This is not my usual blog.  But very timely.  Its probably more political than most of my writing but at the same time, about which all of us should be concerned.  We are fast becoming a nation, that was once founded on Chrisitan values and now have a generation that have left the roots of their faith and embraced a secular lifestyle.  I have enough faith to be believe that perhaps the assassination of Charlie Kirk should awaken the Chrisitan community.  Sitting in our quiet pews on Sunday, does not fulfill the Gospel.  Our preachers aren’t helping to arouse our community of Believers and making them activists in our fight against the evils of our society.  What are you and I doing? 

                                                Copied directly from Church Reset

“People who have no interest in religion are seeing the evil in the world and they want to see it defeated. Then, they look to churches and often find that the churches are pretending the evil doesn’t exist. Many non-Christians have a better grasp of spiritual warfare as it currently stands than a number of our ministers do.

We can preach on the Psalms and see words like wickedness, evil, and iniquity. We can teach Jesus’ proclamations of coming judgment. We can read Paul’s words about how our battle is against spiritual forces of darkness, and how we must tear down strongholds. But if we can’t tie them to real-world events, it’s all abstract.

If a husband and father can be shot for his opinions, or a woman can be stabbed in cold blood by a man arrested and released 14x thanks to a failing criminal justice system, and everyone has seen it, and yet we can’t assure people that they are absolutely right to notice the evil, and God notices it too, what are we doing?

When we’re given obvious examples like the ones we’ve seen in the last few weeks, we must stand up and point to them and say “THAT—that’s what God is talking about. That’s the wickedness we should be praying for Him to bring down.” And when we do, the people who are seeking God will see that they have come to the right place.

And as an aside, generic “evil is bad, let’s all just come together” sermons aren’t helping either,

People need to know when the fields are white unto harvest, and why

Since Kirk’s murder, countless people have posted online that they would be returning to church, or picking up a Bible, or both. Rallies have broken out literally around the world, many including sing-alongs to Amazing Grace and chants of “CHRIST IS KING.”

When Jesus saw the people were desperately seeking and in need, He told His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore, beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest” (Matthew 9:37-38).

Again, people are looking for an answer to the evils of this world, and there is enough left of cultural Christianity for them to know that Jesus is that answer. If we aren’t seizing on that opportunity and game planning how to have these discussions when they are as easy as they’ve been in recent memory, what are we doing?

People need to know how their Sunday affects their Monday

I was once in a church men’s meeting that veered away from discussing the building’s upkeep and the congregation’s bank account into brainstorming how we could evangelize better. A brother cut in across the discussion to remind us, “Guys, we’re here to talk about the business of the church. If you want to discuss this stuff, you can do it on your own time.”

As shocking as that was, I feel the same way when somebody responds to “Should we mention this enormous, morally significant story?” with “No, we just preach the Gospel.” What do you even think the Gospel is, if it precludes discussions of how to address sin’s stranglehold on the world?

Christ is Lord over all of life. He died for our sins and the sins of the whole world, and He rose again to take all authority and to sit at the Father’s right hand and rule all that is His. If we can’t connect the dots for people and show them how His Lordship extends into the most pressing matters of our day, we are telling them that their Christianity is a neat little part of their lives they can fold up and put inside a box, separate from every other part.

Conclusion

How we handle it is going to look different from church to church, but we would be remiss if we failed to take such an obvious opportunity to make the Bible come to life for our people, to tell the lost why they have come to the right place, and ultimately to point everyone in the room to the Lordship of Christ.”

I might add: We all can make a difference.  Mainly by contacting our Congress people, by letting them know how you feel, supporting our local police and officers, the ICE, who are there to keep us safe! It’s more than sitting in our pews on Sunday.  It means activism and that can be messy!…………………     Barbara