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Welcome to Pastor Jared Decker’s blog site.
As the Pastor of Grandview Pines Baptist Church in Millbrook, Alabama, I wanted to create a location on the internet where people could receive helpful information about current issues with a Biblical perspective, rather than a secular one. Because I am a Pastor, I may not be able to write as much as I would like, but I hope that you will check back often for updates. Let me take a moment to give you a glimpse of where I’m coming from in my perspective of our current situation.
I am deeply disturbed at the condition of our Country. What a long and downward way we have come in the last few generations. From the acceptance of abortion, to homosexuality, to pornography, to complacency. We are in rough shape! Washington and the “News” media in their back pocket have told us that the answer to all of our problems is more government regulation and control. The truth is that we need more Biblical regulation and control in our life. We are out of control!
When our founding fathers established this great nation, they knew that a people could only be free as long as they believed in and followed the principles of the Word of God. The Bible itself tells us, “Whom therefore the Son sets free is free indeed.” Even a non-believer like Benjamin Franklin knew the impact the Word of God had on citizens and governments. It was he who proclaimed that the Congress should start no day without prayer and Bible reading. Boy, how times have changed. Now, we are defacing national monuments by removing Scripture and any reference of God or the cross. I would say, “God help us”, but we might be past that point. Every day, we hear someone else in the leadership of our nation classify us as “fundamental, extremists” while calling Islam the “religion of peace”. Our leaders won’t observe the National Day of Prayer, but they will invite Muslim leaders to pray with them at the White House during Ramadan. What?! We may not be much of a Christian nation today, but we were founded as one. I will not stand idly by while our Christian and American heritage is forfeited to those who would see us destroyed.
We need to see a return to the Bible. But not only a return to the Bible is needed. Our nation needs a massive return to the founding documents of our nation. We need to restore the spirit of patriotism seen in the Declaration of Independence. That spirit that threw off the bonds of an oppressive superfluous government and tyrant, no matter the cost. We need to stand as men, like John Hancock, and write our name in bold letters for all to see. We need a return to the principles and governing laws of our Constitution. We need our current leaders to see the necessity of that stringent documents as our former leaders saw.
However great the change needed, it won’t come unless “We the People” see the need. It is for this cause that this blog will be here for you. I want to shed light on ignorance. I want to not only help you to see political issues through a Biblical perspective, but I also want you to see spiritual issues through a Biblical perspective. We are too easily swayed in our spiritual life by societal acceptance. Change must begin at the house of God. Christians arise and awake out of sleep. Jesus is coming soon…work for the night is coming!
In the service of the KING,
Pastor Jared Decker