Morning John.
         I just wanted to send you this,......and if you feel it is worth placing up, ........ I can only pray that it will help those who need waking up, to see what is happening before their very eyes.
          The Modern Day Church in my area of the country (Southeastern Connecticut), (and it could be different in differnt parts of the country),........is hitting an all time low, when it comes to teaching & following the Word of God.
         God Bless,...and I pray this is the day, or night,......that, we who love HIM, .......go home !!!
                                                                                                          Chip
 

***BY FAR THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IN THE CHURCH TODAY IS NOT THE RISE OF CULTS
LIKE MORMONISM, FALSE RELIGIONS LIKE ISLAM, OR ANY OF THE MANY SOCIAL ISSUES
WE ARE DEALING WITH.  THE BIGGEST AND MOST DANGEROUS PROBLEM IN CHRISTENDOM
ARE CHURCHES WHO CLAIM TO BE CHRISTIAN YET OPERATE IN OPEN REBELLION TO THE
GOD'S WORD!  THE BIBLE IS THE GUIDING LIGHT FOR CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIAN
CHURCHES.  HOWEVER, MANY PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS AND MANY
CHURCHES WHO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS CHRISTIAN CHURCHES, MOCK GOD AS THEY
LIVE AND OPERATE IN OPPOSITION TO THE BIBLE!!!

"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?" Luke 6:46

The "religious left" and the liberal church! In case you have been sleeping,
there is a new group of people in our nation who call themselves the
"religious left." This is a relatively new term so you may not be familiar
with it. That is why I felt it was so critical to take the time today to
insure you not only understood what it means, but who actually makes up this
new group of people. Forty years ago, this group didn't even exist. They
have actually evolved and grown tremendously over the past decade.

The "religious left" is made up of people who identify themselves as
Christians and hold strong religious beliefs as well as sharing left-wing
ideals. Obviously, this group has risen up in opposition to those who have
been tagged the "religious right" or the "Christian right." The "Christian
right" is that group of Bible-believing Christians who are politically
active and seek to elect to office those candidates who hold to Biblical
values on the key spiritual issues of our day that are also political
issues.

These would be issues like abortion and life related matters, gay marriage,
family issues, the proliferation of the pornography industry, and the drive
to remove God from the public square. Those in the "religious left" actually
take an anti-Biblical position on these issues and are also heavily involved
in the ecumenical movement, environmental issues, opposing war for any
reason, world hunger, and social issues like healthcare, welfare, and
education.

There is nothing wrong with pursing these noble social issues, Believers
should be more involved on those fronts. The problem with this group is
their anti-Biblical position on the key spiritual issues of our day and
their involvement in these ecumenical movements that require you to set
aside the Absolute Truths of the Bible.

I watched with interest last June as CNN carried a special program about
faith with the leading Democratic Candidates who are eyeing for their parties
nomination in the 2008 Presidential election. Each one dealt with various
faith-related issues in the context of their own personal faith. I watched
in amazement as each one talked about how important their faith was to them,
how it guided them, how it gave them strength, and went out of their way to
position themselves as people of great faith.

Like my dear mother used to tell me, talk is cheap. I refuse to try and
judge their heart, that is something only God can and will do. However, I
have every right to judge them on their actions in accordance with God's
Word. How can you say you are a person of faith, yet vote to support the
legalized slaughter of over 4,000 innocent babies every day? How can you say
you are a person of faith, yet vote to redefine God's Holy Institution of
Marriage? How can you say you are a person of faith, yet support special
rights for people who have chosen to engage in perverted sex acts God calls
an abomination, including their ability to adopt children into their deviant
lifestyle?

I guess the real question becomes, what is their faith really in? It is
inconsistent to say you are person of faith yet continually take a stand in
complete opposition to God's Word. Jesus said that if you love Me, you will
obey Me. That means His Word. Of course, those in the "religious left" has
been born out of the liberal "churches" of our day who make a mockery of
Christ as they operate in open rebellion to the Truth of the Bible while
claiming to be followers of Christ.

They support the legalized slaughter of babies, redefining marriage to
include men with men and women with women, perverting the family by brining
children into homes with homosexual parents, and embrace ecumenical
fellowships with all of the cults and false religions of the world. They
deny the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible, have rejected God's Word
for the Absolute Truth it represents, and have bought into the lie of the
world that there are "many roads that lead to God." These are the people who
make up the "religious left!"

        It is beyond me how a person canconsider themselves a Christian,
which means they are a follower of Christand automatically a follower of
 His Word, yet take a public position in complete opposition to that Word.
You better wake up, since this is thelargest growing segment of Christendom, this
apostate group who callsthemselves Christians but go to churches who operate
 in complete rebellion to Christ and the Bible

This is the group that is Biblically illiterate since they don't even
believe the Bible to be true. These are the people who see nothing wrong
with electing a member of a cult to the White House because they
think a Mormon is a Christian. They are the politically correct crowd who
has bought the lie a woman has the right to kill her baby. They are the
group who lambastes those who speak out against the sin of homosexuality,
calling them names like "intolerant" and "hateful."

The "religious left" is a group who will wield incredible political
influence in the upcoming 2008 election. They are mostly made up of people
who call themselves Christians, but support the things Christ and the Bible
condemn. Pray for these people since you can't call yourself a follower of
Christ, yet stand on the opposite side of Christ on so many issues. Truth is
not what we want it to be, it is what God says it is. We don't have the
luxury of giving our heart and life to Christ and then live any way we want.
A true follower of Christ, a true New Testament church, are  followers of
His Word. Jesus said, "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what
I say?"