Grace Community Church Yorkville
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“That’s not possible!” was one of the thoughts that I had when I first read the book and watched the video series called, “How Should We Then Live?”, published in 1976. It was in 1986 that I read and saw (in this video series) Francis Schaeffer use the words, “. . . a manipulative authoritarian elite . . .”, describing what is happening and coming in the Western world, of what would become the new setting for Christians to discern how we should then live under a government that has thrown off all historic f
Totalitarianism will not come with the garments of Hitler’s Third Reich or Stalin’s Gulags, it will come with a softer tone and a more manipulative approach that will cause the masses to surrender to the state, as long as the state promises to provide for my “personal peace and affluency/prosperity”, that is, the citizens will say to the state, “you may take control and censor all of my life as long as you keep me modestly wealthy and safe from any external constraints or threats upon my life, my body . . .
But we really should not be so surprised as we presently are; I suppose that’s what happens when it’s been so easy for so long to be a Public Christian, or for the sake of my audience, someone who would not confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior but at minimum, be a conservative, a moral traditionalist in the historic sense of American beliefs rooted in a bed of biblical morals.
Grace Community Church Yorkville