Where are the Ministers When Crises Arise?

The country and world in which we live is facing crisis after crisis.  Every day brings a fresh crisis.  God has set His watchmen on the lookouts to keep watch for His people.

Yet these crises come and no one seems to notice.  Certainly the ministers who are the watchmen do not see these crises coming.  Nor do they recognise them as crises when they eventually arrive.  Are they asleep?  Are they mere hirelings - drawing a salary, having an easy time?  Today, we see sodomy being made legal and official, but the watchmen have been silent.  We see abortion on demand, and still the silence continues.  We see marriage under relentless attack, and they are silent.  We see the Gospel being perverted by theological liberals, yet God's servants sit back in their relative ease and say nothing.  Worse, they do NOTHING.

God's people are discouraged, enraged, disappointed and betrayed.  They looked for men who will act as watchmen, but they were asleep while the enemy was entering the fold.  They thought they had such a man, but alas, they were deceived.  He fought no battles, fronted no campaigns, raised no alarms.  And the church of Jesus Christ has been decimated.

God says He will require an answer from that man at the last Day.  Indeed, He will require their blood at his hands.  He has been unfaithful and the Lord's people have been attacked and scattered.  God will require this at the watchman's hand.

One can quite seriously ask, 'Where are the ministers when the flock is being attacked?  Why are they not defending the flock?  Why aren't they taking a stand against all that it inimical to the spiritual well-being of the flock?  Why aren't they raising a massive ecclesiastical row when the Gospel is being denied by not being preached in every congregation?'  The church is in crisis.  But where are the ministers, the shepherds, who will ward off the prowling wolves who often come in sheep's clothing?

Are they too late?

Perhaps they ought to follow the lead given by Jaques de la Fontaine, the French Protestant minister who rose above and triumphed over many crises that confronted him because he was essentially a pastor of principle.  His story will inspire all who read it.