The rapidly growing rate of selfishness among Judeo-Christian believers is astonishing! The cultural collapse of America and the collateral collapse within the body of believers is the result of large numbers of believers moving away from God. Virtually every family, social, and cultural controversy is rooted in and caused by historically unprecedented indifference among Judeo-Christian believers.
The number of people caught in the cultural drift increases with each successive generation. The inevitable consequence is a migration from God-inspired selfless behavior to Humanist-inspired selfish behavior, from stability to instability, from order to chaos and from limited government by the people to a metastasized increasingly tyrannical government, controlling the people.
Only YOU can stop and reverse the ungodly drift. If you want your children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and beyond to grow up in the culture we inherited up until the mid-1960s, YOU must trade your indifference for a positive and aggressive effort to make a difference. Not convinced? Consider the table.
Americans and Believers Go From Selfless to Selfish | |
Selfless Behavior | Selfish Behavior |
Frequent lifestyle giving | Addictive use of technology |
Sex without marriage | |
Willingness to wait for what is right | Cohabitation |
Abortion | |
Willingness to wait for others | Give up child for adoption |
Premature use of nursing home | |
Seek godly marriage | Divorce |
Adultery | |
Eagerness for children | Illegal drugs |
Gambling | |
Avoid selfish behavior | Pornography |
Materialism | |
Time/money devoted to the needs of others | Time/money devoted to self-satisfaction |
Avoid marriage/children | |
Gay/lesbian couple adoption |
Each of the listed selfish behaviors are so common today that they are considered to be a “new norm.” Tragically, the rates of divorce and abortion among conservative believers are statistically indistinguishable from the rates among atheists and agnostics. The same is likely true of the other selfish behaviors as well. Whatever the churches and synagogues have been doing for the last 40 years clearly is not working.
People tend to perceive “normal” as the conditions that existed while they were growing up. Later, changing conditions are perceived as abnormal and discomforting, producing criticism of the rising generation. Conversely, as the younger generation experiences a new normal, they tend to criticize their predecessors as old fashioned and out of touch with the times. The pattern is so culturally ingrained that it is taken for granted. However, modern America has produced conditions that are distinctly new in American history.
The generation that grew up prior to the mid-1960s experienced an American culture that was largely driven by Judeo-Christian tradition and values. Their normal was essentially the same normal that was experienced by all generations for the last 400 years on this continent, beginning with the earliest settlers. It was the same value system experienced by hundreds Judeo-Christian generations before anyone ever came to America. Consequently, the widespread acceptance of selfish behaviors today is the real abnormal. The devastating behaviors are not simply different from the previous generation; they fly in the face of thousands of years of deep-rooted stability established by God.
Part 2 will demonstrate that all behavior is rooted in a specific worldview and many behaviors are related to the use and abuse of physical intimacy.
What does it take to wake up the body of believers?
What does it take to wake up the clergy?
May God draw America’s hearts back to Him. Have a wonderful 4th, Dr. Stebbins!
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“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
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