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Have you wandered about blogs, visiting dear friends, making new acquaintances, learning new skills.... then you come back to your own blog page and wonder what exactly of value have you shared lately yourself? I do that quite often. I wonder if I just ramble (ok...I know I most often simply ramble on here) or if I've shared anything of some redeeming value to at least one person. I'm not looking for a comment-filled response here to any of this. Just pondering my place in it all out loud today, I guess. 100 years from now, what will my blogging have done for me or my family? Goodness, what will it have done for those who spare those precious minutes to stop by and visit? I need to redeem my time while online as do we all. I followed this and that and stumbled on this: Public schools are destroying the faith of Christian children and the pulpits are silent. Legislation is introduced to remove the rights of parents and the pulpits are silent. Children are taught they came from apes and the pulpits are silent. Millions of children are “medicated” to control their behavior and the pulpits are silent. Gambling is promoted to pay for schools and the pulpit is silent. Precious babies are being murdered in the womb and the pulpits are silent. Planned Parenthood kills babies with our tax dollars and the pulpits are silent. Judges make laws and the pulpits are silent. Tolerance trumps Truth and the pulpits are silent. Sodomy is granted legal protection and the pulpits are silent. The institution of marriage is crumbling and the pulpits are silent. Obama says the Sermon on the Mount justifies gay marriage and the pulpits are silent. Government has replaced God as defender and provider and the pulpits are silent. Faith-based initiatives invite the government into the Church and the pulpits are silent. The IRS muzzles the voice of the Church and the pulpits are silent. Taxes are levied to do the work of the Church and the pulpits are silent. The Church locks arms with compassionate-conservativism and the pulpits are silent. Children’s service agencies separate family members and the pulpits are silent. Self-help books replace the Bible and the pulpits are silent. A Purpose Driven Life is elevated above dying to self and the pulpits are silent. G.W. Bush says Christians and Muslims worship the same God and the pulpits are silent. The Constitution is ignored and the pulpits are silent. Pagans pray to open a session of Congress and the pulpits are silent. Our elected officials lie and steal and the pulpits are silent. Private property is stolen by government and the pulpits are silent. Mother Earth is protected more than Father God is defended and the pulpits are silent. Illegal aliens over-run our borders and the pulpits are silent. The entertainment industry celebrates debauchery and the pulpits are silent.
Boy, ain't that the truth. We are living in a largely confused world where everything is open to interpretation. It's all in how you feel on any given day, on any given topic. Whatever happened to proving everything with Scripture? Churches don't do that much these days. Churches don't preach anything heavier than do you want to come to Christ today. A worthy question to be sure, but do they follow that up with anything of substance? Not that I've seen in a long time I'm sad to say. They have a call for The Lord, then move along to wishy-washy sermons.
Sure, The Lord can take those wishy-washy sermons that abound in our churches and turn them into something big in our lives, but goodness, how He must tire of having to do it all for us, kwim? He died for all of us, and what do we do for Him....preach soft and fluffy so as not to offend anyone's delicate nature or self-esteem. What kind of army will we find in The Kingdom? I do pray it's made up of serious warriors for The Lord and not the soft mannequins we find sitting in the pews of today's churches. I am not one of those in-your-face types of warriors at all, but I do admire them. In this day and age, it takes God and guts to preach the hard stuff to a world wanting only comforting words and empty platitudes. I wish I were more like them. I stand behind all that I have been convicted of over the years, and I stand open and ready to make the changes in those convictions that sometimes come about as one grows deeper in Christ and His Teachings. Simply put, I am who I am and I make no apologies for that. I have bouts of 'in your face' but honestly, they aren't what they used to be. I am far more in His Face, or better put at His Feet these days. The more I Walk with Him and learn to listen more than talking, the more I find out I know less and less about anything. Maybe that is the answer for what ails the world these days...we need to simply sit still and listen more often than we talk. In church, especially, but maybe we need far more silence in our family structure as well. I miss hard preaching. Actually, I think I miss preaching in general.
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