What Every Believer Should Believe

Today on another blog of mine, I got a random, rather hostile message from someone who is apparently an atheist who found my blog.
In effect, he basically said that my life is meaningless and teaching my son about Jesus would make my son's life also meaningless. He equated teaching my son about Jesus to something similar as stomping my son into dust.

I wasn't really offended, though I could understand why some people would be.
But it just got me to thinking about something rather relevant.
Scripture teaches clearly that God has a purpose for everything and everyone. Of course, He has different purposes for different things...that's another matter for another day. But what I mean to say is that the world is God's fiction. And for every character, He has a purpose.
Therefore, it should never leave from a believer's lips that anyone's life is meaningless. That is degrading to the work of God and it is a lie.

Atheism would have men argue that either everything is already meaningless(which is a self-contradiction to their argument), or that everyone has meaning unless they are religious. Then they are just cattle or maladroital mass unless they "come to their senses" and renounce our faith.
The position of atheism is a degrading one, a demeaning stance to our place as human beings.
Therefore, the position of believers should be one that brings special relevance to human beings and with that special relevance, an equally special responsibility.
Not even the life someone completely atheistic is entirely meaningless. God has a plan for everything and everyone. We may not know what it is, but He already has it set in stone. To say that anyone is without meaning or purpose is a slam against the sovereignty of God.

What every believer should believe is that every person has a place. I recognize that not all do believe this, but they all should believe it.
In contrast, the atheist tends to hold to his religion of the elite, that unless you believe their point-of-view, your life is subsequently meaningless, you serve no purpose, you do no good, you are only a wad of walking phlegm. You become eligible for social euthanization, despite the fact that you are still a human being.

I think that even if Christianity were false(which it is not), I would still choose it over atheism. I would rather live my life with optimism and joy instead of that sort of dread and cynicism.

The hope in Christianity is the restoration of man to a place of glory and closeness to Christ.
But the hope of atheism always has to do with eliminating something...especially Christianity.
I suppose if they had their wish, they would have run out of things to live for...which is a tragedy.

What every believer should believe is that even those atheists which believe what I have just stated should be treated as though they were deliberately placed on this earth by the hand of God.

Because they were.

You know...politics never helped anyone.


To me, politics almost seems to distract from real problems that we face daily in the world.
It makes the average believer in Christ more concerned with special interest instead of serving his neighbor.


I'm so sick to death of politics. It used to infuriate me so, concern me daily with arguments, rhetorics, fighting.
I think the fact of how disappointing this term's election process has become has largely resulted in my awakening to my distaste for politics.
Politics are nothing but a fleeting sport, a game of wits and immaturity compared to the real issues which need to be addressed.

There's a single mom somewhere...let's say in Albertville, Alabama(where I live) who feels that the world is against her, that there is no possible way she could be of any consequence to anyone in this world, one who daily faces the terror that her fatherless children could grow to be directionless, affection-hungry, unable to stand up in the world.
And every day, each presidential candidate will promise this single mom that they will make her life better, less stressful, that she will be given more opportunities to reach her ideals.

It never occurs to anyone that neither one of these candidates will give this mother what she really wants or needs. Those candidates are so bound up trying to only slightly please every other interest demographic in the country, her story would get lost in the middle of all the bureaucratic bramble. They just stuff her another check in the envelope. She's fortunate to now be only 2 months behind on rent instead of 3 months.
Then the politician(regardless of party or moral disposition) pats his or herself on the back for doing such a good deed, for treating yet another struggling human being as a duck by a pond eating their hand full of bread crumbs.

Many people will hear of such problems and say that the government should step foward, be more sacrificial, more sensitive, more down-to-earth to the average American.

I say that government never has helped and never will help anyone.

Once upon a time, the church were the ones who lifted the needy out of disaster and inspired hope in them for something better.
That, to me, seems all but lost.

For the most part, the church, especially in the dirty-south "bible belt", is nothing more than just concerned constantly with yet more politics, more bureaucracy. If you don't believe me, look at the average hierarchy of leadership in denominational conventions.
Why does that even exist?
The model in the New Testament was a form of leadership that was created purely to serve the needy.
Today, church leadership, at least in general for probably about 90 percent of churches, is nothing more than a way of working more financially efficient so that they may pay off their mega-plex buildings and pointless decor.
The very existence of the church used to be based around loving God and loving others.
Now it is just another commercial enterprise wearing the suit of religion.


This may sound very dismal to some, but this is, in truth, the American church at large. It doesn't matter what the denomination...baptist, pentecostal, emergent, orthodox.


I am not against the church. Rather, I am against what the church has become.