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In the end times the apostasy of the age will creep into God\u2019s church, sometimes in the form of blatant unbelief, but also in a coldness toward the things of God and a love for the things of the world.\u00a0 While the world takes its downward spiral toward the coming judgment of God, the church seems to follow, not lock-step with the world, yet not too many steps behind.\u00a0 Hegel\u2019s dialectic of thesis, antithesis and synthesis seems to work for human beings, whether as leaders of a corrupt generation, or imitators from afar.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Parable<\/h2>\n

Your own generation has its thesis, that orthodoxy of belief and morals which have shaped the world in which you live (let\u2019s say 1 on a scale of 10).\u00a0 There is always a protest or rebellion, an antithesis (a 3 on a scale of 10) promoting those things that have always been disdained and usually rejected.\u00a0 But once the younger generation has been exposed to the rebellion, the original thesis becomes old and out of date.\u00a0 At that point a synthesis is formed (a 2 on a scale of 10), not taking that generation all the way to the extreme of the antithesis, but settling rather on a convenient in-between place\u2014the synthesis.\u00a0 Once the older generation gets over its \u201cfussing and complaining\u201d about compromise everyone can settle into the new way of thinking.<\/p>\n

As the younger generation gets older their wonderful synthesis (the 2), which they once found to be so exciting, new, and different, has, out of shear time, become their own thesis.\u00a0 Because the world is what it is, a new form of protest obediently comes along, another antithesis (this time a 4 on a scale of 10) to rebel against their thesis (the 2).\u00a0 Now the parents know not to be alarmed at this challenge.\u00a0 They have seen it in their own youth and realize that it never catches on.\u00a0 They watch, amusingly, as their children rebel, complain, push back at the older thesis (the 2) and then settle into their own new found synthesis (now the 3).\u00a0 The parents are even proud of their children for sowing their wild oats and then coming up with their own way of doing things.\u00a0 Grandparents remain skeptical.<\/p>\n

Now this third generation begins to get older also.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t really think it would happen to them but it has.\u00a0 They have enjoyed living in their synthesis (the 3) which they made but now they must realize that their wonderful synthesis has unfortunately, like their fathers before them, become the thesis of their generation (the 3).\u00a0 They are even a little shocked to discover that there are some who would protest against their present thesis (3).\u00a0 After all, their thesis (a 3) is the same as the original antithesis (the old 3).\u00a0 But now a new antithesis (now a 5) has come along and all the kids are screaming and clamoring over it.\u00a0 But wait, the thesis (3) remembers how this happened before.\u00a0 It\u2019s a sort of metamorphosis that evidently must continue generation after generation, almost in a religious way.\u00a0 This is change, progress, a necessary molding of generations into peaceful cooperation.\u00a0 So the parents again watch with pride and certain nostalgia as their children play with the new antithesis (5) and then, almost predictably, settle into their new synthesis (this time a 4).<\/p>\n

But, you guessed it, even this fourth generation watches themselves get older.\u00a0 They have been a 4 for a long time.\u00a0 They don\u2019t even remember anyone who was a 2, much less a 1.\u00a0 What was unimaginable to the 1st generation, so far from the first antithesis, is now normal.\u00a0 And, you guessed it again, a new antithesis (now a 6) dutifully pops up and the new generation of parents watch with anticipation as their children imitate the once unimaginable and eventually create their new synthesis (now a 5) . . . And the dialectic repeats itself over and over again.\u00a0 Its only motto:\u00a0 Change!\u00a0 Oh, did I forget to define \u201cdialectic\u201d by the dictionary?\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry: \u201cThe Hegelian process of change in which an entity passes over into and is preserved and fulfilled by its opposite\u201d (Webster\u2019s 7th).<\/p>\n

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The Observation<\/h2>\n

It is the day after Super Tuesday.\u00a0 Conservatives did not do so well in the most important primary day of the election season.\u00a0 Within the \u201cconservative\u201d Republican party there seems to be three groups of people.\u00a0 There are the Reagan conservatives who are trying desperately to make their case for the core values of their movement. Some even argue for a static constitution in the midst of changing ideas.\u00a0 At the same time John McCain is proposing a new kind of conservatism that is drawing lots of protests from the Reagan conservatives.\u00a0 It appears more like an anti-conservative position.\u00a0 Mike Huckabee is trying to find some middle ground between the two.\u00a0 He is hoping that the party is ready for an agreeable middle.\u00a0\u00a0 But it seems that the party is ready to go all the way with the new \u201cconservative\u201d look of McCain.<\/p>\n

Liberal commentators and other Democrats can\u2019t understand the problem that conservative Republicans have with McCain.\u00a0 Good grief, they think, John McCain IS conservative (and compared to them this is true).\u00a0 But the Democratic party is taking liberalism far beyond what is acceptable even to McCain (we hope!).\u00a0 Today the Reagan conservatives were trying desperately, on radio, TV and the Internet, to make their case.\u00a0 It has been hard for them to explain to the liberal media why they are so alarmed by John McCain and dissatisfied with Mike Huckabee\u2019s middle of the road position.\u00a0 They come across as mean-spirited, whiners, selfish people who aren\u2019t willing to give and take for the betterment of the country.\u00a0 For some reason, they just can\u2019t seem to give up on (or at least reinterpret) their old Reagan conservative values.<\/p>\n

Of course, these conservatives were, not too long ago, the innovators and revolutionaries.\u00a0 But their antithesis, even synthesis has become an old worn-out thesis that young people can\u2019t bring themselves to adopt.\u00a0 Obama will win the day.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because he has good ideas?\u00a0 No, he has no ideas that I have heard.\u00a0 But he will win the day because he is the antithesis to all that has gone before.\u00a0 He only has to cry \u201cchange\u201d and younger voters will obediently follow.\u00a0 \u201cUnity,\u201d \u201cFreshness,\u201d \u201cVitality,\u201d whatever, but thoughtful ideas are not really necessary to win elections.<\/p>\n

