Christendom: Christ or Chaos

Christendom: 

Christ or Chaos

What we now call "Western civilization" was once known by its true name, Christendom. 

When those who despised the inheritance of Christ were handed control of education, curriculum, and the training of the next generation, the first thing they did was erase that name. 

Not by accident. By design. 

Sever a generation from the root, and you sever them from the life it produced.

In this teaching, we open Romans 1:18 through the end of the chapter -- Paul's unflinching account of what happens to any culture, society, or nation that will not retain God in their knowledge. 

But before Paul gets to the downfall, he sets the stage. He declares that he is a debtor -- to the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the learned and to the unlearned. 

He is not talking about individuals only. 

He is talking about cultures. 

Whole peoples. 

Whole civilizations. 

And the only thing he has to offer any of them is the gospel, which is why he is not ashamed of it. It is the power of God. And it is the only thing that can stop a people from walking the road to destruction he is about to describe.

Then he describes it.

The phrase is deliberate: they would not retain God in their knowledge, the collective knowledge of a people. 

What they put into their laws. 

Their schools. 

Their public square. 

Paul keeps saying they and them -- the plural is not accidental. 

This is a nation. A society. 

A culture making a choice. 

And when God is removed from that foundation, He does not beg to stay. 

He releases them to themselves. And Paul lists exactly what follows. 

Read the list. Then look around.

This is not a history lesson. 

This is a diagnosis -- and a warning to those who refuse to learn from it.

But we do not end in the ruins.

We end with the Church. 

Because the Church is waking up. 

The Spirit of God is moving. 

What we are witnessing is not the final decline -- it is the shaking that precedes revival.  

The Church is rediscovering the gospel of the Kingdom -- not the gospel of compromise, not the gospel of retreat, but the full, conquering message that Jesus said would disciple nations.

The foundations can be rebuilt. But first we have to tell the truth about how they were torn down.

Christ Is King -- Live Like It.

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