So Goes the Church, So Goes the Nation By Vic Dove

Again, another great article from Vic Dove...

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” Psalm 33:12

I was recently traveling out of town, and while driving down the road I was listening to a recorded sermon on CD. The pastor’s name was Bro. Scott Smith and he was preaching a revival in a church in Eastern Tennessee. The sermon was on the church and how the church has lost its influence on our society and our culture. Bro. Scott in his sermon reminded me that while teaching to His disciples in the book of Matthew; Jesus told them: "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men" Matthew 5:13.

After hearing this sermon I realized I have been looking at the problems of our great nation and blaming them on the wrong people. For sometime now I have been blaming politicians for the moral decay in our country. Not so my friend, the church is the problem. We have lost our saltiness. The church is virtually non- existent in our society today. We are like a salt shaker full of salt just sitting on the table. The salt is no good to anyone or anything if it stays in the shaker, you got to put it on the food in order for it to make a difference.

If you are sitting around this election year and thinking that if a Right Wing Conservative is elected President, or to any other office for that matter, will make a hill of beans difference; you are sadly mistaken my friend. The only thing that will change the direction of this great country is the Church- So goes the Church so goes the Nation. The answers to our cultural decline can not be found in a Republican, a Democrat, or any other party; they are found in the church.

The Church needs to get out of the salt shaker and start making a difference. The only way the salt can get out of the shaker is if someone turns it upside down and shakes it. Will you be that person in your church? Start shaking the salt shaker, spread some salt this week.

Abraham Lincoln was spreading the salt in his speech to the Congress of the United States of America when he used Psalm 33:12 “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord”. So goes the Church, so goes the Nation.

May God Bless You and Your family
Bro. Vic