The decline of the traditional family as established by God, in the Holy Bible, is a great contributing factor to the decline of Christianity, a result of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and ushering in every sexual immorality under the sun, mocking marriage as selfishness and lust replaced the fear of the Lord and a loving and faithful family consisting of a father, a mother, and their children.

Added to this, working sordid sinful evil hand in sordid sinful evil hand is the accommodating and accepting and approving of a multitude of false teachers and their unsound doctrines entering into the Church.

For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:4

 

And we are living in these Biblical times…

 

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Romans 1:16-32

 

And there is only one real cure, solution, remedy to what ails this nation and its people who have turned from God to their own lusts and insatiable pleasures denying the Lord Jesus Christ while professing otherwise…

 

if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14

 

Seeking, testing, and following sound doctrine from the whole inerrant infallible living Word of God as we humbly, truly repent of our sin.

Satan and all his minions and ministers working diligently have managed to almost utterly tear down and destroy the foundation of the traditional family. With the help of we the people who have turned from God, turned from Christ, and turned from believing and living as best we can according to the Word of God.

What do we expect to happen when a traditional marriage of man and woman as husband and wife is now the minority? What can we expect when parents cease being parents and permit their children to rule? What can we expect when either a woman or a man on their own, without a helpmate, without a spouse, are attempting to raise their children? What can we expect when it is considered normal and appropriate, readily accepted and approved that a woman can be called a husband, a man called a wife in homosexual relationships raising children? What can we expect when men and women do not read the Holy Bible, study the Holy Bible, and meditate deeply upon the God-breathed words contained therein? When people turn from church, the churches resemble entertainment centers only feeding people spoiled milk and saying what makes them feel good rather than the truth and spiritual nourishment needed?

Anyone truly surprised?

Really?

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Wednesday, September 27th, 2023

 

Decline of Christianity Linked to Collapse in Marriage and Fatherhood, Experts Say

 

September 26, 2023

By Sarah Holliday

Reprinted from The Washington Stand

 

The Pew Research Center shared survey results earlier this month on the structure of the “modern American family.” The report stated, “The American family has undergone significant change in recent decades. There is no longer one predominant family form, and Americans are experiencing family life in increasingly diverse ways.” Experts say this familial breakdown is connected to the breakdown of Christianity in the U.S.

Compared to 1970, the home of a married mom and dad with children all living together has dropped from 67% to 37%. Reportedly, much of the decline is due to the normalization of unmarried adults living together. Another survey done by Communio, an evangelical nonprofit organization, yielded similar results, arguing that the decrease in Christianity as linked to a “collapse of marriage [and] fatherhood.”

This survey found 80% of churchgoers were people who had parents who stayed married. Additionally, adults who had a “close relationship” with their fathers had a 25% higher chance of sharing their parent’s faith. J.P. De Gance, the founder of Communio, noted many atheists come from homes with absent fathers or broken relationships with fathers. Moreover, how marriage is viewed bleeds into statistics on fatherhood, loneliness, and Christianity. “For those in the church interested in seeing a renewal of faith, [we] need to see a renewal of marriage,” Gance said, adding that “Christian marriage” needs to be “central.”

The survey found direct ties between never-married individuals and high levels of loneliness — in and out of the church — which has been noted to be psychologically damaging. As reported, since 2017, loneliness among Americans has risen from 40% to 58%. The survey found while “Sunday churchgoers are less likely than the average American to report being lonely, … there is a substantial gap between married, cohabiting, and single Sunday churchgoers in feelings of loneliness.”

In general, those who were married were significantly less lonely than those who were not. The results also showed that there were 10% more unmarried men in the church who considered themselves lonely than there were widows who considered themselves lonely. The report acknowledged how many people view loneliness in the church as proof of marriage being idolized but also wrote, “The loneliness data for those who have never married reinforces the truth found in Genesis 2:18 that, ‘It is not good for man to be alone.’”

John Stonestreet, president of the Colsen Center for Christian Worldview, contended at the end of the report that due to the “loosened” sexual morals through the intensifying sexual revolution, “marriage and family are treated as if they are … social constructs that can be rethought in light of ever-evolving social conditions.”

By way of analogy, he compared a speed limit to gravity. “A speed limit is real, in the sense that it exists over a particular stretch of highway, but it is not real in the same sense as gravity is real. … [T]he speed limit may be changed accordingly.” As he put it, gravity is not a social construct, but rather “baked into reality,” and marriage is no different.

In light of Scripture, Stonestreet emphasized marriage as a “foundational reality.” He wrote, “[M]arital roles, the nature of family enterprise, and educational options [may] have changed, but the essential form of marriage and the relationships that comprise families have not.”

As De Gance put it, churches need to address these issues by having better marriage and family ministries. Churches need to “help Christians form the kind of relationships that lead to lifelong marriages” as well as help them form healthy relationships.

The report concluded, “The structure of marriage and family is built into the fabric of reality. To disregard it is to court destruction, in this case the destruction of faith.”

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.