Posted by
Doc James on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:18:24 PM
Very recently, I began to do a study on Christian Camping. Having been involved in Christian Camping for the past um number of years and having at times been a Christian Camping, I decided to look and see what the Bible would say on Camping. To start I looked at the root word Camp, from which we derive the word campus. I considered what a camp is; it is a temporary dwelling place.
As a Christian I know I am only a temporary resident of this world and I hold duel citizenship. As I began reading the Bible I paid much attention to the first five books known as the Torah. It is here we see God work with a people as they go from being a sojourning people to becoming a nation. This was done over a period of fourty years of this people camping and learning to listen to rely on God. There is one reoccuring theme, and it might be said warning, that theme is that there was to be no sin (decay, filth, trash, etc.) within the camp. The camp and its people were to be clean and pure (physically, emotionally, sprirtually). As a community the people were to root out sin and decay, they were to remove and destroy it.
I began to consider my own country the United States of America. I started to look at the concept of sin and how we as people have allowed sin to take hold in this country, in our communties, in our homes, in our educational and worship campuses, and in our hearts. As a people we have forgot lessons learned and have not rooted out the sin. We need to once again root out the sin starting with our hearts, and then our families. From there we need to root out the sin in our campuses, our communities, and finally our country. My hope is that this would happen swiftly.