Apathy, lack of righteous living by believers and non-believers, lack of fasting and prayer. Also, we like to have our comforts and leisure time separate from everything else, so we tend to take care of the self life, and let the other go to Hell. A sense of giving up, nothing seems to help...all these are where we are at, especially Christians. When you cannot get 10 people on free republic to join with you any longer in prayer, it is a symptom that the spread of decay is greater than we thought.
We’ve had dozens of judgments from God in localities all over the country, but even though churches respond, there is no repentance, no turning to God for help. We’ve become dependent on government.
I don’t expect revival any longer. What I see is rampant and gross sin. The church is responding wrong, for the most part. Instead of holding the line of Truth, we are getting on board to tolerate it, we are giving credence to it. Speaking the Truth in love is distorted into showing tolerance for the sin instead of pointing the sinner to the Truth in love. Some are, of course, but they are few and far between. Then you have the ones who condemn openly and get in the sinners’ faces as if that was going to help. Where are the weeping prayer vigils where the lost are lifted up before God and prayed for? Where is the fasting and the turning away from our own habitual sin to make our hearts right before God?
This is why nothing is happening and politics will NOT save us. I don’t care who gets elected, because without God, we cannot be saved from the mess we are in. PERIOD!
Good post. But Republican or Democrat, today’s God is Money.