Is God Irrelevant?
Is Jesus meaningless??
Is Church boring?
Today, less than 30% regularly attend church and that number is rapidly declining. It appears that more and more believers in God are seeing the local church as irrelevant to the world they live in. Surveys reveal that up to 90% of church members believe they are not being taught how to apply the Bible to the complex world of work where they spend 60-70% of their time.
It’s not that society has left the bible behind, those that teach the bible have failed to show its relevancy.
Are the ten commandments no longer relevant? Is fidelity, integrity, respectful of innocent life, personal property, monogamy, honesty and having lacking envy over the property of others no longer relevant? Is loving your neighbor as yourself unimportant? Is an understanding of world history to be trated like garbage (especially when it says things we don't like)??
For example: How many people know that the Jewish homeland for over 3000 years is Israel. And that the nation of Palestine, who claims the land of Israel never existed? It was predicted 2500 years ago the Jews would be driven out of their land (fulfilled in 70AD), only to return in the final days (fulfilled in AD1948)! How many understand that Israel will never fall to another nation again, that never again will the Jews be driven out of their land, and God Himself has promised to protect His people Israel from all the enemies surrounding them until He returns. Yet Israel is being threatened by neighboring Iran (Persia) to be exterminated, just as predicted. (Psalm 83, Ezekiel 38, 39). Finally, does anybody know how this will affect them today? And how should they protect themselves in the upcoming world war?
How many know the disasters, natural and man made, that we experience now were predicted by Jesus 2000 years ago? (Matthew 24) Yes, we have always had natural disasters, just nowhere near the numbers we deal with today. And man made disasters are at all time highs; including wars and terrorist attacks, plagues, and famines; all manageable, but mankind is not dealing with any of them proactively, nor are they properly reacting to them.
Do you know about the scientific evidence that proves beyond any reasonable doubt the our universe was created with intelligent design? Studies in microbiology, astrophysics, quantum physics all point to a creator. Example: what is laminin; and how important is it for all life on earth? Why is it shaped like a cross? And how many clues to the wonders of this planet and the universe were inserted inside this Bible?
The same creator who inspired the Bible, (there is scientific evidence supporting this as well) made thousands of prophecies that have almost 100% come true (the only ones that haven’t come true are the ones that have to deal with our future! This same creator designed and created everything for His enjoyment and ours, and wants everyone to join Him in heaven, but He lets us make that choice. There are simply too many "coincidences", thousands of them in fact, to leave the creation of the universe to chance.
No other scriptual book makes the claim that every word was inspired by God. Only the Bible makes this claim, and it can back it up. The Q'ran cannot.
Churches must make the bible relevant. If yours doesn't, find one that does. You can get entertainment and socializing in a tavern; you don't need church for that. Make attending church inspiring, motivating, encouraging. Make your church relevant.
If the bible cannot be shown how important it is in these times, no one will hear and understand, which means no one will believe, and therefore, no one will have any hope. Without hope, governments replace god. Just ask any survivor of the USSR, or China under Chairman Mao.
What was true and relevant 2000, 3000, even 4000 years ago is still true and relevant today. Our founding fathers pleged their finances, their families and their very lives over the principles in the Bible. It was relevant to them. Make God's word, the Holy Bible relevant to you.
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