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TAKEN: America's Great Spiritual Leaders. Who & What will Replace Them?
http://www.tableofwisdom.com/ ^ | April 20, 2012 | Scott Ryan (Publius321)

Posted on 04/19/2012 8:06:42 PM PDT by publius321

It seems as though I was wrong in my assumption that "the support of Christians is not something that can be brokered". Unless - we are wrong about what it means to -BE- a Christian.

For the past several years of America’s decline, I have seen world events through a different prism. It is as though world events contain clear symbolism. It is as though God is warning us but we are not listening.

We were founded on Christian principles. The Bible itself is quoted in our founding documents more than Montesquieu, Blackstone or Lock. Yet the Republican Party – in a time when it has a choice between a Christian and a cultist - is favoring for its leader, a candidate who has sworn to uphold the false doctrines of a cult whose founder waged war on the founding principles of the United States and 2000 years of Christian doctrine itself.

I commented to my wife several months ago about how God had –suddenly- taken some of the greatest public defenders of our Christian heritage right BEFORE the onset of mass delirium in 2008. I was referring to D. James Kennedy and Jerry Falwell. I was a BIG admirer of Dr. Kennedy since I was a young man of age 19. I was not particularly a huge fan of Falwell; however, I had great appreciation for his work in the political sphere. Also around that time, Dr. James Dobson suffered a stroke and had been effectively removed from the ministry and public square. Dr. Dobson is a precious man of God and this generation is in great need of his type of faith, courage and character.

A short time later - the would be dictator Barack Hussein Obama was handed permission to destroy our constitution by a nation falling headlong into degeneracy.

NOW, we see that ANOTHER of the greats being removed from this lost nation in this time of coming tribulation. I am referring to Charles Colson, who is said to be on his death bed as I write this.

Friends, these are people who have all been removed in a time when we need such leaders like never before. And what has replaced them? The pastor of the largest church in the United States is more like a game show host. He refuses to acknowledge anything as sin when put on the spot during his media interviews to promote his books. He makes a fortune on books about SELF – like “Your Best Life Now” and “Every Day a Friday” - to a nation so depressed it is addicted to prescription and other forms of drugs to cover up its feeling of emptiness.

Another of the most popular pastors in America is out coddling Islam and allegedly declaring that Islam and Christianity “worship the same God”. Then we have the “Emerging Church” that teaches that nobody ends up in Hell the corollary of which is that sin doesn't exist; hence, we can do whatever we please.

This isn’t “special revelation”. The confluence of evidence looks as though we are being left with a church that is rich in money and poor in substance. The current church – which has left the door wide open to all forms of false teachings (about which Christ and his Apostles warned us would happen) – is becoming a church that caters to our narcissistic propensities and is ripe to accept the Antichrist himself.

For the past few years I have found myself looking in my spare time for an escape with my wife and our young son into classic films and television shows and vacations to historical places. It seems that only in such places are there remnants where we can see evidence of an era of America's God fearing decency complete with aged brick buildings, town squares, gazebos , tall church steeples and white picket fences. I reminisce of the paintings of Norman Rockwell that demonstrated the greatness of the American dream when the family unit was still intact.

This April 2012 America lost a great artist, Thomas Kinkade, who was ridiculed by the so-called artists of this generation and the critics who spoke of his work in disdain. I dare assert that his work was rejected by people of the same spirit as those who mock the very decency and values for which we so long. It was those values that created such high demand for the work of Kinkade while he was still alive and even more so now that he is gone from us.

Although "chiaroscuro" (an Italian term meaning light-dark") was a technique within the work of Renaissance painters, it aptly describes Kinkade's work in the sense that his paintings were a masterful work of physical and spiritual light in an age of moral, spiritual and political depravity. His life might seem a paradox in the way it ended as he was depressed and prone to drinking, which is partially attributed to his untimely death. However, the same could be said for all of our lives at one time or another. He was known as the "Painter of Light" - and that he was.

An era is passing and the potential significance of those who are being taken at this time of great need is chilling. Their untimely departure from what could befall us may be a blessing to them and something entirely different for America depending upon the path we take at this critical juncture.

