Re: Focus on the Family
Submitted by Mark on October 03 2000 21:33:24
In reply to Focus on the Family submitted by Dean on October 03 2000 17:25:22
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From Focus on the Family's "Family News from Dr. James Dobson" 1998: Traditional subject matter [in public schools] has also been invaded by the radical environmental movement. Those of you who haven't visited a classroom for a decade or more might be shocked to observe how the 'save the earth' people have taken over... Of equal concern to academic issues is the homosexual and lesbian agenda that is being promoted in many schools...It involves the validation of an immoral lifestyle and an effort to manipulate the minds of vulnerable children... A powerful educational monopoly has gained control of today's schools and is shaping them to fit its liberal, self-serving agenda.... In this remarkably successful campaign to demoralize our educational institutions, we have created for ourselves meaningless, ineffective and godless monuments to mans' arrogance. It is our vulnerable children, and those in generations to come, that are sacrificed... It is not difficult to see where homosexual activists and their supporters want to take us...Most of the new bills relate to children one way or the other, because they hold the keys to reordering society...PLEASE FIGHT FOR YOUR KIDS. DON'T LET THEM SLIP AWAY! Christian pastor and author Robert Buehler writes the following in "Building on the Rock": Consider a preacher or politician who sets out to raise the alarm about some threat to the comfort or values of his audience. He tells stories of horror or atrocity designed to arouse fear or revulsion. He identifies as dangerous some individual or group that is clearly foreign to the persons to shom he speaks, whether it is a racial group, or an ideology, or an opposition political party, or a religious movement, or a foreign political or military leader. He calls his hearers neither to repentance nor to reconciliation, but instead seeks to arouse anger and indignation against the identified source of threat. He proposes ways his audience can protect themselves, warn their friends, and counterattack against the threat described. Note that the content of this type of preaching could be almost anything. The individual may be denouncing religion, or atheism, or big governement, or liberalism, or conservatism, or Satanism, or pornography, or fundamentalism, or communism, or capitalism, or sexism, or feminism, or homosexuality, or homophobia, or militarism, or pacifism. The fruit he produces, however, is the same in all cases: fear, mistrust, alienation, and ultimately hatred. In contrast, the fruit produced in and by someone in whom the Spirit of God is at work is described in Galations 5:22-23: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." Such fruit is formed in a person who has begun to "participate in the divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4) because of the goodness of God. |
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