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The 21st CenturyContext of Our Mission
Radical Islam and Fundamental Atheism
Fundamentalist AtheismWar in the West
Death of God
“When people stop believing in God,
they don’t believe in nothing,
they believe in anything.”
G.K. Chesterton
Jeremy Rifkin• "We no longer
feel ourselves to be guests in someone else's home and therefore obliged to make our behavior conform with a set of preexisting cosmic rules.
Jeremy RifkinIt is our creation now. We make the rules. We establish the parameters of reality. We create the world, and because we do, we no longer feel beholden to outside forces. We no longer have to justify our behavior, for we are now the architects of the universe. We are responsible for nothing outside ourselves, for we are the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever."
Fundamentalist Atheists War in the West
Atheism’s New Definition• Old Definition – disbelief in God• New Definition – Anti-theism•Militant Atheist• Secular Fundamentalist • Dogmatic Atheism – no discourse with opposing views
• Not content with level playing field of ideas - freedom of religion
• Freedom from religion• Stamp out all religious beliefs• Ideological tyranny
Our Rights Do Not Come From God
“Our rights do not come from God, your honor, and you know that. They come from man... That’s your faith, that’s my faith, but that’s not our country. Our laws come from collective agreement and compromise.”
Hostility
• To the culture of the kingdom of God• Truth • Beauty• Goodness
• To three basic institutions• Family (basic building block of society)• Governance of/by free men and women• Freedom of Conscience• Freedom of Religion• Freedom of the Press
• Church
The State - “The New Parents”
“How much do we regard children as being the property of their parents? It’s one thing to say people should be free to believe whatever they like, but should they be free to impose their beliefs on their children?”
Richard DawkinsThe God Delusion
(Some) Areas of Attack
• The Family•Who has responsibility for children (Dawkins)• Parents or the state
•Redefining marriage•Anti-Natal movement
• Political Correct/Cultural Relativism
Albertos Polizogopoulos
“It has become a scary time to be a Christian professional in Canada. In 2014, lawyers and doctors were targeted by their own professional associations for direct attack because of their religious beliefs”
Canadian “Legal Leaders for Diversity” excludes Christians and others who disagree
T.W.U. target of Religious Freedom
Arlene’s Flowers
VIDEO
Aaron and Melissa Klein
Political Correctness Gone Awry
Rotherham rape victim
Rotherham Rapists
Image of Political Correctness, Rotherham, England
Rotherham City Council head Martin Kimber
South Yorkshire’s Chief Constable David Compton
Radical Islam War from the East
ISIS in Syria and Iraq
ISIS in Iraq
Christians are fleeing Iraq/Syria
Christians Fleeing Mosul
Yezidi women captured by ISIS
Orthodox Christian Martyrs
Boko Haram – Baga, Nigeria
Attack on Church in Pakistan
The Christian’s Response The Great Commission
The Conflict• The conflict between Jihadists and the
infidels – believing Jews and Christians on the one hand and secularists on the other, is not about borders and armament.• It is about ideas and ideals. It is a conflict
of:•Spirit•Morality• Ideas - worldview
Three Competing Narratives
What is the solution?
What Is the Solution?
“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done on earth as it is in
heaven. …”
Kingdom OffensiveChrist and Him
Crucified
Thy Kingdom Come
GoodnessTruth Beauty
Atheism Islam
Freedom – Our Driving Vision
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. …You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Apostle PaulGalatians 5: 1, 13-14
Manifesting the Culture of the Kingdom of God
1. Truth—Reflects God’s physical and metaphysical laws
2. Goodness (Justice)—Reflects God’s moral laws
3. Beauty—Reflects God’s aesthetic laws
Douglas Jones and Douglas Wilson Angels in the Architecture, p. 18
The Cultural Trinity
• Unity and Diversity in the Godhead and in Trinitarian Culture•Truth is Good and Beautiful•Goodness is Beautiful and Truthful•Beauty is Good and Truthful