Posted on 01/06/2013 8:53:51 AM PST by Kaslin
Some in the media have popularized the term culture war, giving the impression that the war being waged against Christianity is the same thing as a war against everything that is traditional.
But in 2013, lets change the term. Lets call it what it is: A war against Christ.
Certainly there are many American traditions rooted in Christian teaching and history. But mixing some traditions with what is purely Christ-honoringalthough it may recruit support from non-Christian traditionalists or conservativesdilutes the Christian dye.
Take for example the ACLUs war against Christians praying in public schools while obliging Muslims the ability make their noon prayers in a school. Or Vanderbilt Universitys discrimination against Christiansforbidding them from meeting on campus if they adhere to their religious principles. Or dozens of other cases that are clearly a war against Christ and His followerspure and simple.
So lets call it what it is.
Christians know why the world hates us. The One we worship warned us two thousand years ago. Jesus said that the reason they hate us is because they hated Him. Just look what they did to Him!
Christians should seek to understand that type of hatred. But by understand, I dont mean we should wave the white flag of surrender. On the contrary, we should be worried if the secular culture were to embrace us with open arms. We ought to be wary, for example, if Piers Morgan were to one night praise the sacrificial services that Christians practice as an indication of our love for Christ and one another. Or we should be concerned if MSNBC were to run a documentary on how so many the things that civilized the world from our educational system to the hospital movementwere ALL inspired by the teaching of Jesus Christ.
The norm is for Piers Morgan and his ilk to praise Angelina Jolie for donating a goat to an African village or applauding Brad Pitt for giving a few crumbs from his bulging table to the South African poor through the U.N.
But true Christians do not seek to give of themselveshealing the sick, feeding the hungryso they can be recognized by the likes of CNN. In fact, if we seek the praise of those who control this worlds systemeven if some of them call themselves Christianthen we have lost our reward in Heaven.
I know the desire to have the world recognize their service lures in some Christian leaders. But what they actually get sucked into is a diabolical scheme to equate their obedience to Christ to the charitable work of non-Christian groups.
Let them, and us, be forewarned that to crave the worlds praise is to lose something far more important: our eternal reward.
Our attitude should be to let them hate us all they want, while we will still love our enemies and bless those who persecute us.
Let them malign us all they want. We will not return evil for evil. We will let our good defeat their anti-Christ schemes.
Let them denigrate our love for our Lord, and for others, all they want. They can never defeat our caring spirits. Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.
We are not in a public relations war. We are in a spiritual war. Therefore, dont wave the white flag. Dont be tempted to cave in to their pressure.
Keep on serving. Keep on loving. Let them war against us to their hearts content. For we read the last chapter, and it says, The Lord wins!
Have a power-filled 2013!
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The war is about the nation’s founding.
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A war on Christianity begins the war on our America
and our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. Obamas goals
are now clear and consistent. He is here to destroy. Resist in every way!
When the 10 Commandments were removed from the public square, their opposites - the doctrine of demons, i.e., rules of political corerecrtness - moved in to fill the void.
That's why the nation, and therefore the world, is in a constant state of chaos. The God of order, the God of nature and natures laws, has gotten in the way of those who believe THEY should sit upon the throne of the most high.
It is the war we thought was over in 1991....
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
It has always been a war against God, the socialists want humanity to put their faith in the state rather than God. The reason Democrats conspire with Muslims is that they are united in their hatred of Christianity. The Democrats want gays to marry so that people stop getting married, it has nothing to do with gay marriage, it’s all about making a mockery of the institution, so people lose faith in it.
Democrats want to destroy the family, they already have, when you have single parent households they will rely on the government completely. Christians are at war with those who want to place their faith in the laws of men rather than the laws of God. It is a war between good and evil, we are all on the battlefield, evil no longer hides their aims to enslave humanity with the chains of tyranny. The Democrats, socialists, and Muslims are Antichrist, the Democrats denied God three times at their convention, they aim to replace God with humanist elites, they will not stop ‘till they have made slaves of us all, they hate the one true God: Jesus Christ.
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We give, out of love for Christ!
Has anyone else noticed the growing number of government programs that mimic the charitable work christians have performed for decades.
I'm a lifelong teetotaler. But if my stepmother were Babs Streisand, I might swig Jack Daniels straight from the bottle, too.
This could be reversed if we were one voice Orthodoxy which has been with us since 33ad the Priest just can not get up there and speak in his sermons the faith has been handed down through the yyears plus we have our greetings to one another that is our tradition Christ is born christ is risen etc this alone would drive them nuts
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The Christ I know would want us to stand together and be strong and most of all to BELIEVE in Him.
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