Monday Night Musings

Tonight, I'm wondering whether, like it or not, aware of it or not, America will make a very simple choice during the next decade or two:

Save the culture or save the planet.

Its not complicated, unless you want to make it that way.

We can fight tooth and nail to keep our way of life intact - in terms of energy consumption, in terms of theology, in terms of politics, in terms of what we do with our wealth. Or we can save the planet - from ecological disaster, from famine, from starvation, perhaps even from many hopeless wars.

Think about this for a minute: it is within our power to do either. We already know that we have the economic power and capacity to wipe out global starvation. And poverty, potentially, could be not too far behind - even before the end of this century. But we also have it within our capacity to bring the world - ultimately, even ourselves - to disaster.

Which will it be?

Curiously, the church in America is perfectly poised to be the catalyst for a major, unprecedented change on the stage of history. We have the numbers. We have all of the political and economic clout to get the job done. Yet, for all practical purposes, we may also be dead - sold out to the forces of cultural preservation, when we ought to be crying out for global justice.

Our hope, then, is that God can once again raise the dead - bringing about a revival unlike anything that history has witnessed since the Reformation. It could happen. But first, our churches will have to undergo a major, revolutionary upheaval.

Thats my joyful little happy little thought for Monday night.

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