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The Application<\/h2>\n

I said at the beginning that the churches follow the culture just a few steps behind.\u00a0 It may be that they follow very closely but just travel on parallel tracks.\u00a0\u00a0 They go through the same dialectic generation after generation but talk in religious, not political, terms.\u00a0 What was once considered religious liberalism now is accepted as orthodoxy.\u00a0 Older Christians, who have seen the compromises of the past, are alarmed by the cry for change in churches, in life-styles, and in other doctrinal convictions.\u00a0 As long as it is change, no one seems to care what the change is to or from.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said before that it is much easier to be the liberal in the crowd than the conservative.\u00a0 The liberal always appears to be the thinker, the innovator, the one with vision.\u00a0 The conservative just gets on everyone\u2019s nerves.\u00a0 He is always trying to draw in the reins, to caution not just to change for change\u2019s sake, because he knows you\u2019ll have to do it again soon.\u00a0 And the conservative is usually older, and necessarily so.\u00a0 He has to have been around long enough to have seen these things happen before.\u00a0 If you\u2019re the liberal in the crowd, you can just laugh at your conservative brother because you think he is silly or nit-picky.\u00a0 But if you are the conservative, you know you have been put in a compromising position and that is no laughing matter.<\/p>\n

Someone pointed out that McCain is very conservative compared to either of the democratic candidates and therefore conservatives should not complain.\u00a0 But that is no consolation to the political conservative.\u00a0 He knows his core values are being slowly but surely eroded, that his thesis is quickly becoming a synthesis.\u00a0 Similarly, conservative Christians are often reminded that Rick Warren and others are conservative also when compared to atheists, agnostics and blatant liberals.\u00a0 In the whole world of viewpoints anyone who calls himself an evangelical seems conservative.\u00a0 But that is no consolation to a truly conservative Christian.\u00a0 He sees his core convictions and the details of his doctrine being slowly given away and he knows that somehow he must stop that from happening.<\/p>\n

What is most difficult for the conservative political observer is to hear platitudes and \u201cpositive\u201d language when, in fact, nothing of substance is being said.\u00a0 You see crowds of young people cheering for Obama because he speaks like a cheerleader or an activist and yet few policies are being delineated or positions taken, just promises made for something new.\u00a0 When money from the rich is promised to the crowd or when they are assured our troops will no longer be fighting, hands are raised, tears begin to flow, and dancing begins.<\/p>\n

It becomes very difficult in the church to ask the youth and spiritually immature to take a lower seat, to not assume to lead the fathers in worship, to accept the fact that worldliness cannot be overcome by talent.\u00a0 Sometimes it is difficult for parents to admit that the worldly ways of their children disqualifies them from\u00a0 leading in worship even if it would keep Johnny in church a little longer.<\/p>\n

Unlike politics, the church cannot say one thing and do another.\u00a0 Its message is intrinsically linked to its actions.\u00a0 A politician can ask you to vote a certain way because it will make life easier or cause you to be happy in some way you haven\u2019t been before.\u00a0 But Christianity must present its message as truth whether it will profit you in this life or not, whether it will make you happy or not.\u00a0 It will never win a popularity contest or attract the ungodly.\u00a0 It is not enough fun for that.\u00a0 Attendance averages have never been the point of God\u2019s House.\u00a0 Few people can worship just as truly and richly as many people, maybe better.\u00a0 But politics and showmanship must have attendance and votes, and those can usually be bought.<\/p>\n

\n

And So . . . .<\/h2>\n

There is one large and dynamic difference between the world and the church.\u00a0 That is the presence of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 The church does not dictate to or bargain with Him, He leads the church.\u00a0 He absolutely will not lead contrary to His Word or to the Father\u2019s will.\u00a0 He is as a dove which desires the dry and quiet places.\u00a0 His job is to restrain sin in the world, not promote it or flirt with it.\u00a0 He seeks and desires humility and backwardness and resists the proud and haughty spirit.<\/p>\n

Because of the Spirit the church can repent.\u00a0 It does not have to always create the synthesis or continue sliding into the antithesis.\u00a0 It can confess its sin and return to the thesis.\u00a0 The Godhead is the same today as He was yesterday or the first day He created the world.\u00a0 His values have not changed nor any aspect of His character or person.\u00a0 If He deals differently with people in different dispensations, He still cannot change who He is, what He thinks, or what is truth.\u00a0 Sinners must come back to Him.\u00a0 He will convict, persuade, and draw but He will not give and take.<\/p>\n

We may ask whether our thesis is the right one.\u00a0 There is only one way to find out\u2014by whether or not it is Biblical!\u00a0 When it is pointed out to us that \u201cthen it becomes a matter of interpretation,\u201d we should answer, \u201cYes, of course, it does!\u00a0 It is our responsibility to read, translate, interpret, and rightly apply the Word to every situation in every generation.\u00a0 But giving up is no option.\u201d\u00a0 The Spirit will always act in accordance with the Word which He wrote.\u00a0 He is eternally the same and so is His Word.\u00a0 When we meditate on it and become convicted that worldliness is not pleasing to Him, and become convinced of the truth we should proclaim, then let us turn from our sins and practice that which is pleasing to God.<\/p>\n

The world is not our standard.\u00a0 It will continually find new measures for its truth.\u00a0 This postmodern generation may be the one which ushers in the Anti-Christ himself; one which believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness (2 Thes 2:12); one which is deceived because they received not the love of the truth (vs 10).\u00a0 The church of Jesus Christ has the Spirit in its heart and the Word of God in its hand: let us be a standard for truth in our own generation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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