The Post-Christian America

Is this America's future?

Though many folks still consider the United States to be the most Christian nation on earth, America is about as Christian these days as Saudi Arabia is Hindu.

Oh sure. There are still thousands of churches across America. And several do an admirable job of preaching the biblical gospel and bringing souls into Christ's kingdom. But not nearly enough.

However, there are too many churches located in America's inner cities that share their turf with alcoholics, drug addicts, pimps, prostitutes and violent, heavily armed gangbangers. 

Many--but not all--of these churches are led by ministers who've sold out Christ for the impotent social gospel that seeks to attain salvation via Big Government and its assortment of sugar daddy entitlements.

Not surprisingly, absent the biblical gospel and its corollary of moral accountability to a Holy God, crime, violence, poverty and moral decadence prevail in those areas where the social gospel is preached. 

Where is the most crime? In America's inner cities. Where is the most moral depravity? In America's inner cities. Where are the most abortion clinics? In America's inner cities. You don't have to be an astrophysicist to see the correlation here. Rather, all you have to do is look.

And when you look at many of the churches that occupy some of America's leafy suburbs, you find the same moral decrepitude. I know a man who attends one of those big suburban mega-churches and finds his happiness down at Disney World in Orlando where he frolics with Mickey and Goofy during his vacation time.

I don't know whether Jesus would take his disciples down to Florida to party with Mickey and Goofy if they were sojourning in America today. More likely, they'd stop at a few diners and maybe peruse some book stores, but they'd stay out of the places where too many of America's soft and heavily compromised Christians spend too much time in.

As they say, people are like mirrors--they reflect who they admire and what they follow. It follows that if you follow costumed-cartoon characters who wander around overpriced amusement parks, you'll eventually begin to sound and even look like them.

Thus, if too many of today's American Christians sound and act like cartoon characters, or even clowns, that's because they're a reflection of whoever they're prostrating themselves before. 

It stands to reason, then, that if you're prostrating yourself before Christ, then you'll act and sound like Christ. The apostle Paul said it best: "Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." (Ephesians 5:1-2)

But how many Christians practice or even believe what Paul wrote 2,000 years ago? Or, how many Christians have even read that verse? Not many. 

However, don't worry. Where America's churches have checked out of, Islam checks in. Whether Islam is the fastest growing religion in America is debatable. 

But what's not debatable is the fact that Christianity in America is heading toward the exit. Since the early 1950s, America has lost over 25 million Christians and closed over 8,000 churches. And in the early 50s, America's population was less than half of what it is today. So America now has fewer churches and fewer Christians with more than twice the population.

That's not a recipe for survival. If the trend continues, Christianity in America will eventually resemble Christianity in Europe today--empty churches that serve as white elephant monuments to what Christianity once was.

And some of those vacant churches will become mosques just as some of those ornate synagogues that flourished in the first half of the previous century have now become mosques. And so, as the strong overtake the weak, they also impose their belief systems on the weak.

Is Christianity finished in America? A long as what remains of American Christendom continues its attempt to survive via the ballot box instead of changing the culture by fulfilling the Great Commission of Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:16-20), then America becomes Europe sooner rather than later.

If that happens then your Disney World experience may be a bit different with Snow White trudging about in a burqa and her seven dwarfs reciting the Shahada. Have a party and dance to that.