Hi, this is Hank Hanacraft, President of the Christian Research Institute, host of the Bible InSman broadcast with another Hank Unplug Short.

My thoughts are not well formed this morning.

I was simply thinking just a few moments ago about how the culture is devolving so very, very rapidly.

And it is easy for Christians to look at pagans, and I suppose to criticize those pagans for

living a pagan lifestyle.

Is that just, is that right? Is there merit in doing so?

I suppose in some cases, there really is merit in doing so. However, on another level, I think that

the real problem is not pagans, it's Christians.

We have ceased to be salt and light in a lost and searching world.

I was reminded after reading Joe Dallas's book, Christians in a canceled culture of a famous preacher.

I won't mention his name because it's really not all that important.

But this famous preacher is a microcosm of the problem.

He appeared on the view with Joe Bayer,

and the bottom line was,

in his discussion with her,

he was not willing to call abortion a sin.

Now, this is a very basic tenant of not only Christianity, but Western civilization.

Think about the life issue.

It is foundational to all civilization.

And if a famed pastor is not willing to speak out clearly and effectively with respect to abortion.

It's very difficult for us as Christians to criticize the world for the practice.

Imagine this same pastor being asked about racism, and then rather than giving a very clear

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