"... If we truly love our
Lord and if we truly love our neighbor, we will ache with compassion for humanity
today in our own country and across the world. We must do all we can to help
people see the truth of Christianity and accept Christ as Savior. And we must
not allow the Bible to be weakened by any compromise in its authority, no matter
how subtle the means. ..."
March 10, 2009
National concerns are immense on many vital and ethical fronts that affect
our own lives and those we love. The leadership of this new President is causing
real concern.
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**** The destruction of human life in the name of scientific research.
AFA's action alert states it succinctly:
President Obama has given the ok to destroy human life in the name of scientific
research.
Embryonic stem cell research is immoral and ineffective. It is immoral because
it destroys human life at its earliest stage of development by harvesting
the stem cells for body parts. It is ineffective because it has yet to be
used a single time in any therapeutic application.
Researchers must get their funding from taxpayers for embryonic stem cell
research because they can't convince private sources to invest. Private investors
know there are no proven uses for embryonic stem cells. It's all hype, hope
and theory.
But adult stem cell research, on the other hand, is ethically benign and
is already being used to treat over 70 diseases and conditions. If taxpayer
dollars are going to be spent on stem cell research, that's where it ought
to go.
By reversing funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, Pres.
Obama is making every American taxpayer complicit in immoral, life destroying
research. This is a terrible example of political ideology trumping sound
science."
[AFA, Donald E. Wildmon, Action Alert, 3.10.09]
Contact President Barack Obama
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/
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"What really matters?"
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"What is it that matters so much in my life and in your life that it
sets the priorities for everything we do?
Our Lord Jesus was asked essentially this same question and his reply was:
'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with
all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second
is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the prophets
hang on these two commandments. (Matthew 22:37-40)
Here is what really matters-to love the Lord our God, to love ?his Son, and
to know him personally as our Savior. And if we love him, to do the things
that please him; simultaneously to show forth his character of holiness and
love in our lives; to be faithful to his truth; to walk day by day with the
living Christ; to live a life of prayer.
And the other half of what really matters is to love our neighbor as ourselves.
The two go together; they cannot be separated. 'On these two commandments,
hang all the Law and the the Prophets.' Because we love the Lord Jesus Christ
and know him personally as Our Savior we must, through God's grace, love our
neighbor as ourselves. And if we love our neighbor as Christ would have us
love our neighbor, we will certainly want to share the gospel with our neighbor;
and beyond this we will want to show forth the law of God in all our relationships
with our neighbor.
But it does not stop here. Evangelism is primary, but it is not the end of
our work and indeed cannot be separated from the rest of the Christian life.
We must acknowledge and then act upon the fact that if Christ is our Savior,
he is also Our Lord in all of life. He is our Lord not just in religious things
and not just in cultural things such as the arts and music, but in our intellectual
lives, and in business, and in our relation to society, and in our attitude
toward the moral breakdown of our culture. Acknowledging Christ's Lordship
and placing ourselves under what is taught in the whole Bible includes thinking
and acting as citizens in relation to our government and its laws. Making
Christ Lord in our lives means taking a stand in very direct and practical
ways against the world spirit of our age as it rolls along claiming to be
autonomous, crushing all that we cherish in its path.
If we truly love our Lord and if we truly love our neighbor, we will ache
with compassion for humanity today in our own country and across the world.
We must do all we can to help people see the truth of Christianity and accept
Christ as Savior. And we must not allow the Bible to be weakened by any compromise
in its authority, no matter how subtle the means. This is especially so when
those doing this call themselves 'evangelical.' But we must stand equally
against the spirit of our age in the breakdown of morality and the terrible
loss of humanness that it has brought. It will mean especially standing for
human life and showing by our actions that every life is sacred and worthwhile
in itself-not only to us as human beings, but precious also to God. Every
person is worth fighting for; regardless of whether he is young or old, sick
or well, child or adult, born or unborn, or brown, red, yellow, black, or
white.
It is God's life-changing power that is able to touch every individual, who
then has the responsibility to touch the world around him with the absolutes
found in the Bible. In the end we must realize that the spirit of the age-with
all the loss of truth and beauty, and the loss of compassion and humanness:
that it has brought - it is not merely a cultural ill. It is a spiritual ill
that the truth given us in the Bible and Christ alone can cure. ..."
[Taken From "The Great Evangelical Disaster" written by
the late Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer, Crossway Books, Westchester, Illinois,
1984]
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Bill Johnson, President
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