What have we been witnessing in our world, in our country, and in the church is an alarming breakdown in the family. Marriages and families are falling apart. We are face to face with the collapse of society if this is allowed to continue.
It has been said before that our culture and our society is simply a reflection of the families that make it up. So if we stand face to face with this disaster, we must examine what has happened to the family.
What is the problem? When we look around we see growing unrighteousness in the world and in the church. The cause of unrighteousness is always the same. It always has the same thing at its core. It is living apart from God. Godlessness.
The Apostle Paul told us it was coming. He said in Romans 1:18-32 "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness ... men are without excuse ... they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator ... they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God ... they have become filled with every kind of wickedness ... they are gossips, slanderers, God-haters ... they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless ... they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them."
Sounds like our world. Listen to the news, see what the media portrays, look at the video games children play, observe the schools. Has God been rejected? Have His laws been ignored or ridiculed? Has God been removed from our culture? Without a doubt this is happening more each day and families are being destroyed. Since the family is the key building block of all of society we see a breakdown in the church and in our nation.
Historically the leadership of the church took a strong role in training up men and women to live biblically and to train their children and their children's children in God's commands for life. What happened along the way? Where have our leaders gone?
Some churches have leaders that will "ring the bell" with a warning. Outstanding, but they are few are far between. And even this is not enough. Its only a bandaid. If we don't start teaching dad and mom how to live biblically, how to model Christianity for their children, how to see multi-generationally, and how to train their children from birth, soon it will be too late.
According to testing done by the Nehemiah Institute over the past 15 years children from Christian homes have declined in their understanding of the Bible and of how to apply it to every area of life to the point that they are almost no different than the world. At the current rate, one more generation, 10 to 15 years from now the remnant will be so small as to be negligible.
Where are our leaders? A big part of our problem is a lack of godly leadership. Leaders in much of the church no longer know how to lead. Its all about making everyone feel welcome and feel good. Give them what they want. That's not leadership, and we are paying the price for our lack of it.
Where are our leaders? Men, I call upon you to rise up, to take the mantle of leadership. Take the responsibility. Learn God's commands and principles for life. Live them and teach them to your family before its too late. God's wrath is being poured out on our land. Be one of the few lights that God will use to lead people back to the Truth.
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