The church by the train tracks.

I quoted from the book: "How do you kill 11 million people" a few posts back. The following is another interesting quote from the book .

In his book, Pastor Lutzer shared an eyewitness account of how some church members reacted to the Nazism of their times:

“I lived in Germany during the Nazi Holocaust. I considered myself a Christian. We heard stories of what was happening to Jews, but we tried to distance ourselves from it because what could we do to stop it.

A railroad track ran behind our small church and each Sunday morning we could hear the whistle in the distance, and then the wheels coming over the tracks. We became disturbed when we heard the cries coming from the train as it passed by. We realized that it was carrying Jews like cattle in the cars. Week after week the whistle would blow. We dreaded to hear the sound of those wheels because we knew that we would hear the cries of the Jews in route to a death camp. Their screams tormented us. We knew the time the train was coming, and when we heard the whistle blow, we began singing hymns. By the time the train came past our church, we were singing at the top of our voices. If we heard the screams, we sang more loudly and soon we heard them no more.”

And then the eyewitness shared with Pastor Lutzer, “ Although years have passed, I still hear the train whistle in my sleep. God forgive me, forgive all of us who called ourselves Christians and yet did nothing to intervene.”





When faced with overwhelming evidence of wrong most of us respond by singing louder.


Proverbs 24:11-12
Rescue those who are being taken away to death;
hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,
and will he not repay man according to his work?

I ask every one of you reading, are you just going to keep singing louder while everything precious in our country is destroyed?

Singing louder seems to be the favorite tactic of many of our political and spiritual leaders.

Piece by piece our country and our nation is being dismantled, and we cover the loss by just sing louder.

In our personnel lives often the path of least resistance includes pretending ignorance and plenty of loud worship.

Ignoring the evidence does not make you spiritual or diminish your guilt.
It just makes you a mental coward.

Truth always calls us to action.



You can sing louder, or you can accept the challenge that truth would reveal...




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