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So. Baptists Called to Repent, Grip Reality of 'Lostness'
Christian Post ^ | Feb. 23 2010 | Lillian Kwon

Posted on 02/23/2010 12:54:18 PM PST by Between the Lines

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To: Between the Lines
The report also recommends entrusting to the International Mission Board – the international missions agency of the SBC – the ministry to reach the unreached people groups in the world and in North America. Many unreached groups that may be difficult to reach overseas are residing in the United States, the report points out.

The most "unreached" group in America are the children living in Christian homes!!! Yes, I **seriously** mean it.

***EVERY**government school in this nation preaches and teaches a godless and atheistic worldview! ALL of them!!!Any Christian parent who sends their child to a government school is abandoning their child to atheistic secularism.

A Christian's **most** important mission field is his **own** child. The children of his congregation are his next most important mission field!

As for Christian teachers:

If they haven't been fired yet then they are the **USEFUL IDIOTS** of the atheists! ( Yes, I am being harsh.) These Useful Idiot Christian teachers are doing two things:

1) They are attempting to sneak in a little Christian thought into a curriculum that is godless by law. They teach the children that Christians are sneakly lawbreakers.

2)They teach children that Christians are lukewarm, weak and unwilling to get fired for doing what's right, and will accept money for betraying their Christian principles. So...What did Christ say about being lukewarm?

If Christians and Christian teachers really care about their kids and missionary work, they will do everything necessary to get kids out of the government schools. They will also work to see that all government schools are shut down and that all children in this nation have access to a privately delivered Christian education.

Christian education could be very inexpensively delivered if we abandon the idea of Prusian-modeled and factory-like institutional school. Homeschool, one room schools in the homes of members, mini-schools, homeschool co-ops, and tutoring centers are other options.

41 posted on 02/24/2010 8:14:45 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
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To: Jedidah
I understand the basilica now also has a Domino’s Pizza franchise.

Tacky!

42 posted on 02/24/2010 8:16:57 AM PST by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed imposter")
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To: marshmallow
What is the value of this number crunching? Is it really any concern of mine?

The report is designed for the leaders of the church and not the laity. It is the same as the number crunching going on in the head office of a corporation that has little or no concern to the average worker. But I do think that the numbers are an important tool for our leaders.

43 posted on 02/24/2010 8:17:09 AM PST by Between the Lines (AreYouWhoYouSayYouAre? Esse Quam Videri - To Be, Rather Than To Seem)
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To: ajr276
You're turning the means of grace into works of salvation, but miss the whole picture. When you mention them in that way, you turn them into external works and miss that through the Word and Sacraments, God does something to you. Consider the self-righteous Pharisee who remained unconverted though he always searched scripture and attended to God's commands.

All that you've proved is that we can commit spiritual suicide and fall away from grace. But that is not the same as choosing to believe in Christ! It's kinda like life, God grants it and he can take it away, but I can also commit suicide. But no matter how strong or determined to live I am, I can still die at any moment.

44 posted on 02/24/2010 8:22:58 AM PST by In veno, veritas (Please identify my Ad Hominem attacks. I should be debating ideas.)
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To: hoagy62
Speaking for myself, I confess that I have not followed Jesus’ command to “go and make disciples of all nations”.
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Please read post #41:

I think of it like a stone being thrown in the water. There is the big splash in the middle with lessening rings of action and force radiating outward.

Our most important mission is self-conversion. It is like an airliner where the flight attendant says, “Put the oxygen mask on your **own** face first before helping others!”

The next most important mission field is that of our own children, followed by the children of our congregation.

With armies of righteous children being saved then we can have many, many stones being thrown in the water, and the radiating rinks of influence will reach everyone in our neighborhoods, towns, cities, state, nation and the **entire** world.

Christian denominations of all sects have been greatly negligent in seeing that every child in this nation has access to a very low cost, nearly free, or tuition-free education. Shame on them that nearly 50 million children in this nation are condemned to attend atheistic indoctrination centers ( mis-named “public” schools.

Also...Shame on Christians for allowing government schools to exist. With their votes they could have shut these godless madrasses down decades ago.

45 posted on 02/24/2010 8:24:27 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
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To: In veno, veritas
We’ve (for the most part) really dropped the ball in getting the Gospel out to the people who need it.
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Getting the Gospel out to people who need it?....Hm?...Like their children and the nation's children?

Nearly all Christian sects are guilty of failing their **CHILDREN**! If they were properly evangelizing their children we would not have nearly 50 million of our nation's children in government schools.

In fact, if Christians of all sects were doing their jobs, every child in this nation would have access to a very, very low cost Christian education, and there would be NO government schools because Christian votes would have closed every one of them!

(Please read post #41.)

46 posted on 02/24/2010 8:32:33 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
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To: Campion

I think it’s tacky, too, but I understand that the church gets money from it.


47 posted on 02/24/2010 8:38:39 AM PST by Jedidah (Character, courage, common sense are more important than issues.)
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To: In veno, veritas
I don't believe I've committed spiritual suicide, for I still recognize that it is Christ who is doing the doing in the sacraments. What I reject is the idea that it isn't a discipline to allow Christ to do that work. I've had enough days where I haven't wanted to go to church, or wanted to read Scripture or wanted to confess my sin to know that none of them are an entirely passive experience. At the end of the day I have to decide to receive God's grace or I don't receive it. Put another way, I can only receive what I choose to receive. Does God do the sanctifying through the sacraments? Of course. But there's no sanctifying if I don't decide to receive Christ through His means.

As for the Pharisee, his sin was puffed up knowledge through reading the Scriptures; not failing to recognize that it is God working through the Scriptures that matters.

48 posted on 02/24/2010 8:47:44 AM PST by ajr276
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To: wintertime
Christian education could be very inexpensively delivered if we abandon the idea of Prusian-modeled and factory-like institutional school. Homeschool, one room schools in the homes of members, mini-schools, homeschool co-ops, and tutoring centers are other options.

Our chruch runs a University-model school. It is kind of like a school for homeschoolers.

49 posted on 02/24/2010 9:39:01 AM PST by Between the Lines (AreYouWhoYouSayYouAre? Esse Quam Videri - To Be, Rather Than To Seem)
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To: wintertime; hoagy62
I think you were responding to the post above mine.
50 posted on 02/24/2010 10:57:01 AM PST by In veno, veritas (Please identify my Ad Hominem attacks. I should be debating ideas.)
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To: ajr276
I don't believe you've done spiritual suicide either. However, we've both got errors and it takes very little error to lead to much bigger problems (like much of the church growth movement forgets that the Gospel is repulsive to the world, which can lead to the watering down or abandonment of the Gospel). But the will to receive God's grace comes from God, too (Phil. 2:13). Scripture is clear that we are at enmity with God, it is solely he who draws us.
51 posted on 02/24/2010 11:48:29 AM PST by In veno, veritas (Please identify my Ad Hominem attacks. I should be debating ideas.)
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