a few, the war on terrorism isn’t over, and we have the powder kegs called Iran and North Korea.

I believe we have two options before us as a nation today: Judgment or revival. 

Judgment is coming to the United States of America and to every nation, because according to Bible prophecy, a time of tribulation will come upon the earth. 

We also know there will be an Antichrist.

We know that all of this is in our future, but we don’t know when. 

So I’m praying that before that time comes, we will have at least one more Great Spiritual Awakening in the United States.

Peter Marshall, former chaplain of the United States Senate, once made this statement: 

“The choice before us is plain: 

Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.” How true that is.

Are we to just throw up our hands, then, and say there is nothing we can do? 

Can we really make a difference? 

I believe we can.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus told us how to live as Christians in our culture. He said, 

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? … You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden” (Matthew 5:13–14 NIV).

Why did Jesus choose the word pictures of salt and light? 

Because the world is dark, and the world is corrupt. 

The world needs light because it is getting darker. 

And the world needs salt, a preservative, because it is corrupt.

The biblical worldview of our culture is that it will continue to grow darker. 

By its very nature, it cannot get anything but worse.

The Bible says that in the last days, 

“evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13 NIV).

Any person who knows human history and thinks that humanity is evolving upward is deceiving themselves.

That is because there’s no inherent goodness in humanity to build on. 

We have increased in scientific, medical, historical, educational, psychological and technological knowledge to an astounding degree. 

But we have not changed our own basic nature.

Our confidence has increased, but our peace of mind has diminished. Our accomplishments have increased, but our purpose has all but disappeared.

In an Armistice Day speech in 1948, Gen. Omar Bradley said, 

“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. 

… The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. 

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.”

So instead of making things better, we have only made things worse. 

Modern humanity has just come up with new ways to destroy itself. 

We go from war to greater war, from crime to greater crime and from perversion to greater perversion. 

The spiral is downward, not upward.

As a result, some Christians just want to withdraw. 

They say, 

“There’s nothing we can do. 

The world is going to hell in a handbasket.” 

So they want to simply evade the culture.

Yet that is virtually impossible. 

You can try to remove yourself and your family from this culture, but know this: the culture will find you. 

Jesus has not called Christians to isolate; he has called them to infiltrate. 

Our job is to permeate, to saturate. 

We are not to evade but to invade. 

We are to impact our culture without being compromised by it.

That is a difficult balance, of course. 

The apostle Paul dealt with this very clearly when he wrote to the church in Corinth: 

“I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people – not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world” (1 Corinthians 5:9–10 NIV).

So what should Christians do?

We need to stand for truth whether it is popular or not. 

This is a nonnegotiable. 

We stand on what the Bible says on every topic. 

There is no wavering here. 

We believe all of the Bible is the word of God. 

We stand on what the Scriptures say.

This is not a time to apologize. 

It is a time to be an apologist and give a defense for our faith.

This is not a time to back down. 

It is a time to step up, to be counted, to be bold and strong.

This is not a time to retreat. 

It is a time to advance.

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