Does your church seem more like a club than a true family? Do "brother" and "sister" seem like awkward labels given to people you don't really know? Does something seem missing from your Christian life? Using COVID-19 as a timely example, "Living with Babel" explores how we live as Christians in the modern world. It provides insights that will transform your perspective, your understanding of scripture, and your discipleship to Jesus Christ. Learn how you can find true peace, true faith, true family, and true purpose in your life. Discover how precious you are to God and how vital you are to freeing the world around you through His truth and power.
Millions of Christians, of every denomination, have been led to believe that the modern Church, having grown and existed for almost 2000 years since its founding, must be true to Christ. Indeed, that thousands of churches, books, and pastors seek to make "true disciples" within this evolved Church would seem to give this assumption credence. Yet the Bible itself speaks to a very different discipleship, a discipleship that Jesus himself demonstrated and commanded his disciples to have--Whether we enter through the narrow gate depends on our discipleship.
It is evident that our decaying modern culture is increasingly abandoning belief in God and in the godly principles of the past, despite the continued presence of the Church within it. This fact alone should give us pause to question: If the Church is truly a city on a hill, why is it so hidden in the world? Are the ministries we undertake really building the Kingdom? Is the fellowship we have truly edifying and healing one another?
"Living With Babel" begins with the nature of mankind, demonstrating through the story of the Tower of Babel in the Bible (Genesis 11:1-9), how human beings and the culture of today are essentially no different from the time of Babel. The builders of Babel used brick to build a tower so tall that it would exceed the power of God. Likewise, today, mankind has embraced science, technology, medicine, and humanism in its own attempt to be God. The same fallen nature of mankind persists.
"Living With Babel" explores this fallen, worldly, and technological landscape using COVID-19 as a case study, to examine the pandemic from secular, modern Christian, and biblical perspectives. Through a history of the Church from its founding to the modern day, it also examines the developments and heresies that have contributed to undermining the true purpose and fulfillment of the Church. Its conclusions provide the truth of how the evolution of the Church has led believers away from true discipleship and true fellowship, to a superficial co-existence with the culture that inevitably leaves both believing and unbelieving untransformed to the Kingdom.
Recognizing this reality, "Living With Babel" testifies to what scripture says true discipleship to Jesus Christ should be. It breaks the chains and misconceptions formed over centuries, to reveal our true purpose in God's plan of redemption for our fallen world--It is a guide on how to live with Babel.
