We as Christians must engage our society according to 1Peter 3:15-18 “but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence; and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong. For Christ also died for sins once and for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit”
1 Peter 4:1 “Therefore since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin”
It is time for us as Christians to quit spending our time and energy debating the symptoms. The symptoms are the result of our disease of disobedience to the Great Commission in our own back yard. It is time for true Christians, who know Jesus as Lord and Savior to recognize this, repent, and ask Christ for the courage, patience, love, and strength to engage our culture and introduce our family members, neighbors, friends, co-workers, politicians, mailman, barber, drycleaner, electrician, plumber, builder, etc. to the God of the Bible through the person of Jesus Christ. We all need to pray and those who are called need to run for public office at the local, state and national levels. Those who are called need to run for school board positions. Those who are called need to support Christian politicians and school board members with their financial resources and their time which are needed to energize and run competitive campaigns.
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