Musing - Will We or Won’t We Take Part in Redeeming Our Culture?

Hebraic Musing - Will We or Won’t We Take Part in Redeeming Our Culture?

The answer is “we won’t” until we trade-in our low view of God’s Word, whereby we only obey it when it is convenient to our lifestyle.  We will when we begin to take a high view of it as the very word of the very God we profess to believe in.  AND until we humbly submit to His will in ALL aspects of our lifestyle.  BTW – The definition of “all” is “ALL.” (>:

The issue is not whether Christians throughout the world will win the culture war.  We have God’s guarantee that it will happen – eventually.   The real question is whether American Christians will take part in that victory?  Or will we join other civilizations that have deserted God?  Or will our thinking erode into the thought process of the contentious extremes in our political and religious communities.

Many church-goers who are concerned about Christian culture eroding and becoming worldly will latch on to a blame game.  For example, I’ve heard church leadership and pastors blamed in statements like these:

·      Where’s the leadership? When are pastors going to man-up and once again be known as a community’s intellectual leaders, instead of “nice” people who marry and bury people and deliver heart-warming “talks” on Sunday that contain three points and a joke?

·      When are they going to fear God, more than they fear their congregations?  When are they going to stop trusting more in themselves than in God and stop attempting to manipulate visitors into professing to be a Christian?  Instead, when are they going to rely exclusively upon preaching the unadulterated Word of God, faithfully depending upon it not to return void?  Or, will we continue to entertain ourselves with shallow fellowship until God moves His light from America to some other country to take the lead in bringing about “His will on earth as it is in heaven?” Matt. 6.10

Let’s not blame the pastors.  What are you and I doing to redeem the culture?  Are we giving God’s word (His Holy Scriptures, His “speakings” to us) the attention it deserves?  Are we giving God the attention He deserves?  

I’ve heard that only about one in three Christians spend as much as 15 minutes a week in Bible study. (Is reading the same as studying?)  If today’s Christians can’t clearly define and explain their “faith,” how can they be expected to contend for it?  What happened to the great Protestant maxim: “The Bible is the only infallible rule of faith and conduct?”  I’m afraid that many fellow Christians have “turned to a different gospel”, the media, as their source of inspiration and study.

Here’s what Paul advised his disciple Timothy to do – “Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.  Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid their hands on you.  Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.  Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.” 1 Tim 4:13-16  NIV

Back to the original question – “Will we or won’t we take part in redeeming our culture?”  The answer is “we won’t” until …. 

Points to ponder

Are we encouraging our Pastors to preach the Whole Word of God?

Are Christians “turning to a different gospel?  The one they learn from the media?

Are we giving God the attention He deserves?
Is that possible?!?!

When will “your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”? Matt 6:10

Yosef   a.k.a.  Joe Brusherd                          May 7, 2019  

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