Arthur Church of Christ

Ours has been a great nation—a nation established upon principles set forth in the word of God, a people that officially recognized   they were “endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights….”  We, as a nation, saw ourselves as “on nation under God,” with a “firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence .”  During my lifetime of 78+ years I have been greatly saddened to see us, step by step, draw farther and farther away from God.

The most evident time of change seemed to be in the 1960’s when there arose a fervor for “doing our own thing.”  We have sunk deeper and deeper into a pursuit of pleasure and material gain.  Secular humanism has replaced faith in God as the prevailing religion.  The “If-it-feels-good,-do-it” mentality has sparked an increasingly perverse sexual and amoral revolution.  To oppose such makes Christians who hold to the high standards of Scripture appear, at best, quaint and out of touch with reality, or, at worst, guilty of “hate crimes.”  Government sources have gone so far as to list such as “possible terrorists.”  We’ve expelled God from public schools and most public places lest He should be offensive to some who “do not like to retain God in their knowledge” (Romans 1:28 ).  Students are no longer to mention God or Christ in homework assignments or speeches, such as at graduations.  Prayers are certainly out of the question.  The taking of the lives of unborn children is an honored “choice.”  Sex before marriage has become the norm, not the exception.  Homosexuality has gone from once being considered a crime, then to being tolerated, then to being something of which to be proud, then to homosexual unions, then to the “don’t ask, don’t tell” philosophy in the military, then to acceptance in denominational leadership roles, and now the push is for same-sex “marriage.”