INDIANAPOLIS – Many people say evangelicals are stuck on one issue – whether it’s abortion or same-sex “marriage” – when speaking out to defend moral values. But to those defending, it’s not just a single issue.
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(Photo: The Christian Post)Dr. Richard Land, president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, speaks during the 16-million member denomination's annual gathering in Indianapolis on Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
“Marriage is a single issue?” Dr. Richard Land, president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, posed to thousands of Southern Baptists Tuesday. “It’s the building block of society.”
Land believes there are four “modern horsemen of the apocalypse” that are “riding forth to wreak havoc and destruction in our society” – the denial of the sanctity of human life, the rise of hardcore Internet pornography, the radical homosexual agenda and its attempt to undermine marriage and radical Islamic jihadism.
“Make no mistake about it. Radical Islamic jihadism has declared war on America and American civilization and Christianity,” Land emphatically said.
When former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft approached Land and two other prominent evangelical leaders about six years ago, asking what they believe is the most crucial issue facing Americans at the time, Land said Internet pornography has begun to destroy the lives of more men and women than abortion. While abortion would have been his answer if he was asked even a few years earlier, the growth of what he has labeled “the most grotesque perversions of human sexuality” on the Internet has overtaken that issue, he said.
With pornography readily available on the Internet and on wireless devices, Americans including many in the church have fallen victim to the activity. Many Christian groups call it a moral crisis, and reports indicate that as much as 50 percent of men in the pews and the pulpit view pornography, some of whom are addicted.
Still, Land believes abortion and the radical homosexual agenda – both of which evangelicals are widely known to oppose – are greatly devastating society.
“We’re not going to exchange the [abortion] agenda,” Land said Tuesday at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting while affirming that they will continue to be concerned about the sanctity of life.
What is a person is not just a single issue, Land stressed. “Every human being deserves protection from conception.”
And what is a male and female is not a single issue, he added. Quoting Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, Land said, “If the family goes, everything goes,” as he referred to the radical homosexual agenda.
While evangelicals face four major battles, Land called the Southern Baptists to first take a look at themselves. The rise of the born-again and evangelical Christian population has been staggering over the past few decades, Land pointed out. Yet the impact that evangelicals have had on society has been very little.
“We experienced growth of evangelicalism and yet our culture is worse off in almost every way except race and sexual discrimination,” he said. Rather than being the salt and the light for the world, he said they have been “salted and lit” by the culture.
Calling evangelicals to fall on their knees in repentance, Land said the only answer to these problems is a revival – a revival that begins with them.
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believer,
I'm not sure if you have seen this or what you know about the Frankfurt School but I highly recommend this as a read to see what the foundation of cultural Marxism is (AKA; political correctness or progressivism) and how it is now running rampant in America to destroy the traditional family http://www.freecongress.org/centers/cc/index.aspx
See how Obama is using the topics and his use of "democracy" (Vs Constitutional Republic) and his technique at deconstruction.
Obama is a disciple of the Marxist Saul Alinsky who created the "advocacy centers" in Chicago that Obama was recruited into after law school.
http://brookesnews.com/082101obama.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/24/AR2007032401152.html
Keep up the good fight and I bless your strength in Christ
God Bless
Hawk
hawk, I wish more Christians would see the direction our nation is going and begin to get on our faces before God and ask Him to bring His Revival to His Church in America before it's too late, be blessed as you serve Him, believer
believer,
you and Dr Land are right on and our nation fits the pattern:
The Decline of the Family; Nations most often fall from within, and this fall is usually due to a decline in the moral and spiritual values in the family. As families go, so goes a nation.
This has been the main premise of thinkers from British historian J. D. Unwin to Russian sociologist Pitirim Sorokin who have studied civilizations that have collapsed. In his book Our Dance Has Turned to Death, Carl Wilson identifies the common pattern of family decline in ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. Notice how these seven stages parallel what is happening in our nation today.
1. men ceased to lead their families in worship. Their view of God became naturalistic, mathematical, and mechanical.
2. men selfishly neglected care of their wives and children to pursue material wealth, political and military power, and cultural development.
3. change in men's sexual values. Men who were preoccupied with business or war either neglected their wives sexually or became involved with lower-class women or with homosexuality
4. . The role of women at home and with children lost value and status. Women were neglected and their roles devalued. Soon they revolted to gain access to material wealth and also freedom for sex outside marriage. Marriage laws were changed to make divorce easy.
