The most detrimental opposition to the spreading of the Gospel is people who bowed their head, said the sinner’s prayer, and then raised their head and were the same person. They then proceed to label themselves as Christians throughout the rest of their life without ever truly changing behavior, habits, and ownership of their life. They act as if the prayer is what holds, enables, or allows their salvation. The way I see salvation being obtained is not through the words of a rehearsed prayer, but rather I see it being obtained through the Christ centered behaviors, patterns, practices, and actions in a surrendered life. Granted, if a prayer could just take care of this problem that we all have with sin it would be a lot easier, but I believe that the Church in America is seeing the fruits of that line of thought in this present day.
We can blame the younger generation’s utter disregard for the Church on mankind being dark, but I think we must first look inward instead of pointing fingers at Adam and Eve. If you have a problem with how many people who are 30 and under would rather give God the finger than give Him their life; I want you to consider this. When thinking of the local body that you attend do you honestly believe that they have shown unconditional love to the community that you are located in? Another way of asking that question is this: If that same local body were to one day disappear would the sick, poor, pregnant teenagers, elderly, single mothers, or “least of these” even know they were gone? Let’s get more specific. Would those people know you were gone?
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