By Lee Duigon
August 18, 2011
NewsWithViews.com
....Parents of America, these are your children who are having all these out-of-wedlock babies. What did you teach them while they were growing up? Or did you teach them pretty much nothing at all, and leave all the teaching to the teachers’ unions at the public schools? And what the schools didn’t teach them, TV and the movies did.
Churches of America, this has happened on your watch. What were you watching—Gong Show re-runs? What have you taught your congregations? Or were you so busy entertaining them, that you just never got around to God’s Word?
What about the preacher who would rather have a stake pounded through his heart, than stand in the pulpit and tell the people, “God hates sin”? Oh, but the elders wouldn’t like it! Counting that collection money every Sunday, and counting the fannies in the pews, there might be some embarrassment if the figures show a decline.
Better play it safe. Tell amusing stories, avoid telling the people anything they might not want to hear, throw in a dance or two, and some Christian rock ‘n’ roll while you’re at it. Grow the church. Measure the preacher’s effectiveness by the money in the baskets every week.
What are we to make of the work of tens of thousands of churches in a country where Christian morality is melting faster than butter on a skillet?
In our modern world, only the family and the church stand between the individual and the all-devouring messianic state. Would-be rulers of the world have been gunning for the family and the church since the French Revolution. Today parents and preachers are putting the gun to their own heads and pulling the trigger. What Stalin and Mao couldn’t do by force, parents and preachers now do themselves. FULL STORY
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