We Need To Change

From an article taken from Hephzibah Happenings, Winona Lake, Indiana

We do not need a third major political party, nor do we need to “clean-up” or redirect our current ones. We need Jesus Christ. We need the Holy Spirit. We need revival. We do not need to “breathe new life” into the political system, we need for God to breathe new life into our churches. We need “fire”--not in a candidate, but in the people.

We learn from history that man has always been corrupt, that political systems have always been imperfect and failed. The very best of nations that man ever produced--the United States--is sick and rapidly dying. But it is not the fault of the Republicans or Democrats, or independents, of populists, or libertarians, or socialists, or communists. The problem is “us”. Our representatives in Washington and in the fifty state capitols only reflect those who sent them there. They are truly “representative” of the populace. The genesis of man’s problems is always sin, and the solutions is always repentance. We do not need to return to the basic principles of our founding fathers, we need to return to Jesus Christ. Nothing will change in Washington--at least nothing significant--until the people change. And the people will not change until the “church” changes. The problem is not the scoundrels in Washington, but the scoundrels in the pews and pulpits!

Pastor Dave Halyaman is Assistant Pastor of Believers Baptist Church and also Assistant to the Director of Hephzibah House.

Amen Brother!