LONG A DISTURBING TREND, THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST AND OTHER CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES APPETITE FOR FEDERAL MONEY IS GROWING .THIS TIME THEY APPEAR EAGER TO PARTNER WITH THE GOVERNMENT IN DEVELOPING SECURITY PROTOCOLS FOR INCEDENT RESPONSE AND “DOMESTIC TERRORISM”.

Rev Thomas Littleton

2-21-2022

Does your House of Worship (HOW classification in the grant documents) partner with the government and tax dollars for security, emergency relief efforts, community development, man-made incidents cyber crime response, and infrastructure training? If it does then it is very likely your church leadership have been enticed to do so by the lure of free money and the encouragement of denominational leaders.

Would you like to visit a new church and be actively “ASSESSED for being a potential THREAT” while DHS and FEMA trained “Greeters” chat with you in a program tool called “The Power of HELLO”? Your answers might get you reported to the federal agencies involved as a potential threat of person of interest if your politics or even preferred language does not follow that of the pastor or staffers or “trusted team” trained by and funded with government grants.

Good luck if you are seeking and visiting a new church or if you are considered a problematic member of your own.

If you do not think your “HOW” is involved or receiving such funding consider that leaders can often be less than forthcoming about such programs and that the potential for abuses are massive and growing.

LOUISIANA BAPTIST APPER PROMOTES FEMA GRANTS

FEMA announces grants, information opportunities

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

By Baptist Message staff

“WASHINGTON (LBM) – The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced it is offering opportunities for faith-based organizations to learn how to apply for funding from the 2022 Nonprofit Security Grant Program.”

“Grants are provided on a competitive process for facility hardening and other security enhancements. So, FEMA is offering a series of webinars (each will present the same information and allow open forum questions) for applicants to learn how to make the best case for their respective needs regarding protection against attacks and other emergency preparedness issues.”

“Each presentation will start at 2 p.m. (CT) and is accessible using the respective web link; ID; and passcode:”

NOTE the article then provides 5 links to FEAM Zoom Meetings for March and April for interested pastors and the link for more information on these grants and application process.

WHAT IS THE FUNDING FOR ?

According to Department of Homeland Security churches or “Houses of Worship” need to partner with federal and local agencies in security and disaster preparedness and response.

THE GRANTS ARE COMING THROUGH FEMA ACCORDING TO DHS SITE

“The US Department of Homeland Security through FEMA provides nonprofit security grants which are managed in partnership through each state’s Homeland Security Advisor’s office.  These competitive based grants provide funding to improve facility security, preparedness, and emergency planning. FEMA Grant information website.”

OBVIOUS DANGERS COME INTO PLAY WHEN CHRISTIANS ARE THE ACCUSED

The idea that new Faith Based Grant Programs come into play as Christians are being blamed in a new report for “coordinating” the riots on January 6th 2021 is a bit beyond unsettling. Given the groundswell of media and progressive efforts to blame Donald Trump and “Trump supporters” ,especially “white ” evangelicals for the events of January 6th 2021 “Insurgency” (and beyond) -the idea of recruiting pastors and church officials to be full on and paid FEMA and DHS partners is sharpening a blade that could cut both ways.

Recall this quote form the April 28th 2021 Biden first address to Congress as President

”  Setting his administration’s tone in his first speech to Congress, US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that white supremacists posed the “most lethal” terrorist threat to the United States.”

“And we won’t ignore what our intelligence agencies have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today, white supremacist terrorism,” he said.”

This new “Report ” blaming Christians ( white Christian nationalist/ Trump Evangelicals ) for Jan 6th riots at the Capitol in 2021 is part of a sweeping campaign to vilify conservative Christians.

PCA’s LIGON DUNCAN PROTEGE’ PART OF REPORT BLAMING JAN 6th RIOTS ON “CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM”

Further DANGERS exist :

DHS language in the FEMA grants is disturbing as the Church or House of Worship is described as a “INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES OF FAITH”. So what about those who do not fit the “inclusive ” mantra?

1- Many gullible young pastors and seminary students have already been indoctrinated with Social Justice and Critical Theories and view their own conservative congregants as “problematic politically ” and “divisive”. What is next? Pastors keeping an eye on the flock for their new partners? YES it even has a name ..”The Power of Hello”! More on that in a moment.

2- The Money from existing partnerships including FEMA, HHS, DHS and virtually every federal agency has negatively impacted the church and missions organizations often while congregants are unaware the funding and partnerships even exist. The Southern Baptist have a network of “Send Relief” centers across the country and in Puerto Rico which partner full time with federal agencies in FEMA disaster relief , community development, to import Muslim refugees, fight a variety of social ills.. many blamed on injustice and discrimination ,while promoting social justice , Diversity ,Equity & Inclusion. In Short the MONEY is driving the vision and NOT the Great Commission of Jesus. “Go into all the World and Preach the Gospel”. Matthew 16:15.

FAITH BASED PARTNERSHIP OF NT TIMES KILLED THEIR OWN MESSIAH

NOTE- a Cozy Faith Based Partnership existed between the religious leaders of Jesus day with Herod and the Roman Government. Protecting that “partnership ” and cooperation led to their demands that Jesus be arrested tried and executed !

3-Faith Based Partnerships do not allow for ministry of the Gospel and the church of “HOW” involved with such funding will be too busy in it’s FEMA roles where “any explicit religious activity” is forbidden and against the law and the grant guidelines.

How will Churches be able to do what God has commissioned them to do with the Gospel while fulfilling their roles and obligations as Government Contractors during disasters or other events impacting their communities?

4- All government understanding, training and guidelines are interfaith and have no ability to preserve or care for Christian Faith or its distinctives or God Given authority and vision. In fact it is just the opposite. Such interfaith and multi-faith efforts require the true church and it’s leadership to abandon such sectarian and divisive faith identities and become part of “is a trusted community within the inclusive, community of faith” which includes all faiths.

5- Abuse of federal and tax dollars has already been present in most Faith Based Partnerships including a $14 million dollar fraud case if this authors hometown with HHS money and Faith Based Healthcare Clinic downtown. No one has every really seemed concerned enough or made efforts to slow the flow of money and prevent the fraud and abuse .

6- ABUSE by pastors and church leadership / staff and elders is already a serious problem .So the answer to rampant abuse, coverups and corruption is MORE money and MORE power from Federal agencies?

7- For the most part people in houses of Faith have NO IDEA their “Houses of Faith” are involved in such funding let alone the dangerous programs and partnerships.

NO THIS IS BREWING UP A DISASTER OF ABUSE OF POWER AND CORRUPTION

REALITY ?

Many pastors and denominations have already been leading their churches down this deadly path of denying biblical Christianity in the name of “serving ” and “Community Development”. The church is not in danger of going down this path- it is well down this path and MORE MONEY is now paving the way for the slide into this FBP vision for the church in America . Separation of Church and State and Religious Liberty are already DONE with and over in such a model. This reality should concern both liberals and conservatives -both Christians and Atheist and everyone in between.

SOME ADDITIONAL AND DISTURBING DETAILS FOR CONSIDERATION

THE DHS AND FEMA GRANT PARTNERSHIP DETAILS

FAITH BASED COMMUNITY RESOURCES

“The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is committed to supporting efforts to maintain safe and secure houses of worship and related facilities while sustaining an open and welcoming environment. In partnership with the Department of Homeland Security Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and the Faith-Based Information Sharing and Analysis Organization, CISA provides resources that assist in securing physical and cyber infrastructure.”

“CISA aims to provide a first stop for guidance and resources that will inform FOB-HOW security-based decisions.  Included below are numerous resources, including a Guide and Self-Assessment Tool, which provide building blocks for effective safety and security programs. The resources include assessment, training, planning, exercises, and other materials focused on a wide range of man-made threats (e.g., bombing, active shooter, vehicle ramming, etc.) that could be used against the FBO-HOW community.”

“THE POWER OF HELLO” GREETING IS NOW AN INVESTIGATION

“THE POWER OF HELLO” PROGRAM-

NO LONGER JUST GREETING A STRANGER TO MAKE THEM FEEL WELCOME TO CHURCH

“Every day we face a variety of potential threats, both internal and external, from hostile governments, terrorist groups, disgruntled employees and malicious introducers. Alert employees can spot suspicious activity and report it. The power is in the employee, citizen, patron, or any person who can observe and report.”

WORDS AS A TOOL?

“Used effectively, the right words can be a powerful tool. Simply saying “Hello” can prompt a casual conversation with unknown individuals and help you determine why they are there. The OHNO approach – Observe, Initiate a Hello, Navigate the Risk, and Obtain Help – helps employees observe and evaluate suspicious behaviors, and empowers them to mitigate potential risk, and obtain help when necessary.”

“SPOTTING AND REPORTING SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY”

“This more focused guide promotes employee vigilance for our houses of worship stakeholders. Alert personnel can better spot suspicious activity and actively report it. Keeping houses of worship facilities secure while sustaining the open and welcoming environment necessary for peaceful congregation requires a holistic approach to security.”

