The Bible says we often get the government we deserve rather than want …
Which is why good government must start with us.
Category: Simple Truth
When evil demands compliance …
Integrity demands resistance.
Books, blogs, conferences and social media – oh my!
But are those Christian authors, speakers and “influencers” really living what they’re peddling?
When it comes to blowing their own horns …
Many toot without good fruit.
How to produce adolescent, self-absorbed “Christians” who remain stuck in their own issues and never seem to grow up:
Convince them Jesus is “all about a relationship”.
Really? Where do you get that from Scripture?
Oh, right. I forgot …
That’s how we avoid Christ’s inconvenient Biblical unpleasantries – like propositional truths, moral imperatives, cultural norms and learning obedience.
When Jesus is just a relationship, it’s easy to ignore His comprehensive Lordship over all things …
By making Him just about us.
Jesus on your own terms?
I think not.
Yes, He wants a relationship, but so much more …
On His terms.
Repent and grow up, while you still can.
If evil can’t seduce you with real vice …
It will try false virtue instead.
Attitude matters …
And often is the difference between can’t, try and do.
As a Christian, I am no more interested in criminalizing private sin …
Then I am in protecting its public depravity.
“Progressives” insist that everyone be free of everything …
Except their own oppressive ideology.
If God is truly sovereign, He has the right to delegate – if He chooses – the option to reject His grace when offered.
Even if you don’t believe He does so …
Can we at least agree that it wouldn’t diminish His sovereignty if He did?
Because those who deny, because of His sovereignty, His right to allow us to resist His grace …
Have, in fact, too low a view of His sovereignty.
We often have no choice over bad things that happen in life.
Whether they internally define us, however, is always our choice.
People of conscience and conviction who we initially jeered …
Often end up protecting us against those of no conscience or conviction who we initially cheered.
Leftists have dumbed down liberty.
It now means pursuing vice, with government protection …
Rather than pursuing virtue, without government constraint.
Left or right, either way …
When it comes to politics, evangelicals and their pundits prove time and again they’re cheap dates.
Some might even use another descriptor.
Isn’t it time to begin speaking truth to power …
Rather than constantly kissing up to it?
The tyranny of leftist and “progressive” know-it-all-ism …
Inevitably fails when confronted by Godly self rule.
If you bear no witness and lift no finger against evil’s advance …
Don’t complain when it overtakes you and those you love.
The day is coming when God may call you to bear open witness against darkness.
The day is coming when few will have the courage to heed His call, and those who do will pay a heavy price.
But through that sacrifice, the day is also coming when His truth eventually will prevail.
It always does.
When a nation favors sin over virtue …
Freedom and liberty will not long endure.
The biggest idol these days is a “Jesus” created in their own image …
By “Christians” who dismiss His plenary authority of Scripture.
Unless you are part of a functional local assembly of believers, I’m really not interested in your books and blogs telling everyone how to be or not be the church …
Unless you are out there doing actual evangelism and seeing people surrender their lives to Jesus and His Kingdom, I’m really not interested in hearing you tell everyone how they must or must not do evangelism …
Unless you are ministering redemption to actual people trapped in sin, I’m really not interested in your views on how Christians should or shouldn’t speak up about homosexuality or any other lifestyle of bondage …
Unless you are secure enough in your own gifts and motivations to honor God’s different callings in others, I’m really not interested in why you think He can’t send some to serve His Kingdom in academia, politics, the armed forces, government or the like …
Unless you are submitted to God’s plenary authority and truth of Scripture as His written Word, I’m really not interested in your “deeper life” revelations …
Unless you are an authentic disciple who has the integrity to sacrificially walk the walk and move beyond merely talking the talk, I’m really not interested in your attempts to distort Christ to reflect your own existential angst and narcissistic sensibilities.
Sorry if that offends …
But then again, maybe it’s time someone cared enough to offend and call you to repentance.
Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.
You can’t change what you won’t confront:
Courage and sacrifice are the price we pay for freedom …
While evil thrives on lethargy and fear.
“The Pastor” of a church, ministry or whatever …
Is a phrase and a concept utterly absent from the New Testament.
Nope, not, nada …
Just ain’t there.
Instead, it comes from reading post-Biblical assumptions, presumptions and meanings not found in Scripture back into Scripture.
In the New Testament, some minister pastorally …
As simply one of many different functions expressed within a healthy church by a diversity of people.
More specifically, the New Testament references multiple elders in each church, each of whom is to function pastorally …
As well as teach, watch over and protect God’s flock together, among other things.
But no one is ever called a “Senior Pastor,” “Lead Pastor,” or any other form of “Pastor” in the New Testament …
And the word is never, ever used as justification for one person to be over a church.
Be a Berean …
Search Scripture to see if these things be so.
Then have the courage to follow what God’s Word actually says …
Rather than subsequent human traditions.
Anarchy begins when the State elevates the right to choose sin …
Over the right to choose virtue.
Biblical Christians who submit their sensibilities to Scripture …
End up trusting God and doubting doubt.
Existential “Christians” who submit Scripture to their sensibilities …
End up doubting God and trusting doubt.
“Progressive” nonsense distorts love by affirming life-controlling sin …
And those who promote it.
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