5. husbands and wives competed against each other for â
Jesus saves!
Believer you are right on in the points you make. There are those who suffer from Godphobia. They have a fear that if God is real, then they will have to accept sin is real.
Remember Jesus said in John 3:18-21, "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.â
Believer, you are right on in your points. You must consider the fact that this web page is monitored by group of Jesusphobes. They have what is called Godphobia. They are afraid that if God is honored by their life and His word is applicable to them, then they will have to cast off the sin that so easily entangles them.
Remember what Scripture says in John 3:18-21, "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.â
It is threads like these that make me want to turn away from the CP forever.
BLASPHEMY!!! I am 32; I've only been a Christian for just over a year; I worship and revere God in spirit and truth...
This is utter BLASPHEMY. It is absolutely true that Jesus is the light, and that the light makes manifest what has been festering in the dark.
When you hold God's Word up to garbage like the majority of the posts in here, it is so utterly clear that we, brothers and sister in Christ, are living in the TRUTH, and the END of this wicked system is near. Oh Lord please come soon. Judge those who hate you. Father, help me forgive those who despise you. You people absolutely GRIEVE the Holy Spirit. I pray that God will come as swiftly as the flood in the time of Noe. I marvel at how Jesus could be so forgiving on that cross. Soon brothers and sisters, they will look more beautiful than ever, and attract and draw together the entire heathen world, and they will HATE US because they HATE HIM. The persecution will be severe and we need to have faith. Lord, increase our faith. Lord that they would know Jesus.
In love, fear, trembling and with a broken heart,
Your Brother in Christ.
THIS DAY IS WONDERFUL!!!!
Come now, all you wonderful Christians! Follow Jesus's example and let LOVE into your hearts! Accept same-sex marriages and forever more you will be more like Christ.
I challenge: Do you really know the spirit of your Bible? I think not! You are lost! The Bible is a historical document frozen in time back 2000 years ago. How much the world has changed!
Consider this: Our U.S. Constitution has an amendment process. Some laws become irrelevant. Admit that the Bible has irrelevant information, my Dear Christians. Do you not know??
Follow the LOVE of JESUS! Accept these glories same-sex unions. Accept the world isn't flat. Accept that the sun doesn't orbit around the earth. Accept that women have a voice. Accept that LOVE can exist and be legally recognized among two consenting adults!
Man + Man = Love
Woman + Woman = Love
Man + Woman = Love
MY FELLOW CHRISTIANS! BE LIKE JESUS AND ACCEPT LOVE!
gay "This is truly hysterical. A crazy superstitious fool representing a myth-believing cult can empirically identify the non-existent identities of 4 non-existent "horsemen." How do you respond? Do you laugh? Do you cry? "
I see where your coming from . . . it's just like you going to a a website of a "cult" to read about it. . . if this is your way of getting laughs then you would be more miserable than him in life. You must be filled with hate for christians and God because you would have no other reason to visit and talk like this...tell me why.
This is truly hysterical. A crazy superstitious fool representing a myth-believing cult can empirically identify the non-existent identities of 4 non-existent "horsemen." How do you respond? Do you laugh? Do you cry?
ifeelfine, those were the results of the moral decay that destroyed both the Roman and Greek Empires from within, but I keep forgetting I'm referring to history courses that were taught prior to political correctness taking over.
believer: You clearly need to freshen up on your ancient Greek and Roman history. Both of those civilizations faltered because they stretched themselves too thin militarily and economically - just like GWB and the current administration are doing right now. And Land is making news because he is touching on the hot button issues and calling them the four modern horsemen of the apocalypse.
Maybe Land who's radio show is nothing more than a republican party talk show, wonders why families are falling apart, might look at his precious president who economic policies are destroying the middle class.
hlerwin, yes you do see signs of a Christian Agenda it's called the fulfillment of God's Great Commission, taking the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ to the lost so that everyone will have the opportunity to be saved and to become the Christ-like person God created them to be so they too can have the awesome opportunity to join God in not only fulfilling His Great Commission, but the opportunity to live with Him in heaven for all of eternity. And a person does that by repenting of their sin and asking Jesus Christ to come into their lives as both Savior and Lord. Hopefully, if you haven't made this most important decision you'll do so before it's too late and if you need to know how to do that I know a number of people who blog this site who would be more than willing to help you, myself included.
I'm beginning to see signs all over the place of a Christian agenda. Am I the only one who has noticed this?