The poles say we have more Christians in America than any other group of people, yet the Christians remain silent. I hear them on a one on one, but as a group? Where is God’s army? Where is God’s voice?
I can go anywhere and start talking about the Bible and God's word and someone in the group will say “I am a Christian and know the Bible,” then they walk away as though they don't want to hear me and take more than half of the group with them. Truth is they don't, half of them may know the words written in the Bible but when it comes down to it they don't dwell or what we call meditate on them, because they might realize they are not the saints they think they are, so what?
If you think you are perfect and live a perfect life you live in a fantasy world. Not one person on this planet is perfect. Just because you make less mistakes than others doesn't make you a better person or a better Christian, you may be wiser than others and therefore you should help others with your wisdom. But you are no better than anyone else on this planet.
Who is at fault for the degradation of the churches and Christians today? When did the faith start falling apart? Probably about the same time as respect, obedience, and the true love for family and life itself began falling apart in the early nineteen hundreds. About the time when self expression meant total disobedience and disrespect for the parents, family, values, and high morals. Women wanted the freedom to marry for love not security. Women wanted to enjoy sex without regard for the consequences of their acts. Many placed blame everywhere but where the blame really belonged, their own poor choices placed them in the position of having children they weren't ready for. Their decisions to disregard their parent's warnings and teachings about sexual promiscuity, sex before marriage and the importance of a good solid marriage.
Oh men were just as bad! They loved the wiles of women's new found freedoms never once taking into consideration what kind of women these would turn out to be. All they could think about is the ability to have sex without having to pay someone anymore every time they had an itch to scratch. Men have changed too over the years, fat, lazy, non mannered, and either overly arrogant abusers or weak sniveling led by their unmentionables.
Why not? After all no one likes to see a parent sad, crying, complaining, hurting, in pain, etc. all through their childhood. They were the children that decided they weren't going to end up like their parents no matter the cost. No one has yet to see the problems with what happened back then. If they did see the problems no one was willing to help make things right. Many of these young people went to drugs and sex for release or to forget the life they were leaving behind. No one could have envisioned the vast problems that would come out of all of that “expressing themselves” we have today. Those were children who grew up with parents who went through the great depression in the early nineteen hundreds and survived it. Many of them didn't have an education because they had to work to help the family make ends meet. Many came from large families so only a select few in the family got the chance to go to school and college. Because of their own hardship they wanted the best for their “expressing themselves” children, which meant a good education and a chance to make something out of them that the parents felt themselves robbed of. And if anyone thinks there were no bitterness in the parents that went through the great depression you are very wrong.
Here we have parents that did whatever was necessary for the family as a whole unit, even if it meant they lost out on something themselves to selflessly give so others, usually younger could have the greater opportunity; who's own children can only see others with better lives than they have deciding to not only disrespect, but to put an end to family units as we knew it then. If that wasn't bad enough many of those “expressing themselves” children wouldn't accept responsibility for their own poor choices in life, blaming others including unwanted, unborn children they conceived during one of their moments of poor choices.
Unfortunately many of these “expressing themselves” children took out their anger, frustrations, self disappointments, etc. on their own children for things that wasn't their own fault. Mother's blaming their sons for perceived sins of their fathers; father's blaming their daughters for the mother's desertions of the family to seek some other mans bed and leaving him to raise their child alone, and so forth.
