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Truth Brings Clarity!

According to Gallup close to 68% of US citizens identify as Christian. Yet only 9% of the 68% hold to a Biblical worldview which means holding to the view that the Bible is totally accurate and reliable.  Although 2 out of 3 (i.e. 226.7 million) US citizens identify as Christian, there is a big gap between what self-identified Christians believe the Bible may teach and what the Bible actually teaches.  As an example more than half of self-identified Christians believe that people are basically good and that if a person is good enough, or does enough good things they can earn their way into heaven. 

The belief that people are good and can somehow earn their way into heaven is in total contrast to Scripture. "As it is written (in Psalms 14:1-3):There is no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away; all alike have become worthless. There is no one who is does what is good, not even one” (Romans 3:10-12).  And Ephesians 2:8-9 clearly debunks someone ‘doing enough good’.  “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.”

Truth brings clarity: “…The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction; for all have sinned and all short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed: for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of  the one who has faith in Jesus. Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? NO, BUT BY a law of FAITH. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law” (Romans 3:22-28). 

As a culture we’ve become careless with who we are and what we stand for! Man can believe whatever he chooses, but to identify as Christian while picking and choosing to believe or not believe the truth that is God’s Word is not characteristic of a Christ-follower. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.” (II Corinthians 5:17).  

Does your life stand for Christ or something else?

An MCHA Stop~n~Think - 6.6.2025 - Courtesy of MCHA Ministry Coordinator Tim Chastain