America now has a choice of two paths to return to God and greatness (or else . . . )<\/p>\n
First Choice:\u00a0 Christians can<\/span> pray and choose to repent (change) now for not separating ourselves from the evils around us in this culture, and not speaking out against them – – – – – watching the godless media in news, music, TV shows, entertainment—storing up money that will soon disappear instead of helping others in need—intimidated into silence, from the pulpit and the pew, about killing babies and marriages—forgetting that our eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, to maintain it just as it was to gain it—keeping too busy to think about all this (that factor will change now)—and, getting too comfortable for too long to realize the warm pot that we should not be in, is near boiling.<\/p>\n WILL CHRISTIANS JUMP OUT OF THE POT, NOW?<\/p>\n or<\/p>\n Second Choice:\u00a0 Christians will<\/span> pray and repent and separate ourselves from the prevailing culture around us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So what is the difference between can<\/span> and will<\/span>?<\/p>\n And what is the difference between Christians in the First Choice and Christians in the Second Choice?<\/p>\n Widespread persecution of Christians in the United States will draw a line separating Christians from all the others who think they are Christians.<\/p>\n And how will that look?\u00a0 Now, when “God’s people . . . turn from their wicked ways”, it will include giving up everything we were not willing to let go of previously, when we tried culturally compatible Christianity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In reference to the opening line:<\/p>\n America may or may not return to greatness.<\/p>\n Christians in America can certainly return to greatness, before God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" America now has a choice of two paths to return to God and greatness (or else . . . ) First Choice:\u00a0 Christians can pray and choose to repent (change) now for not separating ourselves from the evils around us in this culture, and not speaking out against them – – – – – watching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}