Which path to choose: The Commandments of God or the traditions of man. Quite the conundrum.
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Well put.
Irony is, Luther was a conservative for his time, he wanted to clean up the church and get rid of all that crap that isn’t biblical and infested the church. But today, the churches that bear his name are the most liberal of them all, example ELCA.
Probably one of the most “pure” or “orthodox” denomination of Christians around are the Eastern Orthodox and Egyptian Copts. I don’t belong to either, but I can recognize that they kept to the word and and strayed off course probability the least of any major Christian group.
What is important today is that Christians stick together, that we work together on the issues instead of ankle biting each other. At this point in time, the forces of globalization (economic driven) and socialism (secular), are a common enemy that is eradicating Christian values from society and even forcing its values upon us.
Many Christian churches are “luke warm” today, but even including them, church attendance in the US today is at its lowest point ever. Only 47% of Americans belong to a church, and only 23% attend services regularly. One can with certainty say that the Christian faith is in decline in the US, since every statistic is pointing in that direction, according to numerous surveys and some of them being fairly professional. This is a trend that has been going on for decades now, and we see the results in the laws as well as governmental policies, arts and entertainment, etc. At this point, I would claim the Christian decline in the US to be a “fact.”
There needs to be a greater effort put into organizing and mobilizing Christians in order to make their voice heard. You have 2% minorities like the homosexual community (the core of actual/true homosexuals is very small) able to make huge changes societaly because of their assertive, collective and full scope approach (legal, education, arts and entertainment, political) while Christian churches spend a lot of their time trying to steal each others congregation members, bad mouthing each other, or sitting on the side lines on the issues.
Christians in the US need to pull their head out of their ass, or they will end up like the Coptic Christians in Egypt one day.