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Well…we can either start passing blame or blame ourselves, but it really doesn’t matter.  Obviously Christians are not getting in their Bibles and not learning anything in their churches.
There is not an alternative way to salvation.  Jesus died for my sins so I can have eternal life.  “50% still agreed that other faiths might offer a path to eternal life”.  What?  Are you people kidding me!
Our Christian culture and society is losing this subvert war.  “Christian” is no longer someone that is saved by Christ and has faith, etc.  It is now simply any nice person.  Oh, she must be a christian because she helped the guy cross the street.  Wrong! 
Take a moment to read Rev 3:14-19.  (I’m going to read into the Church in Laodicea.  Sounds a bit familiar.)

Scripture Reference;

I was telling my wife about a new PC game I have been playing called Sins of a Solar Empire (SoaSE).  There is a game feature that allows you to passively defend and attack other space empires.  Oddly enough, its called Culture.  Basically we watched an entire movie together one night as I left the game running and unattended.  To my pleasant surprise, the majority of the map was covered by my empires culture and I had great wealth stored.  All I had to do to finish the game was wipe up a few planets with my overwhelming fleets.

After reading this article, here is her reply…

[15:01] k: It is like your game
[15:02] s: with culture? ya.
[15:02] k: Satan plays the game and then sits back and lets his cultural destroy everything

Yeah, she hit the nail on the head.  That’s why I love her so much and thank the Lord everyday for her being in my life.

The big difference is that this is real life.  And billions of souls hang in the balance.  The good news is that God never looses.  I’ve picked a side.  Jesus Christ saved me.  He saved you.  You just need to accept it.  There is no other way to be saved.

I just returned from an outstanding week of camp with the church’s youth.  The preacher this week was simply put…awesome.  He taught in a style that I haven’t heard in decades.  Very blunt.  Very potent.

The content of his message focused on the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7.  He didn’t necessarily preach it differently than what I have heard before, but his style made it wholly new to me.  I will try to recap some of my favorite points from his week of sermons.

Old vs. New
Perfect vs. Imperfect
Forgiveness

The old law and the new law are heavily contrasted in these chapters.  Jesus speaks to His disciples specifically regarding several of the laws and how they have changed.  Without the old vs. new theme many of the other themes in the sermon would be missed.

God is perfect.  By being perfect he cannot be with the imperfect.  That pretty much means we are all going to hell.  There is NOTHING we can do to change that.  The best of people are still dripping with sin in the eyes of God.

God doesn’t forgive just to forgive.  Something had to be sacrificed to remove the wrath that would send us downstairs.  Jesus was that sacrifice.  He died for me and all of humanity.  Everyone, regardless of the ugliness of their sin can have salvation through Him.  How wonderful!  As Christians, I see many of us forgetting this.  So get in your Bibles and do some reading.  If you haven’t accepted Jesus as your savior, then start to ask questions and begin your walk with Him.

Without Christ, we are doomed.  There is absolutely no way around it.  We need Jesus to fix our problem with sin.  He died for us and by having Christ in our hearts we are saved.