Up until this point in my life, more specifically my spiritual life, all I have been hearing is that there is too much secularism in the church. Up until now, I blamed the teachers and preachers of watered down Christianity, for which I have played my part. There has been a consensus among traditional evangelicals and traditional Christians, that the world has seeped into our churches causing some of us to feel left out. If you have been a member of a church in the 21st century, you would have noticed that there is a modern feel to most church services. Sometimes I wonder if God actually shows up at our churches because in some cases God is totally left out.
I think we need to take a better look at this theory, that Christians are responsible for the watering down of the gospel, I think a better question to ask at this point is why secular humanism is so popular in our western society. I come from a time when there was peace in the world, the majority of my conscious life has been lived in a society that knew how to live in harmony with their fellow man. Because of an illness in my 20's, my life and my world view has changed, but my soul has stayed the same. I do not have selective memory, as I have heard that when people go through trauma part of their memories can be forgotten, as with severe brain injuries. The definition of my personal trauma has left my memory in tack, in fact when I was hospitalized in 1999 there was an unbroken continuation of my consciousness, and though my illness has to do with my mind, my sense of identity or ego remembers everything of who I am, and who I still am. I say this because it is important to clarify who we are as a whole, to address the problems of identity ans secularism.
The reason why so much worldliness has entered the church is because human beings have forgotten their history. 911 had something to do with this, because when people go through trauma they tend to want to forget it as soon as possible, especially if there is no healing for them. For millions of God believing Faith people before 911, their faith continued into the new way of living that affected the whole world, but for those who never believed in God and for some Christians as well, God literally dropped out from their lives.To live in a post modern world, wasn't anything that humans wanted, to live with constant wars without peace in this world can only describe a hellish existence.
Who can live in a world where God doesn't exist, but that isn't the case. The reason for this secularism is the absence of God's light in peoples hearts. The bible warns us that just before Jesus returns a second time, that the love in men's hearts would grow cold. The church needs to be a place where God's light shines the greatest, and we need to take this light into the world we are living in in the 21st Century. Generations are entering the world, and have no recollection of the peaceful past before 911. This is not our fault, but it will be our fault if we fail to take God's light to even the darkest places in our modern world.
Death is a reality, and part of the grief process is remembering who we are, and who we want to be. It is important to have a dream. Live your life with dreams, this is what made our world so fun to live in. No one likes to live in fear, forgiveness is another key to living in the light of God. We can share stories of how we once lived, and Christians can talk about heaven. The real sadness in our world doesn't come from loneliness, but comes from our lack of faith. We all need to remember our past, it can become a comfort when all you have is your memories. This is Mike.
I think we need to take a better look at this theory, that Christians are responsible for the watering down of the gospel, I think a better question to ask at this point is why secular humanism is so popular in our western society. I come from a time when there was peace in the world, the majority of my conscious life has been lived in a society that knew how to live in harmony with their fellow man. Because of an illness in my 20's, my life and my world view has changed, but my soul has stayed the same. I do not have selective memory, as I have heard that when people go through trauma part of their memories can be forgotten, as with severe brain injuries. The definition of my personal trauma has left my memory in tack, in fact when I was hospitalized in 1999 there was an unbroken continuation of my consciousness, and though my illness has to do with my mind, my sense of identity or ego remembers everything of who I am, and who I still am. I say this because it is important to clarify who we are as a whole, to address the problems of identity ans secularism.
The reason why so much worldliness has entered the church is because human beings have forgotten their history. 911 had something to do with this, because when people go through trauma they tend to want to forget it as soon as possible, especially if there is no healing for them. For millions of God believing Faith people before 911, their faith continued into the new way of living that affected the whole world, but for those who never believed in God and for some Christians as well, God literally dropped out from their lives.To live in a post modern world, wasn't anything that humans wanted, to live with constant wars without peace in this world can only describe a hellish existence.
Who can live in a world where God doesn't exist, but that isn't the case. The reason for this secularism is the absence of God's light in peoples hearts. The bible warns us that just before Jesus returns a second time, that the love in men's hearts would grow cold. The church needs to be a place where God's light shines the greatest, and we need to take this light into the world we are living in in the 21st Century. Generations are entering the world, and have no recollection of the peaceful past before 911. This is not our fault, but it will be our fault if we fail to take God's light to even the darkest places in our modern world.
Death is a reality, and part of the grief process is remembering who we are, and who we want to be. It is important to have a dream. Live your life with dreams, this is what made our world so fun to live in. No one likes to live in fear, forgiveness is another key to living in the light of God. We can share stories of how we once lived, and Christians can talk about heaven. The real sadness in our world doesn't come from loneliness, but comes from our lack of faith. We all need to remember our past, it can become a comfort when all you have is your memories. This is Mike.
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