I would think very few would disagree with your statement. We no longer honor God so he no longer blesses us.
A scripture came to me about this time.
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
--2 Thess. 2:9-12
“What have we come to?”
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Faith without works is dead?
Many churches build bigger and better and many people who faithfully attend those churches don’t always seem that inviting. Christianity isn’t growing strongly here in the US, at least not as it is in other places where those people really pay a price for their faith.
Maybe we have become lazy, pampered Christians and we don’t show a very inviting picture to those we need to bring to our Lord? We can have perfect faith but if we are not bringing others in, it doesn’t help much? I don’t know but I do agree, God has been missing from the equation.
Maybe if we worked as hard at being fisherman of men as we are at trying to bring in the votes for an election?
Absolutely agree with you. The problem is spiritual. The nation has been in open and proud defiance of the Holy God of the Bible. We don’t know His timing but we do know He will not be mocked. We need to be on our knees individually and collectively, in repentance for the sin we have committed against Him. The slaughter of the unborn, the glorification of perverted sex, both in utter defiance of his Word and the teachings of His Son, Jesus Christ. Much more sin, including the idolatry we have for sports, entertainment, etc., things that are fine maybe when kept in perspective, but become idolatrous for us when we invest so much time and attention in them, more than we do into our personal relationships with God Himself. Even we (all of us being sinners) who maybe haven’t been directly involved in a specific abomination such as abortion or homosexuality have been guilty at one time or another of enabling it by our silence, worried more about being popular with man than pleasing to God. (Please do remember, for those who have been involved in such sin, that - as in the case of all we sinners - forgiveness is available through Jesus Christ) Repentance must begin among we believers in Jesus Christ, and it must begin now, beginning with each of us individually. And, we must be open to the leading of God’s Holy Spirit, as to how we be used in the advancement of His Kingdom. I pray for God to help us, for the sake of our children and their families, for our own sake, but moreso, for His Honor and Glory.
I totally disagree with your statement.
Putting same-sex marriage, abortion on demand and destroying the economy with reckless spending on the same level is misguided. One - reckless spending - must be controlled by rule of law because it affects everyone equally. The other two must be governed by personal preference because they do not affect everyone equally. To give the government incursion into marriage and reproduction is to give it incursion into every aspect of life. That is not constitutional.
Yes, unless we repent and then CHANGE OUR WAYS, nothing will get better, only worse!
55 MILLION DEAD BABIES aren't enough!! Majority of women today are BLOOD THIRSTY...they want MORE and more DEAD BABIES
The Gays want to finish us off....we are doomed.
Our problem is we let stupid people vote. Our problem is we let people who have a vested interest in expanding big government vote for more big government. At this point I don’t think the United States is fixable. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. You can’t take the vote back from the parasite class.
The mistake was giving it to them in the first place. In the beginning you had to have some measure of success, owning property, to vote. The rationale was those who have had some success in the country would vote to protect the country they succeeded in. When we abandoned that policy is when the decline started. In the end the United States will join two thousand years of failed democracies destroyed from within by the unwashed masses voting themselves ever more expensive “bread and circuses”.
While that has always been the case, today moreso than ever. Check out my profile page for more.
'For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and with their ears they can barely hear,
and their eyes they have closed,
lest they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart
and turn, and I would heal them.’
-- Matthew 13:15, cf Isaiah 29:10; Isaiah 44:18
Where I go to church here, our Rector is Chaplin to the police and our Deacon is the municipal court judge. Every week is a civics lesson or a lesson on how faith and community intersect.
Faith runs deep here -- when the town was laid out, all churches were on the same street a block off Main. The Bible was read in English class at the public school. Everyone knows everyone and charity, goodwill and love to the neighbor is real, but God's Word is being lost on some young people. I can't say I know anyone that would not cherish a baby, no matter how poor they were - they would find a way.
I've been praying for ways that I can be of use in ministry with Bible study and other spiritual programs like our Marriage Ministry Mentoring - aimed at young people who don't have a church.
These are things I can touch and make a difference. Everyone is in pretty much the same boat here, financially. Envy and materialism really doesn't exist. There are wayward souls (my nephews included) that could benefit from knowing the Lord. I've been laying the ground work on social media (Facebook) where a lot of folks are connected.
A friend of mine back east said this morning that the USA is probably the most conservative nation on earth. 35% of the electorate identifies as such. We had exiting speakers at our convention and there were many more that didn't speak -- great faithful folks with great minds. Who spoke for the dems? Carter, Clinton and Fluke? Wasn't even close.
I'd say when we go insolvent as a nation and money loses it's value (a vastation) will we see an abandonment of materialism. For abortion -- move that to the states as same sex marriage is. Shrink federal govt and if a state wants to pick up a program, let them.