It s been pushed out of the battle. Josh McDowell says it s tolerance. It s the new mandate embrace tolerance. When we push truth into the street and we erect tolerance as our new standard, all we are doing is setting up the rest of this passage. Honesty cannot enter.
Truth is nowhere to be found and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.
When truth is lying flat on its face and doesn t intersect the culture, when righteousness stands at a distance, when justice has been driven back, suddenly the evil that you and I were meant to push back turns around and becomes a predator. When those bullets were fired, evil had turned around and evil was preying on our nation s children. I m telling you folks, if we do not preach the gospel, if we do not have truth stand back up unashamedly and proclaim it, then the very evil we were meant to prey upon will turn around and prey against us and it will become a predator on our children and our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren for generations to come. There is a lot at stake in your call, and my call, to be faithful to preach the gospel. Stop apologizing for the gospel.