GUIDEBOOKS AND TRAINING

“This guide identifies behavioral and suspicious activity indicators and provides basic personal security measures to reduce the probability of becoming a victim of an attack. “

HISTORY OF COLLABORATION DEVELOPMENT

FEMA has become a comfortable partner for many churches and denominations through Disaster Relief efforts. In fact the Southern Baptist in Louisiana where this Baptist Press report on the grants comes via its state Baptist newspaper have long been addicted to FEMA funds and partnerships since the advent of the FBP programs under Bush and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The Obama Administration saw the CEO of the Southern Baptist Executive Committee joins in the Obama era overhaul of the FBP programs and aligned with a wide assortment of activist and progressives to find “Common Ground for the Common Good” and to of course get the grants !!!

NOW THINGS ARE ADVANCING BEYOND SERVING TO BECOMING SECURITY FORCES AND EYES AND EARS IN THE CHURCH AND COMMUNITY.

CHURCHES BECOME HOMETOWN PROTECTORS AND WATCHDOGS

“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) most important mission is to protect the American people.  As part of this mission, DHS fosters collaboration between the private sector and the public sector to mitigate risk and enhance the security and resilience of public gathering sites and special events.”

“DHS provides expert counsel and recommendations on protective measures that organizations of all sizes can implement to protect facilities and venues. These tools and resources are offered free to communities because the Department recognizes that communities are the first line of defense in keeping the public safe and secure.”

“CISA’s Hometown Security program provides access to tools and resources to support community security and resilience; DHS recognizes that communities are the first line of defense in keeping the public safe and secure. For more resources to help be prepared, visit the products below.”

CHURCHES BECOME WATCHDOGS IN THE TOWN

“In collaboration with several houses of worship and community partners (i.e., governmental entities that have a responsibility in the plan, including first responders, public health officials, and mental health officials), houses of worship can take steps to plan for these potential emergencies through the creation of an emergency operations plan (EOP).”

“FAITH BASED INFORMATION SHARING AND ANALYSIS SHARING” …OR SPYING ON CONGREGANTS? WHERE IS THE LINE DRAWN IN “INCULSIVE COMMUNITIES OF FAITH ?

“The FB-ISAO is a trusted community within the inclusive, community of faith. The ISAO and its members maintain primary focus on sharing timely, actionable and relevant information with an all-hazards approach as incidents affecting the community come in the form of physical threats, cybersecurity issues, health outbreaks, and a variety of natural disasters. The FB-ISAO’s mission is to provide members with information, analysis, and capabilities to help reduce risk while enhancing preparedness, security, and resilience.”

CYBER THREATS FOR CHURCHES?

“The faith-based community can be a target of cyber crime or incidents that deny access to information, render information unusable, or even disclose the personal information of congregants in the public domain.  CISA has created the STOP.THINK.CONNECT.™ national campaign and resources for small businesses, aimed at increasing the understanding of cyber threats and empowering the American public to be safer and more secure online. Cybersecurity is a shared responsibility. We each have to do our part to keep the Internet safe. When we all take simple steps to be safer online, it makes using the Internet a more secure experience for everyone.  “

RESOURCES INCLUDE 2017 STUDY AND TRAINING VIDEOS

“In this security guide, CISA analyzed ten years of targeted attacks on houses of worship to provide context to the enterprise-wide security recommendations. The case studies reviewed are examples of the breadth of threats a house of worship faces daily.

“Numerous studies estimate there are between 300,000 and 400,000 congregations in the United States. Many people believe or think a house of worship is a safe area where violence and emergencies cannot affect them. However, violence in a house of worship is not a new phenomenon, and many facilities are developing and updating security and emergency plans and procedures to ensure the safety and security of their congregations, visitors, staff, and facilities. “

“Today, houses of worship face a unique set of safety and security challenges that weren’t there just a few years ago.  This video offers a look at those challenges and demonstrates how law enforcement, houses of worship, and other partners can work together to report suspicious behavior and raise security awareness, while forging positive relationships within the community.”

HOW COVID PAVED THE WAY

COVID PPP MONEY FLOODED THE CHURCH IN 2020

THE END OF CHURCH AS WE KNOW IT !

“FAITH BASED SECURITY AMID COVID 19”

“On October 27, 2020, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the InfraGard National Capital Region held a Faith-Based Security and Safety Symposium webinar to discuss best practices and risk mitigation strategies for protecting houses of worship amid the COVID-19 pandemic.”

EVANGLEICAL LEADERS BECAME COVID MESSENGERS AND TOOLS

EVANGELICAL PANDEMIC PARTNERS: THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL CORRUPTION

THIS WAS IN APRIL 2020

EVANGELICAL PANDEMIC PARTNERS: THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL CORRUPTION

FEMA FUNDING DOUBLED IN 2021 FOR THESE SECIRITY GRANT PROGRAMS

FY 2021

Total funding available in fiscal year 2021: $180,000,000.

• Nonprofit Security Grant Program – UASI (NSGP-U) – $90,000,000
• Nonprofit Security Grant Program – State (NSGP-S) – $90,000,000

FY 2020

Total funding available in FY 2020: $90,000,000.

• Nonprofit Security Grant Program – UASI (NSGP-U) – $50,000,000
• Nonprofit Security Grant Program – State (NSGP-S) – $40,000,000

2022 LEVELS ARE UNKNOWN

Feb 22, 2022 3:00 PM EST – Feb 22, 2022 4:00 PM

“The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate (GPD), in partnership with the DHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), invites faith-based, community, and nonprofit organizations to participate in webinar regarding the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP).”

CONCLUSION

The one certainty with our churches taking government funding and being trained by DHS and FEMA to “keep a watchful eye” on their congregations – is that this is dangerous grand indeed and the church is giving up and losing something it can NEVER REGAIN. Meanwhile in the same era congregations are fighting against all out efforts to implement the tools of Cultural Marxism and Socialist Economics and “Social Justice” to indoctrinate our children even INSIDE our own churches. History has proven this NEVER ends well.

Pastors who are already led astray by deception in our seminaries will have no problem forming the “trusted” teams and passing out “the brown shirts” for security teams who ARE part of (DHS/FEMA wording ) ” a trusted community within the inclusive, community of faith” to use “The Power of Hello” to size up first time visitors or to keep a watchful eye out and report to the authorities about that annoying couple who NO LONGER fit into the ” trusted community within the inclusive, community of faith.”

In Short the church is no longer the church .The church has become something else and it’s mission is no longer the Gospel or the Great Commission to take the Gospel to the ends of the Earth .

Such a church is bound for and fit for nothing else than the DUNG HEAP.

Luke 14

Tasteless Salt Is Worthless

³⁴ “Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? ³⁵ It is neither fit for the land nor for the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

DUNCAN DISCIPLE JEMAR TISBY IS PART OF A NEW REPORT ASSERTING THAT A NETWORK OF ORGANIZATIONS LINKED TO AND LED BY “CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST” ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE “STORMING OF THE CAPITOL ” ON JANUARY 6TH 2021 AND MAINTAIN THE USE OF THE NOW DEFUNKED NARRATIVE OF AN “ISSURECTION “.

Rev Thomas Littleton

2/15/2022

Even as the events of January 6th 2021 remain under investigation and after many alternative media investigations proved the narratives of CNN/ MSNBC / Capitol Hill to be false- a new group of professing Christian leaders proclaim that (white) Christians who supported Donald Trump are responsible . The new report is entitled-

“CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AND THE JANUARY 6TH 2021 INSURECTION “

“The Christianity was one of the surprises
to me in covering this stuff, and it has been hugely
underestimated,” ( One of those quoted said) . “That Christian nationalism you
talk about ( in the report ) is the driving force and also the unifying force
of these disparate players. It’s really Christianity that ties it
all together.”

Click to access Christian_Nationalism_and_the_Jan6_Insurrection-2-9-22.pdf

THE REPORT ASSERTS

“Christian nationalism was
the “driving force”
An NPR journalist who is an expert in American extremist
groups was struck by the diversity of the extremism
that day:
Am I going to see an Oath Keeper? OK, there’s an
Oath Keeper. Am I going to see the Three Percent
logo? Definitely saw some of them there. Qanon,
huge presence at this one. I saw neo-Confederates
in the crowd, all sorts of white supremacist and neoNazi insignia, too. And all of the strands of American
extremism were there in the same crowd. And what’s
wilder is that they were in the same crowd with, you
know, a grandmother from Arizona, you know, who
fervently believes in her heart that the election was
stolen and that her vote didn’t matter.193
Yes, the groups were diverse. But it was the Christian
nationalism that united them that day”

MEMBERS OF THE REPORT

LEADERS

“Andrew L. Seidel is a constitutional attorney and the Director of Strategic
Response at the Freedom From Religion Foundation. His first book is titled The
Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American.”

