Northern Farmer

A new day in a new year, cold outside, and a bit chilly inside here in the basement where I do a few things on the computer. The new year at least gives a person hope for a better year coming up. By that I mean only one thing and that’s the hope that this year will have rain during the growing season and things can get back to normal around here. The countdown is ticking here, four and a half months of feeding yet. Let’s see, been feeding since July so that’s six months of feeding so far. Oh Lord, I can’t wait till this drought breaks. I don’t know if it broke yet or not, we had some good rains this fall, but that doesn’t change the damage that was already done for the year. The damage that we have to live with till late this spring. But that’s living on the land for you. There ain’t no guarantees in this way of life. Maybe that’s why I write about faith so much, because I can’t even imagine the life of someone without it, trying to do what we do.

I know that there’s plenty out there that live without any faith in God and still farm, probably the majority as far as that’s concerned. Most probably go to church, at least a good percentage of them, but all in all it’s just because that’s what a person does. There’s no difference from the world at all with many. Being that this is the first post of the new year I figure on touching that a bit. The reason being that it’s the most important matter that there is. I guess I could write about day to day farming, but then again this time of the year day to day is pretty much the same. No. I’ll start the year with this.

To put it bluntly this nation is going to hell. To put it bluntly, the churches are going to hell with it. And to put it bluntly, most Christians are going to hell too. There, that’s a start. Why beat around the bush! In fact the country is going to hell because of the “Christians”. Not from any single denomination or anything like that, it’s going to hell because of a luke warm Christianity at best. There are very few things that grieve me more than this. A land of freedom, a land that was supposedly Christian, going down the tubes. But then what does one expect from a sold out clergy, self worshiping congregations and unbridled materialism.

And if anyone figures that they are going to start a Christian society and gradually change everything by minding their own business, taking care of a piece of land and just minding their family, they’re dead wrong. In fact they are as guilty if not more guilty that most. Guilty because of inaction! The blood is on the hands of Christians. The blood of aborted babies, the spread of AIDS because of a church that would not stand up and stop the gay movement in their tracks. And the church has the power to do this easily…..but they don’t.

A post like this is almost just an introduction, because this could get very big. But in this post the thing that I want to stress is the fact that the church is guilty. We can’t blame the “world” because quite simply the church has let the world have free rein because of inaction, or another word could be used, laziness. Laziness from the pulpit to the back row. In fact I don’t think there’s ever been a time in church history that the pulpit has been so worldly. Gutless preachers who never dare to speak out, even though they live in a society that gives them more freedom to do so than any other in world history. Think about that! And to top it off, preachers that gradually condone sin because that’s what the people want, plus the preachers do too.

Laziness, hiding behind church walls, figuring that that’s Christianity. But I’m here to say that there’s very few followers of Christ that stay behind the church wall. I’m talking real followers of Christ. Anybody can be a church goer. Anybody can sit and quote great things, can sing a psalm, can figure they have a special covenant with God, but the sad fact is that they are probably not even Christian. They can have doctrines, they can have elders, they can do all the right things according to their own minds, but they are dead never the less.

So what’s the difference between this lazy slob called Christianity nowadays in comparison to Biblical Christianity? It’s like night and day, no caparison at all. In the first century Christians spread from an upper room in Jerusalem to becoming around fifty one percent of the total population of the Roman Empire, before 100 AD. How did they do it, where as today the churches are dead. First thing to remember, when the church officially started, on the Day of Pentecost, the church exploded out of the upper room and increased by thousands in one day. I’d like to see that now! And the church never slowed down for a long time. But does anyone see this, they didn’t stay in the upper room waiting for people to come to them. The exploded out into the world and they changed the world forever. A hundred and twenty people changed the world.

They were told to preach the Gospel to every creature, some folks confuse this with evangelism, but it’s not. It’s the duty, the command to every Christian to preach the Gospel. To tell everyone what God did for you, and to live it out as an example. And if inside of church walls is the only time a person is ever talking about God, well, to put it bluntly, that person is living in unrepented sin. What can I say, it’s a fact, of coarse most churches don’t feel comfortable telling themselves that they are living in unrepented sin.

So in a nutshell, there will be no change of society, there will be no Christian agrarian society, there will be no changes at all except for things getting worse until people obey God and get out again proclaiming Christ to everyone. Not a very comfortable feeling is it. But it’s one of the truest things a person will ever hear. Hiding out is disobedience. Hiding in a church is disobeying the Lord. What a person does in church has very little importance, it’s what they do outside of the church where the importance is at. The inside of a church never changed society for the better, ever. In fact that’s where most of today’s problems have come from. From people hiding from reality and giving the world their blessing to go to hell.

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