An Age of Crass Materialism

…………Satan has engineered a society that chews up Christians and reduces them to limp and cowering slaves of the system. If the salt has lost its saltiness it is not even fit for the dung heap. If our doctrine of “Being in the world”, was accompanied by;” Take up your cross, deny yourself, and follow Me”, then we might have changed society and social structures. As it is however, the church is doing precious little to reverse the downward spiral of decadence.We must call the church of God back to the teachings of Christ and the practice of the early church. We need to boldly preach a gospel that deeply changes the way we live our lives. There should be a difference between the Christian church and the world. Obedience to Christ’s teachings would render the church salt in a rotten society. It would not take much saltiness to savour the whole pot.

Our role model should be Jesus Himself and not a clone of what the world perceives to be success. Why should we attract the world by imitating the scions of Hollywood or the corporate business world? The very success of this kind of motivation is the death knell of the church, as the pews fill up with those who seek after the glory that is below. This strategy is natural, carnal, and demonic. It is the wisdom of the world. The truly wise would better follow the Man of Nazareth.

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