“Amanda Tyler is executive director of BJC (Baptist Joint Committee for
Religious Liberty). She leads the organization as it upholds the historic
Baptist principle of religious liberty, defending the free exercise of religion
and protecting against its establishment by government. She also leads the
Christians Against Christian Nationalism initiative, bringing tens of thousands
of Christians together to stand in opposition to the dangers the ideology
poses to the faith and to the country.”

“Samuel L. Perry is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Religious
Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology
from the University of Chicago. He is among the nation’s leading experts
on conservative Christianity and American politics, race, and sexuality. An
award-winning scholar and teacher,”

“Katherine Stewart is an author and investigative journalist. Her latest book,
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism,
won first place in the Religion News Association’s Excellence in Nonfiction
Books category”

“Andrew L. Whitehead is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of
the Association of Religion Data Archives (theARDA.com) at the Center for
the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUPUI. Whitehead’s research
focuses on religion, politics, and power in contemporary American culture.
He is the co-author of Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in
the United States”

AND –

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA /REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMIANRY (RTS) CHANCELLOR -LIGON DUNCAN PROTEGE’ JEMAR TISBY .

Jemar Tisby bio from the report:
“Dr. Jemar Tisby is a New York Times bestselling author, national speaker,
and public historian on a mission to deliver truths from the Black experience
with depth and clarity. He is president of The Witness, a Black Christian
collective that engages issues of religion, race, justice and culture from a
biblical perspective. He also co-hosts the Pass the Mic podcast and is the
author of How to Fight Racism and The Color of Compromise: The Truth about
the American Church’s Complicity in Racism. His latest book is How to Fight
Racism: Young Reader’s Edition. Follow him on Twitter: @JemarTisby”

TISBY HISTORY WITH LIGON DUNCAN HEAD OF RTS

June 25, 2015

Tisby Appointed Director of AALI

“Reformed Theological Seminary is pleased to announce the appointment of Jemar Tisby (BA Notre Dame ‘02, RTS Jackson MDiv ’15, JSU MA cand, SBTS PhD cand) as the first Director of the African American Leadership Initiative (AALI) at RTS Jackson and Special Assistant to the Chancellor. As Director, Jemar will be responsible for discipling students in the program as well as recruiting and networking. As Special Assistant to the Chancellor, he will work with the Chancellor to increase African American engagement and enrollment at RTS and cultivate biblical diversity and inclusion. He begins his new position on July 1.”

“RTS Chancellor Ligon Duncan says, “I am thrilled that Jemar Tisby has accepted this key role here at RTS. He is a man I trust. I count him as a dear friend. Jemar is an educator (a former school teacher and principal) and a churchman (having served under the extraordinary Mike Campbell at Redeemer Church here in Jackson). His commitment to the inerrancy of Scripture, the Reformed faith and the gospel ground all his efforts towards our honoring the image of God in all people.”

“In recent days, African American leaders have spoken of “the Four Rs” that God has raised up in Jackson, MS to further the recent Reformed African American resurgence: Redeemer Church PCA (a dynamic multiethnic congregation mentoring numerous interns), Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at Jackson State University (the first RUF campus ministry at a HBC/U, led by RTS grad Elbert McGowan), RTS and AALI, and Reformed African American Network (RAAN), co-founded by Jemar Tisby and Phillip Holmes.”

A BIT OF TISBY HISTORY AND ACTIVISM

Once fully vested in credentials as the special assistant to Chancellor Ligon Duncan, Tisby began his activism in earnest.

In 2015 PCA annual meeting he and Duncan proposed a “What is a Personal Resolution on Civil Rights Remembrance.” It did not pass but shows the team activism of Duncan and his disciple Tisby focus on race. The resolution was referred to the following year.

“The 2015 PCA General Assembly will be remembered most for the debate surrounding the Personal Resolution on Civil Rights Remembrance. Sean Lucas and Ligon Duncan signed the resolution and presented it at the Assembly.”

“While the resolution did not pass at the 2015 Assembly, it was referred to next year’s Assembly for consideration. In the meantime, Presbyteries and churches are expected to discuss issues surrounding not only the Civil Rights Movement but racial issues that continue to impact the church in the U.S.”

TISBY RADICAL TOUR

He then began to tour other events and reformed theological institutions and promote his racial narrative. One example was on the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2018 where Tisby was featured to speak in meetings and during Chapel at the very conservative Covenant College on Lookout Mountain in Georgia.

COVENANT COLLEGE

Academic Lecture: Semper Reformanda (Civil Rights and Justice as Reformation)

Covenant College2.65K subscribersSUBSCRIBEJemar Tisby | Historian | Author | Speaker | Jackson, MS Oct. 30, 2018

In this speech Tisby asserts that the history of Reformed Theology is filled with systemic racism which is the core basis of CRT/Critical Race Theory.

COVENANT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Tisby had also spoken in September 2017 at the PCA’s flagship seminary CTS

Chapel

September 1, 2017 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Rayburn Chapel, 12330 Conway Road
St. Louis, MO 63141 United States + Google Map

Speaker: Jemar Tisby, President. Reformed African American Network

SOME TISBY QUOTES

“The failure of many Christians in the South and across the nation to decisively oppose the racism in their families, communities, and even in their own churches provided fertile soil for the seeds of hatred to grow. The refusal to act in the midst of injustice is itself an act of injustice. Indifference to oppression perpetuates oppression.”
― Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

“Being complicit only requires a muted response in the face of injustice or uncritical support of the status quo.”
― Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

“Christians need to pay attention to how their educational choices for their own children reinforce racial and economic segregation in schools.”
― Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

ONE OF THE MOST PROFOUNDLY ACCUSING OF TISBY STATEMENTS

“Complicit Christianity forfeits its moral authority by devaluing the image of God in people of color. Like a ship that has a cracked hull and is taking on water, Christianity has run aground on the rocks of racism and threatens to capsize—it has lost its integrity. By contrast, courageous Christianity embraces racial and ethnic diversity. It stands against any person, policy, or practice that would dim the glory of God reflected in the life of human beings from every tribe and tongue.”
― Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

TISBY CONTRIBUTION TO THE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM REPORT

THE PATRIOTIC WITNESS OF BLACK CHRISTIANS
Jemar Tisby, Ph.D.

“White Christian nationalists often refer to themselves as
patriots. They understand their mission as defending the
core principles of the United States and, in this sense,
they are acting as the truest Americans.
Unfortunately, the white Christian nationalist version
of patriotism is racist, xenophobic, patriarchal, and
exclusionary. Their vision of the nation conveniently puts
white people — especially men — who are politically
conservative and who make some claim of Christian
adherence at the top of the social hierarchy. Moreover,
white Christian nationalist ideas of patriotism not only
condone but celebrate the use of violent force to protect
their power, as seen in the January 6 insurrection attempt.
The Black church tradition, however, presents another
version of patriotism. In contrast to white Christian
nationalism, Black Christians have historically tended to
embrace a kind of patriotism that leads to an expansion
of democratic processes, the inclusion of marginalized
people, and a call for the nation to live up to its
foundational ideals.”

“While public attention often turns to the absurdities and
indignities promulgated by white Christian nationalists,
there are other examples of how to demonstrate a
commitment to America.”

“The historic example of Black Christians demonstrates
that a Christian commitment to God and country does not
always mean making America a white man’s country.”

CONCLUSION

LIGON DUNCAN’S PROTEGE’ IS AN EXPERT IN CRT AND PITTING BLACK AGAINST WHITE IN CHRISTIAN FAITH .

RTS ,like many seminaries are now flush with the practitoners of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality . Tisby, like his friend and cohort Jarvis Williams at Albert Mohler’s SBTS or Southern Baptist Theological Seminary are not jr professors gone rogue but sit in positions favored and appointed by the esteemed men who head these institutions.

Racism and the accusations of it are now BIG BUSINESS in the conservative evangelical circles. WHY? you may ask. Because it is one more way to exploit the conservative Christians through endless guilt and accusations and continue efforts to shame them to the left in their social , spiritual and political convictions.

Where will it all end if this effort is a success? Third way compromise which is being set up to collapse Christians into the mushy middle and a socialism flavored interfaith inclusive Christianity . It will be a false faith having a form of godliness but denying its actual power to overcome sin including racism and resulting in a church that has lost its both its savor and its will to call sinners to true repentance.

A church whose present leaders have no accountability is bound for and fit for nothing but the dunghill of progressive politics.

EXAMPLE

A recent article by serial activist/ Ligon Duncan TGC fellow & 9MARKS editor Jonathan Leeman a graduate of the Fabian Socialist London School of Economics provides the new false and deceptive third way narrative.

You can smell the progressive rot in every word of Leemans article

“A BAPTIST THIRD WAY FOR POLITICAL THEOLOGY “

“Author’s note: The following article is the first half of a chapter I have contributed to a book tentatively titled Explorations in Baptist Political Theology, edited by Thomas Kidd, Paul Miller, and Andrew Walker, to be published by B&H Academic in the summer of 2023. Thanks to the publisher and editors for permission to publish the excerpt here so far ahead of time.”

