Don't Turn Away

I recently saw on CNN that more and more people are turning away from their childhood faith. These people have become more spiritual by seeking other religions and taking spiritualism as a foundation for life. Most claim not to be affiliated with any denomination, while others just rely on their own ways of thinking. I believe there are two main reasons why this is happening:

One, those who attended church as children and grew up there, did not accept Jesus as their Savior. Without Jesus there is no foundation for life and then one begins to seek other tantalizing means to have fulfillment. You cannot depend on your parents always, and I believe that as one grows up in the church that person loses sight of God. The traditions become old, when truth should be real and fresh as the morning dew. It is a crime to make Christianity boring to any child; and frankly, many churches have done this. No, we should not play to children by avoiding truth and ushering in worldly endeavors, but for sake of all things sacred make it interesting--for God is always interesting.

Secondly, and this is to no surprise, people will always be people. Sinners will come and go. Some will be saved others chose not to be. As the days pass by more people will seek their own means of being holy when in fact all their doing is making themselves more rotten and putrid inside. If its not the God's way (the God of the Bible) the way is wrong and will ebb into Hell---its just that simple not matter what logic you can contrive.

This doesn't mean that preaching about Jesus, his sacrifice for sins, why we need him, and God wants all to be save should stop. In fact it should increase more abundantly now than before. Jesus is the way to Heaven, the only way, God said it not I. The reason for this is thus: if Jesus is not the way then every knucklehead (I include myself) would come up with some ridiculous reason why God should accept them: "I'm good.", or "I gave a lot of money to charity.", even "I not as bad as Hitler." would probably make the cut.