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\u201cOne out of four Americans (23 percent) state that religious beliefs and teaching are the single, most significant influence on their thinking about whether or not there is such a thing as absolute moral truth.\u00a0 The next most prolific influence is said to be the Bible (15 percent).\u00a0 Other significant sources of influence about moral truth are family (13 percent), experience (10 percent), and emotions and intuition (7 Percent).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

George Barna1<\/sup><\/p>\n

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The only frightening thing about Barna\u2019s findings is that our generation may not care.\u00a0 Over a century ago Charles Finney wrote, \u201cIf we are deceived in respect to our being subjects of moral government, we are sure of nothing.\u201d2<\/sup> We might say, if we don\u2019t stand for something, we\u2019ll fall for anything.\u00a0 We expect such from people who refuse God\u2019s grace and reject His revelation to man.\u00a0 How can one have manners if there is no parent around to lay down the law?<\/p>\n

I have been following coverage of conservative Americans calling for the discarding of a fellow conservative politician on the grounds that he is so persistent in his principles he will never be able to make Americans like him enough to be effective.\u00a0 Better to be amiable than accurate; to be relevant than right.\u00a0 These are drastic times that call for drastic measures and slavish homage to unpopular\u00a0 principles will not win the day!\u00a0 This is why Kierkegaard said, \u201cThe thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.\u201d3<\/sup> But to anyone with Divine manners, with any sense of a moral universe, that sounds a lot like nonsense.\u00a0 It was for that reason Chesterton said, \u201cMere light sophistry is the thing that I happen to despise most of all things.\u201d4<\/sup><\/p>\n

We believers may readily admit that we cannot always interpret God\u2019s world correctly but we are sure there is a correct interpretation.\u00a0 We may not always read our Bible right but we are sure there is a right way to read it.\u00a0 And we are sure that our job as stewards of God is to give testimony to truth and not to error.\u00a0 We may not change the unbeliever\u2019s mind or heart but we will be good ambassadors of truth (with proper \u201cmanners\u201d) nonetheless.<\/p>\n

It seems unfitting to me, therefore, that we should continually be asked by some to give up or even set aside truth in our ambassador ministry.\u00a0 I was told the other day that having stealth convictions for the purposes of inter-church sports would cause the lost to want my faith more.<\/p>\n

Really?\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t if I were he!\u00a0 Why would a thinking person want a faith about which I\u2019m embarrassed?\u00a0 Do we advise married couples or even friends to reconcile their differences by hiding things from one another?<\/p>\n

Now some will say, \u201cWell, we understand what we mean here.\u00a0 We only mean you can\u2019t ram your beliefs down another person\u2019s throat!\u201d (as if someone is going to bring up the hypostatic union at a volleyball game).\u00a0 But is that all we mean?\u00a0 Are these things simply a matter of wisely teaching the unlearned, or is it more a matter of believing that unity is more desirable than struggle or that by denying or hiding a small truth, larger ones are more acceptable?\u00a0 If I say, \u201cThe flowers will bloom in the Spring,\u201d but you say, \u201cthat\u2019s irrelevant because the Earth revolves around the Sun,\u201d why does truth about Botany hinder truth about Astrology? (the fact is, it might be a great help).<\/p>\n

Once we are willing to hide certain things that we believe or know to be the truth, we may be willing to acquiesce to things that we know not to be the truth.\u00a0 C.S. Lewis, in discussing questionable behavior writes, \u201cWhat is one to do?\u00a0 For on the one hand, quite certainly, there is a degree of unprotesting participation in such talk which is very bad.\u00a0 We are strengthening the hands of the enemy.\u00a0 We are encouraging him to believe that \u2018those Christians,\u2019 once you get them off their guard and round a dinner table, really think and feel exactly as he does.\u00a0 By implication we are denying our Master; behaving as if we \u2018knew not the Man.\u2019\u201d5<\/sup><\/p>\n

First Corinthians 9:20-22, where Paul declares, \u201cI have become all things to all men\u201d has become the clarion cry of those advocating stealth ministries.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe such a view of those verses can be justified from the rest of the book.\u00a0 In 10:25-30, Paul instructs a believer to feel free to eat meat offered to idols because of our knowledge of idols.\u00a0 But he says (vs 28), \u201cif any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake . . . Conscience I say, not thine own, but of the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

An important question is, who is the \u201cany man?\u201d\u00a0 One view is that it is another believer who also happens to be at the feast.\u00a0 But there is no indication that this \u201cany man\u201d is a Christian brother.\u00a0 A better view, and one that is entirely natural to the story, is that a pagan man says to the Christian, \u201cThis is good meat that has been offered to my god.\u201d\u00a0 In this case the pagan has connected the eating of this meat with his false religion.\u00a0 Now the believer must not partake because to do so would be to say something is true which is not.\u00a0 Paul\u2019s reasoning is seen in verse 33, \u201cNot seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they might be saved.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the above reference from C.S. Lewis, he would call the situation where a believer is not willing to walk away, \u201cconnivance.\u201d\u00a0 He says, \u201cThe temptation is to condone, to connive at; by our words, looks and laughter, to consent.\u201d6<\/sup> This is where Peter found himself when he was asked if he knew Jesus, conniving and warming himself by their fire.<\/p>\n

To what, then, are we accountable as believers in Christ?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it to Him and His Word?\u00a0 Do we really think we can figure it all out better than He?\u00a0 As stewards of this ambassador ministry, we are only asked to be faithful, and to herald what our King has already told us.\u00a0 It is not ours to bargain with the King\u2019s words.\u00a0 Thomas Wentworth once wrote, \u201cThere can be no greater vanity in the world than to esteem the world, which regardeth no man; and to make slight of God, who greatly respecteth all men.\u201d7<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/span><\/address>\n
1. George Barna, The Index Of Leading Spiritual Indicators<\/em> (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1996) 104.<\/address>\n
2. Charles Finney, Systematic Theology<\/em> (Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1994) 27.<\/address>\n
3. Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God?<\/em> (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1994) 205.<\/address>\n
4. G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy<\/em> (Wheaton: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1994) 5.<\/address>\n
5. C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms<\/em> (New York: Harcourt & Brace, 1958) 72.<\/address>\n
6. Lewis, 71.<\/address>\n
7. Mayo Hazeltine, Ed, Orations from Homer to McKinley,<\/em> Vol. 4 (New York: Collier and Son, 1902) 1471.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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