When I hear about prayer in public school, I become automatically sympathetic. However, formal prayer become rote, and perhaps we took it for granted.
Coming back to what we were: outcasts, martyrs, and rebels that transformed the world and establishing a worldwide religion of believers, willing to sacrifice to spread our faith.
But then we became the establishment, and such horrors as the Inquisition and stake burnings occurred we Christians became the mainstream. We became the opposite of what we were commanded to be. The most horrific crimes committed were done by theocratic states.
The Apostle Paul, John the Baptist, Dietrich Bonheoffer, and others like them, were anti Establishment and therefore not corrupted by it. They faced inhumanity and enslavement and fought back and created an example for all of us to follow. When Christianity became the Establishment, it had a new master to follow, and as a result the faith became the state along
Today in a multicultural world, more people are coming to faiths other than Christianity, such as Islam, Witchcraft, and Buddhism.
True, they took formal and prescribed prayer out of public schools, but something great happened to fill the void. Bible study groups and student led prayer have formed all over America. Some time it was against a court's ruling, but did it anyway despite the consequences. Students seen a void in their schools and sought to fill it, not by law or statute by an outpouring of yearning to fill what was missing.
Let's get back to our roots and become hungry again. Being establishment makes us complacent, and that's something the early Disciples were not. Let's become rebels again and regain that lost zeal.
Coming back to what we were: outcasts, martyrs, and rebels that transformed the world and establishing a worldwide religion of believers, willing to sacrifice to spread our faith.
But then we became the establishment, and such horrors as the Inquisition and stake burnings occurred we Christians became the mainstream. We became the opposite of what we were commanded to be. The most horrific crimes committed were done by theocratic states.
The Apostle Paul, John the Baptist, Dietrich Bonheoffer, and others like them, were anti Establishment and therefore not corrupted by it. They faced inhumanity and enslavement and fought back and created an example for all of us to follow. When Christianity became the Establishment, it had a new master to follow, and as a result the faith became the state along
Today in a multicultural world, more people are coming to faiths other than Christianity, such as Islam, Witchcraft, and Buddhism.
True, they took formal and prescribed prayer out of public schools, but something great happened to fill the void. Bible study groups and student led prayer have formed all over America. Some time it was against a court's ruling, but did it anyway despite the consequences. Students seen a void in their schools and sought to fill it, not by law or statute by an outpouring of yearning to fill what was missing.
Let's get back to our roots and become hungry again. Being establishment makes us complacent, and that's something the early Disciples were not. Let's become rebels again and regain that lost zeal.
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