Truth Decay

   There is not enough dental floss or toothpaste left in the world to rescue the American church from its severe battle with truth decay.

   I often hear people talk about how crazy things have become in the world and my friends often laugh at the snowflakes that we see whining on television.  But what we see on the streets of America is nothing more than the consequences of the truth decay so prevalent in America’s churches.

   The salt has truly lost it’s savor.  That is what Jesus warned us about during His sermon on the mount: Unless the church held fast to the reigns of Biblical morality the impending results would be a “good for nothing” form of Christianity.

   Look around you and you see the impact of this truth decay everywhere you look.

   Jesus commanded us to be “the salt of the earth.”  In some of His final thoughts before leaving this earth He charged His followers with both a commission and a commandment.  Being a Christian was — and still is — so much more than “accepting Christ” and “going to heaven.”

   “Go into all of the world,”  I paraphrase Him in Matthew 24, “and teach them all things that I have commanded you.”   “Go” is the commandment and “teach” is the commission. &nbs ...

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