Presenting ...
... a weekly letter of encouragement.
11 September, 1996 - Singapore
Good Morning!
ON CREATING ONE'S OWN IDEOLOGY...RE-WRITING ONE'S OWN VALUES:
Decades ago, C. S. Lewis penned this somber warning,
"THE DISEASE THAT WILL CERTAINLY END OUR SPECIES...IF
IT IS NOT CRUSHED, (IS) THE FATAL SUPERSTITION THAT MEN CAN CREATE
VALUES; THAT A COMMUNITY CAN CHOOSE ITS 'IDEOLOGY' AS MEN CHOOSE
THEIR CLOTHES."+
We as a Nation have done exactly what C. S. Lewis warned against.
Reminiscent, is it not of Israel's condition in her depravation:
"In those days there was no king in Israel; all the
people did what was right in their own eyes." (Judges 17:6)
And as a result, America today is facing a crisis of values of
monumental proportions. Some observers are terming it a "Civil
War" of values.
Tragically, this deterioration of values has profoundly impacted
your lost associates: Most of them sense that there is
something terribly wrong in the Land. But because they are generally
lacking in a Biblical perspective, they have scant idea how we
as a People got to this point, much less how they can personally
escape from it.
LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION: "As a believer
in Christ, are you also writing and embracing your own brand
of "Christian" values...your own ideology, that conveniently
accommodates your quest for personal freedom?"
If the answer is "yes", then your lost friends are being
deprived of observing in you two important realities that a life
of obedience to Christ would have revealed:
(1) The magnitude of their lostness, and
(2) The fact that there is a way out of their life of bondage.
IN THIS AGE OF DISINTEGRATING VALUES, MAY I URGE YOU TO
RESPOND TO PAUL'S PASSIONATE CHALLENGE:
"...That
you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault
in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like
stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life..."
(Philippians 2:15b-16a)
My prayer is that you are having a great week!
Dwight Hill
+C. S. Lewis in "Christian Reflections"
© Copyright 1996 Dwight Hill. Unlimited permission to copy or use is hereby granted subject to inclusion of this copyright notice.
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