Today while I was plowing snow here at Camp Cornelius I was listening to Michael Smirconish on the radio and caught the clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech of 1963. My dream doesn't involve freedom, but servitude. It involves the American Church actually getting a spine so it can "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus" the way George Duffield, Jr. wrote back in the 19th century. It would be my version of the Valley of Dry Bones experience Ezekiel the Prophet had many centuries ago, except that all the parts are already together and only the spinal column would be fused in somehow...like the cool clipart to the right.It involves the 37,000 non-denominational units of the Body of Christ coming together to actually agree to something more than to disagree and go their separate ways. It involves God using the governmental system of the USofA much as He used the Roman Emperors to "build His Church." It involves an actual revival within the Church and an awakening among all the people groups found in North America. It involves a whole lot less talk and a whole lot more action as James 2:15-17 says, "If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,' and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself."
If my observations of history are correct, it will in the not too distant future involve what I call the Acts 1:8/8:1 Principle...God causing persecution by the government to accomplish His commands that His followers ignored for seven chapters of Scripture. It involves the Bible being legally declared a Hate Speech Document. It involves those who really believe it and talk about it in public being declared Hate Speechers. It involves concentration camps...
Well, maybe I'm just dreaming...
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