What Is God Is The Issue?

• CEO's steal from their employees
• College students gun down their classmates
• Journalists lie with impunity
• Babies die at the hands of doctors
• People die of AIDS every day
• Same sex marriage is marching forward
• Children are abused by those who should be protecting them

I hope your heart is broken, as is mine. Do you recognize that these are all symptoms of our view of God? As my father, Bill Bright, said, "We can trace all our human problems to our view of God."

Trying to suppress cultural symptoms apart from the larger context of God's identity has proven futile. It's like patching the surface cracks in the walls of a house while ignoring an unstable foundation. The cracks will return unless the foundation is repaired. Too often we find ourselves reacting to symptoms such as abortion and same sex marriage, instead of recognizing the real problem–our view of God. We must stop reacting and begin to reframe just as the Apostle Paul did in Athens.

Making God the issue is the only issue on which all the others issues stand or fall. If we win the battle over who God is, we will win all the other battles. If we lose the battle over who God is we will lose all the other battles. This is the pivotal choice of our time.

Yours for making GOD the issue,

Brad Bright