Don’t Be a Marginal Christian
I read an excellent article today in the Christian Science Monitor about the future of the Evangelical Christian. In this article the author, Michael Spencer, lays out the reasons why the Western Church will fall in the next 10 years. Spencer would be labeled as a liberal by many in the evangelical community, yet he hits the nail on the head in this article. His argument is that The Church as focused its attention on numbers rather than The Gospel, on politics instead of Biblical truth, and on feeling good instead of knowing God.
The truth is that the Great Awakening of Jonathon Edwards is no where to be seen today. We receive our Biblical teaching on the T.V. screens rather than from the Bible. I am not one to knock ministers of the Gospel on T.V., but we as Christians need our own understanding of the Gospel from spending time with God. We rely too much on what a pastor 1,000 miles away tells us, and not enough on what the Word of God tells us.
Spencer says that secularism and people pleasing will dominate the Church in the next 10 years, and this will lead to the demolition of the current Church system, but he points out that this may be a good thing. The Church flourishes in persecution. The Church fails in complacency. The old saying goes “you don’t know what you got, ‘til it’s gone”, and this will be evident when the Church is gone.
Jesus said in John 4:23, “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.” This lets me know that “marginal Christians” will fade away and those who want His heart will prevail.
So this is my challenge to you. Don’t be that “marginal Christian”. Don’t be one of the ones that cause the Church to fall in the United States. Seek God and know Him. Don’t base your understanding by what you hear on T.V. or what you read here, but use T.V. and use this lead you to the Word of God. We face trying times ahead, but Psalm 37:25 says, “I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his descendants begging bread.” God is faithful when we are faithless.
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