“The basic thesis of my chapter is, a Baptist political theology offers a third way in between integralism, theonomy, or establishmentarianism^[1] on one side and classical liberalism on the other. And though I don’t make the case in what follows, I believe it offers a political theological framework for Christians generally, even though I refer to it as a Baptist political theology. A paedobaptist might disagree with any number of points here, but I’m unaware of anything within a paedobaptist theology (of any variety) that necessarily prevents him or her from taking the path I recommend.”

LEEMAN CONTINUES HIS FALSE THIRD WAY NARRATIVIE

A Baptist Third Way?

“It’s at this moment, on the horns of the public theology dilemma, that a Baptist political theology walks up and offers something of a third way. It agrees with the theonomists, establishmentarians, integralists, and advocates of a thick justice generally that justice requires both a substantive moral basis and substantive moral clarity—the ability to say, “These rights are rights and those rights are wrong.” Yet it also agrees with philosophical liberalism’s anti-utopianism and its call for institutional constraints. It is comparatively modest in the expectations it places on law and therefore the power of government. Instead, it focuses first on regenerate local churches as the beginning of a righteous and just political life, which is precisely what makes it a Baptist political theology.”

WARNING DO NOT BUY THE SNAKE OIL OF THIRD WAY POLITICS – THEY ALWAYS PROVE A FAILED PATH TO COMPROMISE AND RETAIN NOTHING OF THE BIBLICAL CONVICTIONS OF THE PARTICIPANTS WHO CONSUME THEM. AMERICA’S ILLS WILL NOT BE HEALED BY THIS SNAKE OIL.

LIGON DUNCAN AND OTHER THIRD WAY CHRISTIAN LEADERS DISOWN YOUR LEGION OF PORTEGE’ OR OWN YOUR UNBIBLICAL PROGRESSIVE COMPROMISE.

1ST PETER 2:1 1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,

DURING THE RISE OF 2018 REVOICE SCANDAL SAM ALLBERRY AND LIVING OUT PROMOTED REVOICE AND THEIR OWN ” LGBTQ INCLUSION AUDIT FOR CHURCHES DEMANDING STRAIGHT PARENTS “SHARE THEIR CHILDREN ” WITH THOSE WHO IDENTIFY AS LGBTQ IN THE CHURCH. NOW THEY TARGET CHILDREN DIRECTLY WITH NEW OUTREACH.

Rev Thomas Littleton

2/3/2022

No strangers to being edgy, controversial , and arrogant- Living Out the UK ministry founded by Sam Allberry , Ed Shaw and other self identified gay priest -pushes forward with an outreach aimed directly at the faith of children with the “Living Out ” LGBTQ SOGI message.

FaithinKids

@faithinkids

“Time to tackle it! I think this is a great start. Expect lots more from us in this area. Feedback is always welcome.”

DETAILS ON THE EVENT ARE PROVIDED BY “FAITH IN KIDS” A MINISTRY WORKING SINCE AT LEAST 2015 TO “EQUIP THOSE WHO MINISTER TO KIDS” IN OUR CHURCHES.

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“While everyone else is talking sex, sexuality and gender, how do we navigate these thorny topics? Ed Shaw (Living Out) helps us to show our children the better story (as well as explaining how he has grown out of his support for Richard 3rd and the Conservative party, but is still a Christian and is still same sex attracted)”

People:

Ed Drew – Director of Faith in Kids

Amy Smith – Writer for Faith in Kids

“Ed Shaw – is the pastor of Emmanuel City Centre in Bristol, England, and part of the editorial team at Living Out. He loves his family and friends, church and city, gin and tonic, and music and books.”

Books named in the podcast:

The Plausibility Problem – Ed Shaw

Purposeful Sexuality – Ed Shaw

The Sex Thing – Rachel Gardner

Books by Patricia Weerakoon:

Birds and Bees by the book (for parents of under 8’s) – NB: currently unavailable in the UK.

Growing up by the book (for 10-14s)

Talking sex by the book (for parents of toddlers to teens)

Teen sex by the book (for 15-18s)

God’s Design for Sex Series:

Book 1: The Story of Me, Babies, Bodies, and a Very Good God – Stan Jones, Brenna Jones (Ages 3-5)

Book 2: Before I was Born, God Knew my Name – Carolyn Nystrom (Ages 5-8)

Book 3: What’s the Big Deal? Why God Cares About Sex – Stan Jones, Brenna Jones (Ages 8-12)

“Parents Guide: How & When to Tell Your Kids About Sex, A Lifelong Approach to Shaping Your Child’s Sexual Character – Stan Jones, Brenna Jones (For Parents)”

Support the show (http://www.faithinkids.org)

“These podcasts are only possible because of the faithful generosity of our supporters and listeners. Faith in Kids exists because people like you give generously. If you’ve enjoyed listening, you share our passion for the Gospel to be shared with children and for them to be raised in faith. Will you support us financially? For the cost of a cup of coffee per month, you could enable Faith in Kids to reach more parents, churches, and ultimately, children for Christ. Click here.  (http://Faithinkids.org and select ‘donate’ or go to Stewardship)”

THE PROBLEM WITH ALLBERRY, SHAW/ LIVING OUT ADN WHY THEY ARE NOT “TRUSTED SOURCES” FOR CHURCHES,FAMILES, KIDS.

Living Out has remained since it first appeared around 2013 as part of the Church of England’s “Two year conversations ” to move the church toward embracing the coming (at the time) legalization of gay marriage by the UK Parliament. These organized and orchestrated “Conversations ” were led and organized and promoted nationally by former Health Minister Sir Joseph Pilling.

https://www.churchofengland.org/news-and-media/news-and-statements/pilling-report-published

Living Out with a herd of gay identified activist priest like Allberry and Shaw were soon making the rounds to sell the talking points of compliance via a massive national “Social Change” effort which resulted in Allberry’s best selling book “Is God Anti Gay ” and a website full of testimonies, conversations, articles , videos and “resources” all claiming to be from the conservative and biblically orthodox side of the conversations due to its sole reliance on “Celibacy” and the new change agent language of “Same Sex Attracted “. SSA language was drafted by the interfaith work of the APA and the international human rights organizations with evangelical partners like the 2010 Lausanne Movements global cabal. Allberry admitted to this writer in 2013 that the SSA language was an alternative term to the word “gay ” or “gay Christian” . So SSA is an admitted alternative way to self identify as a gay Christian without causing controversy.

Celibate but still LGBTQ identified was then touted deep commitment to “biblical sexual ethic” while still promoting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or SOGI talking points of the psychological and global human rights change agents. The ” SSA embracing and committing to celibacy ” stance developed a “Side B ” alternative position to the “Side A ” Fully Affirming LGBTQ Christianity which has completely disabled entire denominations like the Presbyterian Church and many others is America from presenting clarity on and condemning the social change efforts in their midst.

SSA but Celibate is the modern version of the “non practicing homosexual” narrative used in mainline churches like the COE/Episcopal, Methodist , Lutheran etc. a generation ago which ending in the inclusion, membership, marriage and ordination of LGBTQ identified and split many movements and denominations repeatedly since that time. SSA or Non Practicing is certainly not long term sustainable position nor is inclusion and ordination a successful growth strategy for any church or movement. History bears this out 100%.

TIM KELLER THE LAUSANNE SNAKE OIL SALESMAN –ALLBERRY’S AMERICAN AGENT

Tim Keller before 2010 was a relatively unknown pastor in New York City who had become the darling of other Lausanne affiliates like Ed Stetzer and Christianity Today. Keller had been promoted from a small pulpit in VA to plant a “flagship church ” for the conservative but going progressive Presbyterian Church in America. Keller had formed The Gospel Coalition around 2006 with D A Carson and it became the leading edge of the progressive political change efforts in American evangelicalism. In 2010 Keller and Carson adopted an APA interfaith Whitepaper on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity from the APA most valued workman in the development of religious narratives on SOGI. This paper became the Gold Standard from which these progressive efforts would be based. Lausanne Movement where Keller was the keynote speaker in 2010 adopted a similar set of 5 whitepapers with the same SOGI/ SSA narrative and language.

SAM ALLBERRY AND LIVING OUT

WHERE DOES ALLBERRY COME IN?

Once the conversation was in full swing in the UK ordered by the UK government to make its state church compliant with the coming legalization of gay marriage , Allberry’s Living Out and book were introduced tot eh American church via his book and multiple conference appearances in the states. These would lead to Allberry becoming a TGC editor on all things LGBTQ. Living Out resources were being used as other resources and conversation guides were appearing at the same time from HRC and other openly left and pro LGBTQ organizations.

Mark Yarhouse , the APA interfaith narrative developer who wrote the Whitepaper for TGC also became a key figure in the work of Living Out .At the same time another less known but emerging figure Nate Collins reviewed and promoted Sam Allberrys book for TGC.

