Living in a Collapsing Culture

We are.

Does that mean we too are collapsing?

Not necessarily.

How do I change that answer to “No!”?

Before I get to that, I just want you to know that I considered two other titles for this post:

• Faithful in Contemporary America
• Thriving Spiritually in These Last Times

Those two, along with the one I actually used, are three (similar) theme ideas I came up with for our annual Bible Conference at Hopewell Mennonite Church.

I attended a planning session on February 26. Also with me, some topic ideas:

1. Lighting the Darkness
2. Being Wise as Serpents and Harmless as Doves
3. Preparing for Perilous Times
4. Seeking First Things First
5. Overcoming Fears and Anxieties
6. Loving God First of All and Above All
7. Showing the Face of Jesus at WalMart
8. Influencing Politics and the Civil Society
9. Acknowledging God in All Our Ways
10. Hungering and Thirsting After Righteousness
11. Discerning and Refuting Ecumenicism
12. Cultivating an Ongoing and Expanding Revival
13. Living in Holiness Amid the Normalization of Perversion
14. Building Each Other Up in the Most Holy Faith
15. Knowing for What to Live…and Die
16. Offering Anabaptist Christian Solutions
17. Warning the Wanderer and Rescuing the Lost
18. Sustaining the Weary
19. Anchoring our Families
20. Exercising Wisdom in Our Use of Electronic Media
21. Loving the Scriptures
22. Watching in Prayer
23. Walking Humbly With My God
24. Responding Redemptively to Failure
25. Taking Our Place Among the Called and Chosen and Faithful

And that’s all I have to say for now. 🙂