Don Wildmon
AFA/AFR founder
July 1998 – A young boy walks into the school and randomly begins shooting people. It is a frightening story that is becoming much too commonplace in our society.
We search for answers about why this is happening. The problem is a result of a slowly decaying foundation in our society and is one which will continue to happen. If one builds a shoddy foundation on which to place a building, one can expect that the foundation will crumble and with it goes the building. That is what has happened in our society. Our foundation has become shoddy and our building is crumbling.
The majority of our citizens say they don’t care if the President of our country has sexual relations with an intern in the White House. Raunchiness is at the core of much of today’s music. Pornography is a multi-billion dollar business in our country and growing. The Internet is filled with it.
The decaying of our foundation is a problem which the church should be addressing. Instead, many in the church simply are joining secular society in aiding and abetting the destruction of our foundation. Denominations rage with a battle over special rights for homosexuals. Many top leaders fight for the right of homosexuals to be married by clergy. The problem of pornography is ignored. Pastors are afraid of addressing the killing of the unborn from the pulpit. It is too controversial. We might lose members because they don’t agree with us.
Time is running out for the church to be effective in addressing the decaying foundation. We don’t have forever.
Jesus once told a parable about the importance of a strong foundation. “Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.”
Against the flood of immorality in the media – the movies, music, television, etc. – we have raised a generation in which many are devoid of a moral conscience. The media has defended their immorality by crying “FirstAmendment.” Unfortunately, leaders in many of the denominations – not all, but many – have been quick to defend the rottenness of the programming while doing little or nothing to condemn it.
We are engaged in a great struggle to determine if this country – or any country – can maintain a decent society. We cry freedom when what we need is responsibility. We spend billions of dollars on children’s programs while filling their minds with violence and immorality.
It is an irresponsible approach. We have built our foundation on sand. And we are reaping the just results.
It is time to quit fearing controversy and start fighting complacency. To use another Biblical injunction, it is time to become doers of the word and not hearers only. 
