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These handful of serious obstacles to genuine Biblical belief, and there are far more, should give us pause. Some have genuinely begun wrestling with questions we all should be asking. How then shall we live? If some or all of these concerns prove true, what’s to be done? How do individuals and families, fellowships and churches, rightly respond to such a mounting crises of faith?

Step one is to investigate such claims. GodBlog provides over a hundred articles designed to easily enable the honest inquirer to do so. Step two is to examine our belief systems in light of available evidence. This includes reviewing both the true promise and peril inherent in Scripture. Our current condition and behavior. As well as any remedial advice the Bible provides.

Quantum Christianity’s expressed purpose is to act as a bridge between the sacred and secular. Faith and doubt. First century Biblical Christianity and Twenty First century modern Churchianity. The questions and ideas presented are carefully mapped to reroute around roadblocks and congestion snarling the faith commutes of billions. The Bible’s sheer volume and density alone produces plenty of spiritual traffic jams. Insomuch that even simplifying Scripture’s most emphasized tenants is a formidable task. One that requires more than just a simple read. To this end, QC has uncovered and explained many of today’s most relevant yet universally misunderstood passages, while offering more accurate interpretations. The goal is to provide a much needed firm and fair, factual and friendly mediator between the challenges of the Bible and the most blessed, albeit spiritually challenged generation in human history.

While a growing Quantapedia of topical information is essential for such a task, a less wieldy synopsis seems helpful. To this end we purpose to clarify the following:

1. What are three litmus tests revealing the most critical gaps between Biblically mandated Christianity and modern Churchianity?
2. What are the appropriate responses to each of these crucial spiritual deficiencies?

• "When Elizabeth heard Mary speak, the baby moved in her body. At the same time Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Elizabeth spoke in a loud voice, “You are honored among women! Your Child is honored! Why has this happened to me? Why has the mother of my Lord come to me? As soon as I heard your voice, the baby in my body moved for joy.” Luke 1:41-44 Living Bible

Two thousand years before abortion’s devastation, the Bible explains that as a “baby” John the Baptist, a second trimester fetus about the size of a fist, leapt in Elizabeth’s womb in the presence of the “Child” Lord Jesus, a first trimester embryo about the size of a thumbnail. Far from the discardable “clumps of cells” or “inviable tissue masses” of pro-abortion rhetoric, Scripture declares that the pre-born are babies and children.

So why do so few believers take this issue seriously? Because like everything else, our attitude about abortion is a judgment call. Once made, justification solidifies our level of response, or lack thereof. Mindful of the process, God employs a variety of means to draw attention to our mistakes, if and to the degree we are willing to see, hear and respond. Through the honest and diligent study of Scripture we are invited to grow in spiritual discernment, learning to more fluently understand and speak the language of the Holy Spirit.

Regarding modern Christianity's lack luster response to abortion, the following verse is eerily prophetic:

• "Come. Sit down. Let’s argue this out.” This is God’s Message: “If your sins are blood-red, they’ll be snow-white. If they’re red like crimson, they’ll be like wool.” Isaiah 1:18 The Message

The 1960's saw a global Sexual Revolution wash over the modern world like a tsunami that never receded. The release of such rising flood waters, combined with a nearly sixty year rain of temptation, has turned every aspect of earth into a "Water World" of immorality. While lacking the staggering death toll of abortion, its main precursor and intensifier has been the inversion of morality. In a single generation millennia of traditional and religious values have been turned upside down or swept away entirely. The most obvious and immediate manipulator of society is the media. While claiming to simply reflect the values of its audience, by constantly pushing the envelope, it influences and directs habits and trends that become lifestyles and societal norms. This creates a feedback loop with far less concern for public welfare than for the almighty buck. Sex sells. Hollywood, Motown and Madison Avenue know the hotter the better. By targeting baser instincts, they fan into flame the original sin of entitlement.

The genius, expertise and success of societal engineering by the TV, movie and music industry is rarely fully appreciated. In conjunction with the influence of modern advertising, mainstream media has dominated public thinking while amassing unprecedented wealth and resource. In only a few decades, practices such as abortion and other acts strictly forbidden by Scripture, have gone prime time enjoying alternative lifestyle status. Acts largely illegal and unthinkable for thousands of years have become inalienable constitutional rights, upheld by many of the very institutions long considered bastions of ethics and morality.

Far worse has been both modern Christianity's response and lack thereof. Looking the other way, or even joining in, millions of believers habitually condone or even practice immoral acts. And the shrinking minority of those holding the line, spend little or no serious effort in meeting, much less overcoming, such devilish challenges to our most holy faith.

For centuries men and women of God have warned against the encroachment of worldliness, including such notables as John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, Søren Kierkegaard and Charles Finney. More recently Oswald Smith and Leonard Ravenhill, George Barna and Jackie Pullinger have sounded the alarm.

Such Youtube videos as Revival Hymn and A Call to Anguish are powerful pleas against apathy and worse. In A Call To Anguish” (abridged version) David Wilkerson begins with:

• Folks… I’m tired of hearing about revival. I’m tired of hearing about awakenings… Of last day outpourings of the Holy Spirit… I heard that rhetoric for 50 years… Just Rhetoric. No meaning whatsoever. I’m tired of hearing about people in the church who say that they want their unsaved loved ones saved… I’m tired of hearing people say I’m concerned about my troubled marriage when it’s just talk… Rhetoric. And I look at the whole religious scene today and all I see are the inventions and ministries of man and flesh. It’s mostly powerless. It has no impact on the world. And I see more of the world coming in and impacting the church rather than the church impacting the world. I see music taking over the house of God. I see entertainment taking over the house of God. An obsession with entertainment in God’s house, A hatred of correction and a hatred of reproof. Nobody wants to hear it any more… Whatever happened to anguish in the house of God? Whatever happened to anguish in the ministry? It’s a word you don’t hear in this pampered age. You don’t hear it. Anguish means extreme pain and distress. The emotion so stirred that it becomes painful. Acute deeply felt inner pain because of the conditions about you, in you, or around you… Anguish. Deep Pain. And Sorrow. Agony of God’s heart…

• All true passion is born out of anguish. All true passion for Christ comes out of a baptism of anguish.

