For Our Fundamental Churches to be Salt of the Earth!

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4 min readJul 30, 2018
  1. 2 Corinthians 6:14 King James Version (KJV)
  2. 14 “ Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? “
  3. So many people have forgotten the true meaning of this verse.
  4. Sadly, we do have the experiences of American churches to blame. It is certainly nothing strange — as experiences always shape the culture of the nation somehow — yet seeing the level of misapplication of this doctrine today, I have to say it’s saddening.
  5. In mid-XIX century, the American church faced a crisis, finding itself from attack by two major foes. First one was called “evolution” and rose up to discredit the Biblical account of Genesis. The second one was known as “biblical criticism” and sought to destroy the idea of scripture’s inerrancy. Even today we see the wicked fruit of those two. However, the sad thing was that despite resistance from multiple brave Christians, American church slowly started giving ground. Theological liberalism, which was already a strong current in XVIII century America, became the norm.
  6. The issue divided the church. The ones who still believed in the “fundamentals” founded the “fundamentalist” movement. Their intentions were, very often, noble and I cant condemn their deeds. They sought to “separate” from denominations that no longer adhered to Biblical truth — and rightfully did so. The problem, however, was that very soon the idea of “separation” started to become a goal in itself.
  7. Recently, an IFB church had written an entire paper about a “third degree separation” that apparently meant the idea to separate from denominations that refused to openly break every tie with those the person disagreed with. Soon, the idea of “separation” had spread on other areas as well with some saying door to door Soul Winning was the only time to be with an unbeliever.
  8. Was that what Jesus did, when we found him eating with worst kind of sinners and offenders? After all, the “clergy” of his day frequently attacked him for that. Jesus ate with sinners who were Matthew’s friends who were seeking, and Jesus witnessed to them.
  9. A thinking reader obviously understands the problem. The problem, at this point, is a Christian form of escapism. Various forms of fundamentalist Christianity choose, seeing ever spreading darkness around them — to put their head into the sand and flee into the safety of the church’s walls. Which soon after prove to be far less ideal than imagined, because the same human vices that rage into presidents and kings rage in pastors and elders, who are as fragile when it comes to sinning as the rest of the people.
  10. What is the true context of the verse above, and how the Christian should apply his position to the world then? The key word here is “unequally”. An unequal yoke is the kind of yoke that requires you to sacrifice Christ in process of keeping it. Thus, while Jesus frequently ate with the worst kind of sinners, he never let them attract himself into the sin. I know this process may be extremely hard, as temptations always exist — but it does not mean they are not worth enduring. Yes, when the people around you, believing or not, ask you to do something contrary to scripture — you always ought to refuse. But as long as the relationship does not force you to do so, you should use it to forward the kingdom. (Notes: This does not mean going to the bar to get drunk with your buddies for Jesus) Galatians 5:13 states “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”
  11. Daniel and his friends were key people in Babylon — but they were not OF Babylon. They operated and interacted with it, showing it the way while never embracing the ways of the famed ancient Empire that went contrary to God’s commands. We should take a look at them and instead of fleeing, use them as our model. As the darkness falls around us, unsaved world needs our light more than ever — a light that can not be obscured by Church’s walls.
  12. The goal of this is not to de-empathize soul winning in favor of so-called “lifestyle evangelism” rather the goal of this article is to allow the Kingdom to permeate every aspect of the Christian’s life.

Matthew 5:13

“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”

Jesus commanded us to be Salt of the Earth, when the salt loses its savour it becomes useless. We need to show the world that we have something that they do not have. 1 Timothy 1:15 states “…Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners…” What are you doing to reach sinners and show them the gift that they do not have?

I once heard a wonderful story from a local Bible believing Pastor here in New Jersey about how one time a lady complained to him back when he was just a Youth Pastor asking “why don’t you let the kids have any fun” the question was ironic because the kids were having a lot of fun at a church sleepover without the stain of the world and fleshly corruption. This Pastor responded to the lady “Lady, we have fun all the time. We go skiing, rafting, hiking, ect,ect what we don’t have is the sin type of “fun”.”

Romans 11:14 tells us “If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.”

Galatians 5:22–23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Time is short Christian, go out and win souls! Be bold! Do not be afraid to touch them where they are at in Holiness!

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