Looking around me today, it seems as if a lot of the world is crumbling into serious moral decay, and my question is, what are we, as professing Christians, doing about it??
Time is running short. Clearly, we're in the last days. And instead of the Church standing up for holiness and righteousness, it looks as though we're backing down, cowering under, refusing to take up our responsibility of shining as beacons of light in today's society. We prefer to adapt and adjust- albeit only a little- to suit modern philosophies and morals. We become more tolerant and acceptant, instead of speaking up in love.
Surely we're doing God an injustice. Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost, but if we don't preach the need for sinners to repent and change their ways, and Christ's desire and ability to reconcile all things back to Himself, whether in heaven or on earth, then we're falling short of the Gospel.
Certainly we ought to demonstrate love to all men, as it was for all men that Jesus shed His precious blood. But to be tolerant of sinful behaviour, and to close our eyes and ears, so to speak, to the degradation into which humanity is slipping, is surely not what Christ intends for us. Surely He wishes us to 'put on love' more than ever before... to so love our fellow men that we cause them to be faced with the sinfulness of their actions, and hold out to them the Means of their redemption, justification and sanctification.
No matter what people may try to tell us in today's culture, through the use of media, and otherwise, we, as Christians, must hold onto the unchanging truths found in God's Word. We must reach out to a dying world in love, to all those who God wishes to save, for the Bible states that He wishes 'that no man perish'.
I think it's time for a wake-up call.
My question is, do you hear it? Will you hear it??
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