No Compromise with Evil 

   “We do not want a Church that will move with the world.  We want a Church that will move the world.  G. K. Chesterton 

   When our Lord came into the world He didn’t come to work within the corrupt rules and ways of the world but to rewrite the rules and change the world.  He said, “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!” (Luke 12: 49).  After Christ, the world could never be the same again.

   We need leadership in our churches that follow the example of Jesus, leaders who do not bend to the ways of the world but fight to change the ways of the world.  Christianity cannot flourish by accepting the ever-changing morals of society, it must establish not new ways, but the old ways, the ways of Christ.

   To follow Jesus requires us to swim against the tide of evil in the world.  We cannot ignore or give the sins of the world a pass, saying “Well, they aren’t so bad, maybe the rules need to be updated and revised.”  We must instead insist on the teaching of Christ who warned us, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth.  I have come to bring not peace, but a sword.” (Matt 10:34). 

   There can be no compromise with evil, it must be defeated.  There is only one road to heaven and it goes through Christ; all others lead only to hell.