• Hear’s what God said, “I’ve heard the words of this people. They have well said all that they have spoken. O that there were such a heart in them. That they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always that it might be well with them, and their children forever!”

• "When I (Nehemiah) heard these words (regarding the ruin of Jerusalem) I set down and wept. And morned certain days and fasted. And prayed before the God of heaven.”

• We face a similar situation except ours is many times worse.

• Does it matter to you at all that God’s spiritual Jerusalem, the church, is now married to the world?

• Does it matter about the Jerusalem that’s in our own hearts? The sign of ruin that is slowly draining spiritual power and passion? Blind to lukewarmness. Blind to the mixture that’s creeping in.

• You won’t fight. You won’t labor in prayer anymore. You won’t weep before God anymore. You can sit and watch television and your family go to hell!

• Does it really matter to you that your unsaved loved ones are dying and we’re getting closer and closer to the end?

• Where’s the anguish. Where’s the tears. Where’s the mourning? Where’s the fasting?

• It’s going to take more than preaching. More than a new revelation.

• There’s going to be no renewal, no revival, no awakening until we’re willing to let Him once again break us. Folk’s it’s getting late and it’s getting serious.

• Please don’t tell me you’re concerned. Don’t tell me you want your unsaved loved ones saved while you’re spending hours before the internet or television. Come on…

Litmus Test 3: Mutation and Judgment

Abortion, and the inversion of morality, represent only two of the highest peaks of a growing global mountain range of sins commonplace in today's society. With temptation and deception, entitlement and doctrinal error pandemic, time would fail to list half the forbidden lines daily crossed by billions. Believers or not. Even something as mundane as spending hours a week, if not daily, watching TV would have been considered anathema to the New Testament teaching of Jesus and His apostles.

Another area of misunderstanding is the regrettable progression of willful or even uniformed rebellion against Biblical directives. As the supremely practical epistle of James explains:

• "Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death. So don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters." James 1:14-16 New Living Translation

• "Don’t be naive. There are difficult times ahead. As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. They’ll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they’re animals. Stay clear of these people." 2 Timothy 3:1-5 The Message

• "Then I saw a beast rising up out of the sea. It had seven heads and ten horns, with ten crowns on its horns. And written on each head were names that blasphemed God... And the dragon gave the beast his own power and throne and great authority." Revelation 13:1-2

• "Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for forty-two months. And he spoke terrible words of blasphemy against God, slandering his name and his dwelling—that is, those who dwell in heaven. And the beast was allowed to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and nation. And all the people who belong to this world worshiped the beast. They are the ones whose names were not written in the Book of Life before the world was made—the Book that belongs to the Lamb who was slaughtered. Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand. Anyone who is destined for prison will be taken to prison. Anyone destined to die by the sword will die by the sword. This means that God’s holy people must endure persecution patiently and remain faithful." Revelation 13:5-10

• "He required everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name. Wisdom is needed here. Let the one with understanding solve the meaning of the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is 666." Revelation 13:16-18

• "Anyone who worships the beast and his statue or who accepts his mark on the forehead or on the hand must drink the wine of God’s anger. It has been poured full strength into God’s cup of wrath. And they will be tormented with fire and burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb. The smoke of their torment will rise forever and ever, and they will have no relief day or night, for they have worshiped the beast and his statue and have accepted the mark of his name. This means that God’s holy people must endure persecution patiently, obeying his commands and maintaining their faith in Jesus.' And I heard a voice from heaven saying, 'Write this down: Blessed are those who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they are blessed indeed, for they will rest from their hard work; for their good deeds follow them!'" Revelation 14:9-13

• "God’s kingdom is like a pine nut that a farmer plants. It is quite small as seeds go, but in the course of years it grows into a huge pine tree, and eagles build nests in it.” Matthew 13:31-32 The Message

• "I have given them your commands. And the world hates them because they don’t fit in with it, just as I don’t. I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from Satan’s power. They are not part of this world any more than I am. Make them pure and holy through teaching them your words of truth. As you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world, and I consecrate myself to meet their need for growth in truth and holiness. I am not praying for these alone but also for the future believers who will come to me because of the testimony of these. My prayer for all of them is that they will be of one heart and mind, just as you and I are, Father—that just as you are in me and I am in you, so they will be in us, and the world will believe you sent me. I have given them the glory you gave me—the glorious unity of being one, as we are— I in them and you in me, all being perfected into one—so that the world will know you sent me and will understand that you love them as much as you love me." John 17:14-23 Living Bible

• "Knowing the correct password—saying ‘Master, Master,’ for instance—isn’t going to get you anywhere with me. What is required is serious obedience—doing what my Father wills. I can see it now—at the Final Judgment thousands strutting up to me and saying, ‘Master, we preached the Message, we bashed the demons, our God-sponsored projects had everyone talking.’ And do you know what I am going to say? ‘You missed the boat. All you did was use me to make yourselves important. You don’t impress me one bit. You’re out of here.’" Matthew 7:21-23 The Message

• "So, my dear children, don’t let anyone divert you from the truth. It’s the person who acts right who is right, just as we see it lived out in our righteous Messiah. Those who make a practice of sin are straight from the Devil, the pioneer in the practice of sin. The Son of God entered the scene to abolish the Devil’s ways." 1 John 3:8 The Message

• "Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Mathew 28:18-20 NIV

• "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot." Matthew 5:13 NIV

• "You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." Matthew 5:14-16 NIV

• "For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin first among God’s own children. And if even we who are Christians must be judged, what terrible fate awaits those who have never believed in the Lord?" 1 Peter 4:17 Living Bible

• "So, dear brothers, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen, and then you will never stumble or fall away.  And  God will open wide the gates of heaven for you to enter into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." 2 Peter 1:10-11

• "If we were judging ourselves correctly, we would not be judged.

