Confrontation Part 3

2. The World does not understand the Church.

The world doesn’t understand the church's stand and the people of the world think that the church is being unreasonable. When the church says “no” to homosexual unions the world sees the church as being intolerant and biased toward other people who do not agree with them. The world sees the church as irrelevant and that the principles of Scripture as outdated. To the world society is evolving and there is no absolute standard. When the church takes a stand based upon God’s Word it is seen as been backward. However, God laid a standard in Scripture to keep His people pure and to keep society pure. Some churches have bowed to the pressure that the world has put upon them and justify their actions as Ahab justified his action. They see themselves as doing something better for the world than what God has proclaimed in His Word.

Christians are called to confront sin both in the church and in the world and both inside and outside the church the Christian will often be misunderstood. Many will say that we are being judgmental and they will even quote scripture to justify that position. If we speak out against sin in the world then we are told that judgment must begin at the household of God. If we speak out against sin within the church we are told that people have “soul-liberty” and that each person is responsible for his or her own actions before God.

If you speak out against abortion then you are judged as being against choice, if you speak out against homosexual behaviour you are intolerant. What would our world be like today if men or women like Wilberforce or Martin Luther King Jr. did not speak out against the injustices of slavery and discrimination?