Pastors and prelates, fly
away home, your house is on fire, your children are gone…
Illinois Family Institute –
Laurie Higgins – 3/4/2013
From birth our young people
hear one monolithic cultural message about issues related to homosexuality. Our
children are powerfully affected by the demagogic images and narratives to
which they are exposed, and they don’t know how to think through or refute the
propositions they hear daily. They are persuaded by deceit, and the church does
next to nothing.
If the church does not
counter the corrosive cultural messages and prepare Christians to think, speak,
and act rightly, who will? How pernicious do the ideas have to become and
how young the children to whom these ideas are taught before the church will
become angry (which, by the way, is a biblically justified sentiment)?
If the teaching pastors in
every theologically orthodox church had been proclaiming that homosexual acts
are abhorrent to God and that such a thing as “homosexual marriage” cannot
exist, and if our pastors had been teaching their members how to understand the
images and ideas they encounter, and if they had been teaching by example what
Christians should be doing, I don’t think we’d be here today.
Most churches today bear a
striking resemblance to the German
Evangelical Church German Evangelical
Church
Most churches today sound
like those that Martin Luther King Jr. lamented in his Letter from Birmingham
Jail:
I have been so greatly
disappointed with the white church and its leadership. . . . too many . . .
have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the
anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows. . . . I have looked at the
South’s beautiful churches with their lofty spires pointing heavenward. I have
beheld the impressive outlines of her massive religious-education buildings.
Over and over I have found myself asking: “What kind of people worship here?
Who is their God? . . .
I have heard many ministers
say: “Those are social issues, with which the gospel has no real concern.” And
I have watched many churches commit themselves to a completely other worldly
religion which makes a strange, non-biblical distinction between body and soul,
between the sacred and the secular.
In deep disappointment, I
have wept over the laxity of the church. . . . I see the church as the body of
Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social
neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.…the contemporary church is a
weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. So often it is an archdefender
of the status quo. Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the
power structure of the average community is consoled by the church’s silent and
often even vocal sanction of things as they are.
But the judgment of God is
upon the church as never before. If today’s church does not recapture the
sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit
the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no
meaning for the twentieth century.
I have no illusions; this
work is difficult. But God is on His throne and calls us to carry His Cross:
“That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weakness, in insults, in
hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am
strong” (2 Cor. 12:10).
Church leaders, do something!
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