Ardent American Patriot and Lover of Israel
Is the Christian Church Practicing a Defiled Religion?
Kentucky’s Department of Children Family Services claims that more than 500 young adults over the age of 18 are released from the state’s sponsored foster care system annually. This number sours into the thousands when the undocumented cases of emancipated young adults wandering our city streets are included.
What should be the response of the Christian church to this very obvious social problem? In the Bible’s Book of James is spoken this admonition:
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this; to visit the fatherless and the widowed in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world." (James 1:27)
Christians have a propensity toward religiosity. God addresses this folly with his command to, "take care of the fatherless and widowed" in our midst. When coupled with the fact that the fatherless and widowed are in every facet of our culture already, the church is hard pressed to explain its own lack of response toward alleviating their pain and suffering.
God tells us exactly what the problem is. The majority of the church has become submersed in the comforts of world pursuits and gains. It is "spotted" by selfishness and lack of compassion – attributes contrary to the working of the Holy Spirit in each believer.
Who then, is really responsible for all those young adults wandering our city streets? We Christians are, individually as well as corporately. It is our responsibility to take care of the suffering amongst us, not the various taxpayer funded state initiated programs.
As the individual Christian begins to obey God’s commands to take care of our afflicted; we evolve from selfishness to selflessness. This is a religious practice undefiled and pure before the eyes of our God.