• "Do not judge by appearance [superficially and arrogantly], but judge fairly and righteously." John 7:24 Amplified Bible

• "So be careful how you listen; for whoever has [a teachable heart], to him more [understanding] will be given; and whoever does not have [a longing for truth], even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him." Luke 8:18 Amplified Bible

Few appreciate what an amazingly significant role John’s accomplishment played in preparing "stubborn and hardheaded” believers for the appearance of their Redeemer. Without a single recorded miracle, John's coming in the spirit of Elijah, accomplished what Elijah’s three accounts of heavenly fire could not. Jews, perhaps even including Pharisees, came to immerse themselves in the waters of the Jordan. The entire region thereby participating in an unprecedented act of repentance. 

Baptism, as instituted by John, exemplified by Jesus and implemented by the apostles was Scripturally unique. While the concept may have arisen from the Jewish ceremonial washings of Mikveh, John's application was certainly next generation. John used baptism to demonstrate his message of extraordinary repentance by requiring Jews to undergo a rite reserved for Gentile converts. 

Baptism, for example, is listed by the Jewish philosopher Maimonides, along with circumcision and sacrifice, as one of the three requirements for Gentile proselytes to Judaism. By commanding Israel to repent and be baptized, John dramatized his message that God’s people had fallen from their privileged position as "sons of Abraham." 

There is no modern equivalent in all of Christendom. 

Even the Pope commanding all Catholics to be re-baptized and re-confirmed, and/or a Billy Graham figure demanding all Born Again Christians get back to the altar and pray through until it took, would fail in comparison. Such proclamations would be as radical as they would be unwelcomed. Yet, not nearly so much as that of the Baptist’s. Jews inherited their faith and had never been baptized into it to begin with. Additionally, males proudly carried in their bodies the mark of sanctification through circumcision. 

Of particular interest is the method John employs for his altar call. The first of only two recorded in the New Testament. Establishing himself as the Baptist, he calls Israel to repentance, yet note the tenor of his accusation and its unusual timing. While his audience obediently responds, John stops them short with a strange question:

• "Then he said to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by him, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.'" Luke 3:7-9 New King James Version

What makes John's accusation so bizarre is the obvious answer to his question, "Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?"  One easily imagines the crowds confused glances as they answer, "You did you crazy preacher."

John seems to rubs Israel's nose in their unworthiness to even repent.  And this before they had met, much less rejected, their Messiah. The no doubt offended and perplexed church of his day, pressed by his menacing warnings, cried out in confusion:

• "So the people asked him, saying, “What shall we do then?” He answered and said to them, “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.” Then tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Collect no more than what is appointed for you.” Likewise the soldiers asked him, saying, “And what shall we do?” So he said to them, “Do not intimidate anyone or accuse falsely, and be content with your wages."... And with many other exhortations he preached to the people." Luke 3:10-18 New King James Version

John's less than seeker friendly message is accentuated by his style and further sharpened by his directives. He demands more than words or emotions. Like his cousins Jesus, James and Jude he clearly shows saving faith requires action.  Additionally, the Baptist seems to agree with Jesus and Paul, James and the Apostle John, that the second great commandment, to love one's neighbor, is the best way to fulfill the first great commandment's duty to love God.

Given how far 21st century modern Churchianity has fallen from not only 1st century Biblical Christianity, but the Judaism of the period that produced it, one wonders what acts of pre-revival repentance might be necessary should we hope to be fully reconciled to and filled with God.

What Then Shall We Do?

Repentance is clearly the appropriate response to our pitiful state. Nevertheless, the majority of modern Christianity disagrees. Most refuse to admit the obvious. Of those who do, frequently clergy and laity alike erroneously cite God's grace as a kind of get out of judgment free card. Quite the opposite of its New Testament usage.

This and a myriad of other objections are signs of the times. Hundreds of millions have distanced themselves from the virtue of godly fear. A mindset taught and exemplified by Christ and all of His apostles. Instead of digging down deep and uncovering the bedrock of Scripture on which to build an understanding and relationship with God, many merely assume salvation. Thus mistaking presumption for faith. Often to the point of profanity; ie. treating the holy as common.

Some might well ask, what's the primary difference between the gospel of Scripture and that of Churchianity. In a word, cost. The cost of rebellion among angels. The cost of sin among men. The cost to Jesus to be Savior. The cost to Christians to be like Christ. The cost of Biblical rather than cheep grace.

Why such cost? Whether you know and/or like it or not, creation is at war. See QC's Biblical faction account entitled, Eternity…The Wager. It can’t be overstated that according to the context of Scripture, spiritual conflict is not a mythical analogy, but rather eternity’s reality. In fact, in a variety of ways, a myriad of Biblical passages attest to the unpleasant fact that all creation is at war with (alongside or against) God.

Consider Christ's quantum parable of the Sheep and Goats. Meant to be taken both literally and figuratively or literatively, it is an event that will take place at a designated future place and time. It is true that all of mankind will be separated into those entering “everlasting punishment” and “the righteous into eternal life.” It is not true that people are sheep and goats. Although “sheeple” often seems an apt metaphor. It is true that Jesus is “the savior of all men.” Here and elsewhere, Scripture reveals that all humanity is loosed from the power of the first death through universal resurrection. A shared benefit of Christ’s costly atonement. It is not true that this translates to universal salvation. Just ask the goats. As well as “the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” Here, according to Jesus, not only sins of commission, but omission, carry an eternal penalty:

• “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’ Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” Matthew 25:41-46 NKJV
  

Such conflict theology partially explains the Bible’s harsh or even horrible accounts of earthly conquest. For example, consider one of Scripture’s most gruesome passages of Divinely sanctioned genocide:

• “Moses said to the people, “Some of you must take arms to wage Jehovah’s war against Midian…  And every man of Midian was killed. Among those killed were all five of the Midianite kings—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. Balaam, the son of Beor, was also killed. Then the Israeli army took as captives all the women and children, and seized the cattle and flocks and a lot of miscellaneous booty. All of the cities, towns, and villages of Midian were then burned… but Moses was very angry with the army officers and battalion leaders. “Why have you let all the women live?” he demanded. “These are the very ones who followed Balaam’s advice and caused the people of Israel to worship idols on Mount Peor, and they are the cause of the plague that destroyed us. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have had sexual intercourse. Only the little girls may live; you may keep them for yourselves.” Numbers 31:2-18 TLB

• “This plan of mine is not what you would work out, neither are my thoughts the same as yours! For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours, and my thoughts than yours.” Isaiah 55:8-9 TLB

• "So, my dear children, don’t let anyone divert you from the truth. It’s the person who acts right who is right, just as we see it lived out in our righteous Messiah. Those who make a practice of sin are straight from the Devil, the pioneer in the practice of sin. The Son of God entered the scene to abolish the Devil’s ways.” 1 John 3:7-8 The Message

According to the narrative of Scripture, all three litmus tests represent a strategic and coordinated satanic offensive by the demonic against mankind in general, and the church in particular.


