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Questioning Faith: Conversations with GodMajoring on the Minors: Habakkuk, Hosea, & Malachi

Habakkuk 2:2-20 R2R Distinctive: Kindness/Goodness June 28, 2015

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KEY VIRTUEKindness/Goodness (1 Thessalonians 5:15): I choose to do the right things in my relationships with others.

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“Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die.

If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord…. We therefore should not console ourselves by thinking that the barbarians are still a long way off. Some peoples may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others stamp it out themselves.”

–Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America

In The Compass This Summer ...

This summer we are going to seri-alize the book When Nations Die: Ten Warning Signs of a Culture in Crisis by James Nelson Black. This Week: “The Crisis of Lawlessness.”

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When Nations Die: The Crisis of LawlessnessFerguson. New York. Baltimore. Charleston. In 2015, the names

of these cities have become synonymous with lawlessness. Whether it is the indefensible violence of Baltimore police officers, the indefen-sible violence of rioters, or the indefensible violence of a hate-filled gunman, it is clear that America is suffering from a crisis of lawless-ness.

In this week’s issue, author James Nelson Black highlights the root causes of a culture of lawlessness and what happens to nations that allow lawlessness to flourish. As you read Chapter 2 from Black’s 1993 book, When Nations Die, it is easy to see how the examples of lawlessness he cites in the early 1990s proved to be the seedbed for the crisis of lawlessness we face today. Not surprisingly, the root cause is not guns or racial hatred or police brutality or any of the dozens of other issues the media focus on in searching for answers to our lawless society. The root problem is the disintegration of the family structure. In the 1990s pro-family advocates were warning of the impending destruction of the family, and today we are witnessing the effects of a culture plagued by dysfunctional families.

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