Relevant Today

To a world who believes so thoroughly in the power of "me, mine, I"…

When we believe that man's flawed wisdom is all that there is and all that we need…
When we believe that the "experts" in government are the true sources of knowledge and wisdom… 
When we no longer take responsibility for our sin but blame everyone and everything else…
When we won't even acknowledge that there is sin… 
When we will not believe that true evil exists…
When arrogance has become a virtue and humility a weakness…
When truthfulness, honor and integrity are no longer highly esteemed…
When the ways of the world have become the standard replacing the ways of truth…
When truth has become relative based on the opinion of the moment…
When hope becomes based on winning the lottery…                                                                   

When instant gratification is the main focus…                                                                             

When innocent life becomes a disposable by-product marketed for profit…

How is the Lord God almighty relevant in and to today's society?

How do we as the church, the living body of Christ, minister to a society that sees no relevance in and has no desire to seek after the One True God?

Our society is living the life of the prodigal son - and believes that life is better without the Father.

We have taken our blessings, our inheritance and thrown it away on ourselves. How long will we have to spend in the pigs' pen eating the husks and barely surviving in the slop until our eyes our opened and our hearts changed?

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. 

…for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.  

(Ephesians 5:1-2, 8-10)