Crisis of Unbelief

When I was growing up it was just a given fact that on Sunday morning we would be attending Sunday School and Church. The same is true for my Father and his family. My grandparents and my fathers and his 7 siblings went to great efforts to be in church on Sunday morning. When my father was a boy the road to his home was dirt and sometimes it was very difficult to travel, but that did not stop his family from attending church. I remember seeing a photo of my father, his parents and siblings all piled on an old Ford tractor because that was the only vehicle that was capable to making it down the muddy road to his church. The same is certainly not true today. Most of us live on well maintained roads, even paved roads, but if it is a bit to cold or snowy we use the weather as an excuse to not attend church. God forbid there is a sporting event on a Sunday morning or any other form of entertainment we may be interested in, because it often will given a higher priority than attending church and worshiping our Savior. In January 2018, Christian researcher, George Barna, stated that Generation Z, those born between 1999–2015, is the first truly post Christian generation. According to current trends there is and increasing number of religiously unaffiliated individuals within the younger generation. There is a strong possibility that within one generation, those who believe in God could significantly decline, leading to a society where a substantial portion of people no longer identify with traditional religious beliefs. The world we live in today is facing a crisis of unbelief. 

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 

The family is the backbone of the culture. The family is the educational unit God set up to pass on a spiritual legacy to the next generation and to impact the world for Him in the next generation. It only takes one generation to lose the spiritual legacy, and the devil knows this. That’s why the family has come under incredible attack. Sadly, there is now a generation of kids have been taught through the education system, media, the internet, and movies that the Bible is a book of mythology, man is just an animal, and morality is relative. 

Proverbs 29:18 ESV Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law. 

We live in a time where we this is happening. The younger generations are casting off restraint. Their guidance in life is to do those things which brings them pleasure. They put themselves first and believe that self gratification is the most important and life is whatever they can get out of it right now. They rebel against God, and they do whatever they can to justify doing whatever they want to do. 

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 

Notice that the verse in Proverbs finishes with, blessed is he who keeps the law. People will not be happy until they are obeying God’s law. Even though we live in a world that faces a crisis of unbelief there is hope if you place your faith in God. It is time to get back to the fou