Opus 2025-485: Click Bait: Sayonara

The headline read “Why I’m leaving Germany…”  I didn’t bother clicking because I could think of enough reasons myself to leave Germany or any other place in Europe for that matter.  The way things are going here I could think of reasons to leave the United States.  The problem is from here there’s no place to go.

Another issue that would come up from this topic is the question of what if you couldn’t leave?  What if you were financially unable to pick up and get out of the country?  What if you didn’t have the passport or security clearance for the government to allow you to leave?  What if you had family that refused to go?  There are so many reasons why you might not be able to leave Germany.  There are also so many reasons why I would not be able to leave the United States.

One of the most important reasons is the one that we often overlook.  If we leave who is going to bring about renewal.  We see people struggling with this in their churches.  What happens when you’re in a church that has gone woke?  I guess an earlier question than that should be, “How did the church go woke if you were paying attention?”  Did it go woke because you were so busy keeping your head down and enjoying the fellowship that no one ever stood up and said, “Wait a minute…”

Rarely are people able to stay behind and recover a lost church.  The people who are concerned about recovering are also people who tend to have ethics and integrity.  They don’t cheat.  They don’t lie.  They don’t change the rules to suit themselves . They work in good faith.  The people they’re trying to recover the church from have none of those limitations.  When you reject the basic truths of the Bible it’s kind of ridiculous to expect you to follow the simple patterns of etiquette and Roberts Rules of Order.

So if you’re concerned about having to leave the United States someday I would suggest that maybe you need to stand up now while you still have a chance and say what needs to be said.   That could start in your Sunday school class as you try to keep your church from going over the falls.  You could start in Starbucks while you’re sitting around shooting the bull with the other bull shooters.  It could start at Thanksgiving dinner when all the family is gathered together, and cousin purple hair is pontificating about Orange Man bad.

Opportunities will vary.  Results will vary.  The time left to take advantage of those opportunities is just getting shorter and shorter.

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