Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

When William Wilberforce was waging his political war to end slavery in Great Britain, one of his political counterparts, Lord Melbourne,

countered his efforts, saying things have come to a pretty pass when religion

is allowed to invade public life.

His point was clear.

Wilber Force's religion had no place in the politics of the day. His feelings are not unique.

In our modern world, we've clearly seen the separation of church and state taking place,

as the Western world becomes

less dominated by Christianity, our culture is operating off of this very belief more and

more. A person's faith is a personal matter and it has no bearing in a personal matter and has no bearing in the secular world.

This divide is often referred to as the sacred secular split and it comes both from a world that wants to keep religion

out of its business, but also from those within the church who have come to

truly believe that God cares about my spiritual health and what I do on Sundays, but not much else.

The heart and lives of many Christians are divided between the things that they believe God has

a pardon and then the rest of their lives.

We spend time with God when we go to church, pray, or read our Bibles, and spend the rest of our time

doing what we need to do to get by.

The problem is that the sacred secular split does not find its roots in scripture.

In fact throughout scripture from the very first chapters in Genesis to the final verses in in every area of his people's lives, and he calls them to live their entire lives for his glory.

John the Baptist knew this. He knew that he was preparing the way for a God who cared about every area of his followers lives.

And because of that, we see him challenging the people of his day in Luke Chapter 3.

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