To survive, we must safeguard foundational spiritual heritage

Congregation with their pastor at a revival [Courtesy]

Several events of the recent past point to an apparent concerted effort to destroy foundational values and tenets upon which many nations – including ours – were built. One such is the Swiss referendum last Sunday in which almost two thirds of voters agreed to legalise gay marriages, making Switzerland one of the last Western European nations on this path to societal degeneration.

For Bible readers, one of the saddest records of Israel’s societal relapse is in the Book of Judges and reads in part, “The people served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the LORD had done for Israel. After that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation grew up, who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel. They did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals. They forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt.” Herein is a perfect example of what can happen to a society when the baton of foundational values and religious practices fall through the crack between generations.