Which is a very good point.
Over 70% of Americans identify as Christians.
But I seriously doubt that 70% of the American population attend church every Sunday and practice and live the Word on a daily basis, a weekly basis, a monthly basis.
Also, let’s tie this article to the recent article (a few weeks back) about how Christianity is dying in this country.
I don’t think it is, But I do think that fewer and fewer people attend church for one simple reason:
The pulpits have been taken over by the secularists.
What is happening in the Christian churches in this country is exactly analogous to what is happening to the Republican party.
The majority of the people in this country are conservative, are constitutionalists. That majority is tired of the RINOs leaning to the left and supporting an administration that loathes the US Constitution. So the Republicans leave the Republican party and turn independent or simply refuse to vote.
So what does the GOP do? They go more to the left to try to attract those voters that will NEVER vote for Republicans.
This is what the church has done. In a country whose culture is spiraling downward into Hades, the churches soften the message about what God expects of us, of sin, of being in the world but not of the world.
People who are seeking God see that as just another Oprah show and don’t go to church.
The numbers of those who attend church decline. So what do the churches do to try to fill the pews? They turn even further to the left, toward secularism.
I don’t know of a church that doesn’t welcome homosexuals (ALL sinners for that matter) to attend church, to learn the gospel, to be saved, to be baptized). But there is quite a difference between that and supporting same-sex marriage and enabling a sinful behavior that the Bible says is an abomination to God.
The argument I use against those who support same-sex marriage is this:
I say, you accept this because it has been popularized in our culture.
Would you have the same level of support for adultery? Incest? Bigamy? Two brothers or two sisters “marrying”?
No, you wouldn’t. But this sin and its express flipping of the bird to God by calling these relationships “marriage” (which they are not, it is no more real than Ken and Barbie weddings) have been popularized, so you accept it.
And, yes, as another FRiend stated, this is certainly an issue separating the wheat from the chaff.