I am still confused about what it means to be Post Modern and Post Christian. Post Modern sounds contradictory to me as does Neo Orthodoxy. And if the gates of Hell can’t over come, then there will never be a Post Christian Era. Well at least that is wishful thinking. i.e. The Church at Ephesus is no longer present. (I don’t think the gates of Hell will prevail. But the Church’s light is quite dim in places it use to shine brightly)
Some people claim there are no absolutes… even though everyone has absolutes. I think you know what I mean. They just are not the same from person to person. And that is why we all need the decalogue. The first command is the one broken most of all in my opinion. Especially since we all start off dead in sin and separated from God.
(Exo 20:1) And God spake all these words, saying, (Exo 20:2) I am the LORD thy God……
(Exo 20:3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Just for added emphasis I will add this portion also……… It shows God was concerned about His people worshipping a false God.
(Exo 34:12) Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
(Exo 34:13) But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
(Exo 34:14) For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
(Exo 34:15) Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
(Exo 34:16) And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
I must admit that I did get a glimpse of a Post Christian era Chapel in the Hospital I visited yesterday. There was an Islamic symbol, Star of David, and Cross all inviting worshippers into it’s supposed inner sanctum. It instantly made me think of the foreign gods Isreal picked up to worship through out her historical journey. They seemed to just add gods along side of Jehovah as they went along. This didn’t boad well for them either. Jehovah is a Jealous GOD. And I don’t believe it is going well for us in the USA either. We are just allowing our citizens to add god’s to our landscape, or eliminate God altogether, for the supposed sake of freedom.
I am concerned that the Church of Christ and myself are lagging in this area also. I struggle with it. It is hard to tell your neighbor that there is one God and if they worship a different god than Him they are going to Hell. That kind of conversation usually ends friendships. But I guess that is the problem. We want to be friends with the world. I know I struggle with this as well. It just may be the problem isn’t that we are moving into a Post Christian era as much as we are turning away from doing and being what we ought to be….. Strangers and So-jouners in the world.
One way to overcome this problem would be to honour God’s decalogue and proclaim Truth and Grace as it is found in Christ our Saviour. Despite what era people think we are in there is something that hasn’t changed. It is the charge we need to proclaim to the world. Sinners, Covenant Breakers, and all who fall short of the Glory of God, Flee from the Wrath to Come. Fall upon Christ for Mercy or He will fall upon you with His Wrath. Jehovah is a jeolous God.
