July 17, 2010 – Amos 8-9

The phrase that stuck to me is a famine of the word of God.  What does that look like.  I was trying to place what we are going through now.  But there is no shortage of the Word of God.  There are thousands of different Bibles, different translations, and many thousands of different translations.  So, maybe famine in the normal sense, doesn’t work, but this made me think of the “isn’t it ironic song”.  Being in the middle of a flood and dying of thirst.  We have all this different literature and people preaching different ideas.  Some good, some not so good, but are people listening.  Of course, some are, but who many are really listening.  I think some people don’t believe in Christianity because there are so many different ideas thrown out there about what it truly is.  I have heard that the Catholic Church is in decline because over the last 40+ years it has been made a Protestant Church.  Speaking of ironic, the idea or hope was to be more inclusive to make the Church greater but people have seen the Church’s wishy-washy stance as a confirmation that it is no different than other denominations and have left.  Can you imagine if there were one unified Church and the voice it would bring.  Instead we have 30,000+ denominations.  Thus, Christianity is dying of thirst in the middle of a flood, a famine of the Word of God.