So many of us who profess Jesus to be King are holding onto the darkness of anger and unforgiveness in our hearts as so many have forgotten that Jesus forgave all of our sins on the cross.

The inability to forgive and holding onto anger only only separates God’s blessings and love from our life. As a result our lives continue to fall apart whether we accept to look at our lives this way or not.

Jesus is the only judge and he loves each one of us thus the reason for dying on the cross. Who are we to punish and/or or be angry towards others as believers in Jesus Christ? Our anger is an active response of a negative moral judgment against perceived evil.

Forgiveness of others and ourselves is the key to living in harmony with Jesus Christ. If not now, then when?

We actually live in a spiritual and literal community; we celebrate the Lords Supper every day together. We are presently living as the book of Acts depicts the early family of God living, and have been doing so for nearly 4 years.

The rest of the story will be told here in the upcoming days, weeks and months Lord willing. We believe that the testimony of Jesus Christ is “still” being written and that we are among His living epistles. His epistles are written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, on tablets of human hearts.

And you thought the bible was all there is to this great Living God…Jesus Christ, humanities Messiah?

The Work of the Ecclesia

This is a simplistic look at the concept of the “purpose of the ecclesia.” There is no other organism like it; it is not a “church,” or a religious practice that is governed by man. Regardless of what one’s idea of the entity that Yahshua Himself is building, the “ecclesia – the assembly of His chosen & called ones” looks and lives by a standard set by the Messiyah Himself.

Contrary to popular religious thinking, Yahshua’s assembly is not in line with the prevailing culture. Yet the religiously educated of our day say that it must be “culturally relevant” in order for it to be appealing, attractive or important to people today. I disagree with all of that. Let me give you an example of why I disagree.

“Now when they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And according to Paul’s custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and giving evidence that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.” And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of the God-fearing Greeks and a number of the leading women. But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the market place, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and attacking the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people. When they did not find them, they began dragging Jason and some brethren before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have upset the world have come here also; and Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.” Acts 17:1-7 NASB (Emphasis mine)

Obviously the Jews were not happy with the message of Paul and Silas; it made them jealous, and caused them to attack the house of Jason and Jason himself. What was stirring the anger of the people is clear; they were saying that “these men (Paul and Silas) had upset the world.” That is an amazing accusation to make, and I believe that they were right, here’s why.

The message of the Kingdom of God on earth was and is a real problem for the world back then as it is now. Notice it was generally the religious (Jews) back then who struggled with the gospel of the kingdom message and it’s the same today, it’s the religious (Catholics and protestants.) Read on and you will see what I am saying clearly.

The passage does not stop with the statement that Paul & Silas were upsetting the world. It goes on to define what it was that was upsetting the Jewish & Roman “world.” It doesn’t say they were speaking against Caesar; it says they were “acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar” that is considered breaking the law. In a day when simply speaking against Caesar could get one in serious trouble, they were actually living a life that was in disregard of Caesar and his leadership.

I can understand why that may be upsetting the Romans, but why were the Jews upset about this? We know they were under Roman oppression, right? What is actually happening here? The Jews had no love for the Romans, yet when some of their own Jewish brothers stood up against the Roman authority, the rest of the Jews appeared to have sided with the Romans? That’s seems crazy to me. What was actually happening there?

I think we can get a better picture of what was taking place if we consider the rest of the sentence, they (Paul & Silas) “were saying that there is another King, Yahshua!”
Once again I can see the problems the Romans would have with this; the question to be asked is why the “Roman oppressed Jews” are having a problem with Paul & Silas proclaiming Yahshua a “Jew” as King?

All of Christ’s life (His testimony) fulfilled all the prophetic evidence from the Old Testament concerning the Messiyah, and fulfilled the law yet they did not recognize these things. At the same time the Jews were not agreeing that one of their own was the King as Paul & Silas were proclaiming in the face of serious retribution. Disregarding Christ as King of kings is deception and rebellion in the strongest sense.

We know the Jews did not receive their Messiyah they rejected Him. However those who believed in Him are noted as “acting in a way that was contrary” to the powers that be of their day when the ways of man and mans government were in conflict with the ways of God! Go ahead and try to find a people today who will stand for Christ in the face of governmental pressure. I am not referring to a group of misguided people who “think or say” that they are Christian only to have their very lives betray that proclamation. I am talking about a family that lives in a tight knit community spreading forth the life of Christ as they went/go by virtue of how they live, difficult to find wouldn’t you say? More on this in subsequent parts.

