Success

"Success...was the only god the entire world served."

A line from the beginning of Elizabethtown. All too true, especially in America. Unfortunately, it also seems to be partly true of the church as well. The church today listens to the voice of pragmatism and "what works" instead of the voice of God that declares "I will build my church" and "I am the source of its growth." Success is how the world determines what is good. What is good, what is of God, is how the Christian determines success. Until the church throws off its ties to the world and its adultery with its ideals, we will continue to flounder in lukewarm theology and lives. We must return to God like the Gomer we are if we do not wish to be spit out and become a dead and barren land.