Dear Church Person;<\/p>\n
I have heard people say that Halloween evening is the time when the Devil is most active. It presents the view that Satan is less active when society is not honoring demons, goblins, witches, or zombies.\u00a0\u00a0 Have you ever wondered what he does on Sunday? I mean, since most professing Christians are religious on that day, it stands to reason that he may take a break from his wickedness. Or does he slum in his pajamas, lounge on a sofa, surf TV channels, and yawn with boredom while waiting for Christians to get home from the restaurants?<\/p>\n
I believe that Sunday is the most satanically active day of the week. It is historically infamous as \u201cthe morning after.\u201d It is hangover day, a holiday for sinners, the day millions of people wake up in bed with a stranger after a night of riotous revelry. It is their Funday, Sinday, Slumday, and Vainday. People head to the lake, the beach, mountains, flea markets, golf courses, ballparks, with no thought of God.<\/p>\n
Sunday is when most heresy is spewed and the most people are listening. It is the day when the majority of professing Christians have their false spiritual status confirmed. It is the day when sugar-high, caffeinated, \u201cseekers\u201d, \u201cemergent\u201d, and clueless millennials, find their \u201cgroove.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday is the day when seed-collectors gather by the millions. Their \u201cwayside, stony, and thorny\u201d spirits open like a baby bird\u2019s mouth. WST professing Christians intend to lose every seed. Some will lose it all before they leave the church building. Other ones will leak it all out before committing Sunday lunch gluttony or gradually by indulging in hours of sports.<\/p>\n
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Sunday is also \u201cThe Lord\u2019s (half) day.\u201d The fact is, in all honesty professing Christians can only claim one half of Sunday. The second half is totally dedicated to the flesh by \u201csaint\u201d and sinner alike. They bond with the same activities, feasting on the same content, their spirits kowtowing equally to the flesh, and their adrenal glands releasing simultaneously. The world system captivates them all\u2014eyes focused, ears tuned in, brains receptive, distraction complete.<\/p>\n
Sunday is the day when professing Christians pilgrimage to a building, sing words they don\u2019t believe, listen to sermons they never intend to apply (unless it is heresy), and depart in the same spiritual condition they arrived in. However, \u201cgoing to church\u201d is what Christians do, but it is not Christianity. Some people would be surprised to discover that Christ never went to church. He is the Head of the church, which is His body. Christianity is daily expressing the God\u2019s will, love, and power through one\u2019s life to the lost and spiritually empty masses about us. That is what Christ did. If we wish to be true Christians we have to do what Christ did.<\/p>\n
Yes, we should go to church meetings (not \u201cgo to church\u201d). But we should not believe that action is the crux and sum of Christianity, because it is not. If we are going to attend church meetings, there should be a purpose beyond performing a ritual. We should receive with joy the engrafted word of God. However, we should not then act as if we simply drove by a billboard. God\u2019s word is not secured merely by hearing, but by pondering and praying about what we have heard.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, just because Sunday is the day set aside for attending church meetings does not mean that Satan sleeps in and lounges about in his jammies waiting for Monday to arrive. Sunday is his most active day. He doesn\u2019t sleep. He works all Saturday night and through the dawn and beyond.<\/p>\n
Thus, we should ask ourselves, \u201cWhat is Satan doing on Sunday afternoon while we are enjoying our religious holiday?\u201d While we stuffed our mouths with taco chips, salsa, guzzled soda, and screamed at the referee this past Sunday, what do we think Satan was up too?\u00a0\u00a0 How much ground did he gain, or progress in deceiving people, or convincing a teenager alone in his or her bedroom to reject Christ?<\/p>\n
Too distracted to notice, too bloated to pray, too worldly to care, and too uninspired to change, but not too lifeless to despise the message and the messenger? Good. Therein remains hope.<\/p>\n
Alive in Christ,<\/p>\n
C. H. \u2013 a messenger<\/p>\n
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