This is from the blog Homeward Bound:
A god who does not condemn one’s sinful nature is not the God of Scripture. A god who does not insist upon a standard, some plumb line to which he must hold those who purport to serve and worship him is not the God of the Bible.
The
god of many today is a most inoffensive god, a god who is permissive of any and
all things, a god that eerily resembles the self, because there is no more
permissive a god than the god of self.
The
one true God is offensive to man’s sinful nature. Man’s sinful nature bristles,
rebels, and rejects the one true God because He demands a mortification of said
sinful nature, a doing away and parting of ways with what the flesh once
enjoyed and reveled in.
The
modern day church jumped the rails when it stopped preaching repentance, and it
has been hurtling towards a shattering impact ever since. Because we now preach
self rather than Christ, because we now preach personal growth rather than
spiritual growth, because our focus is squarely set upon the things of this
earth, we are as toothless lions, something for strangers to look at and try to
imagine in their prime. We pose no real threat to the enemy, we pose no real
danger to the darkness, but we’re fun to look at and make light of once in a while.
Righteousness
has ceased being our banner, obedience has stopped being our goal, and as such
we have become the devil’s footstool and a punchline for perverts and
pederasts. The lunacy of our self-destructiveness will be a tale told for as
long as the world turns, because no generation has wasted more potential, and
been altogether more ineffective as pertains to the kingdom of God than this
present generation.
We
have ways and means to reach the world in a heartbeat, we have ways and means
of getting the message of the cross to billions of souls, and instead we
elevate men who can barely string two words together because one of those words
happens to be prosperity.
Instead
of charging the gates of hell, we’re peaking over the wall hoping to see
something memorable, enamored with the idea that someone from the other side
may throw us a glance.
We’re
climbing all over ourselves to call any has been musician or never was actor an
honorary Christian simply for speaking the name Jesus in passing, as though
their mention of Him validates Him in any way.
What
wonderful news: the lead singer of the Idiot Savants said Jesus was a cool cat!
Now I can die happy.
We’ve
bought into the cultural relevance lie, and though it has proven itself
ineffectual time and again we’re still trying to find people to validate the
King of Kings, thereby hoping that some will be drawn to Him and begin to worship
Him.
It’s
not the power and the gifts of the Holy Spirit the church needs, it’s someone
with enough star power, someone truly famous to give Jesus the thumbs up. Once
that happens, boy, look out, you’ll have them stampeding the altars, and
fighting over who gets dunked first in the baptismal.
If
it were not so tragic it would be comical to an extent.
We
have betrayed our principles, abandoned our dignity, and sold out our Savior
all for the hope that some ignoramus on some reality show will give Jesus the
nod, even though he doesn’t subscribe to all that morality stuff, but just
thinks it would have been cool to have a beer with Him.
The
‘sin no more part’ has been
conveniently left out of ‘go and sin no
more’ because it might offend the sensibilities of some hedonist or
another, and we don’t want to exclude anyone from our big tent approach to God.
All
that stuff about the way being narrow and those who find it being few must have
been a mistranslation, and so we’re filling heaven to the rafters with men and
women whose garments are soiled and muddied, waiting for the wedding feast, not
bothering to acknowledge the reality that once the King arrives and finds them
without the proper wedding attire they will be bound and cast into the darkness
where there is but weeping and gnashing of teeth.
With love in Christ,
Michael Boldea Jr.
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