Having read this morning two specific posts, it would be neglectful not to examine the similar content of each, and the condition of what they represent. When a brother from Africa makes an appeal to the church in America to cease and desist in it's export abroad of a corrupted gospel as well one that has been tainted by the culture, we have reached a most desperate and critical juncture. It is not a plea to America but rather a plea to the church in America. it is an indictment of what the church has become. So it begins. What had only been a concern of future possibility. America will send missionaries to Africa, while Africa will send Prophets to America. Is this not a pitiful condition we find ourselves in . We can no longer just say things are not as they should be. They are not and neither are we.
We should expect upon these shores, those who will bring the pure and undefiled word that will cut the church to the quick. We should also expect to receive back, from those falsely converted abroad, our fair share of false teachings and uncharacteristic lifestyles that they will bring with them when they immigrate and which will only serve to further the current decline. They will bring with them all the trimmings of what we sowed abroad in the flesh of man's gospel. A gospel that we so graced them with in our zeal for evangelism. We can look forward to the prophets that will be sent and who will shame us in the decadence and shallowness of what has become religion bearing the name of Christ.
If we shall not take our warnings from abroad then maybe we can harken to the cries of our sisters in the faith. They are begging the brothers around them to devote themselves to the God they profess. To take the lead and rise up in the order God has created both in Spirit and Creation. They shame us in their heart for God's truths.
What does it mean to be shamed by our American sisters and our African brothers? We cannot miss the sign that God is showing us. Is it not enough that he sends one messenger, but now He sends two? It is a graceful action on His part that He would provide us such warnings.?
I would rather say something edifying and positive this morning but these two posts I read this morning seem to speak in unison to the condition I have neglected to see. It does seem the chicken has come to roost. Excuse me if I have been blind to this until now. I have seen things that have been most grievous regarding religion in the church, but when one stands back to look at a macro view of what is happening, the smaller parts form a larger picture. These pleas have come by way of our very own brothers and sisters in the faith, how then can we neglect such qualified and earnest warnings?
