Friday, January 24, 2025
Our readings this month are from the book, The King’s Heart: The Kingdom of God and Civil Government. Today’s reading is from pages 22 and 23:
“I have often been asked why Christians in America don’t suffer persecution. Jesus and Paul both taught us to expect it; Peter said it was not a “strange” thing to happen to devoted followers of the Lord. And here, perhaps, is where the answer lies. Survey and poll after survey and poll find that the ethics practiced by most Christians today do not cause them to stand out against the dark background of our secular age. In our neighborhoods, communities, workplaces, and schools, Christians seem to fit right in with the ethical agenda of our unbelieving age. Rather than wielding the Sword of the Spirit in our everyday lives, our culture, and our communities, we are leaving it sheathed on the bed table at home, as we march in lockstep with the spirit of the age and sword of men.”
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