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What Has Been the Culmination of Socialism?

The hope and dream of most socialist and communist leaders (Karl Marx in the 1840s) was a more equal society. One where wealth and power was dispersed among the people, the proletariat and not concentrated with the nobles at the top.

Fast forward almost 200 years later and Vladimir Putin is the culmination and the glory of socialism in Russia. A lone thug, a violent king, the thing the early socialists/ communists wanted to remove.


Isn’t it ironic? I think it is very ironic.


They fail not because it’s an entirely bad idea, not because intentions were not good. Not because they are fundamentally evil or unintelligent. Karl Marx and his contemporaries were extremely learned and intellectual people. But they fail for the same reasons all political movements fail, because they have excluded and snubbed Jesus Christ. Marx was openly atheist. Most communist countries have been oppressive to Christians and sometimes all religion. So, they become what they once resisted, it is the fate of human government in every form, snub Him and you’re undone, irrelevant, all you have after him is the varied forms violence if you want to remain in control.


Hitler was the culmination and glory of socialism in Germany.


Many examples in Venezuela, Cuba, soviet era violent thugs.

There is both an open and subversive movement of socialists and even communists in the US. This movement is not a Christian movement, people who claim to be Christian may be in these movements but they rarely if ever use their Christianity as a reason for the things they are striving for. Fast forward, who will be the culmination and glory of socialism in the US? Will the democrats, with republican enabling, continue us down that mentally ill path? Do we really need to experience almost 200 years of violence to get to that person?

Start to lose public support (cater to your base) they switch to whatever it takes to hold onto power. Then when censorship, vote cheating, manipulation of race tension, and political imprisonments stop working.

It is open war, stealing, killing, assassinations, and destroying. They do as their spiritual leader leads them to do. Today’s (Feb-March 2022) prime example of that is Putin’s invasion of his neighbor Ukraine.


Socialism / communism is not solved by political action and violence. It’s a spiritual condition, Jesus Christ is the cure. Not church activities and not organizing for certain policy and not moralizing from the pulpits!

But the preaching of Jesus Christ, and much more importantly the dominance and headship of Jesus Christ within churches, and among Christians. Read more about the dominance and headship of Jesus Christ… <click here >

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Please Don’t Start Another Church

Have you heard this attitude in Christian leaders starting a church?

“I can do it better than the former generation”
or
“I can do it better than those doing it now”.

-unspoken attitude of local church leader

I think these are the worst possible motivations a church leader/ planter can take.


You can spot this a mile away peppered through sermons, if it’s a young pastor it’s about the former generation (likely daddy issues), if it a middle-aged pastor it’s about the other churches (competitive self-centered kingdom building).


If it’s a mature pastor that attitude has likely been beaten out by reality and by the Lord himself.

If you are an evangelical Christian leader who thinks like this, Please Don’t Start Another Church because 1) it’s not true, you cannot do it better, you can do it differently, and 2) even if you can do it better, please don’t, the body of Christ has enough of that. At least in this neck of the woods.

What is a Churches only Foundation? – The Gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ

It’s easy to say out of church and doctrinal correctness ‘Jesus is our foundation’, yet we see all the huge difference in doctrines, teachings, traditions and behavior of churches and pastors and Christians.

It is the particular gospel about Jesus Christ that a group of Christians is embracing!! Which is it’s foundation.

“The gospel” is not just the Romans Road to salvation, that is a tiny and partial part of it. A gospel is all the teachings about Jesus; past, present, and future. It explains why we exist, all Jesus did, his future. His kingship and kingdom. It explains exactly what the magnitude of a Christian is. It explains Jesus’ place and his future and our place in it. It explains the purpose of suffering and how to react to it. It explains the principalities and powers and Satan, I could go on, and on but I’ll save that for another time.

What advice do we give new Christians when they first convert? That is part of our gospel. That impacts that Christian greatly. How do we react to and treat fellow Christians when we disagree? Do we drive them away and fear it or do we value, embrace, and understand it.

That’s why no matter how hard a church tries to be correct outwardly if it’s foundation is error or is partial, we will struggle with many different things in addition to all the troubles in life that we must face anyhow.

The gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, as it’s called by John and Jesus and the apostles, produced the type of churches we read about in scripture. That particular gospel. And the churches that we see today have been produced by other gospels.

That gospel must be embraced, and to be embraced it must be known, and to be known it must be preached. And to be preached it must be restored and planted into hearts of preachers and teachers.

I know with certainty that Jesus Christ is restoring it. I just hope many, many embrace it. But when we do ..there will be trouble.

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