While I would agree that the “church” is culturally relevant today, they can never make Yahshua more culturally relevant, ever, they simply do not have that kind of power, no one does. Do you see the “church” in any flavor turning out people like Paul & Silas who turn their world upside down by the way they live? And how’s that you might ask? By living a life the supports their verbal claims that the federal government or some ruling king is not king, but rather Christ is King and then live out a loyalty to Christ Yahshua that may bring death as a result?

When you do find a people who live like Paul & Silas, and they are here, you will see that the “religious church” is attacking them for their message just like the “religious Jews” attacked them. The “church” in any flavor has no clue as to why, where and how Christ is building the ecclesia that they think “they” are. You will never see the “church” stand against the kings of the earth like Paul and Silas did, and with the same effect “upsetting the world” the “church” is nothing more than a religious form of the kings of the earth today.

In the next part we will go on to what the purpose of the “ecclesia” is in this the age of the Holy Spirit and grace.

I am frequently asked for my thoughts on “public education.” Granted this is a dicey issue that can get you into a lot of trouble very quickly. However, the question is legitimate, given education’s enormous role in shaping our children; thus, as Christians, we have no choice but to wrestle with the answers, even if we don’t like them.

Martin Luther wrote almost 500 years ago, “I am much afraid that schools will prove to be great gates of Hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.” Clearly the Scriptures do not reign paramount in today’s public educational system and, true to Luther’s prediction, the institution has indeed suffered corruption from its earlier intentions.

Dr. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Theological Seminary and host of the nationally syndicated radio program The Al Mohler Program, revealed the secularizing influence on contemporary public education in an article, “Needed: An Exit Strategy.” I would only expand on his foundation to reinforce the veracity of his claims.

F. W. Parker, the so-called father of progressive education and inspiration for John Dewey (an educational reformer), told the 1895 convention of the National Education Association (NEA) that “the child is not in school for knowledge. He is there to live, and put his life, nurtured in the school, into the community.” According to Parker, the family home and religious faith must give way to a “grander vision” for society that is cast by the state. Recent initiatives promoting acceptance of homosexual conduct, historical revisionism, multiculturalism, and the like reveal the antireligious and anti-Western nature of this “vision.”

Allan Carlson, Ph.D., professor of history at Hillsdale College and director of the Family in America Studies Center writes, “From the very beginning, public school advocates aimed at undermining and displacing the family as the center of children’s lives. The most important claim for public education was [and continues to be] that only a compulsory system of this sort could unify a scattered and diverse people: the parochial ideas of families obviously stood in the way.”

This is the fundamental and often overlooked problem with the modern public education system; it is its goal of supplanting the family as the principal influence and primary means for preparing the nation’s children to be “good citizens.” Where do we get this idea that upon age six (at the latest) we should send our children away for six to seven hours a day to be trained by others? The fact is, prior to government-funded schools Americans, generally speaking, were better educated. My concern with public education centers principally on its role in elevating the state’s authority above that of the family.

Norman Ryder of Princeton University, writing more than twenty-five years ago in The Population Bulletin of the United Nations, “Education of the junior generation is a subversive influence. Boys who go to schools distinguish between what they learn there and what their father can teach them. The family structure is undermined when the young are trained outside the family.” Ryder adds, “there is a struggle between the families and the State for the minds of the young.” In this struggle, the state serves as “the chief instrument for teaching [a new] citizenship, in a direct appeal to the children over the heads of their parents. The school also serves as the medium for communicating ‘state morality’” (Norman Ryder, Fertility and Family Structure, “Population Bulletin of the United Nations 15,” 1983, p. 29).

Lesslie Newbigin, the famed theologian and missiologist, stated it this way, “The transmission of traditional wisdom in families from the old to the young is replaced by systems of education organized by the State and designed to shape young minds toward the future that is being planned.” Of course this planned future is grounded in secular humanistic hopes for humanity that, it is believed, can be achieved through education. In this secular scheme, sin is nowhere a factor in what ails humanity, our social ills are the product of ignorance, and human beings have a natural propensity for doing good that is only inhibited by external influences. The institutional emphasis of state-directed education aggressively excludes any recognition of the biblical concepts of sin, the fall, and mankind made in the image of God.

