Let me draw you a picture, the year is 2011 the month is December. There are people walking down the street, one person in particular. He is lost, he is looking for his home. The city is busy as busy can be, this person doesn't know how he got to where he is, he sees a church, he walks inside. There are strange people sitting in the pews, they are all wearing masks, dark masks and they are dressed in black. The man asks, "is this the church of the living God?" He is told to be quiet, he is interrupting the sermon. He asks again.."is this the church of the living God?" No one responds, someone comes out of the sanctuary, dressed in all white and approaches the man, "come with me.." he says, so the man follows him to the front row of the church. "Sit here." says the man in white, then goes onto the platform and addresses the crowd "We may resume the sermon!" all is quiet once again. For the next hour nobody speaks, there is no sermon being preached and one by one each person in the church stands up, puts their bibles on a shelf and walks out of the church. The man is left there alone, he sees the man dressed in white out of the corner of his eye walk out of a side entrance of the church, he has left something in a box on the wall. The man rushes to see what is in the box, it is a letter. "Dear church attender, Thank You for visiting our church, our doors are always open (but there is nobody here) our services are every sunday at this same time, (but nobody ever speaks) we don't have or believe in baptism or communion, you can tell by our dress that we have a strict dress code, we all wear black masks and robes, our bibles are put on the shelf after we leave, you can read them if you like, but we suggest than you don't. Thank you and God Bless. Signed the man in white."
We are living in an age of brokenness, no matter what age you are, you probably have been touched with relationships falling apart, which causes more and more people to live in isolation. In this generation there is less of an incentive to heal and reconcile relationships, but that doesn’t excuse the amount of people who are broken. Why people don’t seem to be motivated to heal relationships is because our beliefs about faith and God have changed, really giving us less of an incentive to do what our religion says. If I act from my personal beliefs, but the person that I am responding to has abandoned religious beliefs, than the response to my wanting things to be better can be misinterpreted and rejected then by someone else. Generally when a society has expectations about broken relationships, loneliness and isolation, and the beliefs are generally accepted, society becomes a more compassionate society, because all value the same things. When religious values are undermined and ...
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