Many are they who want to cancel our beliefs and shut down our freedom to worship. How far are you willing to go if those in authority issue cease and desist orders in holding to and practicing our faith?
Am I willing to be dragged away by those who hate me, to appear before those who plot and perjure themselves and truly believe that they’re serving God by their deceit? Am I willing to take the heat of the frontlines?
Many are they who want to cancel our beliefs and shut down our freedom to worship. How far are you willing to go if those in authority issue cease and desist orders in holding to and practicing our faith?
The church is often at odds with its surrounding culture. That was true in the first century, and it is true in America today. As in the first century, the church’s response to the demands of our secular culture to cease and desist is to mirror the response of the first believers when the movement began nearly two thousand years ago.
In becoming a Christian you not only nail the me in me to the cross, but a vigil has to be kept on that cross to make sure that the me in me remains in a posture of crucifixion. An unguarded cross will not long hold a criminal. Discover the guards that prevent the me in me from being set free.
There are those who say that the Bible supports socialism as a preferred form of government. If that’s true, then let’s get on with it. However, if the Bible does not then we are obligated to position ourselves against it.