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What is Going on in the Church Right Now?

Evangelical extinction.

Some get the feeling that the evangelical church is loosing it's influence in the western world. As radical cultural shifts in politics and family values has happened not just in Canada, but in the States as well, the evangelical church in my opinion is really struggling to maintain it's identity in Christ. Yes, Jesus said the gates of hell would not prevail against his church, so this is why I am cautioning followers of Christ to pray. Most of the western world has really turned against born again Christians, and they are finding it harder and harder to fit into this post modern world. Family values are becoming extinct and it is harder and harder to find people who believe in the traditional family. Christianity in general has been at war with itself for a long time, and through the church has been resisting the breakdown in our families and in society, but there are very few in the secular world who are ready to listen to the evangelical gospel. Anybody can hear, but few will listen.

This is a time of deep prayer and meditation on what it means to be saved, because we are in a way living in another dark age, metaphorically speaking. There is a lot of light around us, and as Christians we hold the light, but Jesus said "What good is the salt if it looses it's savour?" Our light as Christians can't forever be extinguished, and yes through our prayers we must push back the darkness in our worlds. God allows people to forsake Him, because we all have free will, and God's Sovereign Will allows for the free choice of people to reject Him. If we have the attitude that everyone will eventually accept Christ, it is good and we shouldn't think differently. Our attitudes can determine how this world will go. Of course our attitudes should line up with reality, but I believe it is ok to dismiss some people if they continually show a hatred for the gospel.

It is sad that part of the church is blind to what is going on with our world right now, and if you listen to Christian radio, there is so much ignorance in the doctrine. The general public doesn't seem to mind so many false and fake teachers out there peddling the word of God. It really is quite scary. Also the church doesn't seem to mind the hatred between brothers and sisters in Christ, and this is part if not the whole reason why the world is so lost. They see members of the body of Christ living in great sin, and not repenting so they don't want to be saved, or listen to the church.

Yes, Christians are sinners like everyone else, but the world doesn't know the doctrine of total depravity or even the doctrine of Original sin. The church is destroying itself, and leaving in the wake a remnant of Christians who are suffering for their faith, and the faith of the church that they belong to. This is Mike.

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