NOTE Nate Collins was working at this same time to help collapse the “ex gay ministry” Exodus International which were set efforts of ministries to help people out of homosexuality on a collision course with their own demise as discriminatory , “harmful especially to LGBTQ youth” and demands for all so called “reparative therapies ” to be outlawed. Collins was a Student at the Southern Baptist flagship seminary SBTS under Albert Mohler and Russell Moore who had just ascended to the head of the Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission pushing a rabidly progressive message. By 2018 Collins was teaching New Testament at SBTS for Albert Mohler while launching the radical and divisive pro LGBT+ Flourishing in the church movement called “REVOICE”.

So Collins is about to become a front page operative once Sam Allberry and Living Out promoted their upcoming London Conference with Tim and Kathy Keller in June of 2018 and “for our American audience – Revoice (Nate Collins) LGBT+ Thriving in the Church. This is also the same meeting were Allberry and Living Out ,with the help of Kathy Keller, introduced their LGBTQ Church Inclusion Audit which Ms Keller affirmed to be “brilliant ” and that she was “taking it straight back to their church in New York” to be put into use.

So again -in 2013 Living Out surfaces as part of the UK State Church compliance effort and Allberry publishes his book which Keller’s TGC with the help of the future founder of Revoice and present participate work with Exodus the Ex Gay ministry collapsing- promotes Allberry and his new book to American Evangelicals.

TGC / CHRISTIAN LIVING

Is God Anti-Gay?

JULY 15, 2013  |  NATE COLLINS

” In this brief but important book, Is God Anti-Gay? And Other Questions about Homosexuality, the Bible, and Same-Sex Attraction, Sam Allberry combines pastoral wisdom, authentic autobiography, and sound exegesis to provide Christians with a helpful introduction to the topic of homosexuality.”

“From the first few pages, it’s clear the greatest strength of the book is its simple readability. Despite the complexity of the subject matter, Allberry, associate pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Maidenhead, England, distills the most important points of his discussion into five short chapters. Together with an autobiographical introduction and conclusion, these chapters provide a wise way forward for Christians to be a faithful and compassionate witness to the gospel in our society. …” Nate Collins (read remainder at TGC )

KELLER’S TGC PALS ALBERT MOHLER AND RUSSELL MOORE LAUNCH ALLBERRY STATESIDE VIA ERLC CONFERENCE IN 2014

By 2014 Southern Baptist new “Ethics ” progressive Russell Moore placed Sam Allberry into Orbit by having him and an American herd of self identified SSA/ Gay activist like Rosaria Butterfield , Jackie Hill Perry and close to a dozen others speaking at his ERLC Conference on “The Gospel ,Homosexuality” and The Future of Marriage”. Few knew what was coming in the US regarding the law , the Supreme Court and Gay Marriage in less than a year but clearly some of these evangelical leaders did. Just like in the UK the church needed to be led into compliance with the coming laws of the land.

In this conference Albert Mohler, who was both Collins boss at SBTS and Moore’s former boss who had promoted him into the ERLC position. confessed to and APOLOGIZED for being “Wrong about Sexual Orientation and having denied it’s existence. This placed one of the leading ,highly regarded theologians in America in lockstep with the APA, Mark Yarhouse interfaith SOGI narrative, TGC Whitepaper by Yarhouse, Lausanne and Kellers 5 Whitepaers, the UK Parliament , Sam Allberry/ Living Out , His own SBTS rising star in the LGBTQ narrative Nate Collins, his activist head of the ERLC ,Russell Moore ….AND the coming Obergefell Supreme Court decision.

WHO KNEW ?

SOMEONE CERTAINLY DID AND COMMITTED TO THE CONVERSATIONAL DIALOG TO MOVE THE CHURCH TOWARD COMPLIANCE EVENTHOUGH- IN AMERICA THE CHURCH IS NOT A STATE CHURCH…WE RECEIVED THE SAME MESSENGE AND SOME OF THE SAME MESSENGERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM LIKE SAM ALLBERRY.

MORE ON LIVING OUTS NEW CHILDREN FOCUED EFFORT AND PARTNERS

FAITH IN KIDS

“Too often churches are losing the hearts and minds of our children. Too many of the children who attend church grow up knowing Bible facts and a long list of Christian behaviours but without a love for Jesus Christ. Faith in Kids wants to see more children engaging with and responding to God personally. Children who are having their hearts and minds informed by Christ’s words, by God’s grace, will grow into teenagers who want to live for Him.”

“Faith in Kids focuses on those who lead the children’s ministry in their local Church. We want to build their confidence and grow their vision to see how vital their role is. These key individuals, in turn, can then be a catalyst for change in countless children’s lives through Sunday School leaders, parents and church leaders. “

“The purpose of Faith in Kids is to resource, equip and support those who oversee the children’s ministry in their local church, because they can reach countless Sunday School leaders, parents and church leaders.We also encourage and equip parents to open the Bible and speak about faith in Christ with their children at home.”

• Faith in Kids resources with materials that build skills in leaders and build love for Christ in children.
• Faith in Kids resources leaders and parents with Bible-based materials that are easy to use and that encourage children to grow in their love for God. 
• Faith in Kids equips leaders with events and training materials that build skills and confidence. We run family activity weekends to help parents open the Bible with their children.
• Faith in Kids encourages leaders and parents to persevere in teaching the Bible to children with regular updates, blogs and visits.”

FAITH AND KIDS WITH LIVING OUT AND THE SOGI /LGBTQ CONVERSATION

“Time to tackle it! I think this is a great start. Expect lots more from us in this area. Feedback is always welcome.”

“While everyone else is talking sex, sexuality and gender, how do we navigate these thorny topics? Ed Shaw (Living Out) helps us to show our children the better story (as well as explaining how he has grown out of his support for Richard 3rd and the Conservative party, but is still a Christian and is still same sex attracted)”

SOME OF THE BOOKS USED IN THE FAITH IN KIDS/ LIVING OUT EFFORT

“PLAUSIBILITY PROBLEM

:THE CHURCH AND SAME SEX ATTRACTION “

“It’s all very well to say that the Bible is clear when it talks about homosexuality. But is it realistic Isn’t it unrealistic and unfair to those who struggle with this issue Doesn’t it condemn them to loneliness, a lack of fulfilment and the loss of basic human satisfactions like sex and marriage Is what the church teaches a plausible way of life Ed Shaw experiences same-sex attraction, and yet he is committed to what the Bible says and what the church has always taught about marriage and sex. In this honest book, he shares his pain in dealing with these issues – but, at the same time, shows us that obedience to Jesus is ultimately the only way to experience life to the full. He shows that the Bible’s teaching seems unreasonable not because of its difficulties, but because of missteps that the church has often taken in its understanding of the Christian life. We have been shaped by the world around us, and urgently need to re-examine the values that drive our discipleship. Only by doing this in the light of the Bible, can we make sense of its call on the lives of those who are attracted to their own sex. We have so often made Jesus’ way sound like a bad deal. Only by reclaiming the reality of gospel discipleship, can we truly see and appreciate that life in Christ is the best way for any human life to be lived = whomever we are attracted to.”

ALSO

PURPOSEFUL SEXUALITY

“If you’re a human being, then you’re a sexual being. But what is your sexuality for? That’s a question we often struggle to answer because we find it so hard to talk about our powerful and personal sexual feelings – perhaps especially if we’re Christians.”

“Ed Shaw explores the Bible’s deepest answers to this question in ways that will help everyone to appreciate and enjoy God’s purposeful gift of sexuality – whatever your past history, current situation or sexual orientation might be.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“Ed Shaw is the bestselling, award-winning author of The Plausibility Problem: The Church and Same-sex Attraction (IVP UK), launched in the USA as Same-sex Attraction and the Church, where it was voted Gospel Coalition’s Top Book in the Christian Living Category. Translations have appeared in Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Ed is Pastor of Emmanuel City Church, Bristol, and part of the editorial team at http://www.livingout.org.”

“Member of the General Synod of the Church of England and a member of the Archbishops’ Pastoral Advisory Group. As part of http://www.livingout.org, Ed has a growing national and international profile, having spoken on R4’s Today programme and had articles and reviews published by Gospel Coalition. He has been part of Creation Fest, Keswick Convention, New Day, New Wine, Vineyard Leaders and Word Alive, and has done speaking tours in the US and Australia.”

BOTH BOOKS ARE BY LIVING OUT’S ED SHAW ,SAM ALLBERRYS LONG TIME LIVING OUT CO-ACTIVIST

MORE ON SAM ALLBERRY/LIVING OUT EXPOSURE

CONSULT BRANNON HOWSE / WORLD VIEW WEEKEND

“ERLC AND RUSSELL MOORE ADVOCATE REDEFINING FAMILY AND PROMOTE GAY PRIEST WHO WANTS TO BABYSIT YOUR CHILDREN.”

https://shop.worldviewweekend.com/news/article/erlc-and-russell-moore-advocate-redefining-family-and-promote-gay-priest-who-wants

“Trusted Church Denominations & Seminaries Producing LGBTQ Activists”

https://shop.worldviewweekend.com/news/article/trusted-church-denominations-seminaries-producing-lgbtq-activists

FOR MORE EXPOSURE OF SAM ALLBERRY IN THE UK CONSULT DR E S WILLIAMS VIDEO

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Albert Mohler and the Gay Revolution

9,323 views Feb 4, 2020

“The purpose of this video is to evaluate the teaching of Dr Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, on the subject of homosexuality. Mohler is encouraging the Church to embrace the issue of sexual orientation, a psychological concept that is entirely without biblical warrant. He accuses evangelicals of having lied about the nature of homosexuality and of practicing a form of homophobia. He fully supports the ministry of same-sex attracted Sam Allberry, a Church of England priest. His position is similar to that of the gay agenda, which seeks to normalize homosexuality in society and the Church.”

