In the past week, there have been multiple shootings, stabbings, and murders in Macon, GA. Two of the murder victims were young women with children. At this moment there are 560 sex offenders registered in Macon, GA. This is just the ones who have been caught and prosecuted. A disturbingly large number of these sexual assault victims were children. On a scale of 1 to 100 (1 being lowest crime and 100 being highest crime) Macon rates at 95.1 (The US average is 35.4). And yet, our city has over 200 churches – one of the largest church-to-citizen ratios per capita. So, what is going on in our churches? Why are we so powerless to confront the darkness enveloping our city? Many of our pastors are addicted to pornography and divorce rates within the church are virtually the same as in the world. I have personally had many conversations with pastors who refuse to address issues of sexual immorality in their churches or the horrific reality of abortion. And we scratch our heads and wonder what is wrong? Sin! Sins is what is wrong! Pastors, you need to repent. You need to preach repentance. Christians, you need to repent! We are supposed to be the light of the world, but how can we be a light if we are walking in darkness? God’s plan for his church is that we would be known by our love for one another and that we would be ONE. So, why are we so powerless? Why are we so divided? Because light cannot fellowship with darkness. Turn from the darkness and repent. We cannot be one with homosexuals. We cannot be one with the sexually immoral. We cannot be one with cheaters and liars and drunkards. We cannot be one with murderers who kill their own children. We cannot be one with sin. Yes, we have all sinned. But we have been delivered from that sin, if we have been born again. We have been empowered to walk in newness of life to live righteous and godly lives, if we have been born again. God has called us to be ONE and he has called us to be HOLY. "But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” - 1 Peter 1:15-16 / "I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me." - John 17:21
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