Straight From The Horses Mouth

Posted by Jonathan Brink
June 14, 2008

While I’m on vacation I get only about an hour of blog reading, which is kind of hard because the posts are just piling up. Out of the 250 posts I scanned through, this is the best thing I read today.

“We have reached a place that our spiritual forefathers feared. We need to admit that the problem with America today is not the government or the politicians. It is not Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or John McCain. It’s not the senators or representatives. The problem is not the educational system or the economy. It’s not the liberals or the abortionists. The problem lies with us.

We conservatives claim to have the truth and we think we are rich in spiritual position and power, but yet we are cold, complacent, impotent and unattractive, and irrelevant to the world.

I hate to say it, but we are not plateaued. We’re not even just declining. We’re in a free fall. You know why we don’t win the lost? Because we don’t like them. They are different from us. We don’t care for them. We have no real love for them.

People just don’t touch eternity when they are around us. We’re too self-absorbed.”

Jimmy Draper, former President of Baptist General Convention of Texas

Speak it brother.

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  • Becky
    It's hard to love when you've got a mask on and a part to play. . .
  • wow- that just nails me between the eyes. i don't want to admit it, but in so many ways he is right.
  • "I hate to say it, but we are not plateaued. We’re not even just declining. We’re in a free fall. You know why we don’t win the lost? Because we don’t like them. They are different from us. We don’t care for them. We have no real love for them."

    Although I don't disagree with this statement I would really like to add to it...I wish the smallest problens was that we didn't like people who were different or "the lost" I think that is just one symptom of a much larger problem, that being our cold hearts before a holy God. It's not simply the lost that we no longer care for, we don't like God anymore. We come up with a million excusses why we don't have time to read or pray or have fellowship with other beleivers. Loving other people or pretending to love other people is not going to change our lives if our hearts are cold to our Creator. I believe the solution needs to start on our knees before a Holy God, and I believe that only God can change our hearts to be able to really love the people around us. If our main problem was our indifferance to the lost - we would not be in such sorry shape.
  • Laurel, I would offer that we can't love until we are first loved.
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