1. Abortion: The global proliferation of abortion has dramatically altered the socio-spiritual landscape in a variety of underappreciated ways. Murdering billions equates to turning the womb into the most dangerous place on Earth, while simultaneously corrupting the foundational pillars of society. The failure of modern Christianity to appropriately intervene, spiritually or socially, has and continues to threaten the efficacy of our prayers and worship, communion and salvation. Effectively "cursing the blessings" of modern Christianity, abortion's primary objective all along.

Appropriate Response: As St. Augustine noted, "Without God, man cannot. Without man, God will not." Such spiritual quantum entanglement requires a joint effort. One best begun by reconciling ourselves to the very Holy Spirit we continually grieve.

Serious and strategic prayer is a great place to start. Any and all modes, or ways to pray, can be most helpful in wisely approaching and waiting on God. Daily personal prayer is a prerequisite to growing towards what today might be called radical discipleship. See Rob's daily prayer for a 30 minute scripted and memorized example.

Scriptural intercession is a dying art. Truly Bible based, regular and lengthy corporate prayer meetings are a rarity. Pro-life prayer meetings far more so. As Blaise Pascal noted, in Gethsemane Jesus found "all his friends asleep and his enemies wakeful." So too to this day…

QC highly recommends adding the regimen of fasting to prayer. Not just any fasting, but Triple Fasting. The only kind endorsed by Scripture.

There are many opportunities for individuals, churches and organizations to have an impact on people within their communities. For some great simple pro-life ideas click here. For an in depth report on serious church and denominational objectives and strategies to enable modern Christianity to develop a comprehensive pro-life, pro-family and pro-mission strategy click here.


2. Inversion of Morality: Having inverted morality in a single generation, consciously or not, we live in a Water World of immorality. This begs the question, "Do fish know they're wet?" The answer is no. For this and other reasons, modern Christianity's not only failed to pursue Scriptural sanctification, but is contently swimming in temptation.

Modern life’s synonymous with progress and tech. Sight and sound are always and everywhere. Reality dwarfs our ancestor’s dreams. Media dwarfs reality. We don’t just plug in. We are in. Even if we’re ever quiet and alone, we’re not. Lyrics and lines, melodies and scenes from a thousand different songs and shows seep into our hearts and minds. As do the ideas and desires they inspire, leaving billions caught in wirlpools of worldliness and sin.

Appropriate Response: While the demands and allurements of daily living suggest otherwise, purity and passion matter. In this life and the life to come. Jesus explicitly warned no one can serve two masters, "Either you will hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other." If such warnings against worldliness were relevant in the 1st Century, how much more in the 21st?

Paul, the apostle of grace, frequently reiterated the centrality of struggle for sanctification over worldliness. Perhaps most famously when discussing the privilege and responsibility of transforming into new creations in Christ:

• "So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you." Romans 12:1-2 The Message

• "Join me in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. Whoever serves in the military doesn’t get mixed up in non-military activities. This pleases his commanding officer. Whoever enters an athletic competition wins the prize only when playing by the rules. A hard-working farmer should have the first share of the crops. Understand what I’m saying. The Lord will help you understand all these things."

• "Did you use to make ends meet by stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest job so that you can help others who can’t work." Ephesians 4:28 The Message

• Confess any known sin to God and put any wrong done to others right.
• Put away any doubtful habit. (TV and/or social media fasting would be a good start).
• Obey the Spirit promptly.
• Confess your faith in Christ publicly. 

• "This is going to be trouble on a scale beyond what the world has ever seen, or will see again. If these days of trouble were left to run their course, nobody would make it. But on account of God’s chosen people, the trouble will be cut short." Matthew 24:21-22 The Message

• "But be on your guard. Don’t let the sharp edge of your expectation get dulled by parties and drinking and shopping. Otherwise, that Day is going to take you by complete surprise, spring on you suddenly like a trap, for it’s going to come on everyone, everywhere, at once. So, whatever you do, don’t go to sleep at the switch. Pray constantly that you will have the strength and wits to make it through everything that’s coming and end up on your feet before the Son of Man." Luke 21:34-36 The Message

• "'I’m going to make a clean sweep of the earth, a thorough housecleaning.'" God’s Decree. 'Men and women and animals, including birds and fish—Anything and everything that causes sin—will go, but especially people.'" Zephaniah 1:2-3 The Message

• "So get yourselves together. Shape up! You’re a nation without a clue about what it wants. Do it before you’re blown away like leaves in a windstorm, Before God’s Judgment-anger sweeps down on you, Before God’s Judgment Day wrath descends with full force. Seek God, all you quietly disciplined people who live by God’s justice. Seek God’s right ways. Seek a quiet and disciplined life. Perhaps you’ll be hidden on the Day of God’s anger." Zephaniah 2:1-3 The Message

• "By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith." Hebrews 11:7 NIV

• Bible Study: Are we diligently or casually seeking God through the study of Scripture? Have we, and those for whom we care, developed the kind of accurate Biblical worldview encompassing the concerns already mentioned?

• Worship: To what extent do our current worship songs and practice reflect the results of even just the three litmus test above?

