Started May reading two good articles.
I’ve been hearing it said that God is doing amazing things, here even in the Bay Area. I my just be out of the loop. Or maybe my Berean side is showing…
Acts 17:11-12 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. 12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
Or my dad’s Missouri genes 🧬 are working, he was born in the Show Me State.
Or perhaps I’ve missed the movement, since I follow very little of the direction of the woke, progressive, liberal neo-evangelical church. Nor do it subscribe to the visible, Word of Faith, New Apostolic Reformation and their connections with the newly defined Christian Nationalist movement.
I’d love to be positive but I still remain suspicious of the forms of the Visible Church.
I do identify with the reported 4% (see note link below) or less that actual hold to a Biblical Worldview. I’m probably in an even smaller crowd since I converted to reading the old KJV Bible version, and am slowly taking the time to rediscover the depth of God’s word using the long neglected Westminster Standards and The Three Forms of Unity of the Reformed Faith.
Anyway I’m often accused of being negative.
Along that path this article that ran this week on the CRN website caught my eye. It covers a wide range of concerns, most all of which I agree with. Most of the article focuses on the Christian Right or the term being used now Christian Nationalism, and perhaps you will be surprised that there are major issues in these movements not just in the Progressive Liberal Church.
Hopefully I’m wrong but it sure seems like much of the world is following their own paths.
Jeremiah 6:16-17 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. 17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
Mike Ratliff had a word about one of my favorites J. Gresham Machen
Just to put it in perspective that the Progressive movement was just as influential over a hundred years ago.
Note on 4% Biblical World view
13. IS A DECLINING BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW BEHIND AMERICA’S DISASTER? In his latest worldview survey, George Barna reported, “More than two-thirds of Americans say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country today. Yet few of them pause from their busy schedules long enough to consider that the problems they see are the result of increasing numbers of American adults making decisions based on shifting foundational beliefs and values. In fact, the social problems troubling the majority of Americans are likely a symptom of the unprecedented change in worldview preferences, in which longstanding biblical beliefs are being discarded in favor of a wide range of alternative views.”
Barna found that Americans are embracing “a host of unbiblical perspectives,” with most blending an average of nine different worldviews into their personal worldview. While 66% of adults call themselves Christians, only 4% of adults and 6% of professing Christians hold a Biblical worldview. Following are two additional findings:
- “Nearly half of all adults claim that people are neither good nor bad when they are born, but become either good or bad on the basis of the decisions they make over the course of their life.”
- “Roughly one-third of all adults say they depend mostly on their reason and emotions to distinguish right from wrong.”
Ed. Note: Social media is possibly the greatest disciple-making platform of our day; many value the opinions of “influencers” over God’s inspired Word. Jeremiah 2:13 declares, “For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”
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