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The Church’s most revered institution of our society, considered to be the scared and holy place were man can go to receive direction, peace, and answers to life situations. In 2016, the Church is facing a multi facet of challenges from reality TV, Being comfortable with single mothers in our churches, reversing the roles of Leadership to be politically correct, we living more in the times of Romans 1 and here are the verses that challenge the Church right now; Romans 1:18 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteous men who hold the truth in unrighteousness. 1:21 - Because that, when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither, were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened. The times we are living in requires the body of Christ to come together and take stand against sin and double minded living, sure you may say this is nothing new well, we beg to differ, when I was a child no one walked up in a Church and killed 9 people at Bible study because, the Saints were prayed up and could discern, the spirit. But, as we have moved from the 20th century to the 21st Century the Church has embraced a variety of vernaculars to draw crowds, and feeling we can win more souls by embracing rap music and calling it Gospel Rap, and now we have embraced reality shows where preachers want to resemble the show Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous and say why can’t we do it if the world does it, well the scriptures specifically says “Love not the world neither the things in the world.” You say well, what do you want the Church to do? Take a Stand quit compromising the Bible to appeal, to public opinion, and the sooner we realize that people have a choice and stop blaming the Church for their mistakes, the scriptures state “I would rather you be hot or cold but, since you are Luke warm I spew you out of my mouth” and that is what has happen to the church because, we no longer want to be a peculiar people but we want to be in fellowship with the world. Yes, we should be open to new ideas, and visions that promote righteousness, not carnal thinking and reasoning with sin, just like we didn’t speak out against the President of the United States, who claims to be a Christian but yet he congratulated, same sex message, we have to be like the Apostle Paul and go against all sin. It’s the Church’s job to let the society know that we don’t agree with sin, that marriage was created, by God for man and woman, well someone says what are you going to do with those supposed, Christians who go to church and yet do the wrong thing well the same goes from them nothing changes the Wage of Sin is Death. This editorial is designed for us to get back to talking about the essentialness of living Godly, it’s like going to the doctor you may feel fine but , when you go get that check up , and you find out there are some changes you need to make in order, to remain healthy you make those changes because you are aware of you don’t the results could be detrimental and the same goes for the Body of Christ we need a spiritual check up all around the world because, we have taken in infections, that has cause the Body of Christ to weaken it’s standards but, when we get back in the training room and strengthen our stamina also our defense of the Gospel of Jesus Christ you will seen the anointing of God return to our churches as in times of old. Be Blessed!