The Golden Years - a podcast by Bread Stories

We are living in the golden years.

The reason I say this is because currently in the western world Christians are able to get up and go to their place of worship on any given day and time. Hold conferences, advertise freely and speak about their faith.

We are not persecuted in the street. We are not spat upon and our ways are honoured in our land, well to a certain extent. People still hold true to Christian norms and values and we can all agree in unity when something or someone is outright absurd or negligent in their speech and actions.

We can talk freely amongst our work colleagues about things we believe and hold a form of rectitude and benevolence towards our fellow man. We are free to come and go as we please.
Take our children out to church run activities, have them attend Christian schools and be taught things that is honouring to our faith.
Let me just quickly state that life is by no means perfect and as long as there is sin in the world there will always be issues of injustice, race, corruption, illicit behaviour and a lack of self control and the like but I must say that these are indeed the golden ages and we may not have even known it.

In the years ahead you will see more and more changes in attitudes towards what Christians believe and we can see little shadows of this in the common laws, e.g. redefining marriage. Transgender options becoming more prevalent and attitudes towards raising children, sex and more.

Our ways will be looked upon as old fashioned and outdated. Sex reserved for marriage as a swear word and an impossible feat for many to comprehend. Being kind to your fellow neighbour without them first doing something in exchange makes no sense and giving to those less fortunate will be looked upon as a waste of hard earned money. No one openly confessing Christ as Lord in fear of prosecution or death.

Lawlessness will be a normal way of life for many people, yes even the good ones. Houses will be checked for Christian literature and parents asked to enforce the current world system into their homes. Being a Christian will become a lot harder and more of a struggle. Everyone will become suspicious of each other. Spying on behaviours contrary to that of the worlds and instead of welcoming you into their homes they will despise the fact that you serve Jesus.

Loneliness and alienation will become all too real to many and Christians meeting in homes like the days of the first church in Acts will become very familiar.

Many will give up on their faith and recall the memories of the 'good ol' days or the golden years to be more specific. The years when you were able to come and go as you please and raise your children the best way you saw fit and not hide who you were or what you believed.

These are the golden years. You are living and experiencing it right now!

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