Today we find ourselves needing to make difficult decisions because of complicated situations and conflicting circumstances. When principles conflict decisions are difficult. However, the “Square One Principle” is true: He who goes back to the beginning will finish in the end. Evangelical Christians are committed to the authority of the inspired word of God. (2 Tim. 3:16, 2 Peter 2:20) As Merrill Tenny reminds us, referring to the Bible, “This book will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book.” How true. This is why Bible study is essential. However, we need to take the next step and develop a Biblical Theology from our Bible study. Theology is simply collecting, connecting, coordinating, and correlating the biblical instruction in an organized way around themes and topics.
Finally, we must also be able to make decisions on moral issues. That means we must also be engaged in Ethical Decision Making. Ethics is the process and procedure utilizing principles that produce a product - a biblically accurate and culturally relevant response to a moral question. As many have observed, when a culture or a society fails to follow Biblical Truth, it declines.
Oxford anthropologist J.D. Unwin, in his 1934 book Sex and Culture, confirmed after studying 80 civilizations over 5,000 years that sexual promiscuity always precedes civilizational decline.
British historian, Arnold Toynbee, examined 22 major world civilizations and found that they started to decline when their moral fiber decayed.
Aristotle stated: "Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society." If America continues in its moral decline, history declares that its fate is certain if not briefly delayed or temporarily deferred. We can run but we cannot hide. Might we be people of the Book, who study to show ourselves approved, to live life well, and hear Jesus say - “Well done.” “How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy word. With all my heart I have sought Thee; Do not let me wander from Thy commandments.” Psalm 119:9-10 Serving Him with you Until He comes for us. Fred | 