The modern idea that education is the ultimate responsibility of the state originates directly from atheistic, enlightenment thinking, which perceives the state as savior. Throughout Scripture it is parents who are charged with the final responsibility to raise and train their children and the nature and scope of that training is made quite explicit for those who profess faith in Christ. Unfortunately, too many Christians consider education collateral to their faith, merely preparation for a job. In thinking this way Christians are making the same false distinction between the world of “facts” and the world of “values” that the Enlightenment thinkers made. The Bible makes no such distinction. The world of facts—the material world including all of God’s creation and the social structures of man (facts), can only be fully understood in the light of God’s revelation (values).

It is the neglect of this truth by many professing Christians that has subsequently allowed the public school system—as an institution—to achieve its secular drift. Couple this form of education with the diminished emphasis upon theology, doctrine, and discipleship by many churches and it is no wonder that Christianity has become a marginalized way of thinking in American culture.

So, do we fold up our tents and run or do we stay and work to affect change from within? I say it may be a little of both. One possible solution is the idea of returning to a decentralized education system. It is the concentration of bureaucratic power that has rendered public schools incapable of localized reform and enabled the influence of special interest groups and union organizations such as the NEA.

In 1932, there were 127,531 independent school districts in the U.S., many of them operating a single school. By 1990 there were only 17,995 school districts left. This consolidation of control into bureaucratic structures only further undermined parental influence and input. Dr. Carlson suggests “a radical deconsolidation of the public system, down to even the single-school level.” He goes on to say that this “would weaken bureaucratic and union strangleholds on the schools and so return them to real community control, where parental and neighborhood moral judgments could again play a role.” This structure would certainly afford active Christians a much greater opportunity for positive influence over the institutions they allow to educate their children. Presently, only private institutions and homeschooling offer any measure of real parental influence.

Finally, there are those who argue in defense of their children attending public schools that “our children will serve as ‘salt and light.’” However, this argument really doesn’t come close to addressing the institutional and philosophical problems now ingrained in public education. Frankly, I would add, this approach must be carefully weighed against the psalmist’s charge to walk not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers (see Ps. 1:1).

In a message sent to the chief rabbi of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI hoped for the promotion of justice and peace in the world as Jews observe a string of holidays in September. The Holy Father also prayed for improved relations between the Catholic and Jewish communities of the world.

The Holy Father sent a message by telegram to the chief rabbi of Rome, Dr. Riccardo Di Segni, for the Jewish holidays of Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. Each of the traditional holidays falls in September this year.

Recognizing these three important days on the Jewish calendar, Pope Benedict hoped that they “might bring copious blessings from the eternal and be a source of intimate joy.

“May the will to promote justice and peace, of which we have so much need in the world today, grow in all of us,” he added.

Remembering his visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome last January with “gratitude and affection,” he prayed that God, “in his goodness, protect the entire community and allow us to grow, in Rome and in the world, in mutual friendship.”

Also on that occasion he concluded his address by hoping for improved relations between Catholics and Jews, asking God “to strengthen our fraternal bonds and to deepen our mutual understanding.”

Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish new year, was marked on Thursday of this week. The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) will be observed on Sept. 18 and the remembrance of the wandering in the desert and thanksgiving for the harvest (Sukkot) falls on Sept. 23.

The Gas Can Preacher, an elder but eccentric fella; been preaching to folks for quite a long time in the local area of southwestern Virginia, was recently arrested and held in the Lynchburg, VA mental hospital for refusing to reject his belief that he hears the voice of God…

So, how did all this happen, especially in “Jerry Falwell” country..?

This man has been carrying a gas can for as long as folks in these parts can remember. He believes in simple living and therefore doesn’t own a car; rather, he relies upon the goodness of others to get him around from place to place. Enter the gas can, he uses it to help those who help him – seems its a lot cheaper to travel this way and it gives him the opportunity to meet and minister to others by cheering them up, or encouraging them in their daily path, and praying for them as he travels around and carries out his daily activities…

Apparently a couple of weeks ago, he contacted the good folks at the medicare office and was trying to set up an appointment; the person that answered the phone (imagine this) was from a different country and had a very strong accent. As they were talking, he mentioned that he would be along shortly and would be carrying his gas can with him so they would know that is how he traveled around.

