Welcome to the blog of Pastor Alton Stone, from Simpsonville, SC. Pastor Stone is a retired Ordained Bishop of The Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee with over 45 years of pastoral ministry.

Friday, August 17, 2012

We need God in America again

Freedom is what our nation was founded on. It was the freedom to worship as we chose. It was the freedom to no longer be harassed by a government that hated God and all that He stood for. We did make some grave errors along the way, but there is no way to forget that our foundation was based upon Christ Himself.

Mistakes aside, America did get its start as a Christian nation, which is why the Christian people are actually the majority of the population today. The minority are the non-Christians who would like to get the upper hand and turn this country away from its Godly heritage. They are already doing so one little piece at a time. About forty years ago, we could pray and read Bibles in our schools, but then a few atheists got the brilliant idea to tell a lie and managed to get away with it. Now our children can no longer practice their right to freedom of religion on their school campus. The lie I’m referring to is the “Separation of Church and State”. Such a thing is completely unconstitutional in the United States and the atheists know it.

When God was still allowed in our schools, teachers faced such crimes as, throwing spit balls, chewing gum in class, and tripping someone in the schoolyard. Now that God has been evicted, we have kids running around with high-powered rifles shooting classmates and teachers just because they feel like it. Kids have to be searched by metal detectors before going to their classes. It's when you take God out of the classroom that the devil feels free to move right on in. By keeping the Lord in our system we were actually protecting our children from evil, yet now many students and parents are afraid of what can happen on their school campus.

When you remove God you remove all that is wholesome and good, and that leaves darkness, evil and decay to move in to fill that spot. It is quite obvious that the problem with the United States today, and basically with the world at large, is that we need to go back to our foundations again, back to our very roots and bring God back into our lives again. While it is true that even just one individual can make a difference, it is difficult to do so while your hands are tied and your lips are gagged, which is basically what has happened to the Christians in this day and age.

Bringing God back to America again would do no harm and it would in fact, remove the spirit of evil that has spread over this great nation of ours. Without God we are nothing, and with Him, nothing can harm us. That is the hope of the ages, and a successful nation is never without it. God is not now, nor has He ever been, unconstitutional, but we have allowed the few to lead the many and that is unforgivable.

As this school year begins let's prayer for a revival in our schools and in our students. God is still able to do what seems impossible here in America again.



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