Here's a relevant and timely question from Alex Pastor John, what do you do when your

pastor is fixated and preoccupied with all the negative state of affairs in the world

today?

When he is constantly telling the congregation that Jesus must come soon in order to stem

the moral collapse of society and that the government is to be blamed and other pastors

who are not preaching against societal evils are to be blamed as well.

Any thoughts for Alex and how he thinks through this issue?

Any thoughts?

Lots of thoughts like we don't know when Jesus is coming back and there have always been

cultural collapses in history, worse than the one we're in, great changes in Christian

civilization so that what we're experiencing now is no more apocalyptic say than the

destruction of a thousand years of Christian history in the Near East.

I just read Philip Jenkins, the lost history of Christianity a few months ago and could.

Night.

Oh my, does everybody need to realize the sovereignty of God and the flow and the scope of history?

What a devastating thing as whole Christian cultures vanished in the Near East a thousand

years ago which would have appeared more apocalyptic than anything we're in now.

So that's my first thought.

An alarmist approach toward eschatology is usually historically naive by all means.

That's always, always, always be vigilant and watchful and mindful of the glorious coming

of the Lord Jesus who's going to arrive.

He's going to arrive suddenly when the Father has appointed it and nobody's going to be

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