The End of the Christian Faith

Just some basic considerations for Sunday morning to challenge the content of your worship.

It looks as though Vanderbilt University is ready to take control of religious organizations and even Bible studies.  I wonder how long it will be until the believers there will, instead of hiring lawyers, simply practice their faith and let the Lord do something other than be a courtroom topic.  (I Cor. 6:7)  Even so, Martinez is not the end of the conversation.


So far the U.S. military has burned Bibles.  This would seem to add a level of tolerance to the activity and even make it acceptable.  Seems to be so to some.

We can ask "where's the media" and pretend that Glenn Beck actually has something to say on the subject.  Like his political discussions and unitarian civil religion methods are actually representative of orthodoxy.

Christianity is not a political religion.  (Ok, that's my premill coming out.)  Though it carries some serious political implications (as do all world views), it's first message is not political but redemptive.  But unlike those who separate faith and reality, Christianity takes the redemptive message to all corners of society.  People redeemed from the practice of sin (John 8:11) as well as the spiritual consequence of sin.  A new allegiance (Acts 16:31) is demanded.  To many, even to many conservatives, that represents treason and must be controlled.

A gospel that is imminent and militant will first change us and then, as a consequence, change society around us.  The second cannot happen until the first does.  Those are some of the practical ends of the Christian faith.