Our culture was exposed for what it is and was and will be centuries ago: "For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. Romans 2:21-32(NIV)"
You can recognize the corruption described above all around you- what is so important about exposing it?
If you watch television or go the movie, you will see a direct assault on the lifestyle that counters it. The media normalizes the behavior you have been called to live apart from. I listened with agony to a teacher express concerns over books allowed in the middle school library. As you can imagine these books allowed 11-14 year old children's minds to endulge in the lustful behaviors of their characters without calling into question the morality or the consequences of them. Striving for purity or righteousness in this day is seen as "being out of touch", "not in tune with reality", or "being too strict or biased."
EXPOSED: CULTURE
We expose this cultural bias so that we can avoid being sucked into it. As the conservative Christian worldview is undermined and attacked, we must remember that we were called to stand firm in our faith and our beliefs.
"But the one who endures to the end will be saved. And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached through the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then the end will come. Matthew 24 (NIV)."
The anti-Christian worldview bias is in the workplace as well. Employee groups formed with the intention of normalizing objectional behaviors are not just groups of like-minded employees hoping to ensure that their members have a work environment free from hostility. These groups are not happy until they force every other employee to acknowledge that their way of life is "normal" and to accept their point of views. Corporate tolerance training does not tolerate differences of opinion on these matters. This too was exposed centuries ago.
"Then you will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be hated all over the world because you are my followers. And many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other. And many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Sin will be ramphant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold. Matthew 24 (NIV)."
Read the language of Colorado law SB200. Although this is in application to small business owners and real estate, it is the foot in that Christian intolerance groups will use to attempt to and are using to strip away our rights to follow our faith in our public and business lives.
This is why it is so important for you to belong to a fellowship of believers; a like-minded group of your own. If you are fortunate enough to have such a group in the workplace such as a work sponsored (or allowed) bible study or small group, join and do whatever you can to keep it going. Fight for your rights to assemble and have your viewpoints tolerated without forcing them on others. We speak out by example and by standing firm in our beliefs when tested. Be active in a bible-believing church that will train you up to carefully pursue the purposes for which you are being called:
"Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will. 2 Timothy 2:22-26 (NIV)."
Posted by The Leading Life Team at 1/8/2009 10:14 AM
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