October 16, 2008
Man, I wish I had written this…
The Congregation of the Dead
By Coach Dave Daubenmire
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. Proverbs 21:16
America is a dying country. I hate to be the one to break the news to you, but America is a dead man walking.
The once great “shining city on a hill” is gasping for breath. Everywhere you turn you are faced with the harsh truth that the death rattle has begun. We are a dying people controlled by a dying government, infected with the dead leadership of dead men, who chew on a dead gospel served-up in dead churches, by dead pastors living out a dead faith.
The stench of death is permeating our society. How could this possibly be? America, has wandered “out of the way of understanding.” Make no mistake about it; America is dying of spiritual starvation. We are the victims of spiritual bulimia, willingly vomiting out all that would nourish us.
America is a congregation of the dead.
We have no one to blame but the Church. I know that makes many of you nervous as you cling to your “dead faith full of dead works” believing that God is pleased with your apathy towards the spiritual condition of this nation. You, my Christian friends, are complicit in the spiritual coup that has swept over America. Compromise is the birthing ground of sin. Savorless salt producing good-for-nothing Christianity.
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After you read the entire article by Coach Dave, I’d like you to come back here and leave a comment.
[Begin Rant]
I’d like to see that there are more than a few folks out there that care more about a reciprocating relationship to a Gracious God who presented a blameless Son to a miserable death for YOU and YOURS and realize that salvation has nothing to do with sitting on a pew on Sundays and EVERYTHING to do with living by God’s Word, beginning with turning to Him with a contrite and repentant heart and UP TO and INCLUDING bearing the cross and following the Lord in the duty that has been commissioned to EACH and EVERY BORN AGAIN BELIEVER to STAND UP, STAND FIRM and spread the full Gospel in WORD and DEED each and everyday, with ALL YOUR HEART and ALL YOUR STRENGTH, and failing in that depth of commitment, PLEASE no longer let the words ‘I AM A CHRISTIAN’ drip from your lips. It only further confuses an all too lost world when there is all too little time left to make a difference in this Kingdom’s work.
Either GET BUSY or GET OUT OF THE WAY.
[End Rant]
