Comments on: Why Christianity Is Failing in America – Further Thoughts

By: Dan Edelen

Dan Edelen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:50:30 +0000

Peyton,

That last of the three you mentioned is almost never done. The great failure of Protestantism is that it opened the door for any yahoo to interpret the Bible any way he wanted.

By: steve martin

steve martin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:55:40 +0000

Sulan,

I can speak to the pain in someone’s life and relate to it the pain that I also am going through (or have gone through).

I think it is an advantage to have had the same problem, but not necessary.

Pain is pain. Suffering is suffering. It’s all an extension of breaking God’s Law and the human condition.

And then the gospel can go to work and speak to that pain.

By: Sulan

Sulan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:50:23 +0000

Steve, I think that as each of us overcome something in our lives, we should reach out to others suffering form the same problem.

By: steve martin

steve martin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:32:04 +0000

Our culture and the world are learning to live without God.

Children are taught early on that Christians are backward and bigoted.

We need to speak to people, one on one, of the pain and afflictions that are in their lives, and then speak of Christ and what he has done about it.

It will be tough slugging, but I see no other way.