Worship And Its Detractors

Keeping The Right Perspective

Our secularist overlords, pagan to the core, have no regard, let alone respect, for Christian public worship.  According to our government's moral abacus, shopping at a mall amidst hundreds of fellow consumers, is close to the sacrosanct.  But if more than ten gather to worship they are Verboten.

This does not make us angry.  We Christians can easily work around this.  After all, the promise of our Lord remains firm: "where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst" (Matthew 18:20) 

We also realise that the run of the mill secularist politician is largely ignorant of spiritual realities.  For most, their awakening to these realities must await their passing in this life into the world to come. 

Luke 16:19-31 English Standard Version (ESV)
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house— for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”

So, let us press on.  The government may hold us in contempt, but our Lord does not.  And that, dear friends, makes all the difference in the world--at least to us.