• Community: How closely do our churches and/or fellowship meetings resemble New Testament community and koinonia? How frequently do we earnestly meet together? Closer to a few times a month or daily, as did early Christians?

• Faith and Doubt: How well do we understand the reasonableness of faith? Have we committed to memory the best reasons to believe? Are we and those nearest us genuinely working through issues with God that may be impeding spiritual growth?

• Radical Discipleship: Are we committed to pursuing God diligently, as necessitated by our precarious situation?

• Kingdom Power: To what degree do our doctrines and lifestyles express the importance of walking in the full presence of Kingdom power? Are we willing to admit our woeful need of the genuine fruit and gifts of the Spirit? Particularly that of healing the sick. Which in actuality is Scripture's litmus test of Elders. Miraculous healing by "the prayer of faith."

• “Doom to you who call evil good and good evil, Who put darkness in place of light and light in place of darkness, Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20 The Message

It's estimated that globally there may be as many as a billion Protestants. With the above categories identified, it seems helpful to drill down deeper as to which of today's Christian models might be nearer the all important 1st century Biblical Christian ideal:

1. 1st Century Biblical Christianity: As the originators and recipients of Pentecost's fire and empowerment as recorded in the Book of Acts, Christ's apostles were the founders of Christianity. Authoring the New Testament letters, through them and their missionary zeal they evangelized and discipled the original Church to withstand extreme resistance and persecution. To the point of eventually bringing Rome, then the world's greatest military, political and religious power on Earth to bow its knees to Christ. Thus becoming the Divine model for Christendom throughout all ages.

2. Persecuted Church: Today's Persecuted Church continues the costly mandate and mission of the 1st century Christians. This included innumerable Third World missionaries and believers daily baring their cross while proclaiming Christ's. See Nick Ripken and Voice of the Martyrs, Brother Yun and Pastor Brunson. Far less in number, some First World Christians and activists do the same.

3. Puritan Holiness: One of the smallest subset with Christendom are those embracing extreme sanctification, at least by today's standards. Such doctrine and lifestyle is more common in impoverished nations facing far less bombardment by levels of worldliness and entitlement, temptation and deception. In the modern world, such radical discipleship witnesses to one of the main differences between cheap and costly grace. The latter being the authentic grace of God presented in Scripture. Examples include John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, Charles Finney and Smith Wigglesworth, George, Mueller and Evan Roberts, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Jackie Pullinger, Leonard Ravenhill and David Wilkerson. Old and new world puritanism may differ, but both are radical expressions of commitment to Christ's in the face of worldly influence and onslaught, more recently exemplified in the Russian Church's costly overcoming of Communist persecution and tribulations. See Nick Ripken's Insanity of God and podcast Witness and Persecution Season 1 Episode E9 "Devious Persecution." GB also highly recommends reading the 1996 testimony of Olga, a 19 year old Russian immigrant's "Visit to the entrance of Hell."

4. Quantum Christianity: As previously mentioned, QC was developed in hope of being a better Bible bridge for billions, spanning the growing gap between 1st Century Biblical Christianity and 21st Century Modern Churchianity. With the goal of more fully equipping Prophetic Christians to walk in the Spirit in light of the vastly degrading times and season thrust upon us by the devilish geopolitical era in which we live. QC identifies Conflict Theology as the very context of Scripture, differentiating between Christianity as a Cruise vs. Battleship and Christians as civilians vs. Kingdom Citizen. Soldiers.

5. Modern Christianity: An umbrella term, Modern Christianity represents many of the hundred plus denominations having fragmented Christianity. Many promoting various Christs and versions of Scripture. Major categories include Charismatics and Cessationists, Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, Denominational and Community Churches, Missions and Activist Organizations, Home and Small Group Fellowships. Most in keeping with at least some of Scripture's requirements for Biblical Churches and Fellowships.

6. Churchianity: Somewhat synonymous with Modern Christianity, Churchianity implies greater doctrinal and/or lifestyle error within or without the denominations previously referenced. Up to and including heretical movements. Including versions of prosperity gospels, particularly that of the Word of Faith Movement.

7. Emerging and Emergent Church: The Emerging Church seeks "the deconstruction of modern Christian worship, modern evangelism, and the nature of modern Christian community" by embracing a post modern theological fluid, thus worldly, interpretation of Scripture and church, morality and lifestyle. Featuring the development and promotion of progressive Christianity. Including rewriting some or all of the Bible.

While disagreements abound in regards to many, if not all, facets of the above Protestant models, it should be noted that 1-3 are in perfect keeping with the tenets and tenor of Scripture. Exemplifying evangelism and discipleship. Differing modestly, though not necessarily insignificantly, as to what degree certain doctrines are highlighted and emphasized. Making these the safest bet and educated guess.

Models 5-6 embrace certain aspects of elementary truths. The milk vs. meat of Scripture. Often prematurely assuming salvation by substituting presumption for faith and christianized worldliness for sanctification. Thus promoting half the gospel or less.

Model 4, Quantum Christianity, is designed to promote Prophetic Christian understanding and compliance to models 2-3, with the goal of achieving original 1st century perspective and power in our 21st century Christian experience. Thus fully entering God's Rest and becoming entirely New Creations. The ultimate objective of Biblical Christianity.

Forty years of strategic service and research suggests modern Christianity’s Biblical report card looks something like this:

• 1/3 of our teaching and preaching, prayers and worship, evangelism and discipleship are in keeping with the fuller content and context of Scripture. 👍

• 1/3 of our teaching and preaching, prayers and worship, evangelism and discipleship are at lacking or at odds with the fuller content and context of Scripture. 😔

• 1/3 of the most vital aspects of Scripture’s content and context are entirely missing. 😬

• Times and Seasons (eBook or article)
• Conflict Theology (eBook or article)
• COVID-19
• New Political Era
• Prayer of Anguish
• 10 Signs of a Biblical Church
• Quantum Christianity (eBook or article)

UPDATE: Roe vs. Wade Overturned

To the joy of countless millions, on Friday 6/24/22 the landmark decision Hobbs vs. Jackson by the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe vs. Wade. Thus auspiciously ending 50 years of national tyranny against 60 million pre-born.

