With all that has gone on over the last week or so, what do we do now?
I do not think that there are any of us who have grown up in the United States who have any idea what it is that we are supposed to be doing in the aftermath of riots and murders at the seat of our government. Perhaps people from other times or places might have some frame of reference, but we have none.
Having no clear path forward, I have often found it to be helpful to return to the basics…
The United States has been through the wringer in the past few weeks. This election has turned friends into enemies and tolerance seems to have all but died. But there is another side of this election that affects evangelism greatly. There have been many self-proclaimed prophets claiming that they had heard from God that Donald Trump would win the election, and they “prophesied” just that.
Read More“Left Behind.” That term was used in the Tim LaHaye/Jerry Jenkins books described as The Left Behind Series published in the first decade of the 21st century. The phrase refers to those who remain on earth to face God’s judgment after the “rapture” of the church which many evangelical Christians find in Paul’s first letter to the church at Thessalonica (4:13-18).
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