In our world today it is truly amazing what we can pass off as acceptable. Just think about it with me for a minute. Here are some things that are legal: smoking, drunkenness, adultery (in certain situations), pornography, strip clubs, abortion, marijuana (kind of), and even prostitution in some places in Nevada.
People willingly sell tobacco which shortens life, inhibits bodily functions, smells crappy, and doesn't even provide anything for the body aside from a buzz. You can get piss-face drunk as long as you are in a private home (and everyone always stays home, and never drives of course). Adultery, as you can read in the linked article, is becoming incredibly common. Porn is destroying the Biblical, or even decent humanistic, view of sex. The average age kids are seeing porn is now 11 (and decreasing). How can that be acceptable--because it's a multi-BILLION dollar industry. Many mayors in the nasty Chick-fil-a ordeal criticized the CEO for saying "I support the Biblical idea of marriage" and they smeared the guy for "pushing his agenda," and saying "they do not hold the same values as [Philly, Boston, Chicago]. Yet, those cities are home to dozens of strip clubs, bars, and adult stores (what is "adult" about viewing porn?), respectively. But Sam Cathy was out of line...
I am not going to talk about the concept of rape-abortion, but I do have something to say about the can't-keep-my-legs-closed abortions. "It's a woman's body and rights." As Trip Lee says in his song "Beautiful Life" --"don't get me wrong, God agrees that women have rights. That goes for unborn women too, give 'em life." You do not have the right to decide what to do with the life of a baby. No use of shifting terms or redefining "life" can escape the fact that God knit that child together, and it is killed. I know that's heavy, but that is the heart of God, deal with him on that.
I am not going to pretend that the government making those things illegal will do much of anything, and I don't even think the government does/should legislate morality. The government won't change the heart of people. This is a church problem!
That is why it is so important for people of the church to be sanctified and set apart from the same practices of the world. What is even more evil than those things listed above is that those in the church can be engaged in the same things and still be able to preach to people. Those same people can teach Sunday school or talk about purity! Beware your demons, deal with them now or they will consume you to the point where you can carry on with your life and look me in the eyes while your house is filled with scandal. The enemy is prowling around at your door, don't give him a foothold.
The church can't wait every 4 years to have passion about something. Keep your stinking vote, we need to be advancing the kingdom of heaven by getting to the hearts of people. Instead of waiting for legislature to pass a prohibition on all things naughty, we should engage the hearts of the chain smokers, the prostitutes, the strippers, the drunks, the young women who feel like there is nowhere else to go. It should break the church's heart that women feel like there is no other option; they should know that the church will be there to carry her. Instead, all these people assume, usually rightly, that the church will wag their finger instead. We willingly give the government the church's responsibilities.
Maybe we forgot who Jesus is, and what his mission is. Get out there, church.
People willingly sell tobacco which shortens life, inhibits bodily functions, smells crappy, and doesn't even provide anything for the body aside from a buzz. You can get piss-face drunk as long as you are in a private home (and everyone always stays home, and never drives of course). Adultery, as you can read in the linked article, is becoming incredibly common. Porn is destroying the Biblical, or even decent humanistic, view of sex. The average age kids are seeing porn is now 11 (and decreasing). How can that be acceptable--because it's a multi-BILLION dollar industry. Many mayors in the nasty Chick-fil-a ordeal criticized the CEO for saying "I support the Biblical idea of marriage" and they smeared the guy for "pushing his agenda," and saying "they do not hold the same values as [Philly, Boston, Chicago]. Yet, those cities are home to dozens of strip clubs, bars, and adult stores (what is "adult" about viewing porn?), respectively. But Sam Cathy was out of line...
I am not going to talk about the concept of rape-abortion, but I do have something to say about the can't-keep-my-legs-closed abortions. "It's a woman's body and rights." As Trip Lee says in his song "Beautiful Life" --"don't get me wrong, God agrees that women have rights. That goes for unborn women too, give 'em life." You do not have the right to decide what to do with the life of a baby. No use of shifting terms or redefining "life" can escape the fact that God knit that child together, and it is killed. I know that's heavy, but that is the heart of God, deal with him on that.
I am not going to pretend that the government making those things illegal will do much of anything, and I don't even think the government does/should legislate morality. The government won't change the heart of people. This is a church problem!
That is why it is so important for people of the church to be sanctified and set apart from the same practices of the world. What is even more evil than those things listed above is that those in the church can be engaged in the same things and still be able to preach to people. Those same people can teach Sunday school or talk about purity! Beware your demons, deal with them now or they will consume you to the point where you can carry on with your life and look me in the eyes while your house is filled with scandal. The enemy is prowling around at your door, don't give him a foothold.
The church can't wait every 4 years to have passion about something. Keep your stinking vote, we need to be advancing the kingdom of heaven by getting to the hearts of people. Instead of waiting for legislature to pass a prohibition on all things naughty, we should engage the hearts of the chain smokers, the prostitutes, the strippers, the drunks, the young women who feel like there is nowhere else to go. It should break the church's heart that women feel like there is no other option; they should know that the church will be there to carry her. Instead, all these people assume, usually rightly, that the church will wag their finger instead. We willingly give the government the church's responsibilities.
Maybe we forgot who Jesus is, and what his mission is. Get out there, church.
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