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In Chicago, another typical Saturday night--six dead and 24 shot across what has become the most violent city in America.
From the Chicago Tribune: "More than two dozen people were shot Saturday afternoon into Father's Day
Sunday across the city, according to authorities. Of the 26 people shot, six died either at the crime scenes or at local
hospitals. The youngest was 16. One of the men killed was an armed man shot by police after he raised a 9-millimeter handgun in
their direction after bailing from a moving car, authorities said. The shootings stretched from 9400 S. Loomis Avenue on the South Side up to
about North Avenue and Pulaski in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood."http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-crime-shooting-gun-violence-marquette-park,0,2169540.story
While Chicago's stringent handgun control laws fail to stem the rising tide of violence on city streets, so have its churches failed to spread the influence of the Gospel in many of the neighborhoods where the shootings took place.
That's because--as in many cities throughout North America and in the western world--Christianity has become passe in Chicago--a dinosaur from what now seems like an ancient time.
And why is that? Because too many churches have failed to "contend for the faith" (Jude 1:3) as the apostle Jude warned the early church 2,000 years ago to never stop doing.
What does contending for the faith mean? It means that the church must continue to keep the faith relevant to the world by combating the lies of false religions and canards such as evolution that are promoted as "settled science."
False religions are dangerous because they promote counterfeit paths to eternal life never revealed in the Bible. But what makes evolution so extremely dangerous is that it denies God's existence and teaches that physical life occurred through random natural processes rather than by the hand of God.
If evolution is true--and it's not--then life has no meaning or intrinsic value. And a human being is no more sacred than an ant or a worm. Under this worldview, which has become the prevailing worldview in the western world, no one is held morally accountable to a holy God for their actions. Thus, death becomes meaningless and is viewed as the ultimate escape from an evil, violent world.
This is why the far left embraces Darwinian evolution and forces it down the throats of millions of children throughout the west. Because Darwinism offers the ultimate promise of a values-free world without moral accountability and God's subsequent judgment of those who profane his laws.
More than anything else, Christendom's failure to combat Darwinism has led to "the increase in wickedness" (Matthew 24:12) that Jesus Christ Himself prophesied would prevail throughout the world in the last days preceding His return.
And Christendom's failure to contend for the faith has made the faith irrelevant and obsolete to many young people who believe God to be an outdated myth.
That's tragic. That explains why so many churches are practically empty on Sundays. And that explains why so many violent gangbangers, drunks, drug addicts, prostitutes and pimps freely share the same turf with many of these churches.
While Chicago's stringent handgun control laws fail to stem the rising tide of violence on city streets, so have its churches failed to spread the influence of the Gospel in many of the neighborhoods where the shootings took place.
That's because--as in many cities throughout North America and in the western world--Christianity has become passe in Chicago--a dinosaur from what now seems like an ancient time.
And why is that? Because too many churches have failed to "contend for the faith" (Jude 1:3) as the apostle Jude warned the early church 2,000 years ago to never stop doing.
What does contending for the faith mean? It means that the church must continue to keep the faith relevant to the world by combating the lies of false religions and canards such as evolution that are promoted as "settled science."
False religions are dangerous because they promote counterfeit paths to eternal life never revealed in the Bible. But what makes evolution so extremely dangerous is that it denies God's existence and teaches that physical life occurred through random natural processes rather than by the hand of God.
If evolution is true--and it's not--then life has no meaning or intrinsic value. And a human being is no more sacred than an ant or a worm. Under this worldview, which has become the prevailing worldview in the western world, no one is held morally accountable to a holy God for their actions. Thus, death becomes meaningless and is viewed as the ultimate escape from an evil, violent world.
This is why the far left embraces Darwinian evolution and forces it down the throats of millions of children throughout the west. Because Darwinism offers the ultimate promise of a values-free world without moral accountability and God's subsequent judgment of those who profane his laws.
More than anything else, Christendom's failure to combat Darwinism has led to "the increase in wickedness" (Matthew 24:12) that Jesus Christ Himself prophesied would prevail throughout the world in the last days preceding His return.
And Christendom's failure to contend for the faith has made the faith irrelevant and obsolete to many young people who believe God to be an outdated myth.
That's tragic. That explains why so many churches are practically empty on Sundays. And that explains why so many violent gangbangers, drunks, drug addicts, prostitutes and pimps freely share the same turf with many of these churches.
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