Is "Churchianity" killing Christianity or is it just severely damaging it. Either way it could not be happening at a worst time. The return to Judeo/Christian values in America and the civilized world for that matter is needed more than ever and the Christian Church seems to be MIA. I don't mean to be overly critical but then again maybe I should. Maybe we all should. After all the Church was supposed to go into the world to do "good"; not "very well"! I look at some of the Churches today and think they are monuments to architectural design. I am all for creature comforts and prosperity but often the un-churched and most in need are driven by on the way to one of these magnificent structures. Actually, that is the least of my complaints with the "Church" today. My major problem is how the Church can for the most part, remain silent in the face of the unspeakable atrocities being rained down on fellow human beings, God's people. Women and Children as young as 6 and possibly even younger are being raped and sold into slavery and the Church remains silent. Men are beheaded, burned alive, crucified and just simply shot to death and the Church remains silent. Millions of babies are murdered before birth and their body parts sold to the highest bidder and the Church remains silent. What is going on? Not much! To be sure, there are some Churches and pastors who are NOT remaining silent BUT they are the exception, not the rule. IT SHOULD BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND!!
All my life, I have heard "Christian Values" this and "Christian Values" that. As a child in the 1950s and 1960s and growing up in the only Jewish family in a three county area, I heard it a lot. I certainly had no idea what "Christian Values" were. As a college student in the late 1960s and as a young entrepreneur in the early 1970s I really didn't care because I was an agnostic. Today as an old man and a Christian, I really do care and I am very troubled at what I see.
People seem to go to Church to be entertained. Recently I heard a very bright pastor make the charge that people often complain that "they didn't get anything" out of the sermon or message that day. He went on to say that you are not supposed to come to Church to "get something" but rather to "give something". And he was not talking about the collection plate. Is it possible that the Church has lost its way? Is it any wonder that the nation has lost its way?? There was a time in my life when I thought Churches were bad things and clearly unnecessary. I was very wrong. Churches are good things and not only necessary, but vital to the survival of mankind. BUT.......... Churches must get back into the business of Christianity. Christian Values must become a reality and not a talking point for a good sermon. The pulpit must return to the place where pastors speak out boldly on issues of our time from a perspective of Judeo/Christian Values. Political correctness has no place in a pulpit much less a Church. Given the unspeakable horrors being committed by humans against humans today, how can pastors and their Churches remain silent? Will it be Christianity or Chuchianity? Freedom or Tyranny?
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