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BRITISH GIRL SCOUTS KICK GOD OUT – AMERICA NEXT
Sunday, June 23rd, 2013This past Spring of 2013 has surely opened a lot of eyes to the direction of both our youth and those who are leading them into oblivion. Quick on the heels of the Boy Scouts of America being just one step away from allowing gay scout leaders to their declining numbers across the country, comes the news that British Girl Guides (the equivalent of US Girl Scouts) have gone atheist!
While this is the natural (and sad) progression for the modern cultural diverse mess of the once great country which gave us George Whitfield, Spurgeon and Wesley – it is still a stunning development! The Guides are 103 years old and this move on June 19 to replace the promise to “love God” with the promise to “be true to myself” and to “develop my beliefs” is narcissistic phony and just ripe for these people to be set up to fail in life. If the best thing a young person, who absolutely needs moral and divine guidance, is to look inside themselves (under the direction of an secular humanist), the coming generations will be without any true hope.
When pressed, “Chief Guide Gill Slocombe protested that the organization consulted 40,000 before it made the change. She said that using God in the pledge “discouraged some girls and volunteers from joining,” and now the Guides could “reach out to girls and women who might not have considered guiding before, so that even more girls can benefit from everything guiding can offer.” Julie Bentley, the new CEO of the Guides, has called the Girl Guides the “ultimate feminist organization.” (Sourced here)
Did you catch that? They are not interested in bringing up young women with character, but in “reaching out to girls” who will become ‘ultimate feminists’ like their new CEO! But they are just following the lost Girl Scouts of America which is fast becoming an arm of Planned Parenthood. Boy Scouts in Britain (where scouting actually started) are considering dropping “God” too so watch for the geniuses who run the Boy Scouts of America in Dallas to follow suit!
This decline in Great Britain is nothing new. To watch it slide down into the pit of hell is horrifying, but America is no different. American Atheists have been trying to get the BSA to do the same thing, and after watching how the Pentagon treats the rights of Christian soldiers, BSA is going to fold to the unbelieving left soon enough.
WHY ARE WE SO AFRAID?
Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause….Psalm 25:3
One message has been impressed upon me since the Good Friday service I preached it early this year, and that is the theme of “Faith vs Fear”. It happened again on Memorial Day weekend, when I was a guest preacher at a beautiful country church in Auburn, Illinois. What started off as a prepared word about the great Memorial Stones of Joshua 4:1-7, led back to the same theme – “Faith vs Fear”.Sure enough yesterday, I was having the same conversation now, three days in a row with different people from three different churches! The reason why this keeps coming back is so many good people are not just genuinely afraid by what they are experiencing in daily life, but they see and hear no hope coming from any of the places you would expect it from – churches, small groups, community organizations etc. No one I know really look up to political, academic or celebrity leaders and nobody should either.
As we see traditional institution after traditional institution fall – whether it is the late great Boy Scouts of America; or perverted movies, books or music…or whether it is one mega-church pastor falling after another or so-called responsible adults indoctrinating our public school children with graphic sex ‘education’ instead of math and science – the wheels have come off the bus. One would be tempted to say “who can blame even Christians for being fearful about the present and the future”.
Just this past month the Barna Survey confirmed what we have been observing. The amount of “Nones” – those who have no faith in any belief system, has increased five fold in the past 50 years. Because of the type of churches we run, we have run off our youth when they “escape” at age 18 as they see pastors more concerned with maintaining their fiefdom and holding on to tithers, than addressing the true needs of the congregation. The scary high numbers of those who say they will never return to church…and who have in fact, walked away from Jesus Christ, will be blamed in part on these church leaders – locally and nationally.
The gist of this brief post is not to bust on those who are falling short to teach the Sufficiency of Scripture to the flock, but to embark on, no matter how small, a drive to show us that we can be concerned without being fearful. The first thing we need to do is realize WHOSE we are. First of all – are we even saved, redeemed and rejuvenated by the Holy Spirit…that is, are we born again? I can’t even remember hearing a preacher use the word “rejuvenation” in the recent past…but this is what MUST happen.