Now, it gets interesting. She apparently didn’t understand what he was saying, instead perceiving that he was threatening to blow the place up with a gas can, she called the authorities; who dutifully met him at the front door with the bomb squad in tow. They arrested him and took away his gas can, charging him with attempting to blow up a federal facility… Oh, its gets even more ridiculous, just wait…

Somehow, the details are a little sketchy here, he was contacted by the Veterans Affairs Hospital folks, being a veteran, who asked for him to come over and be evaluated by their psychological folks and the police cooperated. He shows up, they ask him a bunch of silly questions about why he wanted to blow up the federal building, he denies that he ever said anything stupid like that and tried to explain his gas can. He got so frustrated that they weren’t listening, so he excused himself and left – returning to his home in total disgust… (good for you Gas Can Preacher)

Well, there were apparently three officers waiting for him there who, having heard about his hasty departure from the VA mental center, quickly transported him to the Mental Hospital in Lynchburg to have him admitted, claiming he was a dangerous criminal and they made sure to inform the staff of the charges against him.

The Horseback Preacher

Let me take a moment to remind our readers, that in the 18th century, ‘The Horseback Preacher’ played a vital role in the History of America.  John Wesley was a man of thought, producing volumes of sermons, hymns, and other writings. But he was also a man of action, traveling more than 200,000 miles over sea and land, much of that by horseback, to spread the Word of God. Through his eighty-seven years of life, John Wesley was uniquely used by God to share the message of personal holiness, discipline, and charity.

Now, it was over a week before he was allowed to tell anybody that all this was happening. Finally, he gets word out to a pastor friend, who goes to visit him and discovers this astounding and terrifying story first hand. He tells the pastor they won’t let him go until he rejects the notion that he hears from God, and this false notion of an unseen God whom he claims to have a relationship with – and they are claiming he is the crazy one… geez…

So he is now stuck in this facility while the standoff continues…

So let me get this straight (and this is what America is coming to); a woman who works for the government, who can’t speak or understand our language or culture, feels threatened by something she can’t understand reports this innocent and harmless traveling preacher to authorities who automatically don’t buy his story about this gas can that he has traveled with for decades around the local, more rural areas of Virginia – the city folks just can’t get their brains around this so they put this poor guy through psychological hell while they take a stand against his religious beliefs and refuse to let him back into society until he is ‘made better’ by the nut cases that are running this whole circus…  Brilliant, just brilliant..!

If you’re an American, you should be offended by this..! How many ‘traveling preachers’ have laced our history folks..? How many communities or individuals would claim that guys like this had a life changing and positive influence on their lives throughout the course of American history..?  Not to mention the local culture in that part of Virginia and the countless witnesses that could’ve been brought into the situation had they allowed him to call for assistance…

This whole ‘terrorist’ thing is spinning out of control ya’ll – when a simple, yet eccentric older man, who makes his way around and is very well known in his area of the country, trespasses into what has become ‘occupied territory’  (e.g. the big city) by foreigners who turn him in to ‘authorities’ because he ‘hears voices’ – yeah, you got it… Welcome to modern day American Christianity – me thinks we are in trouble…

When America was introduced to the radio a national network of transmitters connected one coast to the other as American’s, no matter where you lived in the country, started to learn about each other.  American’s not only would be connected to each other, they were now connected to the outside world.

Today we couldn’t even imagine what that world must have been like.  We are connected to each other in a unique way that we have now taken for granted.  Early American’s in the 1930’s did not.  Primitive connectivity was an evolution for a people as awareness beyond their local towns was now created, whether for good or for bad.

As the once closed world of connectivity became the open world of information, as elementary as it was, people became aware of the horrors occurring in nations around the world, such as in Germany.

Many comparisons are made between then and now, rightfully so.  Sure, high employment, economic disaster, and the evolution of communication, but there are two major differences.

The first is people weren’t afraid to work.  Not only were they not afraid to work, they worked hard, really hard.  Imagine living in a world where there were no computers, air conditioning, malls, and fast food restaurants. There was no television, video games, cell phones, or in most cases phones as we known of them today.  The world was completely different yet today we often keep making comparisons between then and now.

The second is that American’s were being introduced to global affairs such as the rise of Germany.  People cared because it was new information.  There was still a sense of innocence across America, though there were horrible years such as the revolution, civil war and slavery.  Sure these were horrible years for our country, but there was still a sense of innocence amongst the people as the information being received was unique and hitting people at the heart because it had never done so before.

