Living Godly In Today's World
Larry Wynn
Galatians 1: 1-4
INTRODUCTION
A. Rush Limbaugh was recently quoted in News- week magazine. ''Americans seem to require more and more to excite them, more and more violence, more and more degradation, and rot to capture their attention. Just look at the so called ''talk shows'' of daytime tele- vision-the museum of modern American soci- ety decay. We have mothers who sleep with their daughter's boyfriends, cross-dressing fathers, rape victims who later date their rapists. These are the people held up as your neighbors, your fellow citizens- revealing, it is claimed, the dark side of life lurking everywhere. We are bored with the normal. And, it seems, we are bored with the good and the decent.''
B. We are living in a society that is very rapidly erasing the line between right and wrong.
1. This is being done: socially, educationally, medically, econom- ically, and religiously.
a. Socially: Removal of abso- lutes. Society has deter- mined we ought to be ''amoral''.
b. Educationally: Removal of values in education. Value free education ultimately leads to value free lifestyles.
c. Medically: You have Jack Kvork- ian, abortion clinics, and now fertilization techniques, until a few years ago, were not even considered.
ill. Newsweek Article: 1/17-94: ''How Far Should We Push Mother Nature?''
d. Economically: We have come to an age where the ends justify the means.
e. Religiously: Churches and Christians no longer take a stand.
2. This is the world with which you contend everyday. Not only are there the overall pressures of society but the individual pressures of daily life.
a. Balancing family and other responsibilities.
b. Personal moral and ethical choices.
c. Pressure of society when you refuse to simply conform.
d. Determining right and wrong.
C. How ''in this world'' do we live Godly?
1. One answer seems to be get out of society.
a. Number One ...
Larry Wynn
Galatians 1: 1-4
INTRODUCTION
A. Rush Limbaugh was recently quoted in News- week magazine. ''Americans seem to require more and more to excite them, more and more violence, more and more degradation, and rot to capture their attention. Just look at the so called ''talk shows'' of daytime tele- vision-the museum of modern American soci- ety decay. We have mothers who sleep with their daughter's boyfriends, cross-dressing fathers, rape victims who later date their rapists. These are the people held up as your neighbors, your fellow citizens- revealing, it is claimed, the dark side of life lurking everywhere. We are bored with the normal. And, it seems, we are bored with the good and the decent.''
B. We are living in a society that is very rapidly erasing the line between right and wrong.
1. This is being done: socially, educationally, medically, econom- ically, and religiously.
a. Socially: Removal of abso- lutes. Society has deter- mined we ought to be ''amoral''.
b. Educationally: Removal of values in education. Value free education ultimately leads to value free lifestyles.
c. Medically: You have Jack Kvork- ian, abortion clinics, and now fertilization techniques, until a few years ago, were not even considered.
ill. Newsweek Article: 1/17-94: ''How Far Should We Push Mother Nature?''
d. Economically: We have come to an age where the ends justify the means.
e. Religiously: Churches and Christians no longer take a stand.
2. This is the world with which you contend everyday. Not only are there the overall pressures of society but the individual pressures of daily life.
a. Balancing family and other responsibilities.
b. Personal moral and ethical choices.
c. Pressure of society when you refuse to simply conform.
d. Determining right and wrong.
C. How ''in this world'' do we live Godly?
1. One answer seems to be get out of society.
a. Number One ...
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