AND CATHY MICKLES ARTICLE ON ES WILLIAMS WORK

https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=31433

“Dr. Williams states, “As we shall see in this video, Mohler’s position today is similar to that of the gay agenda, which seeks to normalize homosexuality.” Williams also points out that in spite of a 2005 position held by Mohler declaring that the modern concept of sexual orientation opens the door for the homosexual lobby to reinterpret the meaning of Scripture, a decade later Mohler has changed his mind; we see a compromised man who radically changed his position. Similarly, the video shows that Mohler uses the language and tactics of the progressive left to accuse those who disagree by calling them “homophobic.”

FAITH IN KIDS PROMISESS RELIABLE “CHRIST CENTERED RERSOURCES ” FOR YOU ,YOUR CHURCH AND YOUR KIDS

“Faith in Kids was created out of a growing demand for trusted, Bible-based, Christ-centered resources. For many years we have been sharing resources to an increasing number of children’s workers so we decided that it was time to do more! A growing team of children’s workers and volunteers are working to develop both the website and its resources.”

“We present Christ to children because he told his followers to let the children come to him. We want to do what he said!”

REALITY CHECK FOR FAITH IN KIDS AND UK PARENTS AND PASTORS

Living Out might be popular in the UK but it and Sam Allberry/ Ed Shaw’s activism and dishonest shell games with the American Church have fully discredited them in the US. Allberry became a key speaker with and darling of the now disreputable and exposed perversions of Ravi Zacharias and his RZM ministry .Allberry and Shaw repeatedly changed and removed their posting and social media and even altered the horrific language of their LGBTQ Inclusion Church Audit. Allberry EVEN had to present himself and his Living Out web pages content up for public review BY The Gospel Coalition and one of its progressive leaders Jonathan Leeman and provide disclosure -even submitting Living Out to an audit of its own and removal and much of its content after 6 years. This took place after it was revealed by slow but awakened Baptist pastor who had been promoting Living Out and Allberry but happened to take the time to research its content. By 2019 Allberry and Living Out were discredited in most circles of American Evangelicalism with the exception of those who only cared for full affirmation of LGBTQ rights in the church no matter how much deception and manipulations were taking place. There are people like that who do “self identify” as Christians -even as biblically orthodox but this would be by their own metrics not Gods or his word.

CONCLUSION – MILLSTONES AWAIT AROUND THE TWISTED PATH FOR LIVING OUT AND FAITH IN KIDS AND ALL WHO OFFEND THESE LITTLE ONES .

For those like Living Out and their new partnership with Faith in Kids -Some of Jesus most stern warnings come for those who would harm or offend or pervert the faith of His little ones.

LUKE 17

Jesus Warns of Offenses

17 Then He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no ^[a]offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come! ² It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should ^[b]offend one of these little ones.”

TIM KELLER AND FRANCIS COLLINS HAVE BEEN SELLING THE SNAKE OIL OF TEMPLETON FOUNDATION TO MERGE FAITH AND SCIENCE / EVOLUTION AND CREATION FOR DECADES. NOW THEY DRIVE HOME COVID SCIENCE OF THE PANDEMIC INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

Rev Thomas Littleton

1/30/2022

Francis Collins now former head of NIH founded Bio Logos Foundation in 2007 to “further conversations” about resolving the conflicts of Christian Faith with modern “science” by focusing on a merger of Faith and Science at the alters of theistic evolution. According to a 2014 article Bio Logos had by that time reached an annual budget of over $9 million dollars and was promoting over 37 distinct projects ” in the United States and worldwide to help bridge the gap between traditional Christian beliefs on Intelligent Design and modern theories of evolution”

( Note :Creation Care aka Climate Change , psychology, black holes, social sciences and a broad based “religion” interfaith approach are also favorite topics of Bio Logos. Christian apologetics have also been overrun with this effort. )

COLLINS AND THE PANDEMIC VIA THE BIO LOGOS OUTLET

Bio Logos is just part of the an extensive interfaith and religion effort of the Templeton Foundation who administers some $150 million dollars annually (by 2016) and awards “the annual Templeton Prize for achievements in the field of spirituality, including those at the intersection of science and religion.” More on Templeton and the annual prize later.

TIM KELLER ENDORSEMENT AND INVOLVEMENT IN BIO LOGOS WAS KEY TO ITS POPULARITY

“Many people today, both secular and Christian, want us to believe that science and religion cannot live together. Not only is this untrue, but we believe that a thoughtful dialogue between science and faith is essential for engaging the hearts and minds of individuals today. BioLogos provides an important first step towards that end.”Tim Keller, Pastor & Author

“BioLogos affirms evolutionary creation as a core commitment”

FUNDING FOR BIO LOGOS IS FROM TEMPLETON FOUNDATION

Our Vision & Purpose

“Our vision is to become a global catalyst for discoveries that contribute to human flourishing.”

“Our purpose is to enable people to create lives of purpose and meaning.”

Our Impact

“The work supported by the John Templeton Foundation crosses disciplinary, religious, and geographical boundaries. We fund work on subjects ranging from black holes and evolution to creativity, forgiveness, and free will. We also encourage civil, informed dialogue among scientists, philosophers, theologians, and the public at large.”

“Our grantees produce field-leading scholarship across the sciences, theology, and philosophy. From probing gravitational waves to updating the modern evolutionary synthesis, they have contributed to major discoveries in the basic sciences. Other grantees have opened critical new topics to scientific investigation, including prayer, gratitude, immortality, and imagination.”

COLLINS EVEN WON THE TEMPLETON PRIZE FOR 2020

“My name is Deborah Haarsma. I’m an astronomer and President of BioLogos.

“I am thrilled to congratulate Dr. Francis Collins on receiving the Templeton Prize.”

“Francis is well deserving. He’s a world class scientist, devout Christian, caring doctor, and public servant.  I’m honored to call him a friend. We both love science and math, like second order differential equations… But I want to focus on the impact Francis has had on others. Think of the many patients who have been healed because of his genomics research. Think of the countless lives that will be saved by the coming COVID vaccine. And think of all those whose hearts and minds have been changed on science and faith.”

June 2016 – May 2019

BioLogos Public Engagement: Inviting The Church And The World To See The Harmony Between Science And Biblical Faith

“In the summer of 2016, BioLogos further expanded its range of activities by launching a speakers program: BioLogos Voices. Funded by a $1.7 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation.”

BIO LOGOS AT EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

“The goal is to equip leaders to bring critical conversations about science and faith to new audiences. The grant also provides opportunities for BioLogos staff, such as Applegate, to represent the organization at major annual conventions, such as the Evangelical Theological Society’s annual meeting.”

COVID COMES CALLING -EVANGELICAL LEADERS JOIN THE GLOBAL CHORUS TO KEEP THE FOLD IN CHECK.

A bit of ethical reservation could have prevented a host of evangelicals from joining the now exposed Collins and Fauci in the narratives of the Pandemic Industrial Complex. But never mind ethics on the part of guys like Ed Stetzer, Rick Warren, Russell Moore, Walter Kim (NAE) and others INCLUDING BIO LOGOS from jumping on board the “Covid Collaborative ” and joining in with dark money from Facebook and other organizers and collaborators who would play a key role in hiding facts and suppressing the exchange of information even as Collins and Fauci faced the hard realities of their role in “gain of function” funding, and behind the scenes emails to select what “Science ” is made available for public consumption…including for Christians BY so called Christian leaders.

BIO LOGOS 2020 REPORT BOAST OF THEIR COVID FOCUS AND WORK .

“Of the many needs in 2020, one of
the biggest was squarely in the
mission of BioLogos: to address the
polarization and misinformation
swirling around the science of
COVID (even in Christian circles!).
We met the moment by bringing
reliable scientific information from
a thoughtful biblical perspective—
and hundreds of thousands joined
us, sharing our many virtual events,
and signing our Christian
Statement on Science for Pandemic
Times.”

PANDEMIC RISING AND THE BIO LOGOS FOCUS SHIFTS TO COVID TALKING POINTS AND FIGHTING “MISNFORMATION “.

