Anti Social Behaviour.

There is a concerted effort to remove Biblical teaching from society, and to openly deny the existence of God, the end result of this is anti social behaviour. Any society deprived of the teaching and discipline which God's Word brings will inevitably be the poorer and the more badly behaved.

The natural man, left to himself, will sink deeper and deeper into sin and will engage in reproachful behaviour. The Word of God could be likened unto a life raft, which will carry all that climb aboard by faith, to finding peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ. When a person is reconciled unto God through salvation, which is by grace alone and through Christ alone, then that person becomes a new creature in Christ. 'Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, all things are become new.' (2Cor5:17) The person that is saved by grace will be transformed from the old ways of sin and will live to God's glory in their community. When the apostle Paul preached, the cities of Corinth, Athens, Antioch and Philippi were transformed by the power of God's Word. When preachers like, Wesley, Whitfield, Fenney, Moody and Spurgeon brought the Word of God to the people, entire communities were transformed. Bad behaviour was replaced by God fearing, decent, law abiding and upright living.

Labour's Communities Secretary, John Denham, has announced a £10 million package, which is to be targeted at 130 local councils to tackle anti social behaviour. Can I say that this is a crying shame, to throw away tax payers money in a vain attempt to get society to behave better. No amount of money could ever lift a society out of the pit of sin, no amount of human effort could ever transform a life. If society is ever to be improved, if anti social behaviour is ever to be sensibly tackled there needs to be Divine, not governmental, intervention.