It is time to ponder the question of what this means to America. It is time to ask the question - what did they stand for? It is time to ask the question - whose values will replace them? Will they be the values upon which this nation was founded? Will our foundation be upon the solid rock of Christ Jesus, the Third Person of the Trinity, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last - the ONE true God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob?

That is the ONLY hope for America - not money, not the clever tactics of the elite - and not an individual.

(Photograph/Scripture verse here)

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God bless.

Scott


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: christianleaders; colson; dobson; kincade; romney

1 posted on 04/19/2012 8:06:49 PM PDT by publius321
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To: publius321

Your post has been on the mind of several people. Another pastor whose ministry is still moving forward with reruns of his priceless sermons is Adrian Rogers (Love Worth Finding Ministries . . . http://www.lwf.org) I highly recommend!


2 posted on 04/19/2012 8:40:06 PM PDT by Maudeen (Proverbs 3:5-6)
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To: publius321

Revrunds Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Jeremiah Wright, it would seem...


3 posted on 04/19/2012 8:45:56 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: publius321

I just heard on CBN about another true Christian leader. The Voice of the Martyrs announced the passing of their executive director, Tom White.

White led VOM, a ministry that helps support the persecuted Church, for more than 20 years. He was a native of Bartlesville, Okla., where the ministry is based.

This ministry is so worthy to support!


4 posted on 04/19/2012 8:47:25 PM PDT by Maudeen (Proverbs 3:5-6)
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To: publius321

I just heard on CBN about another true Christian leader. The Voice of the Martyrs announced the passing of their executive director, Tom White.

White led VOM, a ministry that helps support the persecuted Church, for more than 20 years. He was a native of Bartlesville, Okla., where the ministry is based.

This ministry is so worthy to support!


5 posted on 04/19/2012 8:47:38 PM PDT by Maudeen (Proverbs 3:5-6)
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To: Maudeen

Yes,I have heard of this minister. Thanks!


6 posted on 04/19/2012 9:27:42 PM PDT by publius321
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To: Maudeen

That is a big loss indeed. God bless.


7 posted on 04/19/2012 9:29:09 PM PDT by publius321
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To: publius321
So many of our great Christian leaders are in their 80's - nearing the end of their earthly lives and departing to Heaven, leaving us it seems without anyone capable or willing to take up their mantles.

Please come quickly, Lord Jesus.

8 posted on 04/19/2012 9:36:54 PM PDT by Smittie
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Don’t lose heart. The preaching and teaching of the likes of Francis Chan and David Plat are incredible. Our family participated in David Platt’s “Secret Church” event on Good Friday. It covered suffering and the persecuted Church. AMAZING! Youtube these guys if you’re not familiar with them.


9 posted on 04/19/2012 11:34:09 PM PDT by mn-bush-man
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To: publius321

I admired Dr.D.James Kennedy—and Jerry Falwell— I find Chuck Colson a role model of what God can do- of the reality of our Christian faith. But I am reminded We are not to worship men—who is it suggested we are to reverence in Matthew 21:37 (see Mark 12:6—and Luke 20:13) Did Christ not command His disciples Go—Proclaim—WHO did He speak to? Were these great
spiritual leaders of their day? Or were they given power by the proclaiming of Christ? Yes -remember those who have inspired you -and others. But as the parable teaches we are to go into the highways,and as many as we find ,bid to the marriage.(Matthew 22:9) When Jesus of Nazareth sent out the twelve they were men as any other might be said to be.(Matthew 10:/ Mark 6:) But they had sat with and had learned from the Christ-and they went and did as they were instructed. “Go ye therefore,and teach all nations,baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,and of the Holy Spirit:teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and lo I AM with you always,even unto the end of the world.” as it is written. I cannot imagine any of those you speak of as thinking they were an end—nor that they were the great spiritual message of salvation. But rather How shall they call upon Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?and how shall they preach unless they are sent?....Romans 10:14-15.


10 posted on 04/20/2012 5:08:16 AM PDT by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: publius321
Time is running out on America's guarantee of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness unless we stand for "In God We Trust." Like the Forefathers we must rise to protect freedom despite the cost.

Our only hope is 2 Chronicles 7:14: If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive them and heal their land.

11 posted on 04/20/2012 6:20:24 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!)
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