An Irrelevant Christian

I am often taken aback by the amount of people decrying that we as Christians are losing our freedoms and that government is taking control, while that may be true let me lay another take on you. Would you rather be thought of as a nuisance, or be so utterly inconsequential that you have become irrelevant? Kind of the Commodore 64 of religions(if you are young, search in on the internet). I know, God will not let Christianity become that, however, we as Christians are allowing ourselves to become so marginalized that in a lot of areas we have become irrelevant. We are now known as right wing Christian extremists. We are losing battles that Muslims are winning in this country and others. We sit back and use some scriptures out of context to explain away our apathy. We seem to want to do the right thing, but the right thing is hard and not the easy road so we sit back and watch the fringe elements in this country garner more rights all the while our silence is allowing ours to erode. Complaining about something serves only one purpose, to bring to light an issue, but without action it turns into a dead flame. I love a good sermon on civic responsibility, but the lazy people just point to Romans and say to pray for our leaders and woe is me, there is nothing we can do. While we are remanded unto prayer for those over us and to submit, we are not remanded unto being quiet, we are not remanded or charged with silence on the issues that Christians believe in. We should shout from the mountain tops that Christ has the answer and that without him, this country is doomed. We MUST be the salt and light to open the eyes of this nation and others to what is going on globally and THAT my friends is the global desensitizing influence of Christians because of our unwillingness to be heard. Our silence is making us irrelevant. Our hiding in the bushes on issues makes us seem like a fringe element in this country even though we outnumber the actual fringe elements 10000-1!! It is time to stand up as one voice, bring the good news of the gospel to the world, To cease being irrelevant, become the Christian soldiers in the war against Satan that we are meant to be. Our silence is deafening, our apathy is shrinking our influence, our capitulation is destroying our credibility, and our tolerance is taking away our values. If you do anything today, ask God to instill in you his virtues, his heart, his power, because in and of ourselves we will continue to lose this fight. Go with us in this struggle for it has been a struggle as far back as the early church. We must become relevant, we must be bold like the first generation Christians who were willing to die for their faith in order to not become.... an irrelevant Christian.