Or at lease throwing the decision to allow mothers to continue conspiring with physicians to murder the offspring within their wombs back to America's 50 individual states...

Nor does it address the more subtle yet sinful and deadly issue of contraceptive abortifacients, prevalent throughout society and modern Christianity.

While I now live in North East Texas, years ago I spent nearly 100 Saturdays at Central California clinics warning and imploring up to twenty girls a day to spare their babies. Via public parking constraints, forced to pass near I implored, “If God gives you the gift of a child don’t let anyone harm it” while handing them carefully explicit literature.

Often alone, sometimes there would be nearly a handful of us. On a good day, one or two mothers would listen and change their minds.

On many other occasions none at all.

As in Christ's end time parable of the Sheep and Goats, there I discovered Jesus in His smallest and most innocent form. Totally dependent for “food” and “drink,” “naked” and “in prison” in the very womb of His mother. There I watched as He was repeatedly carried, “Like a lamb to the slaughter,” into a medical clinic. A most solemn and sorrowful scenario with grave spiritual ramifications.

One repeated in Fresno alone over 50,000 times.

In over two years I don’t recall a single member of the clergy or even lay leader joining us. Though I understand the odds may have somewhat improved through the influence of 40 Days For Life.

Only a fraction of fraction of a percent of ordained ministers have served as a director of a leading pro-life organization. Far less still have had the honor and responsibility to act as a leading liaison to over a thousand churches in state wide pro-life political initiatives.

With well over thirty years in strategic Christian service, including more than a decade of pastoral ministry and pro-life activism, the author is privileged to belong to a select fraternity. This and other articles and books represent a culmination of this experience. Using such depth perception, this commentary is intended to introduce the true nature of the challenge presented by abortion. Particularly to modern Christianity.

During California’s 2005 Prop. 73 Parent’s Right To Know initiative I produced the pro-life political DVD entitled “Protect Me…Please” to be shown in hundreds, if not thousands of churches, prior to or on election Sunday. Groundbreaking, the 3 minute video featuring post abortive laments of teenage girls, made the front page of both the LA Times and San Francisco Chronicle. Prop. 73 failed by a narrow margin.

During the subsequent Prop. 85 initiative I achieved another milestone. For the first time, four leading Protestant state denominations, the Southern Baptists, Assemblies of God, Calvary Chapel and Foursquare, officially endorsed a political initiative. Again Parent’s Right to Know (PRK) was defeated.

Our third attempt in 2008 with Prop 4. affectionately dubbed “Sarah’s Law” failed as well. More than political, my involvement was spiritually motivated. After having spoken to thousands of Christians across denominational lines, it was clear that far less than 1% of either clergy or laity had the vaguest notion of the scale of abortion’s true threat to either the pre-born or the Church.

As a topical Biblical commentary, Quantum Christianity was designed in recognition of the need to examine and handle truth carefully and honestly. Scriptural and otherwise. The nationalized legalization of clinical abortion, and its apparent overruling, presents a perfect case in point.

A faithful handling of the Old and New Testament requires would be students and adherents to develop spiritual discernment on a variety of subjects crucial to Biblical Christianity. The lack of which has produced hundreds of differing denominations espousing various Christs and versions of the gospel. Tragically, many of the hopeful insights inherent in Christ's command to "Judge with righteous judgment" continue to go largely unrealized within modern Christianity.

Such is certainly the case when considering the American church's 50 year track record in regards to an appropriate response to abortion. Or more accurately, the lack thereof. Both clinically and contraceptively.

Bear in mind that church attending Christians could have ended abortion in a single day, 365 days a year, for 50 years, by simply sending 1% of our congregations to have family friendly picnics in front of every abortion clinic in America. With thousands peacefully blocking entrances, even should there be numerous arrests, the sheer numbers involved would shut down all abortuaries in a single day. With 99% more now authentically pro-life Christians waiting for a chance to join cause.

Yet nothing could be further from the case. Then or now.

Nor have we seriously addressed the widespread use of abortifacient contraception throughout Christendom. A topic that many, if not most, churches and even pro-life organizations know or speak little about. Most often chemical in nature, early term abortions are a result of various forms of birth control and other devices. Abortions of this kind happen before the mother is aware of her pregnancy. The exact numbers are unknown. Some estimates suggest the daily total of these types of abortions may be surprising large. In the U.S. alone perhaps between 834,000 to over 4,000,000 per year (Dr. Bobmir Kuhar, Infant Homicides Through Contraceptives Pg 27.) Lower estimates range around 100,000 to over 1,500,000 annually (Randy Alcorn: Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions? How Often Does the Pill Cause Abortions?)

Thus the compelling need to rethink Jesus' directive to “Judge with righteous judgment” should be abundantly evident.

But is it? Throughout the Hobbs vs. Jackson decision by the Supreme Court celebratory posts and podcasts, sermons and ceremonies, is there any awareness of the reality of the seriousness our situation? Or brokenhearted repentance in light of the depth of our failures?

Are any of today's joyful messages cognizant of the Bible's repeated warning that God is not mocked.

• “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked [He will not allow Himself to be ridiculed, nor treated with contempt nor allow His precepts to be scornfully set aside]; for whatever a man sows, this and this only is what he will reap. Galatians 6:7 AMP

• For they sow the wind [in evil] And they reap the whirlwind [in disaster]. Hosea 8:7 AMP

• What is Abortion?

• Innocent Blood

• Abortion and the Church

• Collateral Damage

• Aborting our Prayers

• Abortion, Communion and Worship

• Abortion and the Good Samaritan

• 150 Pro-life Scriptures

• Authentically Pro-Life

• Pro-Life, Anti-Judgment

• Justice and Judgment

• Abortion's Antidote

• Oh Say Can You See

• Abortion Parable

• Church of Philadelphia

• Why Does God Allow Abortion?

