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When I tell professing Christians that politics isn't the venue for the Lord's work, I'm often ridiculed as unpatriotic and anti-Christian.
If the apostle Paul lived in America today, he'd be criticized as well because he taught that the Great Commission of Jesus Christ (Matthew 28 16:20) wasn't to be promoted through politics or through any human endeavor. Here's what Paul wrote: "No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer. Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor’s crown except by competing according to the rules." (2 Timothy 2:4-5)
When the Christian church in America tries to advance the Gospel through the ballot box, it doesn't compete according to God's rules. Too many Christians believe that if they can just elect the right political candidates, then the rising tide of violence and moral decay in America will begin to recede.
But that's a wrong and dangerous assumption. Why? Because politicians these days too often are a mirror reflection of the debased culture they come from.
To wit; corrupt political leaders such as Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi etc. are the products of a godless, post-Christian generation that's turned its back on God and thumbed its nose at His laws and commandments.
These folks are either atheists or agnostics who masquerade as Christians for political purposes. But they aren't Christians. And they never were.
And there are millions of people just like them who see no evil in lying or deceiving folks to get whatever they want. They are truly a generation that doesn't fear God and believes that the end always justifies the means.
And there are millions of people just like them who see no evil in lying or deceiving folks to get whatever they want. They are truly a generation that doesn't fear God and believes that the end always justifies the means.
You can't transform that kind of moral corruption at the ballot box because too much of America has become morally rotten to the core. If you want to elect upstanding moral leaders who fear God and shun evil, then you've got to change the culture.
And the Christian church lost that culture a long time ago. How long ago? The Christian church in America began to lose the culture back in the 19th century when it corporately decided that the Bible was no longer sacred and inspired by God.
Instead, the church turned to the godless theories of Darwin, Marx, Engels, Robespierre, Rousseau, Freud, Jung, Maslow etc. to empty the cross of its power and lower Christianity to just another cultural religious expression.
Millions of children throughout the western world were indoctrinated into Darwin's atheistic theory of evolution that claimed that life originated in a prehistoric mud pond through random chemical processes.
With God relegated to myth status, those children grew into adults who passed that same poison on to their children. And when those children became adults, they repeated the process.
As a result, many people who claim to be Christians today do so merely for cultural reasons. Not all Christians--but too many of them. And that sad fact is born out in their worldview that is virtually indistinguishable from secular folks.
Certainly, it's taken along time for America to slide into the moral abyss. Back in 1980, many Americans recognized the danger in the feckless, Marxist policies of President Jimmy Carter, and they voted him out of office after only one term.
They replaced him with a conservative Christian named Ronald Reagan who undid the damage to their nation that Carter had inflicted upon America during the four previous years.
But that was 1980. In 2012, America chose to reelect a far worse president in Barack Obama. That proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that America is no longer a nation influenced by Judeo-Christian mores.
America has become a pagan nation that celebrates murder, violence and depravity. And Americans love to elect leaders who reflect that moral bankruptcy.
And so American Christians: If you want to recapture the culture, then turn off your TV's; get off of your couches; put away your smart-phones; get out of your churches and start contending for the faith once again (Jude 1:3).
And contending for the faith begins on the street and not at the ballot box.
Instead, the church turned to the godless theories of Darwin, Marx, Engels, Robespierre, Rousseau, Freud, Jung, Maslow etc. to empty the cross of its power and lower Christianity to just another cultural religious expression.
Millions of children throughout the western world were indoctrinated into Darwin's atheistic theory of evolution that claimed that life originated in a prehistoric mud pond through random chemical processes.
With God relegated to myth status, those children grew into adults who passed that same poison on to their children. And when those children became adults, they repeated the process.
As a result, many people who claim to be Christians today do so merely for cultural reasons. Not all Christians--but too many of them. And that sad fact is born out in their worldview that is virtually indistinguishable from secular folks.
Certainly, it's taken along time for America to slide into the moral abyss. Back in 1980, many Americans recognized the danger in the feckless, Marxist policies of President Jimmy Carter, and they voted him out of office after only one term.
They replaced him with a conservative Christian named Ronald Reagan who undid the damage to their nation that Carter had inflicted upon America during the four previous years.
But that was 1980. In 2012, America chose to reelect a far worse president in Barack Obama. That proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that America is no longer a nation influenced by Judeo-Christian mores.
America has become a pagan nation that celebrates murder, violence and depravity. And Americans love to elect leaders who reflect that moral bankruptcy.
And so American Christians: If you want to recapture the culture, then turn off your TV's; get off of your couches; put away your smart-phones; get out of your churches and start contending for the faith once again (Jude 1:3).
And contending for the faith begins on the street and not at the ballot box.
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