http://lenmunsil.com/2007/06/losing-faith-in-our-leaders-and-ourselves/ President of Arizona Chrsitian University Fri, 19 Aug 2016 02:48:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://lenmunsil.com/2007/06/losing-faith-in-our-leaders-and-ourselves/#comment-65 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:15:31 +0000 http://dev.lenmunsil.com/2007/06/losing-faith-in-our-leaders-and-ourselves/#comment-65 Len, you wrote, “But we remain the freest, most prosperous nation on earth. We are still the land of opportunity. And we have the capacity through the democratic process to change those things in our leadership with which we disagree.”
Freedom, opportunity and the democratic process do not guarantee happiness. I think we as a nation have lost our soul.
Some people want to trust their leadership to lead them to happiness. But they have concluded that their leaders cannot lead them to happiness anymore than a new car, a bigger house in the burbs, a new spouse, a 12,500 point Dow or a fine wine can lead them to happiness.
What you wrote is a diagnosis of our spiritual emptines..
The question is, will the church seize the opportunity or keep sending their youth to Disneyland, building mulitimillion dollar hotel-looking edifices, and preaching ‘how you can be happy in 3 easy steps’ sermons.

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