A worldwide "Christian cleansing" clearly has begun and American believers are not exempt.
In America, the Name of Jesus and all things Christian are being purged from public view because they are considered offensive. The salvation message Jesus taught as the only way, the only truth, and the only life, is ruled as hateful and exclusive. Public prayers in Jesus' Name and the mere presence of a Bible have been outlawed. Biblical Christianity is being stripped from our schools, our military, our government, and from our society as a whole.
And that doesn't even count the number of churches that marginalize the gospel so that the church members never really hear it.
One way or another, God is being blotted out.
Last week the American Family Association was called a "domestic hate group" -- a label one conservative journalist contends is part of an effort by the Obama administration to plant seeds of doubt about Christians and several prominent ministries in America.
Fox News reported last week that during a recent Pentagon briefing, several dozen active duty and reserve Army troops were told that the Mississippi-based American Family Association (AFA) should be classified as a "hate group" because it advocates for traditional family values. The AFA was condemned alongside groups like the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, the Black Panthers, and the Nation of Islam.
Try to wrap your brain around that.
Bryan Fischer, director of issues analysis at AFA, says a soldier attending the briefing tipped off both AFA and
Fox News.
"A soldier, who was actually in the briefing, presented us and Fox News with photographic evidence that the military is falsely linking us with Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church," says the AFA spokesman. "The sad reality is that Fred Phelps and his group actually do hate homosexuals. That is not our policy."
(NOTE: We air on American Family Radio Talk Network Saturdays at 1 p.m. and Sundays at 12 Noon CST.)
Most of us are weary of these kinds of news stories, all of which emanate from a corrupt administration dead-set on praising evil and denouncing all efforts at righteousness and conservatism.
The beliefs of Biblical Christians with their "Biblical worldview" are in blatant opposition to the direction our leaders have chosen for our country.
On this week's radio broadcast, I talk to a Coptic Christian from Egypt about the assault on the Christians of that region. Christians are being singled out and massacred from Pakistan to Syria to the Nairobi shopping mall, and there is a deafening silence from U.S. pews and pulpits. The U.S. media most certainly does not want to report it, although they will wail about any offense to Islam.
Would you deny your faith to save your own skin, or the lives of your family members? Or, would you be willing to die for Him who died for you? That's the decision millions of Christians in various parts of the Islamic and Communist world must make every day.
Will we be judged some day according to the way we stood with our voiceless brethren who suffer in silence?
The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church is November 10. Will your church be participating?
My Coptic friend, who is a physician now living in Iowa, also comments on what he believes to be the faith of Barack Obama. Yes, Chris Matthews of MSNBC will have a field day with the suggestion of the president's Islamic leanings, but it is an educated opinion of a Middle Eastern born doctor that should not be blown off.
I also engage my co-hosts, Jill Martin Rische and Eric Barger, in a discussion on so-called Christian Yoga. It is an oxymoron although many churches today offer classes on this phenomenon. This is a heads-up if yours is one of them. Check out our "Understanding Deception" packages here and here.
Catch this programming, dated October 19,
here or
here.
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