In this dream the Church rises up together to form a better conscience for the culture in which it’s in.  It points to a greater kingdom where things such as porn and abortion are distant memories.  Widows and orphans are cared for, not carted off to their own pocket where they are ignored.  A new society is founded upon which all are welcome and treated like the children of God they are, no matter the color of skin, no matter the economic standing.  Sinful lifestyles wouldn’t be honored but would be loved into repentance.

 

We are wiser than to fall prey to the failings of the catholic church with their inquisitions.  We are the keepers of the history of man and the wisdom of God.  No longer would the success of churches be defined by numbers and screen size.  The business model of the American Church has run its course and its leadership is waning, the 80’s are gone.  We need to have a better voice for too much darkness surrounds us.  We are the Light of the world and will not be extinguished.  We host His presence and are a foretaste of His Kingdom.  When we worship Him and pray, we witness darkness flee.

 

It may seem like the end times, and I say if it is, then let us give our Lord and Savior a welcome to be proud of, not a: “Could You wait just a second?  George Lucas came out with a new movie and I’m on the last level of my video game.”

 

The helplessness of the Church would also fade away as sexual revolutions would be replaced by love.  Brothers and sisters in distant countries that face persecution would find help by more than companies that throw money at problems.  Actual research would be done to find a better way to accomplish their mission, the spreading of the Gospel.

 

I’m tired of the Church waiting for the government to do her work.  I’m tired of worrying who the next President will be.  I don’t find that anywhere in Scripture for worrying is not our job.  Why do we let a government which can obviously be bought replace our hands that are already paid for by His blood?

 

Yes, the Church has been a source of great atrocities in the past, but how is hiding today going to fix yesterday?  Can we not learn from it?  Are we not still the Bride?  Prayer in school would be the norm and the Bible would be a primary book from which our children would learn their value.  It would no longer be defined by sexual predators and the sex trade.  Evolution would take its place as a theory not as fact.  School violence would not be prevented by armed teachers but by prayer and a way to find actual solutions.  We are the only solution, governments can only move as far as their leash to this world and its ways allows.  We are to be free of such chains.  In our despondency we let the people suffer under their repeated failures, for that is all they will ever accomplish.  Why do we expect more from them?  They are not the Bride, we are.

 

Divorce, abuse, addictions of various kinds, debt, health care, could all be addressed as the Bride stands.  Why do they not teach how to properly handle money in school?  Because they want to raise a generation of debtors.  We are not meant for such things, our children are not made for such things, nor their children.  But what else have we to offer them while we sit.  Stand Bride of Christ!  Let us unite and give them a witness that once again inspires and sets free for the chains of this fallen world are heavy indeed.

 

For our children and theirs, let us give them such a story that shakes beyond culture, beyond economies, beyond Google and Amazon and ushers in His life giving presence.

 

Stand Bride of Christ!  Stand!”

 

I wrote this years ago, while I was trading emails with President Obama during a time of the Supreme Court overstepping its bounds to redefine marriage, school shootings, and ISIS.  May it be a helpful note for today.