Christian Worldview

Ray Comfort

The word “disappointment” cannot even begin to describe what I felt after reading Ingrid’s report (you can also listen to the podcast here) of the Word of Faith conference that Ray Comfort decided to speak at.

With all due respect, Ray Comfort, Sir, I must say that I am not in agreement with what you did at the conference. More to the point, I was disappointed that you did not do the right thing.

No, not the right thing that we who disagree with you think to be right, but we are specifically instructed in God’s Word to call out false teachers and expose their false teachings.

I’ll be careful to say that I fully believe that the Gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes (Romans 1:6), but this is a different crowd. While there is no doubt that there are many in the audience who do need to hear the Gospel, I believe that most there believe they have heard the Gospel and believed. They can’t be more wrong because they have been misled onto a broad road to destruction by these false teachers and their false teachings.

To use one of your oft-used analogies, these people have put on the parachute knowing that they have to jump out of the plane, but the one they have on is an imitation at best and though from all appearances it looks like a good parachute, it has many flaws and will not open fully. You know this, but chose to remain quiet while seeing them plunge to their deaths when they leave the plane.

Some of these people are so grossly deluded by these false teachings that it is so very important to take every opportunity to call out the false teachers and expose their false teachings using the Word of God! What better opportunity than at a gathering such as that where you were an appointed speaker?

Ray, brother, you had the mic! You could have warned these people of the false teachings and the fleecing that would come before and after you. Are you so stubborn and insensitive to stand by the sidelines and watch while John Avanzini fleece the desperate in the audience with his “talking stones”, not to mention the others with their respective tricks? Does it not occur to you one bit that while you accuse Ingrid of not standing up among the audience to warn that you yourself have the mic and could have done the right thing?

You. Had. The. Mic.

Where’s your righteous anger? Where’s your indignation that such wolves and their false teachings have come to ensnare these poor, desperate people who need to know that our Lord Jesus Christ does not require that from those who love Him?

You know what? I’m more than disappointed; I am angry!

I have the utmost respect for you, brother, for your evangelism ministry, and your radio show has done much for my Christian walk. Unfortunately, on this issue, I’ll have to respectfully say that I disagree with your stand and am disappointed with, and even angered by, your non-action.

For more commentaries on this issue, read:

• No, Ray Comfort The Issue Is Not Closed by Pastor Ken Silva at Apprising Ministries
• Ray Comfort And The Doctrine Of Separation by Daniel Chew at Daniel’s Place
• John Avanzini And His Talking Stones by Ingrid Schlueter at Slice of Laodicea

Judging by this “appreciative” email sent by a certain Rose after watching Ray Comfort on TBN, perhaps this might be indicative of the fact that what Ray is preaching is the true Gospel without compromise.

To understand this “Ray Comfort Issue” (a term I coined for the entire episode), first read this post then this.

Read the entire email at Atheist Central (Ray’s new tongue-in-cheek name for his blog).

James White with a timely and sobering message to all Christians who live in this day and age when many truths are built on nothing but shifting sands except that which is established upon the Rock — the Lord Jesus Christ.

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Colossians 2:8

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

It’s happening… and perhaps even coming to your country soon!

If Brazil’s Senate passes a bill approved unanimously by its House of Representatives, Christians and other concerned members of society who speak out and offend a homosexual can soon be slapped with a five-year jail term for doing so.

Under the guise of preventing discrimination, the measure is seen as the latest attempt at promoting homosexuality — the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has previously said that opposition to homosexuality is “perhaps the most perverse disease impregnated in the human head” and called for the “criminalization of homophobia”.

If the bill is passed, it will stipulate a five-year jail term for anyone preventing actions of “homosexual affection” in public or private locations open to the public, and penalize private and public school administrators with up to three years in prison if they refuse to hire openly “gay” teachers. In other words, the measure will force prison time for any “moral, ethical, philosophical or psychological expression that questions homosexual practices”, according to Catholic News Agency (CNA).

The Association of the Defense of Life (ADL) put it down simply as fact that, if the bill is passed, a priest, a pastor, a teacher or even an average citizen who says in a sermon, a classroom or public conversation that homosexual acts are sinful, disordered or an illness could be denounced and detained.

Source: WorldNetDaily.

All I have to say is this:

Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20

What is going on here? We are worried about getting permission to stand up for what is right? No, I don’t think that is it. I think it’s more of “I want to know I can live out what I believe without it demanding any real faith, please don’t arrest me!”

