The Broken Window Theory

The broken windows theory, is when one window in an empty building has been broken, others who come along and see it will think that someone got away with it and throw their own rocks to break more windows.

This is an interesting concept because when applied to the morals of a culture, we see that relaxing moral standards results in more people relaxing their standards until the entire culture is corrupt and immoral.

It is very difficult to convince anyone of their sin and need for Christ in a culture that is supports and promotes sin all around them.

If you don't believe this theory all we have to do is compare the lifestyles of normal law abiding citizens of 70 years ago to now. By law abiding I mean those who adhere to Biblical standards, even if they did not know they were Biblical, the Christians in the culture influenced the society as a whole and even non-believers agreed with the standards of Christians, because they saw that the morals were better for the culture as well as personally better.

Now days we have nearly everyone negating the standards and morals of the Bible, holding them in low regard if not out and out contempt for them.

Crime has increased while demented thinking has overtaken most of the culture.

2 Timothy 3 describes the mentality of the end times, in this vein of thinking there lurks complete and total rebellion against the principles of our country that made it powerful in the beginning.

Without moral and ethical standards the country declines, diligence and excellence in anything is no longer important. Lives are destroyed as people begin to accept a lower standard, families disintegrate into hopelessness.

We are on the precipice teetering, ready to fall over the edge at any moment. Anyone who thinks we can bring this country back to morality and unselfishness is living in a fantasy of their own. God describes these end times, they do not get better they only continue to decline into the morass of evil until we reach the tribulation, at which time there will be no goodness left, only heartbreak and terror everywhere all the time.

The answer to this mess is for individuals to find Christ before that time, giving them the hope of the rapture and the ability to live in this terrible place, in hope, hope not in restoring the earth or our country, but personal hope in the promises God has for those who have been born again.

Believers will be Spiritually and emotionally protected in these difficult times, perhaps not always physically, but nothing can touch their regenerated soul that is kept by Christ until He comes for us.

For unbelievers there is no hope, they will not have the protection emotionally, spiritually or physically from the horror that is coming in the tribulation.

Those who do not know Christ must have their eyes opened to the salvation that is in Christ alone before it is too late.