Cultural Challenges

In James Emery White’s book Christ AmongThe Dragons he is attempting to explain the direction that Christians are taking the cultural challenges. I so often hear of how corrupt and immoral that our nation is becoming and far away it is moving from the Christian base that our founding fathers intended. As Christians we are very quick to place blame on the outside world, such as liberals, atheist, politicians, etc. We can bring this nation to a higher moral road by sharing and showing the love of Christ. I believe it is truly the fault of the Christians for not following God’s commandments – We are to be witnesses; we are to make disciples; we are to do justice, love mercy, feed the hungry, and care for the widow and orphans. We must take the responsibility of the immoral path in which our nation is going down. The culture in America has changed but it is due to how lax Christians have become in our padded pews and comfortable, luxurious buildings. Because of this more people are dying and going to Hell and we will have to answer for this on judgment day.

In White’s book he describes it this way: ……. Martin Niemoller, a German Lutheran bishop was called on to negotiate with Adolf Hitler during World War II in the attempt to save the church of Germany from being closed down by the Nazi dictator. Toward the end of his life Niemoller had a recurring dream in which he saw Hitler standing before Jesus on Judgment Day. Jesus got off His throne, put His arm around Hitler and asked, “Adolf! Why did you do the ugly, evil things, you did? Why were you so cruel?” Hitler, with his head bent low, simply answered, “Because nobody ever told me how much you loved me.” - At this point, Niemoller would wake up in a cold sweat remembering the countless meetings he had with Hitler – face to face – and never once said, “By the way, Fuhrer, Jesus loves you! He loves you more than you’ll even know. He loved you so much that He died for you. Do you know that?

For Niemoller, this was a nightmare. For us, it is the heart of our challenge