Violating Children

If someone was to violate your children would you sit back and say "that is just the way they are we should just let that person continue to violate my child." No sober parent in their right mind would react that way. At least the parent would get their child out of harm's way. They would protect their child to death to keep them from seeing pain and torment. Once the child is protected the parent would most likely try to keep that person from violating other children by imprisonment or something worse.

Look at our church today... we are children of Christ and we are allowing ourselves to be violated. Sin is no longer something we draw a hard line against (a line that was placed by God not man) instead we encourage sin, we rationalize sin, we pamper it and coddle it, we "tolerate" it, we avoid the topic in the hopes of having unification.

In a group I attend we are 30 minutes into a 12 hour series called the truth project by Dr. Tackett. I am sure some of you have heard of it, so far it is amazingly profound. Dr. Tackett rightfully relates Truth to God and Lies to the Devil (sin). Truth does not unite it divides. It divides sin from truth, lies from truth, liars from the saved. I have been struggling with how does one hate the sin and love the sinner because when sin is present it wants to destroy truth (though it can't) and it wants to run and hide when it realizes it can't destroy truth. There is a saying truth hurts, do you know why, if you have lived you know why truth hurts. Truth goes against the human nature to sin. They are in direct competition when there is a heated battle there is no unification. The church has to stand up against sin, you see we did not create right and wrong, sin and truth, God did! We are not standing up for what we created but what God the creator of all did.... The world makes its rules to create unity, unity of sin and truth. The world wants to blur truth and sin (which like oil and water can not mix!) so that we can all be "unified."

I am convinced that in this world we will not see peace as the world thinks we will. The world views peace as no fighting, no right and wrong, no dividing of families, no sides at all just one big junk pool of people so confused they don't know what is what. That type of peace does not exist the peace that Jesus brought to the world is the peace that transcends all understanding. Peace that even though we are broken people there is hope, the hope that through Christ we will live, it is by Him we are saved. That peace can not be achieved by man.

Now I am not advocating that we picket gay parades, spit on child molesters, hate those who divorce, avoid the drug abuser, and so on. What I am saying is that if the church starts to look like the supreme court trying to find a way to make everything okay and legal then we are headed in the wrong direction fast. The church should be in trouble with the news for taking a stand. They should look like a group of people that are different, that takes a stand, that holds to the Truth. The church should be hated by the world. Not hated for being cruel to people but hated for siding with the Truth. Christ was not popular with the world, in fact he was hated. However there has never been one more full of love for mankind, even the kind that hated Him. We as a church and as a people still have so much to learn. To balance siding with Truth and love for all. Wow!!