Decline of Christianity is Undeniable 4 of 4

It’s time for hard questions. If Christians are alarmed by their faith’s waning influence, it’s time for a long look in the mirror. It’s time for religious leaders and professing Christians to ask, “Where do we go from here?” What can we do?

True Christianity is relevant—it’s meaningful, life-changing, and it gives sensible answers. But anything that poses as Christianity isn’t. The masqueraders have fooled millions of people for hundreds of years. It’s only the truth, Jesus said, that can make one free.

As Jesus told the Samaritan woman who was struggling to sort through conflicting religious views, the standard is truth. “The hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him,” He said. “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:23-24).

Are you willing to swim against the rip tide and go on a quest for the truth? To “test all things; hold fast what is good,” as Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 5:21?

If you know God exists and know the Bible is His Word, start by searching out what it really says, not what religious spin specialists tell you. How did the people in the Church Jesus built worship God? What does the Bible say about what He, and His followers, believed and practiced?

Once that’s established, ask, “How did the plain, simple teachings of the Bible and the practices of His Church come to be changed?” “Why were the practices of His Church discarded and substituted, mostly with ideas and traditions borrowed from old pagan religions?”

Finally, A humble, sincere quest for truth—and then a willingness to live it—will make Christianity relevant in your life!

In conclusion, as Christianity fades away and the moral code and culture it generated recede into irrelevance, what will hold us together? Economically, we are dependent on aliens for the necessities of our national life. Our politics are toxic. Our racial divisions, once ameliorated by shared belief in the same God and Bible, are rarer than they were just a few years ago. As for equality, diversity and global democracy, who will march and die for that? Historian Arnold Toynbee said it well: “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”