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Gaining ground in a fallen world.

Have you ever wondered why Americans drink coffee and not British tea? In 1773 the Boston Tea Party went down in history as a revolt against the unfair taxes, fines and fees of King George. Secret meetings were held throughout churches in the New World seeking the wisdom of God and discussing strategies to throw off the unrestrained thievery of liberty from Britain and its cronies. The colonist believed that something had to be done and there came a time when our Founding Fathers said enough.

It is said that history often repeats itself. Are we getting close to that time again? Did the tax, fine and fee spirit of King George live on?

For years Washington DC has been able to violate the US Constitution and pretty much do whatever they wanted regardless of the outrage, phone calls and emails of the general public. In fact some are beginning to question if voting is only a ruse to make people feel like they are participating in a democratic form of government. They feel that way because their elected representatives simply ignore them after being elected.

Today, moreover, many regular Joe-the-Plumbers are feeling that their government is not really serving their best interest but plundering them as tax serfs to save the very people that got our country in the financial mess it’s in.

Furthermore public confidence in our government’s ability to lead is breaking down around us. As of February 2009 over 4.99 million have lost their jobs with no end in sight. Millions more are losing their homes.

For many Americans, Washington has offered nothing more than hype, vain words, political rhetoric, check writing bailouts and funding of socialists programs and bigger government. Big brother is watching as it continues to install “traffic” cameras on every street corner in America yet the big money fraudsters have yet to be prosecuted for anything.

Think Bernie Madoff, AIG officials, Wall Street executives that misled their shareholders, R. Allen Stanford and many others. Campaign words offering change we can believe in are rapidly loosing their meaning.

It appears that revelation is on the way. Revelation that Main Street is about to take a licking and confidence – freedom from doubt – has left the building. Are we seeing the fanning of revolutionary umbers in this country? Is this recession about to turn into a depression? Are we seeing a further great divide between the haves and the have-nots? How does the Church of Christ fit in this picture? What about you?

Before we go any further in this article and because most my readers are Christians I want to point out some fundamental problems that keep the Church from being effective in the marketplace of ideas, code for making this world a better place. Of course the most obvious is the backslidden, apathetic and lukewarm condition of the Church. With others it’s a lack of conviction, zeal and passion. And most disturbing is the lack of passionate leadership and sin within the Church. Do we have some good leadership? Yes. Could we use more? Absolutely.

For years secular humanism has ridiculed, scorned and pushed out the God of America often portraying anyone that held to biblical principles as old-fashioned, disconnected and intolerant. Right now I’m feeling pretty good about that. I think an old-fashioned gospel would seem fitting today as well as a Church disconnected and intolerant against sin. The facts, however, reveal that the Church has become neutralized as a voice and the devil rules without much opposition. When was the last time you heard a national Christian leader address the issues facing our nation for example?

Again, the Church has become negated in the battle for ideas and leadership within our nation. Not because the message of Christ has no meaning but because of the lack of revolutionary voices within the body of Christ. We can’t blame the devil for everything. The devil has his own ministry and we can expect him to be faithful to it. What we need today is a wakeup call to the mighty men. That’s right, the mighty men.

It’s time to get back in the race and stand up not only for the sake of your own family but for the sake of our nation.

This is where I usually lose people. Over the years I have found there is a certain group of people that can’t cross the line. The line is moving from spectator to participant. There are many that want to ignore what’s happening around them and forget that faith is proactive and used to overcome the world.

It’s not the apathetic that I want to converse with anyway. Apathetic people are indifferent and never do anything great with their lives. I want to talk to those Americans that don’t want to turn tail and run, to those that carry the same spirit of our Founding Fathers and those like Joshua and Caleb that tasted those Promise Land fruits with delight.

You’re not like everybody else, you’re different on purpose. Here are some things we can do to gain ground in a fallen world and make a difference in our nation. I’m sure you can modify the list, make it better and even add to it.

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