• All Children Go To Heaven

• Pro-Life Prayer Meetings

• Cursed Blessings

• Deceiving God's Anointed

• Curing Hard Hearts

• Lessons from Rescue

• AbortionNo.org (graphic content)

• Pro-Life Videos

• Abortion Overview

• Sample Daniel Horowitz: "Twice Daily Nose Flushing Can Reduce Covid Hospitalization and Death Researchers Find" by 85%
• Sample Link: Steve Deace **9/15/22 Circumvent Medical Cartels with Dr. Harvey Risch** Simple straight talk from preeminent  honored immunologist and cofounder of The Wellness Company TWC.health 
• Sample Link: **Ivermectin Nobel prize** In 2015, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, in its only award for treatments of infectious diseases since six decades prior, honoured the discovery of ivermectin (IVM), a multifaceted drug deployed against some of the world’s most devastating tropical diseases. Since March 2020, when IVM was first used against a new global scourge, COVID-19, more than 20 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have tracked such inpatient and outpatient treatments. Six of seven meta-analyses of IVM treatment RCTs reporting in 2021 found notable reductions in COVID-19 fatalities, with a mean 31% relative risk of mortality vs. controls. During mass IVM treatments in Peru, excess deaths fell by a mean of 74% over 30 days in its ten states with the most extensive treatments.
• Sample Link: Daniel Horowitz: **9/26/22**The Woman Who Survived American Hospital Holocaust with COVID in Plano TX**: One could make a movie about Gail Seiler’s experience in a Plano, Texas, hospital during the pandemic. Our hospitals have become killing fields. From remdesivir and illegal DNR orders to denial of treatment, forced starvation, and abuse based on vaccination status, Gail experienced the horrors that hundreds of thousands of other Americans suffered in the hospitals. Except, thanks to her husband and help from state Senator Bob Hall, she wound up being forcibly extricated from the hospital after 14 days of torture (7 days no water…). Even though the doctors said she wouldn’t last a day longer, she is now perfectly healthy and is trying to raise awareness about the hospital genocide.
• Sample Link: Daniel Horowitz: **The Risk of Cancer from Both the Shots and Perpetual Mask Wearing with Guest: Dr. Colleen Huber | 6/3/22** “Clot shots. Poisoning of Americans (World) beyond belief, as they prepare to stick babies as young ad 6 months old. HOW IS THIS NOT THE ISSUE OF OUR TIME?  That it perpetuates the virus, destroys the immune system, and causes every ailment known to man… And yet to this day, it’s like it doesn’t exist. It’s a complete lockout…” “If you don’t get it you have your career destroyed. If you do get it you have your body destroyed. And then everything they plan on doing there on down with it. And everything it represents, with biomedical state, track/trace, transhumanism... Dr. Colleen Huber: Neither Safe Nor Effective: The Evidence Against the COVID Vaccines (Cancer Researcher/Get eBook). 
• Sample Link: **Died Suddenly** Documentary featuring video of alien and deadly clots being pulled from arteries and bloods vessels during autopsies, surgeries and from a beating heat. Never before seen clots harming and killing large cross section of population after receiving MRNA “vaccines” and/or boosters. Devastating effects on US military and civilians. Extreme rise in prenatal death and birth defects among newborn. Cover up and collusion by. governments, health care and media industries. Great Reset agenda of elites through population reduction and control.

• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **The Thirty Tyrants** USA adopts China’s citizen control polices  
• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **Time To Start Believing In Conspiracy** Theories

• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **A Clarion Call Go On The Offensive** Interview with Dr. Peter McCullough
• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **8/24/22 The jobs/Dr. Ryan Cole**Excellent interview with Dr. Ryan Cole who is treated over 500,000 Covid patients and has impeccable credentials explaining the clot shots are extremely dangerous and genetically mutating. 

• Sample Link: Candice Owens: **George Floyd was a Criminal (Facts)**
• Sample Link: Matt Walsh: **Episode 571: 9/24/20 Summary of BLM "Martyrs"** 
• Sample Link: Matt Walsh: **It’s officially time for BLM to be labeled a domestic terror group.** DNC comments:
• Sample Link: Matt Walsh: **When the media says unarmed black shootings:** Actual case by case review
• Sample Link: Matt Walsh: **Police Shooting Stats:**

• Sample Link: **Crimes or Cover Up** Glen Beck Exposing The Worlds Most Dangerous Lie:  History of C19 conspiracy with dates and facts. 

• Sample Link: Ben Shapiro **Daily Wire. Episode 1159 is entitled, Do You Speak Woke?** 

• Sample Link: Matt Walsh: **Episode 727: The Evil Quacks Mutating Our Children**: Reviews Irreversible Damage The Gender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Schreier
• **Transgender Craze Seducing America**: interview with the author Abigail Schreier: Chowchilla prison article

• Sample Link: **Dinesh D'Souza** Author and filmmaker (2,000 Mules) Dr. Simone Gold, the founder of America's Frontline Doctors, tells us how she went from being a guest speaker at the Capitol on January 6 to facing a 60-day prison sentence for doing nothing.  
• **Epoch Times**
• Sample Link: **The Real Story of January 6th** Epoch Times New Investigative Report and Video: 
• Sample Link: **Jason Whitlock Fearless Blaze Media** Ep 124 | January 6: Little Lies Lead to Huge Deception | Kamala, Biden, AND Ted Cruz ALL Get It Wrong
• Sample Link:  Matt Walsh: **Might Be Time For A National Divorce:**

• Sample Link: **Texas Tribune Arrests along U.S.-Mexico border top 2 million a year for the first time.** https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/19/u-s-mexico-border-arrests-record-2022/amp/
• Sample Link: **Tucker Carlson Battle For The Border**

• Sample Link: **CDC Fentanyl Facts** 
• Sample Link: **Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid approximately 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl.**
• Sample Link: **National Institue on Drug Science 92,000 persons in the U.S. died from drug-involved overdose in 2020.**

• Sample Link: **Blaze Media current odds are 1/178 an American resident will be murdered during their lifetime.**

