Christians .. Let Your Voice Arise !

[Richard Kent]

America is going thru changes. This week we all sat back and watched and wondered what was going to happen to a nation, that too much of the world seemed unshakable. We have learned thru history that many of what were the most powerful nations in the world either don’t exist today, or have changed significantly. Today we want to consider the body of Christ, and its role in what America will become in the near future. Have we as “The Church” played our role as God intended, or have many, chosen to take a backseat to the spiritual needs of what is said to be a Nation under God. If so, could we say the problems we face as a nation be partially contributed to our doing, or rather lack of doing what we should have?

We as the spiritual leaders of our nation have a role to play, though it seems that many of our local bodies take the political stance of being neutral in any political affairs. We preach only to those within our four walls and claim God will take care of the rest, but this my friends is not scripture at all. Have many of our corporate church bodies signed their voices away for little fringe benefits? Declaring that they will stay out of governing affairs if those governing will stay out of their affairs? Brothers and sisters the spirit of God weeps at what Christ’s Church has become. No matter the future and what it holds, we the church have a job to do and if our voices will not work to create a balance then the scales of good and evil will fall to one side and everything we hold dear could very well change.

In order to maintain a “nation under God”, the teachers of such God must be heard. Their voice can not simply be restrained within the church walls but rather must be seen and heard standing in front of the multitude just as Jesus Christ did. I understand the role of church and state, do not get me wrong. But if either one goes neglected or absent then what we were founded upon could very well change, or has it already? Body of Christ, it is time to step out. Have we as a body been doing all that we can? Things such as the welfare system and social security could very well be a thing of the past in the near future. Is the “church” ready to assume the role of taking care of these individuals that will be affected? Is it not biblical to do so?

Reading in Deut. 15:7 - If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers, in any of the towns of the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand to your poor brother; but you shall freely open your hand to him, and generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks. My question is not are we helping, but are we helping enough? Are we truly doing all we can? Or have many of us focused more on padded pews and entertainment systems rather than giving all we can to the needy? Do any of us in Christ body have an issue with giving? Are our leaders teaching that it is better to give than receive? Are they teaching that to see a need and to ignore it, is worse than the issue that first caused it? I leave you with this quote; "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke).