To realize the culture is confused is obvious. To recognize that the Church is contaminated by the culture is tragic. To reluctantly acknowledge that Christians are conforming to the culture is heartbreaking.
The Apostle John warns the church, “Do not love the world or the things of the world, for if you love the world the love of the Father is not in you.” (I John 2:15)
John also records that Jesus wrote a letter to the church of Thyatira and revealed that some of the leaders of the church were actually leading the “bondservants” of Jesus to commit acts of "idolatry and immorality" (Revelation 2:20). Talk about cultural corruption and confusion! There is nothing new under the sun, but it is still devastating and demoralizing.
We so often trifle with the sacred as we traffic in the secular. Our biggest danger is that we do not realize who the "frog" is and what the "kettle" is. We truly do not seem to know what is happening to us.
I do not want the cultural contagion to contaminate me. I imagine you feel the same. And so, I pray for myself and you as well, that the Lord will protect us from the tinseled sham of a temporal world that deceives the eyes and beguiles the heart.
Serving Him with you, until He comes for us.
Fred
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