Just read this interesting article about the current state of religious life in America. Thoughts? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090309/ap_on_re/rel_religious_america
Monday, March 09, 2009
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Things About Myself
- Chris
- Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States
- Here are a few things about myself. I'm the husband of a beautiful wife named Vicki and am a father of our daughter Genesis. I am also the worship minister at the Rochester Hills Church of Christ.
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well, this nearly set me off on a rant about this being more evidence of the results of the long-standing secularization of our nation and the continued attack against Christianity and conservatism by the political/entertainment/press/education machines.... but.. *phew*...i'll just leave it with,"Lord help our nation..." (though the article didn't report that Louisiana was one of the few states to show an increase in Christians...)
oh yea - chris, how ya like our pic on the beach of durban?
actually, now that i got my initial smart-alec nature out the way... it saddens me to see our nation going down this road.. it reminds me that we (the Church) have a lot of work to do - right here in our own world - to be God's light, his hands and feet, right there at work, or school, or the mall, or wherever we find ourselves... and yea i'm up late waiting for a load of clothes to finish washing so i can throw em in the dryer and get to bed... *lol*
Love the picture by the way! I miss Africa something awful.
Yeah, this article is engraining what I have been thinking for some time now. We are truly entering into a post-Christian society much like Europe has already. We no longer have the "majority" on truth and morality. Can we even call ourselves "THE Christian Nation" any longer?
I think there is hope, though. Christianity caught on like wildfire in the early church. It was a grassroots movement that flew in the face of the popular Caesar worship of the day. It didn't need the support of the majority to be "The Light". I guess its time we need to return to our roots as a movement!
-chris
yea, when i said the Church needed to get busy - i really meant us - the body - the people.. not the institution... do something to affect your world.. teach someone how to affect their world.. and so forth.. i've often wondered how, as a worship leader, to get this across to the congregation - THAT is worship, much more so than what we do here in the building on Sunday morning...
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