What Is Your Role In Society?
Our generation, your generation, and this nation is faced with the greatest and most serious cultural crisis in the history of world. The crisis we are confronted with is the DIRECT RESULT of the radical change in the way people think about what is true.
We are not living in a post Christian culture, we are living in an anti-Christian culture!
We have read books, attended conferences, reconciliation events, racial forgiveness services, and think tanks trying to solve the pressing issues facing our communities, neighborhoods, and families. I believe for the most part the intentions are genuine but I believe there are some deeper roots.
Out of feelings of hopelessness, many have compromised their principles and submitted to the god of this world.
Will Egypt? If you lean on Egypt, you will find it to be a stick that breaks beneath your weight and pierces your hand. The Pharaoh of Egypt is completely unreliable! (Isaiah 36:6) NLT
Egypt is a typology of the world and the people of the world’s system and Pharaoh is a typology of the leader(s).
Spiritual leaders, community leaders, and community organizations have become dependent and subservient to the godless government of this nation in order to get a FREE handout. We have sacrificed our voice, silenced our convictions, and sold our vote for crumbs and enslavement. A government which………………..
- Removes prayer from the educational system
- Bans the 10 commandments
- Protects rights to murder innocent unborn infants
- Protects gay and same-sex marriages
- Compulsively spends out of greed
It is not a godly or moral system of justice. It has become deceived, hijacked, and taken over by the god of this world.
You can not root out, tear down, destroy, or overthrow (Jeremiah 1:10) until you are free of the ingredient of secularism. The American church has become so polluted, infected, contaminated, and poisoned, it is no longer able to submit effective prayers which can speak to the dry bones and mobilize an army of influencers to interrupt the current course America is traveling. We are too weak, anemic, and out of alignment.
Before we can know “how to” respond to our decaying culture, we must FIRST understand how the Bible relates to our life as a whole, not in bits and pieces.
Most believers have a church view, a church vision, a church mission, and a church life, but they have not let God influence every area of their lives. Therefore, they do not have a world view or a life view from God’s view.
God does not have a heaven life and an earth life. God does not separate the two worlds. He sees everything from a spiritual view and it is a Kingdom view.
Americans have a sacred life and a secular life. A church life and a home life. A spiritual life and a personal life. We do not include God in our parenting, educational choices, career selection, home building, vehicle purchases, retirement, and recreational activities. That is our personal life.
This is the tragedy and downfall of our government, nation, church, family, and our faith. We have become fearful, scared, intimidated, and paralyzed to release God in any environment outside of “church.”
Let me now set some ground work and biblical roots to PROVE my statements. Maybe I cannot prove them unless you and I can come into agreement on one thing.
Can you and I agree that the Bible – God’s Holy Word – is the only accurate source we have to anchor life to? If not, we are in disagreement. This failure to understand God’s word to be 100% our only source leaves us with no standard of absolute truth. Truth must be accurate all the time and unchanging eternally.
There is no document of American history we can use because America is only 250+ years old. For something to be truth and an accurate moral compass, it must have always been and always will be.
If we can agree the Bible is our universal source of accurate truth then we have a reference point. Let me start here…
What Is Your/My Role In Society? 
I believe Matthew 5:13-14 states clearly and simply what our role is in society.
“You Are The Salt Of the Earth.” It does not say some are salt, a few are salt, if you want to be salt, but YOU ARE the SALT!
“You Are The Light Of The World.” Again it does not say some are lights, a few are selected as lights, or if you want to be you can be a light, but YOU ARE the LIGHT!
Abba Father placed us in the world to be a seasoning of God’s love, wisdom, righteousness, character, and goodness. We are to be part of and involved in every arena of society. We are to be proactively participating in……
- Theology – There is a God and teaching what He is like
- Philosophy – Demonstrating what is real, and how to know what is truth and what is not truth
- Biology – Explaining how life originated and the value of life
- Psychology – Giving the reasons why humanity behaves the way it does and needs a Savior
- Ethics – Teaching this generation what is right, wrong, acceptable, and unacceptable
- Sociology – Role modeling strong healthy structures of family for society
- Law – What law rules our lives, why we must submit to law, and understanding authority
- Politics – What is the best type of government and its purpose
- Economics – What are the principles for making, spending, and stewardship of money
- History - What can I learn from the past and where are we headed?
Our role is so much more than being a Christian. By the way, what is a Christian and what do Christians do?
- They go to church
- They own a Bible
- They pray
- They give to missions
- They are Republicans
If you are a Christian then it is time for you to start THINKING again. One of the biggest mistakes I have observed in the so-called Christian community is ignorance. Being a Christian is far more important than a personal, private, selfish, greedy, timid, intimate relationship with God.
It must influence and infect EVERY aspect of life and how you relate to the world.
What Is Your Role In Society? You will find out more as we journey into a real, genuine, tangible, understanding of who God is and why He hand-picked and selected you to live upon the earth.
Father, I ask you to open the wonderful minds of each individual reading this post. I ask you Holy Spirit to expand their understanding of the Bible’s view of life, their life, and they fit into your world.