In total, BioLogos virtual
events in 2020 were viewed
over 280,000 times.
THEMES
Following Christ in a Pandemic-
Science & Faith in Pandemic Times
Where is God in a Pandemic?
Black Lives in Science and Faith
A Christian Response to Coronavirus

“In August of 2020, and in response to
polarization and rampant
misinformation around COVID-19,
BioLogos announced “A Christian
Statement on Science for Pandemic
Times.” We invited dozens of Christian
leaders to publicly show the biblical
basis and broad Christian support for
taking the scientific findings about
COVID-19 seriously.
Those who signed and shared included
author Philip Yancey, theologian N.T.
Wright, and Walter Kim, the President of
the National Association of Evangelicals,
among many other key figures.
Overall, more than 8,000 signed the
statement, which earned considerable
media attention.”

“In 2020, the generous support
from our individual & church
donors went up 119% from 2019
while support from foundations
increased by 98%. Of each gift
received, 77% went directly to
programs that benefit pastors,
scientists, students, and
families. The remaining gifts
supported our core mission
through administration and
fundraising.
At the end of 2020, BioLogos
had a net asset balance of $3M.
Of this amount, $1.9M is from
multi-year grants and
designated for programs in
future years. Cash reserves
continue to be strong, allowing
for continued stability through
uncertain economic conditions
in the coming year.”

PROMOTING THE COVID JAB FOR CHRISTMAS

A MULTITUDE OF EVANGELICAL LEADERS ARE JOINING IN ON PANDEMIC FUNDING AND PROMOTION OF DISTURBING NARRATIVES.

CONCLUSION:

Bio Logos has sought to prime Christians to place more faith in scientific trends and politics than in the Word of God. Some have been trained now to subject the Bible to these agenda driven trends. Templeton’s , whose funding is behind Bio Logos, agenda is not only to promote the diversion of trust in the name of Christian faith BUT to only promote religions who “adhere or subscribe to no sacred text”. Since 2007 it has remained the head of the spear in Christian circles for this controversial effort. Now the Pandemic reveals how dangerous and tainted this long term effort can be.

Many key evangelical leaders seem determined to remain lockstep with “Global Goals” sustainability , Covid’s new global controls, climate change, massive (planned) human migration in the name of refugees, SOGI false information for sexuality and gender, racial unrest driven by CRT and a host of other progressive political dream agendas including luring Christians to subject Biblical Faith to theoretical and even politicized “science”. Now as more of the truth unfolds and rises above all efforts to refuse it a hearing – these leaders can no longer convince any thinking Christian who reads the Word of God that following these destructive and oppressive goals is anything akin to the work of the Gospel. Jesus is NOT a global activist nor is His “Good News” a tool for global politics or oppression of the truth.

Instead beloved-

Proverbs 23:23 “Buy the truth, and do not sell it,
Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.”

READ MORE HERE

SEMINARY REPORT ASSERTS COVID HAS HELPED TURN CHURCHES INTO SOCIAL SERVICE CENTERS.

AND HERE

RUSSELL MOORE JOINS FACEBOOK FAITH BASED PARTNERSHIP APPROACH TO COVID VACCINES & COMMUNITY BUILDING.

AND HERE

EVANGELICAL PANDEMIC PARTNERS: THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL CORRUPTION

Republishing these articles from 2017 /2018 by request. First published in SBC Today, these revelations of infiltration ,subversion, false vision casting and dirty money shook the Evangelical Deep State and began it’s exposure. See of how Faith Based Partnerships and Social Justice driven “Economics” for the “Common Good ” and “Human Flourishing ” came straight out of Frankfurt School inspired and Vatican led think tanks STRAIGHT into conservative evangelical seminaries and pulpits. Thankfully this long hidden compromise has and continues to be exposed and is faltering.

By. Rev. Thomas Littleton

Part One of this article was published on December 18, 2017. Over a month later, interest in the issues raised in the article remains high, and the questions over associations of evangelical leaders like Al Mohler, Tim Keller, Russell Moore, and Marvin Olasky continue to linger. Efforts to dismiss the well documented findings as the “ramblings of a crazed conspiracy theorist” by Ed Stetzer and others have failed to deflect attention on the facts. There are serious problems with the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission and The Gospel Coalition’s rhetoric and common source of communications with Libertarian think tank, The Acton Institute. SBC and PCA pastors and ministers who have followed the Reformed theological leaders in these circles have little if any clue that they were actually following Jesuit / Catholic Liberation Theology and social policy wrapped in historic Reformed Protestant teaching.

Acton in Evangelical Seminaries

Acton Institute, mentioned in Part One of this research, is headed by Father Robert Sirico, who has a history as a radical “homosexual faith activist.” Acton Institute is celebrated by Philanthropy  Roundtable as a key player since the 1990s in synthesizing religion and democratic capitalism. Acton’s blog boasts such bold goals as rethinking Liberation Theology and Marxism from updated and fresh approaches of application, while oddly accusing Trump supporters of folk Marxism. The ironies run much deeper.

According to the “The New Evangelical Social Engagement” by Brian Steensland and Philip Goff, Acton Institute founder Father Sirico, “’combining free market approaches with Catholic social thought,’ argues that ‘there is no social justice without economic freedom …Instead of a vast welfare state,  social justice is about people fulfilling their responsibilities in justice to their neighbor.’ Therefore, with the support of the Kern Family Foundation, Acton has sponsored curriculum initiatives at thirteen evangelical seminaries.” (p. 63)

These seminaries include Dr. Albert Mohler’s Southern Seminary which sponsors The Commonweal Project.  Note the “Social Gospel” with a strong emphasis on “Social Justice” in this initiative in the videos by Mohler and Os Guinness.  With the help of Acton Institute and over a dozen partners of the same persuasions, Dr. Mohler appears to be endorsing a Rethink of Marxist social policy, while partners like “Poverty Cure .org” – an Acton offshoot – are marketing a RETHINK of Missions to a ”Social Justice” mandate.

Other Reformed seminaries, including the PCA’s Reformed Theological Seminary and Beeson Seminary (now on its third Kern grant since 2015), are also using the Acton-inspired, Kern-funded Social Justice curriculum programs which are designed around the “Faith and Work” ideology famously touted by Tim Keller. Some seminary partners have possibly jumped on board with the popular ideology and trendy nature of the Social Justice mantra; however, “rethinking Liberation Theology” and a fresh approach to “Marxist-inspired ideology” on the part of Sirico / Acton and Mohler / Commonweal Project is a bridge too far to simply dismiss as poorly thought out eagerness for cultural engagement on their part.  

The Kern Family Foundation

The Kern Family Foundation which is very active in funding education at every level is considered to be a well-anchored Christian funding source. However, the Kern website shows that their partners in K-12 “Bright Minds Good Hearts“ program funding include organizations like Teach for America, whose work in K-12 public education includes a well-defined  focus on pro-LGBTQ policy with radical LGBTQ organizations  like Human Rights Campaign, Campus Pride, The Trevor Network and the most radical Gay and Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Teach for America also promotes Gay Pride Month with GLSEN in public schools each June, even celebrating the notorious “Dear Colleague Letter” – the pro- transgender bathroom directive from the Obama Whitehouse in May 2016. The current focus of all such pro-LGBTQ efforts in public schools is on showcasing LGBTQ History.

Kern also shows its partnership with liberal education giant Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and the Frankfurt School inspired “Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture,” which is a major influence on Tim Keller and others in the Civilitas Group and Cultural Engagement camp. When asked about the funding in an email exchange on January 15th, the Kern Family Foundation denied the funding in the thirteen evangelical seminaries though it is widely touted in the news, press releases and on the websites (of Southern Seminary’s “Commonweal Project” for example) but Kern contacts did link us to Acton University’s site and confirmed the Acton / Kern Curriculum is in five evangelical universities as well.

Acton Institute and the Confusing Messages of Albert Mohler

Acton Institute’s and Father Sirico’s attachment to the conservative political and religious community is disturbing to Liberals as well. According to a defender of Classical Liberalism, Sirico’s Acton Institute was and is heavily supported by Atlas Foundation, which had been a trusted ally of the Left until it began taking Conservative money.  Sirico’s work with Atlas was not a problem because of his homosexual faith activist history which is recounted in detail in the research. The concern for the Liberal researcher is the recent drift of both Atlas and Acton toward the Right from their historic  “Libertarian values”—which pose no threat to the social agenda of the Left. Sirico had gained the confidence of the Left:

“By 1977 Sirico was listed by the LA Times as the ‘organizer of Libertarians for Gay Rights. When it was later revealed that the ACLU once cooperated with the FBI in building files on radicals Sirico told the Times: ‘We turn out to be to the left of the ACLU.’” 

Incidentally, the Liberal article exposes Father Sirico as being “back in the closet”:

“Acton officials got heavily involved in the debate on gay marriage. With Sirico back in the closet the position they have been taking has been to pander to bigots on the Religious Right.”

“When or if Sirico tried to go back into the closet is hard to determine. But certainly by the time he was taking money from the anti-gay Templeton network it would have been prudent for him to be closeted. Certainly by 1997 Sirico was criticizing another priest for telling his congregation that he was gay. Sirico told the Grand Rapids Press that honesty about the matter was ‘irresponsible’ and that the priest should have kept it a secret between him and a few close friends.”

