Some have faith in this old world surviving all we can throw at it. Others have faith in humanity being able to dig us out of these messes we get into as humans.
Christians have faith that Jesus has risen, conquered death, and will return to earth for the final judgment, when all faithful, dead and alive, will receive new spiritual bodies and will be granted eternal life, and the wicked will perish in hell.
Who is crazier in their faith – humanists or Christians?
In an increasingly secular society, Christian faith is an increasingly rare quality. Christians are only 6 in 10 Americans, and half of those Christians are in name only.
In 2011, 75 percent of Americans said they were Christians, but in 2021, that number had shrunk to just 63 percent. In 2011, 18 percent of Americans were not affiliated with any religion, and now nearly 30 percent of Americans are in that category, according to the Pew Research Center.
If you have a Christian in your life, hang onto them for dear life, for you are blessed — at least that person has a role model of what a good human is supposed to be like and has a playbook for what our destiny is.
Gathering together as Christians to worship and reinforce the faith has never been more important, because this is the very faith is being overwhelmed by a secularism that has Christianity in its targets.
John 14:1-3: “Let not your heart be troubled…In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”
That passage could very well refer to getting our of your chair going to church this Easter morning: Today, some of us will show up at a church’s doorstep on our occasional pilgrimage to have someone explain to us the miracle of life after death and help us rekindle our faith, which is under assault all the other days of the year. While I don’t want to offend any reader, it’s Satan who is the leader of that assault.
The walls of the sanctuary help us build that faith back up to fight the battle. If you go, and I hope you do, there will be dozens of God-loving people inside those doors waiting for you — servants who have kept worship services alive week after week, and day after day, for many years.
If you have doubts, you’ll be in good company on Easter Sunday. Christians inside those doors are also no strangers to doubt and times of trouble. They’re no strangers to sin or lapses in faith, even as they keep witness week after week, honoring God’s authority as they worship Him and wonder at the mysteries of his domain. So take a chance. You won’t be alone in your doubts, in your worries, and it’s a great day to unload the burdens you carry.
