I thought you would appreciate this stirring video. It is by David Wilkerson, the founding pastor of Times Square Church and the author of the book, "The Cross and the Switchblade." It is from a message called, "A Call to Anguish" on Nehemiah 1. The full audio can be downloaded here.
Below are the notes from Sunday's message on Nehemiah 1.
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
National Study of Youth
and Religion
1. A God exists who created and orders the world and watches over human life on earth.
2. God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions.
3. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about one-self.
4. God does not need to be particularly involved in one’s life except when he is needed to resolve a problem.
5. Good people go to heaven when they die.
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world and might even be ore difficult to save. – C. S. Lewis
View of God: God is distant (our sin is impersonal) vs. God is near (our sin is very personal)
Ephesians 2:12-13
12remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
View of God: People are basically good (and therefore there is not much motivation to tell them of Jesus) vs. People are dead in sin (and therefore are in desperate need for someone to tell them about Jesus)
View of God: God exists for me vs. We exist for God
Repentance is the beginning of change.
Rebuilding starts with repentance.
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