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Where Have All The Christians Gone?

By Tres Kerns
Chairman, TakeBackMaryland.org

Vice-President Dick Cheney’s remarks in support of sodomy and the deafening silence by church leaders in response reveals a deep-rooted problem within the Church in America.  The modern-day Pharisees and Scribes (and you know who you are) are in bed with the money changers, and unlike Jesus, are unwilling to drive them out of the temple!

Jesus instructs Christians that the temple of God is their own mind, body and spirit.  Mr. Cheney favors defiling that temple with his belief that “with respect to the question of [human sexual] relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone.  People . . . ought to be free to enter into any kind of [human sexual] relationship they want to.”  What mortuary is  Dick Cheney hanging out at to come up with this kind of thinking?  This language should be DOA to the Christian leadership of America.  Instead, hardly a sound could be heard or seen on television or in print from our so-called Christian leaders!

The Republicans say anybody but Kerry.  The Democrats say anybody but Bush.  But what do the Christians say, or more importantly, what does God say?  1 Peter 2:15-16:  “For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.  Act as free men, and do not use your liberty for a covering for evil, but as the servants of God.”  Why are the so-called “servants of God” silent about the ignorance of foolish men who are abusing our liberty to promote evil?  Sexual anarchy is evil.  It has been the ruin of many a great society – Greece, Rome and Germany, to name a few.  The natural family and God’s institution of marriage are the foundation of all successful human endeavors.  Why won’t any of our Christian leaders defend and proclaim God’s truth in regards to human sexuality?

No country has ever survived sexual anarchy.  Sexual anarchy is simply giving in to the lust and desires of your flesh.  All that is important is self-gratification.  It is the complete opposite of God’s precious design for human sexuality.  God has defined the sexual relationship within the marriage covenant and uses the whole of Biblical teaching to correct mankind’s sexual sins.  Jesus used the word “pornea” (translated in Scripture as sexual immorality) eight times to describe an entire category of sexual sins which includes sodomy.  The empirical evidence over all human history is that sexual anarchy leads to early death, disease, social disorder and the destruction of the natural family.  God’s truth can be demonstrated individually, scientifically and socially throughout all of Scripture.

If Al Gore, Bill Clinton, or better yet, John Kerry, ever said what Vice-President Cheney said, would not all those same Christian leaders be raising cane and calling for his head?  In Matthew 23:25-26, Jesus said, “Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you make clean the outside of the cup and the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.  Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.”  Does having a Big R (Republican) next to your name excuse Christians from rebuking evil?  I hope not; otherwise, why did Jesus die for you and me?  Our President is a self-confessed Christian, yet remains speechless regarding the promotion of sexual anarchy as an axis of evil, leading one to wonder what has happened to the American church that brought him to Christ.

The world will cry that Christians are offending people.  As Christians, who should we offend first – Almighty God or our neighbor?  The pagans will rebut us by posing their longstanding question, “Did not Jesus say love thy neighbor as thyself?”  Yes, that is the second great commandment.  And what is the first?  “Love God with all your mind, heart and soul.”  So I ask you again, who should we offend first, Almighty God or your neighbor?  Furthermore, if as Christians, we are speaking God’s truth without error, and our neighbor is offended by His truth, who has he offended first?  The answer is Almighty God.  When was the last time you heard a Christian leader express this truth?

Galatians 3: 26-28 says:  “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.  For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”  I am neither a conservative nor a liberal, but a Christian first.  I am neither white, black, nor red, but a Christian first.  I am neither a Constitutionist, Republican nor Democrat, but a Christian first.  When we start putting Christ ahead of everything in our lives, we show the world a way out of its fallen condition.

The world looks at Christians and judges them.  However, when the world sees in Christians its own nature, the opportunity that Jesus has given them is lost.  I am a sinner and I will continue to sin in this world, but in God’s mercy he convicts me of my sin, and I recognize the evil I have done to Him.  I pray for the boldness to confess His truth.  I pray for those Christian leaders who have lost their way.

We need strong Christian leaders in the American church at this crucial time.  We need to show the world a better way.  We need to call our nation, our leaders, our people and ourselves back to righteousness.  Dick Cheney should be held accountable for the statements that he has made in total defiance of God’s word. Our Christian leadership must challenge him.  They should not be giving him a free pass because they think he is the lesser of two evils.  Our two-party political system has been corrupted with this pagan ideology of sexual anarchy.  We must hold them accountable for the evil they have brought upon us.

Matthew 28:18-20:  “And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and earth.  Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’”  

Where have all the Christians gone?

TakeBackMaryland.org was started in 2001 to repeal a law giving special rights to homosexuals.  They gathered 60,000 signatures in 60 days.  Their referendum lost in a court battle with the ACLU.  Since then, they have been working with those who are attempting to return Maryland and America back to a Constitutional Republic.