I’m starting here as a layman to address other laymen, as someone in the pews on Sunday and in the world Monday through Saturday: We (the body of Christ) are not pushing Christ as hard as the world is pushing anti-Christ.
That is a fact.
We avoid confrontation as a matter of principle, as a matter of “turning the other cheek”, as a matter of meekness, of gentleness, and of long suffering. But none of those fine qualities require conflict avoidance especially when conflict is necessary.
We are afraid, many of us, and it is okay to be afraid. It is not okay to run from the fight.
I’m not afraid. I’m angry. I am probably too eager for a fight. A lot of us are angry. But mad Christians are just as useless as cowardly Christians.
Lord, balance our emotions.
To my pastor friends:
I know you have incredibly difficult callings. I’ve read about the burnout rates among pastors. I have seen it personally. You are pressed. Your people don’t pray for you nearly enough.
You are in the Ark selling business. You are telling people and warning them about the judgement to come. You are in a dry land telling people about rain.
Your business is based in Babylon. Not Jerusalem. Nobody wants to hear about rain. Or boats. Or judgment. Everyone does what is right in their own eyes. And they don’t believe you have a right to tell them what is right.
The 6’3”, 250 pound, bearded man in a dress is a woman if he says so and you’d better call him “ma’am”. Or else.
Soon, the two men or two women, or two men and one woman who want to call themselves married will demand that you bless their unholy union in your church. Or else.
You didn’t go to seminary to be Davey Crockett at the Alamo. You don’t want to be a famous legal defendant with your last name as short hand for a Supreme Court ruling. But that hour is here. Your people don’t pray for you enough.
Jim Crow has put on a skirt and he’s Jane Crow now and we’d better get in line. We are second class citizens today in a country that has In God We Trust on its money. Many of you are confused and upset and out of step because you don’t understand in which god we trust or in whose god we trust. You still think it’s Jehovah. It’s not.
The new god in charge promises unlimited freedom, unlimited liberty to do whatever you want and be whatever you want.
Against that, we stand in our dwindling corner of the now digitized town square saying “No, you can’t.”
We talk about nature and what is natural to mankind. We talk about the creation and its Creator who lives outside of His creation but who acts within it and controls it. We tell people their ultimate freedom is found in worshiping that Creator. We tell them that what is good and what is true is defined by Him.
At the moment our countrymen are shutting us out. In short order they are going to shut us up.
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