The Spiritual Law of Thermodynamics: The Greater the Heat the Greater the Expansion |
The Church of Jesus Christ will not be determined, deterred, or destroyed by a corrupt culture. Jesus said, “I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail.” But that does not mean the devil will not try. In 1958, Aldous Huxley foresaw a configuration of power that would contaminate and corrupt the will of the people. He predicted that “Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature.” His prescient prophetic voice proclaimed, “The quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism.” It is to state the obvious that we are living in a culture that is a hostile host environment to the Church. Our natural world is overseen by the god of this world and the whole world lies in the lap of the evil one. But we are supernatural-oriented beings living in a natural world. The Spirit of God indwells us, illuminates truth to us, and has endowed us with spiritual gifts to work through us in the midst of a lost and dying world. In 2005 the University of Texas trademarked the slogan “What Starts Here Changes the World.” I imagine if Jesus had a slogan it would be: “What I Started Changed the World.” Perhaps better: “What Started with Me, and Now I in You, Will Change the world." Serving Him with you until He comes for us, Fred |