What's Wrong?

I hear people talking frequently about how bad the culture has gotten. About the evils of America, and we begin pointing fingers at the groups we feel are responsible for this.

But what has gone wrong with the world? Who is responsible?

I am . . . We are . . . Us . . . The Church.

John 12:24, "I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds."

Jesus said this just before he as about to die. It contains the nature of the kingdom. How does the kingdom spread? When one person says I am willing to give my life for it (it began with the King being willing). When they die to themselves, only then does their seed begin to multiply.

Our problem is that to many of us are in love with the world. To many of us like money. To many of us have our concern set on our own seed. Trying to baby our seed, and see how good we can look. We forget that we must die (get brown and ugly). And that is the secret to the kingdom.

If I could fully grasp this. If we all (the church) would fully live this, America would be a different country. It would be a place of goodness, and mercy, and joy.