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Submitted by Carol Smith –
I have been to many churches where I have been told that children being exposed to porn, the LGBT ideology, child sexual abuse, abortion, and other issues are “political issues.”
The church is not to speak to these issues. What does scripture say?
Proverbs 24:11-12 – Rescue those being led towards death, hold back those staggering towards slaughter. If you say, I did not know about this, does not He who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not He who guards your life know it? Will He not repay everyone for what they have (and have not) done.
Proverbs 31:7-8 – Speak for those who cannot speak for themselves…defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Matthew 25:40 – For whatever you have done to these, the least of My brethren, you have done to Me.
Christians do not need a special invitation from the Holy Spirit to speak on behalf of the vulnerable it is in God’s word!
Now, not everyone can do all things such as work at a crisis pregnancy center, but we all must speak out against the murder of the unborn! While we all cannot work at a ministry that protects children from sexual exploitation, we all must contact our representatives when bills to protect children from sexual exploitation come up for a vote.
I have heard from pastors such statements such as, “that is just the way things are!” I have had pastors tell me when it comes to issues such as children being exposed to porn that, it is legal and therefore little can be done about it! Or, “I am only responsible for my children!” And, this excuse, “We are in the last days!”
There are certain Christians in history who took a more Biblical approach. People such as William Wilberforce. During his time, slavery was not only legal but extremely profitable’ it made up to 80% of Great Britain’s foreign income.
According to the movie, “Amazing Grace,” 11 million men, women and children were taken from Africa, only about half of the slaves survived the ocean voyage to England due to sickness or despair. Sick slaves were thrown into the ocean alive so the slave traders could claim financial compensation. Of those who survived 1/3rd of them died within 3 years because life was so hard. This was legal and “acceptable” to almost everyone. But Wilberforce and a small group of Christians fought against it for over 20 years and it cost Wilberforce his health but he never gave up and 3 days before he died, slavery was outlawed in Great Britain!
Another devoted Christian was Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
During his time, Jews were considered to be less than human. We know the results of the holocaust, 6 million Jews, the handicapped, the mentally or physically disabled were tortured and killed. This was legal and accepted by most. But not for Bonhoeffer, he tried to get the church to fulfill its role of speaking out in defense of the defenseless. Of 18,000 pastors, 3000 went along with Hitler, 3000 did not, but were not outspoken for the Jews and 12,000 remained silent. It has been said that it was the silence of the 12,000 that caused the holocaust.
Bonhoeffer put it this way: “Silence in the face of evil, is itself evil. Not to speak, is to speak. Not to act, is to act, and God will not hold us guiltless.”
He paid with his life. His voice still speaks today in regards to speaking up for the vulnerable, to those who will listen!
Another is Mother Cabrini, a tiny, chronically-ill Italian nun who took on the Pope, the Italian senate, the mayor of New York and others on behalf of the Italian immigrants whose lives were horrendous due to prejudice and injustice.
According to the movie, “Cabrini,” from 1889 to 1910, over 2 million Italian immigrants came to America looking for a better life. They were illiterate and most did not speak English. They were considered by many in America to be inferior, only fit for menial labor and a threat to America. They lived extremely difficult lives in the slums of New York. Many became sick due to poor living conditions, were not allowed to be treated in the hospitals, many died. Children were living on the streets.
Mother Cabrini’s vision was to open up an orphanage. She and her little band of nuns faced fierce opposition. And a lot of it came from those who should have been supporting her work! She faced her character being disparaged, her motives being questioned, accusations of grandiosity. Despite strong opposition and bad health, she never gave up. She eventually opened an orphanage and she founded Cabrini Hospital, a hospital for poor immigrants of New York. It was one of the best hospitals of its time!
After accomplishing this, she and her sisters opened orphanages all around the world! I would recommend the movie, “Cabrini.”
Lastly there was John Quincy Adams who fought to outlaw slavery in America. He fought for 28 years and his bills never passed.
He was asked by a reporter, “why do you keep fighting?” He said, “Duty is ours, results are God’s” And while he died never seeing the result of his work, he had mentored a young congressman. They were very close. This congressman was a pall bearer at his funeral. That congressman’s name was Abraham Lincoln.
Organizations that can help you keep abreast of upcoming legislation and help you make a difference is The American Family Association and The Family Research Council.
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Most “pastors” today are WAAY worse’n useless.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
That “time” has been here for a LONG while now.
Revelation 21:8
But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars – their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
New Declaration of Independence
Coast to Coast, November 5, 2024
The unanimous Declaration of Sane People in the United States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. – Such has been the patient sufferance of sane American Citizens; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Dictator-elect is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the United States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to the conspiracy theory world.
He has refused his Approval to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
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He has obstructed the Department of Justice by packing federal courts with cronies for the disestablishment of Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their bribes.