**One portion of the collection of speakers at the Pastor's Conference.
Pastor Tony Evans of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas offered insight into the chaos in the world with a solution through a passage from 2 Chronicles 15:3-6.
"God will cause distress to get our undivided attention and in order to do something new," Evans said. "God determines what He is going to do in a society by the presence, or the absence, of the influence of His people."
As Evans used 2 Chronicles 15:3-6 as a biblical example, he pointed out three key issues to the chaos it reports -- there was no true God; there was no true teaching priest; and there was no law. The God worshiped in 2 Chronicles and the God worshiped today is a dumbed-down version of the one true God, Evans said.
"Everybody wants God, they just want Him on sale," he said. "As long as they can get God cheap, they'll get all they can handle. But the moment He comes at full price, they'll shop elsewhere."
Evans referenced Matthew 16:17-19 to say that "only the church has been given the keys to the Kingdom."
"God is more concerned about the church house than the White House," Evans said. "Until the church is right, He won't fix our society."
Christians are called to seek after God, Evans said, and, as 2 Chronicles 15:4 states, "but when they turned to the Lord God of Israel in their distress and sought Him, He was found by them."
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Article originally publish for Baptist Press.
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