You only prove my point about the cultural collapse of American Christian society. Unfortunately, most Christian men today (and pastors who teach) are unfamiliar with God's Law and have adopted the morality of the surrounding culture. Unless you saw them at church, you wouldn't know that they were "Christian". Try and ask them about this subject and all you will get is baffled looks.
You only prove my point about the cultural collapse of American Christian society. Unfortunately, most Christian men today (and pastors who teach) are unfamiliar with God's Law and have adopted the morality of the surrounding culture. Unless you saw them at church, you wouldn't know that they were "Christian". Try and ask them about this subject and all you will get is baffled looks.
I agree that in our post-Christian society, seekers of power for the sake of power are much more prevalent. To lead is to serve. Leadership is sacrifice. Those fundamental principles aren’t popular with today’s “selfie” generation and modern Christianity. They’d rather be Instagram famous and bask in their own glory.
This made me think of something Sean McDowell (Christian apologist) said in one of his videos... of all the people he's spoken to who have left the faith, he often asks them "do you remember the moment when you really recognized the depth of your own sin, and need for a savior?" And virtually all of them didn't really understand what he was talking about.
There's an awful lot of Christians-In-Name-Only, many of whom don't even know that that's what they are, or the beautiful thing they're missing.
Right? It's frustrating - like this whole string - that "Christians" will make all manner of excuse, even to the point of buying into the woke narrative, for aberrant behavior rather than pointing to man's fallen nature that is in need of God's sovereign grace that redeems from sin. The church has been so co-opted by the woke culture, she has NO IDEA of the state of her apostasy.
So true - especially in the US, where being "Christian" is still seen as socially positive in many circles. Interestingly I only recently discovered that the statistic that "Christians get divorced at the same rate as secular couples" stops being true if you only include people who actually attend church regularly and read their bibles...
You only prove my point about the cultural collapse of American Christian society. Unfortunately, most Christian men today (and pastors who teach) are unfamiliar with God's Law and have adopted the morality of the surrounding culture. Unless you saw them at church, you wouldn't know that they were "Christian". Try and ask them about this subject and all you will get is baffled looks.
I agree that in our post-Christian society, seekers of power for the sake of power are much more prevalent. To lead is to serve. Leadership is sacrifice. Those fundamental principles aren’t popular with today’s “selfie” generation and modern Christianity. They’d rather be Instagram famous and bask in their own glory.
This made me think of something Sean McDowell (Christian apologist) said in one of his videos... of all the people he's spoken to who have left the faith, he often asks them "do you remember the moment when you really recognized the depth of your own sin, and need for a savior?" And virtually all of them didn't really understand what he was talking about.
There's an awful lot of Christians-In-Name-Only, many of whom don't even know that that's what they are, or the beautiful thing they're missing.
Right? It's frustrating - like this whole string - that "Christians" will make all manner of excuse, even to the point of buying into the woke narrative, for aberrant behavior rather than pointing to man's fallen nature that is in need of God's sovereign grace that redeems from sin. The church has been so co-opted by the woke culture, she has NO IDEA of the state of her apostasy.
So true - especially in the US, where being "Christian" is still seen as socially positive in many circles. Interestingly I only recently discovered that the statistic that "Christians get divorced at the same rate as secular couples" stops being true if you only include people who actually attend church regularly and read their bibles...