I'm sure that last night is the first time that we've heard the phrase "gay or straight" mentioned in a Presidential Acceptance Speech.
Voters have ushered in our first Post-Modern president & the tolerant, non-biblically-based value system that comes with that. This is a first.
It's truly time to pray for our nation, you who desire to live for Truth and glorify God.
With the acceptance of Obama into office & the Democratic party gaining much congressional ground, you can count on the following issues which are totally opposed to God (remember that) coming into play. So we really need to be in prayer for our nation.
The issues:
· Forced acceptance of homosexuality into society, companies, churches
· Hate speech laws -If these pass, ministers will not be able to condemn particular sins (speak God’s truth) from the pulpit. To do so, would be considered a hate-crime. (This has already happened in Australia & places in Europe. Just look at this: http://www.domini.org/openbook/australia200309012.htm)
· Homosexuality integrated more fully into public school curriculum in order to re-engineer our children's minds from God's definition of marriage to this society's definition of it.
· Abortion (even partial-birth abortion) being legalized just after we won a victory on that. (see: http://www.tnrtl.org/human_life_issues/human_life_issues_partial_birth_abortion.htm)
· Appointment of Supreme Court justices who view the world through anti-Christ lenses. -Just think if Supreme Court justices (those who interpret the law of the land at the highest level) begin to rule by laws that are literally opposed to God's Truth & Good Ways.
I'm currently studying 1 John; and it's so powerful. Catch this: "Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist; he denies both Father & Son." So be aware of all those who oppose the truths of God. They are antichrists. Make no doubt about it. Not "the" Antichrist......but antichrists. Look at scripture. (1 John 2:22)
In his book Fit Bodies, Fat Minds, Os Guiness describes the postmodern world:
"
There is no truth, only truths.
There are no principles, only preferences.
There is no grand reason, only reasons.
There is no privileged civilization only a multiple of cultures beliefs, periods, and styles.
There is no grand narrative of human progress, only countless stories of where people and their cultures are now.
There is no simple reality or any grand objective of universal, detached knowledge, only a ceaseless representation of everything in terms of everything else.
"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Check out David Wayne's blog -- Here is a random selection of his comments that I think you'll find interesting & informative:
Postmodernism is a reaction against the individualism of modernism.
Gen-X'ers, as well as postmodernists saw how all of the so-called "progress" of the 20th century was accompanied with terrible relational institutional trouble. The 20th century (i.e. the last vestiges of modernism) gave us a man on the moon and it gave us Watergate and the televangelist scandals. It gave us millions of homes with a two car garage and a single parent.
The reason we have so much "church-hopping" today and so little institutional loyalty is because we have bought into modernistic individualism that sees the pinnacle of spiritual devotion as taking place between the individual and Jesus. The community is unnecessary.
(Personal note: this is where the church can change for the better & re-create Acts-like community again in its midst.)
It seems to me that postmodernism replaces biblicism with mysticism.
Modernity was a worldview that was hostile to the faith and so is postmodernity. We do need to learn to live in and respond to the postmodern world, but we need to live antithetically to postmodernism, not synthetically.
From David's blog: http://jollyblogger.typepad.com/jollyblogger/2004/07/a_few_more_thou.html
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And lastly. let's remember.....
"It is He, the God of heaven....who removes kings and establishes kings." (Daniel 2:21)
"I know that You, the God of Israel, can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted." (Job 42:2)
Let us pray that His will would be done.
