According to Mohler

"These are the days that will require courage, conviction, and clarity of vision.  We are in a fight for the most basic liberties God has given humanity, every single one of us, made in his image."

I recently ran across this article in Dr. Albert Mohler's blog of March 21 of this year. There is certainly no equivocation here.  In the article (The Gathering Storm: Religious Liberty in the Wake of the Sexual Revolution) he goes on to state that those of us who have been made in His image are presently engaged in an existential struggle to maintain a moral set of standards that are progressively being negated in the World community by a strong, dedicated and proactive force. This ominous progression is advancing "with astounding velocity."  He continues:

A revolution in morality now seeks not only to subvert marriage, but also to redefine it, and thus to undermine an essential foundation of human dignity, flourishing, and freedom.  Religious liberty is under direct threat.  During oral arguments in the Obergefell case, the Solicitor General of the United States served notice  before the Supreme Court that the liberties of religious institutions will be an open and unavoidable question.  Already, religious liberty is threatened by a new moral regime that exalts erotic liberty and personal autonomy and openly argues that religious liberties must give way to the new morality, its redefinition of marriage, and its demand for coercive moral, cultural, and legal sovereignty. 

 

These are days that will require courage, conviction, and clarity of vision.  We are in a fight for the most basic liberties God has given humanity, every single one of us, made in his image.  Religious liberty is being redefined as mere freedom of worship, but it will not long survive if it is reduced to a private sphere with no public voice.  The very freedom to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ is at stake, and thus so is the liberty of every American.  Human rights and human dignity are temporary abstractions if they are severed from their reality as gifts of the Creator. The eclipse of Christion truth will lead inevitably to a tragic loss of human dignity.  If we lose religious liberty, all other liberties will be lost, one by one.

 

The bold has been added.  I was thinking of adding bold to other parts of the quote but decided that more than half would have been in bold and thus making the devise almost meaningless.  So let's stick with "These are days that will require courage, conviction, and clarity of vision." I noticed that he did not appeal to some form of Christian activism.  I was actually pleased by such.  It is not that I advocate against Christian activism.  Just the opposite is the case.  Rather, I was pleased that, acting as a learned scholar, he seemed to leave the severity of the subject matter to stand by itself and not be diluted with extraneous thoughts.  "Stop and cogitate" he might have said. "These are days that will require courage, conviction, and clarity of vision".

Dr. Mohler continued on with many thoughts -  naming names, concepts, organization, etc. Leave it to say that I agreed with all that followed.  However, - allow me to deflect a little and expand on a thought that began the article. Immediately following his clarion-like call to courage, conviction, and clarity of vision he alludes to the bulldog-like efforts of the great Winston Churchill in his attempts to awaken a lethargic Western World community to the immanent dangers of the expansionist mentality of Adolph Hitler in the late 1930s.  He saw that if not impeded - Nazi hegemony would prevail over all of Europe (and beyond?).  One would do well to read the article. 

I was going to continue this article with allusions and conclusions concerning the situation surrounding the dark days preceding WW2.  Did Churchill prevail and awaken a comfortable World community, or did the reality of invasion do so?  The subject-matter became substantive enough that I thought it best to continue this line of thought with another post.  Part two to follow.

Let's close with this:  For those of you who are aware of World conditions and are sobered by such a scenario - Do you feel that our Christian community is going to soon become courageous, become convicted by the godless atmosphere that is pursuing the demise of Christianity and its moral and biblical code, and do you believe that a myopic clarity of vision is soon to prevail in the American church?  Do you even think that such a scenario is required?

My appeal is for us to consider the warnings of Dr. Mohler, to stop and cogitate and to consider that courage, conviction, and a clarity of vision may soon be demanded of us.  The World condition may force the matter upon us.