Also to be considered along these lines is that perhaps it was because the majority of people were a people of faith.  This is not the kind of faith that we think of today.  Rather it is a true faith.  A faith that wasn’t questioned as it is today.  The biggest difference between people of faith was what denomination you belonged.   This faith of the 1930’s was strong and nothing stood in its way as an entire people under One God expanded a nation and created the infrastructure and industries we see today because they knew all things are possible through God.

If you take these two major differences into consideration you will see that the America of today and the America of the 1930’s are completely different.

Today we have become numb on current affairs.  Nothing seems to affect us at all. The American spirit is gone.  The American spirit we see today isn’t the same as the 1930’s.  Today the American spirit is rooted in judgment, mistrust, hate, power, and supremacy.  God is nowhere to be found and those who claim God is at the center of their lives and the groups they belong is often completely opposite of the true God.  We must call this god a lower case god.  This lower case god can be found everywhere coming from the lying lips of those who utter freedom and One Nation under god, through the lens of ungodly lives surrounded by pride, greed, envy, wrath, sloth, gluttony, and lust.   However, we must not hate or get mad at these people because they don’t even realize what they are doing and/or creating.

American’s in the 1930’s weren’t afraid to get their hands dirty and do whatever it took to get a job or the job done.  Sure, World War II woke up the entire nation and created huge industries.  But seriously, what if a time of war occurred like World War II and all the comforts of our world were taken away? Would we really rise to the occasion or would we continue with the outsourcing spirit as we sit by waiting for the Government to answer all of our questions to come up with solutions?

America was the beacon of light on top of the hill, but its time has come and gone.  Rather America is still up on top of the hill and its light is just about to go out as a garbage dump takes its place filled with a people who are worst than the nastiest infected blackhead anyone could ever get on his or her face.

So where do we go from here?  Is it doom and gloom?  We could have risen to the occasion after September 11, 2001 but we failed to do so.  In recent years we could have created local jobs for the long haul through protectionism yet capitalism dictates we must continue to expand to other areas of the world due to greed.

Socialism and communism do not work.  Perhaps, and only perhaps a true wake up call will happen is when everything, including the economy, completely collapses, and the lies beneath the motivations of our lifestyles are exposed for what they are.  Perhaps only then, people will have no other way to look but up to realize, perhaps discover for the first time, and in many cases look beyond the pains of the past and preconceived notions of faith, that we are truly One Nation Under God as the God who would like for us to follow him, not force us to follow because we have freewill, requires a completely different way of living life not too different from the 1930’s.  Of course we would need to correct the mistakes of the past and perhaps the American spirit will be sparked once again.

If history does repeat itself, we must start asking these hard questions through open debate outside the cable / television airwaves in local public arenas.   The only difference is whether or not we rise out of our sloth and do what we know is right in our hearts.  However, its sad to see racism on the rise as people of color are now waging a war against those who are not as the mistakes of the past are once again repeating themselves.  Our leaders say whatever they need to say to get votes to stay in power.

If you are agnostic and/or atheist, I am not looking to convert you but rather I write what I am about to say to address a people who call themselves people of faith.  We are all brothers and sisters under God. We are all in this together but unfortunately many of us in this category are not living as if that were the case and as a result our eyes have been closed though you don’t even realize this is the case.

Early American’s truly cared and loved our country.  Most importantly they loved God.  Today we are indicating we do not really care about these types of issues except for one’s own personal gain whether it is for millions of dollars or a welfare check.

What do you think?

Let me know here or at DemocaryMarch.org

If not now, then when?

Here is a crazy idea, why a car donations to a charitable organization?

Are you too busy to try to sell the car?

Is there any use for the old car?

There are organizations that would be willing to tow it away for you for the donation.

What are the incentives to donate car?

Helping people in need (obviously).

An excellent chance that you could write off the resale value of the car as a tax deduction. The organization would more than likely be very willing to let you know what price they received for the car when they sold it. You in turn, would supply this information to the person who does your taxes so it could be put in your tax return. In other words, this helps you as well as the organization.

Vehicle donations works basically the same as any other donation with the exception that the organization will sell the car and then use the money that they receive for the car for something good. The organizations can be for anything.

A great organization for vehicle donations is Cars Fighting Cancer, www.carsfightingcancer.org When you donate the car it is considered a donation for what the current Kelley Blue Book value is. The mileage is also considered in the value of the car.

