First you would have to kill God.
.....Yet in the southern nations, the Christian faith is growing. Look for the missionaries to head west from those countries.
Decades of re-education for millions of American children in government schools has taught them to worship Mammon and not God.
Which is, of course, the problem that besets us now and is bringing about our downfall.
Yes I know a person becomes a Christian by asking Jesus into their life, by personally thanking Him for dying on the Cross for their sins, turning from their sins, and that Salvation is a free gift of God.
By grace we are saved through faith and not of works lest any man should boast, I get great comfort from that.....
HOWEVER, we are also known by our fruits....if anybody tells you they are a pro choice Christian, or that they are a Christian Democrat or Liberal Christian, you know they are not Christian because those terms are oxymorons.
To vote Liberal/Democrat is to support abortion,gay marriage, and the removal of God/Christ from the classroom/public square
to vote liberal/Democrat is to harm a child
Actually, more and more fundamental churches are running into trouble with gay issues trying to insist on equal status. Many, many people have left those churches.
Instead, the evangelical churches are booming .. which the media never bothers to account for.
The other groups that have “left the church” are Catholic groups which became disenchanted over the scandal, and have not returned to church.
And, a lot of people are able to receive a church service right at home .. (especially from a church which is too far away for them to travel to once a week - or more).
I believe more Christians are praying than ever before, because Christians are not ready to surrender America to the wolves.
“The gates of hell” will not prevail against Christ’s Church. There will be a remnant of Christianity present when Jesus returns to judge mankind. Jesus does not make promises that He does not keep.
Liberals and towelheads are doing their best to eliminate it.
God is never impressed with numbers. He only wants those who really love Him and will follow Him.
Maybe the wheat and chaff are being separated??
A GREAT article by same author....
The Fruit of Liberalism
http://www.trevorgrantthomas.com/2014/04/the-fruit-of-liberalism.html
Is there anything that liberalism can’t corrupt? From the conscience to communities to corporations to families, churches, schools, and government, its destruction seems to know no bounds. Tragically, the evidence is all around us.
The “human family” is where liberalism has wrought the most destruction. Using legislation and the courts, liberal support of abortion, pornography, homosexuality, the welfare state, and a redefinition of marriage, has “succeeded” in wreaking great havoc with the institution upon which our whole culture rests.
Like the “Curley effect,” this social engineering has yielded significant political gains for democrats. For once the family is destroyed, where else but Big Government will tens-of-millions of Americans look for sustenance and salvation?
Once the Holy Spirit leaves, the physical husk withers and collapses. All the social programs and "good" intentions will not preserve them no matter how frantic the efforts of the unbelieving people who want to keep them going for their own purposes.
You can’t kill the Christian faith. Prosperity is not good for it though, and breeds complacency and apathy with many - but not strong believers.
Where the faith finds difficulty and persecution, it prospers and thrives.
Both would actually be good for the faith.........
Clarity to things come with the understanding that socialism is nothing more than an atheistic parody of Christianity, that dispenses with the idea of God, and puts mankind in His place, at the center of the universe, creator of all things.
Other than that, socialists love to try to co-opt The Bible, to scrub it of references to God, and pretend it is their book.
For their part, Christians fail terribly when they assume that because socialists preach similar means of behavior, that their ends must be similar as well. So Christians easily get caught up in the schemes of socialism.
For example, Christians imagine charity to the poor as being a righteous thing, and uplifting, that the poor might learn to improve their own lives and find righteousness themselves.
However, the socialist version of this is so vile that it seems imagined in Hell itself. For a socialist, charity is just a means by which the socialist can get power over others and money. It strongly opposes uplifting others, as it wants their dependence. Only in poverty and ignorance are the poor useful to socialists.
And the ends are repulsive as well. For once the socialist is in power and has wealth, as far as they are concerned, there is no more poverty. The socialists have become the new “nobility”, and they and their offspring are thereafter permanent elites, to rule over the peasants. If the peasants are poor, it is because they are supposed to be that way.
This is a big reason that socialists hate the middle classes, as well, because they are mostly responsible for economically uplifting others.
Christians get suckered into supporting socialism so often that it is tragic. It is a path to their downfall and loss of faith. Socialism is all about being trendy and fashionable, the shallow and the plastic. It feeds the ego, the self importance and self pity.
But in the final analysis, socialism is just the path to death and destruction. There is no life or redemption within it, nor kindness, fairness, real charity or the love of others.
Philosophically, socialism can be described as “the least of Hells”, Hell being “an absence of God”. As such, Milton was correct as to the motives of Satan, and his attitude is much like that of socialists.
Here at least
We shall be free; th’ Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n.