to fight the unbeatable foe

Yes, Don Quixote has come to mind. In the World of Imagination today, nobody prays or goes to church, they are pulled and prodded into perdition, doomed! Worthless bastards!

This is nonsense. I've never seen a generation that is MORE CHRISTIAN! But because you don't have 1000% compliance to YOUR WILL... There have never been so many true believers.

Why, because everything else in life has been a lie!!! You are in quicksand praying that the neighbor goes under first so you can stand one his head for a while. Yes, we are now that desperate, and it show in EVERY MEGA CHURCH that is built.

However, while they profess Christ, do they actually serve him? Jesus of the gospels is a rebel, a progressive, a reformer, and a hater of hypocrites. Instead of condemnation he brought redemption to even the worsted of sinners. But once they are kind to each other, so they think they are to all men. As long as their not a Democrat.

REALITY CHECK TIME!
IT'S BEEN 2000 YEARS, WHO IN WESTERN CULTURE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE GOSPEL? WHO DIDN'T GET THE MESSAGE? WHO?

Mega Churches will come, and they will decline and go. It is an ebb and flow, same as the tides, and business, and politics, and ...

What I don't understand is; Why the paranoia?

Facts are that we are at a turning point in human history. The science is in, and it dispels the myth of creation (so what?). It dispels the myth of Noah (so what?). It dispels the myth Tower of Babble (so what?). I can go on and on. Faith doesn't need these things as FACTS, only fundamentalist do, and they've already lost that fight to science! Church leadership has never been more stupid, and less educated, which might be why some churches are empty. Smart Churches know that none of that is important to the message of the Gospel. Jesus doesn't need to ever really walk on water. The older I get, the more I become convinced that maybe Romans are right, in that God's Law shouldn't come from a book, but be as living as the times we live in, and even as diverse (which is something they don't embrace). Christianity can not survive in it's current state of hardheadedness and denial. Eventually it will adapt to the new reality, as much as realizing that the world is round like the ball, so there is no underworld. We do not live in a giant snow globe on God's knee, get over it. Your building your house on sand. Jesus wouldn't, he would be progressive, a reformer, he would embrace truth first.

If Churches are failing it's not Christ that has failed...

To dream the impossible dream.
Crazy people, why am I so surrounded by crazy people? What annoys me most is, they all know better, but crazy is acceptable.

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