When you donate the car the organization will give you a receipt for the car with the current Blue Book value on the receipt. This helps in showing that the donation was a legitimate donation especially if the name and address of the organization is on the receipt. Another situation where a couple of bad apples have spoiled the whole bunch, some people have made up deductions so it is always a good idea to have proof. If the person would sell the car and get more than the Blue Book value for the car they would have to report that as a gain and then report that on their taxes and actually have to pay taxes on that gain. But, if the person would get less than the Blue Book value the person would not be able to report that as a loss unless of course they were in the business of selling cars. In other words, a car salesman could report that as a loss but a grocery store owner could not.

So, donate your car to help find a cure for cancer. Free iPod/Visa Gift Card for all auto donations with Cars Fighting Cancer. Every car Donation is 100% tax deductible. Help find a cure by donating your car to fight cancer today. Your car donation will continue to give cancer sufferers a sign of hope.

Much of the problems we see today are due to individuals saying one thing and living a completely opposite way, especially so-called Christians and/or believers in Jesus Christ or better yet anyone who has a belief in a higher power.

Statistics will show that the opinion of a majority will usually dictate the direction of a trend.  Does this still hold true in the American society where lust, gluttony, greed, laziness, wrath, and envy are the cornerstone of most people’s lives?  The sad part is people seem to enjoy living this way as what you see broadcasted on TV, radio and Internet is a clear indication.

Children are a reflection of their parents.  What a child perceives and is taught from an early age will have an influence on how they will become, whether good or bad.  But let’s not classify what is good and bad for the sake of this article.

Hollywood is the center of the entertainment industry.  The 50 square mile radius around Hollywood affects the entire world.  It’s ironic that less than 25 miles away from Hollywood is Chatsworth, California the notorious capital of the pornography industry.  Yet do people even think about how the entertainment industry is creating the world we see today just like a child being influenced by their parents?

Is the world being held hostage by a small group of media executives who realize lust, greed, wrath, and envy increases ratings and sells more products regardless of the moral decay of the American society, and now slowly most modern societies around the world? I think not as greed is greed and perhaps they are giving us exactly what we want.

Today we point our fingers at everything that is wrong with the world and what is out of order around us.  How easy is it to blame someone else for the problems of the American society, whether it is another nation, religion, presidential leader or perhaps people that are closest to us.  And how difficult it is to take ultimate responsibility for our own actions regardless of how big or small.

It’s amazing how our political leaders and news commentators are all about self-promotion.  People are plugged to the television watching the latest news, getting upset at the mistakes of the past and talking about restoration yet the EGO of these individuals are getting huge as ratings have always been about being #1.  The sad part is these programs offer very little advise on what we need to do right now.

Complain, complain, complain, progressives, liberals, conservatives, socialists or whatever the label but nothing is ever getting done beyond a rally or big talk from big headed people who can’t get anything done other than spending, spending, and spending from both American political parties over the years as the American people sit silently by doing nothing other than voting for political leaders as if it’s a popularity contest versus being based on facts.

Enough talk about cutting federal spending, or financial reform, or globalization.  The time is now to start making the difference in our own individual lives.

What I am about to say is directed at Christian’s and Christian’s only though it pertains to anyone out there who feels they want to rise above the sheep and cattle to become a more socially responsible person.

Wake up now!  We are a majority of the population in the United States.  Where are the Christian pastors who are supposed to be leading their flocks?  What we see is an embarrassment across the United States especially from the media industry yet you fail to do anything at all.   How many of you Christians actually want to be holy versus trying to be holy every Sunday at church?  If you were truly being Christians the reflection of our society would be completely different.  Period.  We wouldn’t have as much violence on television and in the real world, sex outside of marriage, profanity, adulterous relationships, divorce, and abortion.   Yet the majority of you Christians think you are going to heaven when you die because you profess from your mouth “Jesus Christ is my personal Lord and Savior”… Don’t you?

Give me a break as entire nation of Christians is headed straight to hell, if you aren’t already living in it right now, because our pastors and priests fail to do what is right.  You hypocrites, backsliding, destroyers of society as your ways have become evil and in your evilness you fail to see what is right and what is wrong.

You have given a bad name Jesus Christ and as a result you are leading the way for the entire world to burn because of your failure to do what is right.  What do you think the world sees when you profess being Catholic and Christian yet at the same time usher in legislation to legalize abortion?

