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No Need For Alarm

A federal judge on Thursday struck down the federal statute that established the National Day of Prayer, ruling that it violates the constitutional ban on government-backed religion.. See article here.

How should Christians react? Should we invest efforts into fighting against this ruling? Some certainly will. However, I believe those who do may only be setting themselves up for a great disappointment since we were never promised by Christ that our government would be tolerant toward our faith.

Wayne Mack and Dave Swavely the authors of a book titled "Life in the Father's House" capture these same sentiments when they write, "The Church is the one institution God has promised to preserve throughout all time. It will always endure, and even succeed, regardless of the many assaults and catastrophes that threaten it."

They point out that Jesus promised in Matthew 16:18 that He would build His church and no power, even the gates of Hades would overpower it.

They continue, "Many Christians today are expending tremendous amounts of energy to stem the rising tide of secularism and moral relativism in America. Our culture has indeed become sadly post-Christian, and may become increasingly anti-Christian in the future. But the Bible never commands us to commit our greatest efforts to ensuring that the society we live in remains tolerant to Christianity. God may very well allow it to become like Nazi Germany or Communist Russia. If He does, that would not be 'the end of the world' for us believers, nor would it be a horrible blow to God's purposes. God's glorious plan of building His spiritual kingdom will go on undaunted, regardless of whether America retains its religious liberty."

Instead our fight should be one pleasing to the Lord. Let us continue to pursue the salvation of many through the teaching of the truth of the Gospel so that our great God and Savior may be praised. That is one endeavor in which our hope will never be shaken.

We Need To Talk

We tweet, we text, we e-mail. Everybody's chatting, but is anybody listening? Why America needs to revive the vanishing art of conversation. I'm not big on reading AARP, but this article happened to catch my attention.
Read here. How sad it would be for true community to suffer because of our technology.

Along the same lines of technology causing distance here is a clip from my favorite "internetainers" Rhett and Link.