4d • General discussion
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So I journal almost daily and teach a weekly bible study here in Alberta Canada. Writing is cathartic and critical thinking is absolutely essential. Western Countries are disintegrating in real time and our society has become very pagan, not just secular. We are morally bankrupt — and socially apathetic — and economically delusional — and politically corrupt. It is so pervasive.
- Convenience—Christians have to consciously resist its alluring nature when it negatively impacts our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual flourishing. Convenience and Compromise are deadly to the Christian Soul. What do we gain in the end if we gain the whole world—if we enjoy all the conveniences and comforts of this life because we’ve compromised deeply held convictions and practices as God’s image bearers [human beings] and, by doing so, we lose our own soul—we forfeit eternal life, God’s kingdom? What do we really gain from living a life of convenience and compromise?!
- I like what Jim Elliott, a former missionary, once said: "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." We need to give up what is worthless to gain what is priceless.
Our Churches over that past fifty years have been emasculated and overly feminized—through various means: its worship songs, its pulpit teaching and preaching and its overall ethos. They are failing the Biblical Mandate—they are distorting the Gospel Message—they are ignoring Christ’s Great Commission to make healthy disciples of all nations. Instead, they are producing Christians who are shallow and petrified—and many are simply not even true followers of Christ. They are unbelievers who think they are believers. It’s a very sad state of affairs.
So I close with the apostle Peter's insight: "The end of all things is near--therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer. Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins." [1 Peter 4:7-8]
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