We have become a nation of spoiled individuals who feel entitled to everything they have.  Enough is never enough as you continue to rape and pillage an entire world so you can have the comforts of materialism.  Yeah sure, sit by and do nothing as you proclaim in your little inner circles, “Well I am Christian and I believe in the rapture, so I really don’t have to worry about doom and gloom because I won’t have to be here to see all that”.  Are you serious?  An entire generation of Christians sitting back doing absolutely nothing to help the world, regardless if you believe in global warming or not, or whatever the cause may be, but you rather sit by and secretly watch your porn, watch whomever get their brains blown out on the latest prime time television episode while millions of your so-call brethren around the world who are truly living Christian lives in poverty are being murder.

Then again what do I know, right?

Our society deserves everything it has coming to it.  It is so sad to see the United States fall.  Yet until we all wake up, now I am addressing everyone, and start living with principals, only then can the path be changed because we are all in this game together if you call yourself a Christian or fellow citizen of the United States of America.  How about taking the first step and stop blaming and judging, versus starting to live our lives righteously.  I have no excuses as I’ve been the worst of us all, yet I’ve recently made my decision, so when are you?

Believe it or not I am starting to have more respect for the Atheists, though I will never walk away from my incredible relationship with Jesus Christ, because at least they seem to stick to what they believe.

Only when true men of God step up to the plate and take a position of leadership in our Christian churches, regardless of their upbringing and/or background, only then can an entire society of faith once again fall down on their hands and knees to proclaim we are One Nation Under God.

If not now, then when?

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As Christian believers we associate ourselves with a basic understanding of Jesus Christ as we attempt to live our lives as closely as possible to the Holy Bible.  Yet within Christianity there is so much hate and misunderstanding about the different type of Christian denominations and their associated traditions.  This type of misunderstanding is an undermining of everything we are trying to accomplish in a movement in order to correct the mistakes of our government and leaders to put America on the right path that is based on the principals of our founding fathers.

This type of behavior extends beyond the Christian faith and is active and alive on a wide variety of social economic levels.  Black, brown, yellow, red, inner city, corporations, Middle East, Asian, Jewish, Buddhist, etc. I think you get the point.

Today it seems so many of us are caught up in the latest hype of what our political commentators and/or leaders are trying to convince an entire population to believe on what is right and what is wrong versus making decisions for ourselves based on the principals we say we want to believe.  But at the core of these so-called “good intentions” are a large number of people living far from the moral principals they should, and in many cases so am I.

American’s are great at classifying people, especially people who are different.  For example, the entire Middle East society might be deemed “evil” or “terrorists” because a certain percentage of the population is radical.  This type of classification is dangerous and is no different than evangelical Christians calling Catholic’s evil or non-Christians because of whatever miscommunication they may have received and/or lack of any type of education about being Catholic.  This is hatred at its finest yet it seems a large majority of American’s justify this type of behavior.

Do we really understand the problems and issues we face as a nation?  Or are we running around saying whatever it is that we have heard on the nightly Fox News report without actually researching what is being discussed on the tube without taking any action to learn more about the subject on our own?

One day we might have a world leader show up on the global scene and tell us all exactly what we want to hear as an era of peace is proclaimed around the world.  Yet, until a personal transformation happens within us all there can never be long lasting peace.  People need to change themselves first versus always thinking someone else is going to solve their problems and the issues of the world.  The hardest 12 inches mankind will ever have to travel is from his mind into his heart.

So ask yourself, what type of person of faith are you or not?  Do you label and judge others without ever knowing the facts about what you are judging, criticizing, labeling, or saying?  The world doesn’t need any more people on the sidelines barking out of their mouths their disgusts at the world without taking any action.

Whether you are a believer or not in Jesus Christ, the commandment that He told the world still holds true in a world of unbelievers which is, “Love one another”, and “Love thy neighbor”.

How are you doing with this in your life?  Perhaps instead of making Fox News or whatever your source of religion that is sparking the conviction of change you feel we all need to have right now to put America back on track, why don’t you start taking inventory of your life and ask yourself, “How do I love myself” and better yet, “How do I love my neighbor”?  It’s time to become accountable as individuals.

The time is now to make the changes in our own individual lives.  Only when we do, if ever, will any meaningful change take place in the United States, even as great as the Tea Party or third party movement may seem to others as the real change needs to take place in our hearts and homes.

If you are a Christian, no matter what denomination, perhaps today is the day you start showing more tolerance and understanding to those who also believe in Jesus Christ.  The Muslim’s are pretty good at being one voice, so when do the Christians finally start doing the same and get organized?

If not now, then when?

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