PUTTING GOD ON THE MARGIN

It used to be–at least early in my lifetime, there were few that disputed the truthfulness of the Gospels or their origin. In fact "Gospel Truth" was commonly used for describing the degree of truthfulness. No more. We live in a new age.

One thing that this age could be called is an age of information. Computers and the internet have created a global access and market for information and ideas–and done it on an exponential scale.. Personally I find that exciting. All this information resource and the marketing of it has opened an access to vast new horizons. Now there’s a forum to share the good news of Christ on a world-wide scale. Also these blogs are really a God-send. They enable a writer to share the Gospel in a deliberate and logical way–and offer it in bite-size portions.

However, there is a dark side–I don’t mean porno. I believe the widening horizon and the availability of comparative religious information has shrunk some people’s faith in the truth of the Gospels. I believe this is from marginlizing God and the Christian Walk.

So no more do people use the phrase "Gospel Truth. Perhaps that is an indication of where the American culture is now a post-Christian culture or even a return to the Roman pagon religious state.

I wonder if this present age isn't kind of a transition age.

Some schools are producing a political class that could easily classify Christianity as a hate-crime

1 Corinthians 2: 4And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
6However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,
The only way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in the people–in the culture. It is not simply knowing the syntax or propositional truths, but it must involve the experiential from other Christians. This is done in the Church Community–the Church. "
Paul exhorts each of us as Christians to present ourselves entirely to the Lord.
Romans 12
1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
I know that when I pursued a career in the Forest Service 40 years ago, I was margnlizing God and slowly being forced into the mold that was not of God. Giving myself to Christ and getting into the environment of Multnomah School of the Bible and the School’s students revived me spiritually. Those experiences formed me into a definite spiritual mold that has lasted through 40 years–including 25 years of pastoring churches.
Romans 8:
28And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.