For those of you who say that America is going to hell: As a child growing up in a Southern Baptist church, I learned my place in American culture through Rapture movies. These films ... pictured a time when the church would be suddenly ripped from the earth, sailing through the air to be with the invisible ... Jesus Christ. These films would always then picture the panic of those who were “left behind,” and would depict the societal chaos that would emerge once the “salt and light” of the culture was out of the way. What we never considered was that if such a Rapture were to happen, American culture might be relieved to be rid of us. ... The problem with American Christianity is that we always assumed there were more of “us” than there were of “them.” And we were sometimes confused about who we meant when we said “us.” We will now have to articulate concepts we previously assumed—concepts such as “marriage” and “family” and “faith” and “religion.” .. We should have been doing this all along. Now we will be forced to, simply in order to be understood at all. 9marks.org/article/left-behind-in-america-following-christ-after-culture-wars/#.VGlm84DHVIg.facebook
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:04:33 +0000
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