The Sacred Desk

This Sunday I'll be expositing Acts 16:16-24.

Seeing as how there are no more habitable unexplored continents that a persecuted church could set sail for - we best take our sanctification as believers seriously. I see three major fault lines running under America's culture and philosophical constitution that are sure to bring quakes of persecution should God ever visit our church with another great awakening. 1) Spirituality has become a natural resource. 2) Affluency has become a matter of national security. 3) Camelot has no absolute but Camelot. By arguing for "spirituality" to be an end in itself and not merely a means to our own ends - we are sure to raise the ire of those who are losing what they see as a valuable resource (much like the hatred directed to abolitionists who dared humanize the black man making him someone worthy of respect and fellowship instead of something that could be used to advance one's own selfish ends). Further, with our economy now securely built on an unbiblical frame, any great awakening would be sure to create what might be called a "revival recession". Our government has made it very clear that it will exert great force to secure unimpeded prosperity. Finally, our country has become proud and taken credit for the successes of a law and culture based on a biblical absolute. Now that we have decided that the American Way is above and beyond the religious and that we are capably governed by our own common sense - an absolute state is not far off. One absolute won't abide another that stands in judgement of it. Let us all be prepared for the sifting that we indeed are praying for if we are praying for revival.