The United States is no longer a Christian nation. If the recent events in
Montgomery over the rock with the Ten Commandments, and the current legal
challenge to "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance tell us anything, it is
that the United States is no longer a Christian nation. One of the biggest
misconceptions Christians have today, is that this is still a Christian nation.
Only the foolish try to argue the fact that this nation was not founded by men
and women that believed in the God of the Bible and had a personal relationship
with Jesus Christ. There is no way to deny that the largest percentage of the
first several generations of people in this country were Christians. It was
clearly a nation that honored God, followed His Son Jesus, and accepted the
Bible as the inspired, inerrant Word of God, representing absolute truth, and
our final authority in all matters. However, that is no longer the case, and has
not been for many years now. How can I make such a definitive statement? How can
you call this a Christian nation when the Federal Government legally protects
the murder of app. 2 million babies every year? How can you call this a
Christian nation when people that have chosen lifestyles that God calls an
abomination are now accepted and promoted as normal? How can you call this a
Christian nation when God's gift of sex has been perverted and is now marketed
and accessible to anyone, of any age, at any time? How can you call this a
Christian nation when God's Holy Institution of Marriage has been mocked and
turned into little more than a legal date? How can you call this a Christian
nation when God's definition of a family is being rewritten daily by those who
reject God in their life? The answer is, you can no longer call this a Christian
nation for these and numerous other reasons. The logical question has to be, how
did we go from being what was without argument a Christian nation, to the
spiritual state that we find ourselves in today. There are two key elements
involved. The first is the incredible numbers of people that immigrated to the
United States since 1900. People from all over the world that brought to this
nation their own religious beliefs. People that did not believe in the God of
the Bible and rejected His Son Jesus. The second is a topic I have discussed
often, and that is a weak and ineffective church since the 1960's and a void of
real spiritual leadership. Churches that lost their evangelistic zeal and became
institutionalized. Men and women God called who found it much more comfortable
to ignore the lost world they were living in, and hide behind the four walls of
the church and in the Christian media where they can preach to the choir where
it is safe and profitable. So what is the answer. I will continue to support in
prayer issues like the Ten Commandments, the taking out of "under God" in the
Pledge, and similar efforts to take God out of our nation. But let me be frank
with you. Having a rock with the Ten Commandments on it in a courthouse in
Montgomery, Alabama, having children recite the Pledge and saying "under God,"
is NOT going to make this a Christian nation again. What will make this a
CHRISTIAN NATION again is GETTING PEOPLE SAVED!!! The reality of the year 2003
is that there is 2 full generations of people, the largest percentage of which
that have never been to church. These people are NOT coming to church on Sunday
morning, they are NOT watching the Christian media, and if you want to reach
these people you need to take the message of Christ to them. Why are cults like
Mormonism, Scientology, false religions like Islam and various New Age movements
the fastest growing in our nation today? Because they are taking their message
which is straight from the PITS OF HELL, DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE!!! How does the
world get its message to the masses? Commercial television and radio, newspapers
and magazines, music, film, the Internet, and advertising are all ways the world
forces its messages into people lives literally 24/7. This is how the cults and
false religions of the world are doing it. This is how the people who know
Christ as their Savior better start doing it! We need to be using the same
vehicles the world, the cults and false religions are using to take their
message to the masses! I love you and care about you so much. I get no joy out
of sharing a message like this, but it is my responsibility to tell you the
truth. While the United States is no longer a Christian nation, it is still a
nation of great freedoms. We must take advantage of those freedoms, while we
still have them I might add, to take the message of the hope and love of Jesus
Christ to this lost, hurting, and dying nation and world. We know that Jesus is
the only true answer for this world, for the United States, and for each person.
The encouraging fact is that we already know how this story ends. We should take
great comfort in knowing that even though this nation has turned its back on
God, in the end He still wins. We also need to realize that there are tremendous
opportunities to bring many people into the Kingdom in these last days. We need
to quit worrying about what used to be, and start focusing on what is. While we
were fighting over a rock, the cults and false religions were busy leading good
people into everlasting damnation. While we will expend lots of time and energy
trying to keep "under God" in the Pledge, the cults and false religions of the
world will be busy leading people straight to Hell. Please, don't misunderstand
me. We need to pray for these efforts to keep God in our culture. But the fact
these are even issues simply point out that there is a majority in this nation
that do not care about God, do not know His Son, and reaching these people with
the hope and love of Christ is what God has called us to do. The time is short.
His return is imminent. The United States is no longer a Christian nation, but
He still has a people and a church that He will use to take His message to this
lost and dying world.
In his love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller