It's A Gospel Shame!

We live in a day when it is increasingly unpopular and incorrect to stand up for the Gospel.  Those that stand on the morals of the faith that are represented in Christ are often considered closed minded and out of touch.  Both of the above statements are true, but they are not one in the same.   The Gospel is the power of salvation through Christ that forever changes one's status, future, and heart.  The morals of the faith change the lifestyle that we live when we accept Christ.  However, oftentimes, Christians get the two mixed up.   We have a tendency not to speak of the Gospel message near as much as we speak of what is wrong in America, what we ought to be doing as a society, or what is not right about the evergrowing liberal lifestyles that mark America.  Our focus is often on the evidence of the greater spiritual problem.  If we would focus on the greater spiritual problem, a lot of the evidence or society's mixed up ways would fade as the power of Christ worked in the lives of new believers. 

I am not saying that we should stop standing up for what is right.  However, I am saying the lifechanging Gospel is where more of our focus ought to be.  God, once in one's life, would change their perspectives. 

Paul put it this way in Romans 1.16-17-  ¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

It is one thing to speak out for the right Christian way for America and, yet another, to speak out for Christ to lives that need Him.  Let's do both but let's let our priority be on the Gospel.