The Prophetic Voice is missing in our contemporary world. It has been sacrificed on the altars of feel-good psychology, scratch and sniff spirituality, and moral relativism. Popular Psychology builds our self-esteem even when we abandon biblical values in our decision-making. Methods of spiritual formation minister to my felt needs without warning me of the precipice toward which my sins are directed. Moral relativism allows my best pragmatic judgment to trump scriptural warrant. All of this is headed for judgment. And it is never a good idea, when you're headed in the wrong direction, to push the acelerator to the floor.
The prophetic voice is missing from the pulpit. Who warns us of the results of promiscuity, adultery, deceit, and indebtedness? Where is the voice calling in the wilderness urging us back from the brink of calling good evil and evil good? Our society is in a moral free fall. We no longer have the tools to identify right and wrong or to describe sin with any measure of objectivity.
The result is that parents throw up their hands when their children consider promiscuity. "What can you do?" they say, "it's the culture." They vainly try to warn of disease and emotional difficulties associated with premarital sex. No one says you are rebelling against your Creator, destroying the divine purposes for sex, and putting yourself in serious danger "of the dread of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty" (Isaiah 2:19).
The prophetic voice is the only voice that can save our culture. The prophet was the one who represented God and warned his people of rising judgment, "when He rises to shake the earth." As long as our pulpits, in the midst of societal rebellion and rot, teach us to pursue our best life now, the church will lead the culture into ultimate ruin and collapse.
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