…

Daniel was “denied the right to pray”. He did anyway. And Paul didn’t have the “right” to preach in Rome. He did anyway. And he didn’t even appeal to other Christians to “call your political leaders and demand a change”.

Let’s call this “I demand my rights” stuff what it is; worship of self. You want to say you “believe” but you want it on your own easy terms. Meanwhile, the Lord uses circumstances to show how real your faith is.

Read the entire article at The Reformed Gadfly.

“Progress”, indeed.

What used to be called modesty
Is now called a sexual hangup.

What used to be called Christian discipline
Is now called unhealthy repression.

What used to be called disgusting
Is now called adult.

What used to be called moral irresponsibility
Is now called being freed up.

What used to be called telling a lie
Is now called being disingenuous

What used to be called chastity
Is now called neurotic inhibitions.

What used to be called self indulgence
Is now called self fulfillment.

What used to be called living in sin
Is now called a meaningful relationship.

What used to be called perversion
Is now called an alternate lifestyle.

What used to be called ethical anarchy
Is now called the theology of liberation.

What used to be called killing an unborn baby
Is now called choice.

What’s the world coming to?! No, really, what’s the world coming to?

The UK Telegraph, in a story headlined “Toddlers who dislike spicy food ‘racist’” reports that the National Children’s Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organizations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.

This could include a child of as young as three who says “yuk” in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.

What?!

While I agree with the other point in the story which suggests that educators need to correct young children about their racist perceptions, this point on the rejection of foreign food as being racist, literally, takes the cake, no pun intended!

So, if it’s racist for a three-year-old to reject spicy, or foreign, food by saying “yuk”, who wants to wager that very soon vegetarians will take offense to children turning up their noses at peas and carrots and/or for eating meat, or Hindus being offended that children are fed beef, or Moslems and Jews being offended that children are fed pork or non-Halal and non-Kosher food?

Never say never; we live in crazy times now when any level of insanity can become reality.

John MacArthur

By John MacArthur.

In its simplest definition, discernment is nothing more than the ability to decide between truth and error, right and wrong. Discernment is the process of making careful distinctions in our thinking about truth. In other words, the ability to think with discernment is synonymous with an ability to think biblically.

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 teaches that it is the responsibility of every Christian to be discerning: “But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil.” The apostle John issues a similar warning when he says, “Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1).

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It is not unloving to tell the truth. You can get in a lot of trouble for doing it, but it is not unloving.

Dr. Walter Martin

I have said this on a number of occasions lately, but it remains just as true, the Christian had better know what time he currently lives in. We are witnessing a blending of the pragmatic Purpose Driven Church, the postmodern Emerging Church and the worldly Word Faith Church now forming the major pillars of the Devil’s Ecumenical Church of Deceit (ECoD)—duplicitous daughter of apostate Roman Catholicism. Even just a couple years ago one would never imagine common bonds developing between them.

And at their corrupt core what each of them share is the warped psycho-babble version of “love” largely foisted upon the Body of Christ through Robert Schuller a la his man-pleasing mantra, “God loves you and so do I.” But you need to come to see that this postevangelical “Love Train” has some seriously misguided misunderstandings about God’s view of sin and how He wants His Body of Christ to react to it. Yes the Lord tells us to love our enemies; however, the Scripture also teaches we must surely also abhor what these people are doing in His Name.

Read the rest of the post at Apprising Ministries.

It’ll soon be the exception rather than the norm when one can speak out and warn against immorality…

I think Pastor Bob Enyart, a Denver-area activist on Christian issues, says it best in his comment on the passing of the law — that it will only be “lightly” enforced until the law “… just becomes an entrenched part of our (the U.S.) legal framework”, but give it a few years, and Christians and anyone opposing the homosexual agenda will need to watch out.

Biblical Message Now Criminalized

A new Colorado law is helping homosexual activists achieve their goal of forcing Christians to teach biblical condemnation of homosexuality only behind the closed doors of their sanctuaries.

The as-yet untested state law promotes sexual identity “perception” to the level of skin color under state discrimination laws.

Some opponents are calling it a “bona fide censorship law,” and top analysts for Focus on the Family, the Christian publishing and broadcast powerhouse, are expressing concern over the “mischief” they expect to follow the signing by Gov. Bill Ritter.

Full story here.