June 30, 2024
Greetings and blessings to all of you. It is the 4th of July week. What does that mean to us as professing Christians; followers of Christ? We do not find that day celebrated in the Bible. So how should we respond to this holiday? In 1620 some colonist (Separatist Christians) sailed for the “New World” on the Mayflower because they renounced the religious practices of the Church of England which they thought that church was beyond redemption. The Puritans joined them in 1630.Not only did the families come with all of their belongings ..they brought the Geneva Bible with them. They fled from religious oppression and persecutions. We could compare this situation to the Blue States which want to obliterate anything of God and the Red States who want to uphold the fact that our nation was built on Christian values and that it is ok to follow those values. For example, a lot of people are leaving California. Why? Because the government there is leading a totalitarian leadership which is getting close to Marxist-Socialist. The people are fleeing to the Red State (Texas) and other Red States where they can still practice Judeo- Christian values. A reality check. We live in a fallen world and that reality reaches directly from the garden of Eden to July 4th 1776 to today’s America. The people then did not respect Christians values and now we have the left ideologies shaming Christians who want to appreciate how God has blessed us. Not so much with material affluence, power, and world dominance but with Spiritual Blessings. On this day we should be grateful we are citizens of this nation and appreciative that the democratic ideas of America (equality, charity, justice, and individual rights) stand in marked contrast to the vast majority of other societies in human history...the asylum seekers definitely believe this…hundreds are arriving daily across our open borders. We the Christians in America are a type of Esther. Mordecai told her “Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this” (Esther 4:14) The Church in America should never undervalue the freedom we enjoy. This is not a perfect nation but right now we have freedom of the press and freedom of speech but all that will be gone if we do not understand fully why and how we as US citizens received this. Sadly, it is eroding now. Try saying anything that goes against the LGBT+ group or the Pro- Abortion groups or the Socialists movement. ..you will be silenced. So let us celebrate…on the 4th. We cannot take these freedoms for granted.
First Lady Vivian C. Currie
Pastor ALC