All of these things are troubling for they carry within them the seeds of a retrograde descent into a place we don't want to go. Humanity down the ages has emerged from the abyss and clothed itself with a semblance of civility but is now poised on the brink of a new dark age and especially so spiritually. Since the arrival of Jesus Christ to usher in the age of grace we have not witnessed such powerful forces at work trying to debilitate and destroy humanity's soul and dispel its hope of reconciliation with God.
There have been some mighty blows in the past that have rocked the faith community even although the blows were not aimed directly at them. On the other hand the faith community have suffered direct assault from all sides and were
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In spite of the skeptics survey after survey has found that peoples of the world regard Christians as better neighbours, more compassionate, more caring, more trustworthy, more generous and supportive, and the most honest and productive in the workplace. The accomplishments of Christianity are such that without them the world would be in feral darkness with no hope of extricating itself. For good and compelling reasons the Bible refers to Christians as the light of the world and the salt of the earth for we represent and typify the Lord Jesus Christ and seek to communicate him to the entire …show more content…
The contemporary threats are very different and arise primarily from within the church and they are not the kind of threats like Arianism or Pelagianism that church councils can come together and resolve. No, these threats are of a different nature and magnitude and it's their endemic nature that has brought the church to the crossroads. If you can undermine the church to such an extent that people no longer trust it, that any help it offers is tainted and suspicious and it's ministers are regarded as vultures and predators then you would have ushered in the period of darkness which I