Neighborhood Ministries

Our society says it doesn’t matter what you believe but all we have to do is look around us and see the difference between America in the 1950’s and America today. The values of the culture have changed and it has deeply affected our society.  The liberal attacks on the value of life, the value of the rule of law, and the value of the family have destroyed the fabric of our nation and opened the door to the violence that now grips our nation. Liberal politicians see situations and grab the easiest solution. Got an unwanted baby, abort it. It doesn’t deal with the problem that created it or the girl’s problem of dealing with it afterward. Got someone shooting up a school, take away everyone’s guns. It doesn’t deal with the anger. The shooter at Sandy Hook had a propane tank filled with explosives he intended to set off which would have killed dozens of kids but police were able to take him down before he reached it. If he could not have gotten a gun, he would have set off the bomb first which would have been far more devastating. They just try to put a band aid on a gaping wound which doesn’t solve the problem, it just sweeps it under the rug. We just saw where a shooter opened fire on children in a church. It was refreshing to hear Malania Trump call for a common sense solution.  We need to identify potential shooters and try to defuse the anger or get them off the streets. Though the shooter did not give specific information, he  broadcast his intentions long before the incident but nobody listened. Other shooters have also openly broadcast their intentions before hand but nobody was listening, they were too intent on taking away the guns from innocent people.

When I was young, I was not taught about God but I was taught Christian values because my parents grew up in church. When we had massive medical bills from my illness, the church did not care about us, its only concern  was that we pay our tithe so my dad demanded that neither God not church be mentioned in our home. Because I had Polio and was bullied a lot, my values were basically survival putting me first, yet I held Christian values as a standard because that is what I was taught by my parents. When I met a group of Christians in high school, they cared about others, including me. They encouraged me to join a church, and I found the same love and concern there. During high school, I worked for a while in the inner-city. It was vastly different then mainstream America. Christian values were so imbedded in mainstream society that even those who did not believe in God held them as a standard. In the inner-city, there was very little belief in God. Life was basically survival of the fittest. Over the years I have seen the influence of the church decrease as it no longer teaches Christian values, and its members no longer live out those values in their daily lives. Many of those in church now view life from a self-centered view and are very little different than those who don’t attend church. That is why I wrote the series on values.