• Sample Link: **Tucker Carlson Insane policies, energy and fuel crises.**
• Sample Link: **Daniel Horowitz The Only Ones Who Can Save Democrats Are Republicans and Diesel Shutdown.**

• Sample Link: **Steve Deace 12 Republicans who voted for the so-called "Respect for Marriage Act."**
• Sample Link: **Daniel Horowitz The Only Ones Who Can Save Democrats Are Republicans and Diesel Shutdown.**

• Sample Link: **Washington Post President Biden declares MAGA Republicans represent extreme and/or greatest threat to US.**
• Sample Link: **Fox News President Biden twice threatens Second Amendment supporters with F15's.**

• Sample Link:  **Monopoly: Who Owns The World**
• Sample Link:  **Great Reset Introduction** Prager U interview with author and commentator Glenn Beck
  

• Sample Link: Eric Metaxas: **Letter to the American Church** Eric Metaxas wrote the definitive 24 hr audiobook biography on Bonhoeffer. His point is the American church is letting unprecedented evil arise and will perish today if we fail to respond to Bonhoeffer’s warning against cheep grace to the German church. 
• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **3/8/22  Americans: A Very Serious People**. (We are the problem. Including republicans & Ukrain is the new Covid).
• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **3/13/22 Weekend Of American Debauchery** (Hopeless…)
• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **8/3/22 The People Are The Problem** (There are no red states)
• Sample Link: Steve Deace: **8/9/22 We’re Quickly Running Out Of Time** Crossing A Line: DOJ - FBI Raid on Trumps House. Coming for you…

With Hell to loose, and Heaven to gain, few questions in life are as important as where God draws the line in regards to Biblical Salvation. What does Scripture teach we must do to be saved? Is following Christ, the authentic Jesus, different in the the modern world than the 1st century?

When aboard a massive ocean liner, in certain respects it doesn’t seem as if you’re moving. Because you’re not, when judged by those around you aboard ship. To plot your course and speed, you need a waypoint off ship.

The same holds true for entire generations. There may be no sense of momentum, because we’re all aboard the same massive ocean liner. But actually, we may be moving at a rapid pace, into dangerous waters. Or in our case, questionable if not heretical doctrine and worldly lifestyles.

As noted above, few recognize the growing gap between 1st century Biblical Christianity and 21st century Modern Churchianity. Or even the requirements of salvation popularized by a pair of well known sermons by two of the primary architects of the 18th century First Great Awakening.

Jonathan Edwards’ Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God may simultaneously be the most famous and infamous sermon of all time. Lightyears from the “cheap grace” of modern Christianity, it’s as interesting as it is a difficult read.

While not religiously correct, the God of the Bible is simultaneously awe-full and awful, and should be approached as such. While Churchianity considers itself exempt from judgment, Jesus and His apostles tell a different story.

Fully grasping the message and exacting meaning of this sermon is crucial if we are to recover even a fraction of what has been lost. Beginning by developing living faith rather than presumption, whereby we assume salvation rather than seeking and serving God acceptably by means of serious sanctification and radical discipleship. All necessary foundational requirements should we realistically hope to experience Biblical Revival, much less Kingdom Reformation, in our generation.

Instead of reading GodBlog's classic 18th Century version, we highly recommend downloading "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: Updated to Modern English Kindle Edition" by Jason Dollar. It can be read for $2.99 on any device by downloading the Kindle app or simply on the Amazon cloud. It is a far easier and meaningful read when updated into modern language and format. The author also includes a balanced introduction and second sermon entitled "Love The Sum Of All Virtue" to present Jonathan Edwards in a more accurate light.

Nevertheless, reader be warned. When Edwards uses the phrase “Born Again” in the 18th century, it is not with the same flippancy as in the 21st, whereby we erroneously grant blessing to have our cake and eat it too. Doctrinally justifying continuing our pursuit of the Christian/American Dream, while living mostly worldly lives.

To understand the difference, you will need a sermon by his contemporary, John Wesley, founder of the once puritan Methodist Church, entitled "The Almost Christian.”

Another crucial consideration is that of the Cruise Vs. Battleship analogy. While you won't find it taught in seminaries or churches, Conflict Theology is actually the underlying context of Scripture. Widely recognized for nearly two thousand years, the modern world long ago changed course, sailing far from puritanical definitions of repentance and morality, faith and discipleship and sanctification and holiness. The result has been the nearly wholesale substitution of assumed salvation for repentance, presumption for faith and inappropriate worship for sanctification.

Decades old, the increase of temptation and deception, has resulted in a devilishly cunning strategy of incrementalism that over time has all but uprooted millennia of spiritual and sociological gains. Part and parcel of the dramatic and disastrous deterioration in the Times and Seasons in which we live, and vastly worse on the horizon. Evidence of the spirit of the Antichrist terraforming the entire planet for the beginning of Divine judgment and Great Tribulation.

If Christianity’s a cruise ship, sailing merrily from here to Heaven, then certainly Christ’s costly atonement is more than sufficient passage. The cross of Jesus is indeed all anyone could ever need. If however, Heaven and Earth are at war with fallen angels and devils, Christianity is a battleship and we must follow our Commander and Chief’s example and directives by daily shouldering our own.

Even if Christianity could be likened to a pleasure cruise, given Churchianity’s collision course with so many modern temptations and deceptions, up to an including immorality and the blood red mountainous iceberg of abortion, in certain respects might even many well intended ministries be reduced to simply arranging deck chairs on the Titanic?

So is Christianity a cruise or gunship? We must decide. And do so quickly and carefully. Military directives and drills, cramped quarters and sea rations, would be absurd on a pleasure cruise. So too, civilian itineraries and activities, opulent suites and sumptuous banquets, would be anathema during a time of war.

Click here to read QC's parable, "Water World: Cruise Vs. Battleship."

Much has been lost and our situation dire. Nevertheless, QC dares to hope against hope that while as in the account of Christ's debut miracle at the wedding feast of Cana, we have clearly run out of wine, still today Mary's perfect intercession, through timely and appropriate brokenness and repentance, yields insight as to how we may yet find Jesus has once again saved the best for last.



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