Wake up, men of the Church, and it does not matter what church you are affiliated with; we have a man problem. And guess what, The Government does not have the answer, money is not the answer, or programs, we need to show by actions that only Jesus Christ can restore a young boy who needs a dad and has no male direction in his life. Will you step up and be that man for some young boy?
If your Church is fearful of being sued for any reason and has looked the other way on the single moms of your church, who have sons with no dad to be a spiritual influence, then look at big brothers and sisters as your path to help rescue these young men, and be Christ to them. Now that should be after you have worked with the leadership of your Church to see if they are willing to invest in these moms and their sons. If so, Big Brothers and Sisters, I’ve discovered, are willing to assist in the background checks and guidelines of the men who sign up. This article from Grassfire will give you more information on what is needed.
In the aftermath of two more tragic shootings this past weekend, politicians and pundits are scrambling to point the finger of blame and push for more laws to solve the problem.
Interestingly, Oprah is closer than the politicians and pundits to the real solution for our nation...
+ + Oprah: We are missing "a core moral center."
Just the other day, Oprah offered her thoughts on what our nation needs to solve our current crisis:
“I think what people are missing is a core moral center... Churches used to do that… It was a central place you could come to, and there was a core center of values about a way of living and being in the world.... Until we can return to that, however, that is, in whatever form, we will continue to be lost.”
Oprah says churches "used to" provide the moral center. But what happened? Did churches lose their message? Or did the statists and socialists take over the debate and work to effectively purge faith from our communities? Years ago, the late author Richard John Neuhaus wrote a seminal work called The Naked Public Square that explained what happens to a society that strips God from its consciousness. Today, we are living out what Neuhaus spoke of.
So how do we regain our "moral center"? It's certainly not found in politicians or pundits who point the finger of blame and accuse the President (and by association, every conservative in our nation) of racism and hate, or capitalize on these tragedies to promote gun control. And it's not in feel-good sessions and "moments of silence" in which public leaders dare not pray.
+ + We have a "man problem."
Practically speaking, the cause of these shootings -- and the reason seven were murdered last weekend in Chicago, and more than 300 will be killed in Baltimore this year -- is broken families. Boys simply don't do well when they are raised without both mom and dad in the home. Check the statistics -- almost all of these mass shootings and most of the violent crimes are committed by men. And most of those men grew up in broken homes.
Our homes are broken because we lost the "moral center" of the two-parent family shortly after we lost the "moral center" of faith. Now, most of our well-intentioned government welfare programs try to fix the cultural rot in our society in ways that further break our families apart and cause more children to be raised without both mom and dad. And since we've wrongly decided that Jefferson's "separation of church and state" means God and faith must be purged from our publicly funded efforts, government programs can't even legally point to the source of the "moral center" we so desperately need. We can't regain our "moral center" without acknowledging that there is a basis for a "moral center" -- a God who creates the "north pole" for our society to which we can align our life compasses. As a result, we are stuck in an ever-degrading cultural loop.
So, if we can be honest for a moment, when we look at these mass shootings or the killings in Chicago and elsewhere, what we have is a MAN PROBLEM, caused by a FAMILY PROBLEM caused by a FAITH PROBLEM.
+ + Restoring our "moral center."
Here at Grassfire, while we remain fully committed to challenging the efforts by politicians to undermine our liberties and further expand the reach of government, we also want to call our nation back to the FAITH ANSWER and the FAMILY ANSWER so we can begin to restore the "moral center" even Oprah knows we've lost.
From our Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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