The Cause of Our Apathy

   Recently, brother Dave Daubenmire posed an excellent question when he asked, “why does nobody care?”  If I may, I’d like to address this very serious question, in the “construct” of “Why do GOD’S people not care?”

   To be brief, I would suggest four main points:

1)  DOCTRINE.  The Puritans understood clearly that what a man believed profoundly affected the way he conducted his life.
2)  OUR VIEW on what it means to fear God.
3)  THE PREVAILING WIND of “escapism” in our churches.
4)  A GENERAL DOWNGRADE to replacing what should be WORSHIP to levity and “entertainment.”

   As concerning doctrine, we read Christ’s words in John 7:17, “If any man will do His will, he shall know of the DOCTRINE (singular), whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself.”

   The entire Bible is a collection of teachings which as a whole reveal to us Christ’s doctrine!  May I present some examples of how what we believe will affect our faith and practice?

   God’s Word tells us that man’s heart is deceitful and desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9).  We read in Ephesians that man is “DEAD in his trespasses and si ...

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