Just something for us all to ponder upon. It was copied from the Confessing Movement Newsletter (http://confessingumc.org):
WHY DOES AN EMPIRE FALL?
(The great historian Edward Gibbon, who was not a Christian,
gave the following reasons for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.)
1. The rapid increase of divorce and the undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society.
2. Higher and higher taxes and the spending of public monies on bread and circuses.
3. The mad craze for pleasure and sport; sport becoming every year more and more exciting and brutal.
4. The building of gigantic armaments when the real enemy is within-in the decadence of the people themselves.
5. The decay of religious faith; faith fading into mere form which has lost all contact with reality.
How many times has History repeated itself and is it heading there again. Or perhaps I should say “Are we heading there again.”
Pastor Randy
Wesley United Methodist Church, Orange TX 