“Father Sirico is a perfect example. He went from a hard-core libertarian to promoting just the economic agenda. He then started covering up his past and went so far as to try to go back into the closet in regards to his own homosexuality. From pioneering gay marriage, to being silent on it, he now heads an organization with notorious antigay bigots who openly attack gay equality in the name of his organization.” Father Sirico is not the only one who appears to be living in contradiction to himself.

Father Sirico is a Catholic priest who views his Jesuit-inspired Catholic social policy as being “theological” and NOT political. Dr. Mohler says the Catholic Church teaches a false gospel: “During a 2000 television interview on Larry King Live, Mohler said of the Holy See and the Pope: ‘As an evangelical, I believe that the Roman Catholic Church is a false church. It teaches a false gospel. And the Pope himself holds a false and unbiblical office.’”

And during a March 13, 2014 podcast of The Briefing: “Evangelical Christians simply cannot accept the legitimacy of the papacy and must resist and reject claims of papal authority. To do otherwise would be to compromise biblical truth and reverse the Reformation.”

Dr. Mohler has either changed his views on core Catholic teaching or is contradicting himself to the spiritual detriment of the students at Southern Seminary and of the Southern Baptist Convention. These statements are from 2013 which was the same year that the Acton Institute / Kern Family Foundation launched the Catholic Social Justice Curriculum in Southern and 12 other evangelical seminaries.

Moreover, Dr. Mohler “has denounced Pope Francis for moving the Catholic Church to the left and failing, during his address to Congress last autumn, to denounce abortion and gay marriage with the necessary zeal.” Pope Francis being the First Jesuit Pope would certainly support the curriculum of Acton and, true to long-term Jesuit efforts to undermine the Reformation, would be proud to see it in Southern and other Reformed seminaries. Pope Francis also shares the political leanings of a Marxist history with Rev. Sirico.

What does Dr. Mohler think of Marxism?  From his blog, “No, Marxism has been as wrong as it is possible for a theory to be wrong. Addicted to ‘the self-deification of mankind,’ it continually bears witness to what Kolakowski calls ‘the farcical aspect of human bondage.’ Why then was Marxism like moral catnip–not so much among its proposed beneficiaries, the working classes, but among the educated elite? ‘One of the causes of the popularity of Marxism among educated people,’ Kolakowski notes, ‘was the fact that in its simple form it was very easy.’ Marxism–like Freudianism, like Darwinism, like Hegelianism–is a ‘one key fits all locks’ philosophy. All aspects of human experience can be referred to the operation of a single all-governing process which thereby offers the illusion of universal explanation.” Dr. Mohler’s partner Father Sirico describes his journey as “I went to seminary in the early 1980s, when a baptized form of Marxism was next to godliness. When you take all of that into account, my sojourn on the left has about it almost the inevitability of Marxist dialectic.”

Even if Father Sirico and Acton Institute are now truly Libertarian, does this make them compatible partners with the conservative Reformed Christian SBC, ERLC, TGC or Southern and other Seminaries? Mohler has argued that”  libertarianism is idolatrous and as a comprehensive world view or fundamental guiding principle for human life is inconsistent with Christian ideals. He is a proponent of personal liberty, but believes such liberties can run into problems when applied in the political sphere. The more limited economic libertarianism, on the other hand, Mohler says can be consistent with the “comprehensive world view that Christianity puts forward.” (Moody Radio, 3/5/2016). Again to Sirico, his and Acton’s social policy is theological not political or solely economic.

Given the end all be all assertions of the Social Justice mantra to answer human need and provide “Human Flourishing” by Mohler and Sirico, Russell Moore and Tim Keller, Ed Stetzer and every published messenger boy of The Gospel Coalition, are they not all offering the “illusion of universal explanation” in utter contradiction to the Gospel they espouse to be at its center? For all the shaming TGC, ERLC, Keller, Carter and others have done to evangelicals for supporting President Trump and Judge Roy Moore (the Alabama Senate race), it may be fairer to ask if the truly conservative evangelicals and reformed individuals in the SBC and PCA can survive the influence of ERLC, TGC, and the Acton influence in Reformed seminaries? In the case of the Alabama Senate race, Tim Keller, Russell Moore, and Joe Carter have once again aided and abetted the LGBTQ Human Rights Campaign to empower Leftists like Senator Doug Jones who beat Roy Moore the Alabama Senate election.

Father Sirico and Acton Institute have also had a very strong connection to the U.S. State Department, the Intelligence Community and the Vatican. On the Acton Institute Advisory Board was Jesuit Cardinal Avery Dulles, who was “the son of a prominent New York Presbyterian family whose father was John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State under President Eisenhower and whose uncle was Allen Dulles, director of the CIA. “…he had been a convert to Catholicism during his years at Harvard University after having declared himself an agnostic in his first year there….In 2001…Fr. Dulles was elevated by Pope John Paul II to being a Prince of the Church, Avery Cardinal Dulles. He was the first American theologian to be given that title without being made a bishop first.” This history as well make some nervous.

What Color is the Money; Any Green in The Rainbow?

Some would say that, as Christians eagerly seek to engage the world around us, it is easy in today’s culture to inadvertently partner with or fund organizations whose mission may be antithetical to our own. It may fairly be asserted that the motives of some of those involved are only to seek and avail themselves of any open door to inject Christian influence in important areas like education. However, organizations like the ERLC and The Gospel Coalition in partnership with Acton Institute, urge Christians to “disengage the culture” from historic Christian views on moral issues like gay marriage, LGBTQ inclusion, immigration reform, drug legalization, etc., while they are instead expected to “Seek Social Justice”* as the new approach to the all important mission of the Church.  (*example of Acton influence on the same partners in 2010)

IRONICALLY, today’s young pastors in The Gospel Coalition and believers who follow them are trying to escape being viewed as Christian Right Wingers, and choosing to be Social Justice Warriors instead. As they strive to “love well” while “doing community,” they are actually falling for far Left Wing social policy which, in this case, is written by the right wing Heritage Foundation and Libertarian Jesuit / Catholic Acton Institute. It can really give one vertigo to watch the convergence of these political operatives on the unsuspecting Evangelical community.

Considering Libertarian Acton and its founder – Catholic priest, Father Sirico (who refuses to discuss his homosexuality when interviewed) – and millions in funding from the Kern Family Foundation for radical pro-LGBTQ partner, Teach for America, can we simply take their inclusive curriculum in 13 Evangelical seminaries, like RTS, Southern Seminary, Beeson and others, at conservative face value?

Are the commandments and warnings in both Old and New Testaments – “be not unequally yoked with believers” for “two cannot walk together except they are agreed” – null and void for today? Can we walk with God on mission when we and our partners in the quest have so little we agree upon?

More on Why Richard Florida so WRONG? Must the Church Create Bohemia to Succeed?

Among Dr. Mohler’s devout fan base there is a common thread of justifying his every action. In Deep State Part One, the most commonly disputed issue among the many respondents concerned Mohler’s promotion of the books and theories of the pro-LGBTQ Urban Planner, Richard Florida.  

“Florida’s work is not without its critics, but the basic argument he presents is difficult to refute. For the intelligent Christian reader, the book raises several issues. The clustering of creative populations seems to correlate with areas evangelical churches have found difficult to reach.” In Richard Florida’s books, Rise of the Creative Class and Who is Your City, “Creative Class” is a euphemism for “LGBTQ” community. Florida’s theory is that economically disadvantaged cities such as Detroit would experience revival if they were injected with the “creativity” of the LGBTQ community.

The following additional information should put an end to any justification of Florida’s failed ideology of “the Creative Class.” Here are the facts of Florida’s radical pro-LGBTQ concepts.

The main inspiration and mentor for Richard Florida is Marxist urban activist, Jane Jacobs, who was instrumental in the gay rights movement in both New York City and Toronto. Jacobs is a central figure celebrated in LGBTQ urban history. Today LGBTQ history walks are done in her name in cities internationally.

As Senior Editor of The Atlantic Monthly and a co-founder and editor at large of “CityLab,” Richard Florida tracks “Homophobia” by “Mapping” the places it is most prevalent globally. This information is then used to strong-arm cities and regions into taking a more affirming stance on LGBTQ inclusion with grant and economic development funds.

Census number Crunching is done by Richard Florida protégé, Gary Gates of the Williams Institute for LGBTQ Inclusion and Advancement.  Gates submitted a brief in the Obergefell same-sex marriage decision which was cited in Justice Kennedy’s pivotal vote and opinion which made gay marriage legal in the United States, in spite of its complete lack of Constitutional Standing. Gates and Williams take Florida’s Creative Gay Class assertions to major places of influence, including census data gathering. The 2020 U.S. Census is a major focus for this work with Florida’s inclusive goals.

LGBTQ activists remain loyal to Richard Florida’s ideology for obvious reasons. However, Evangelicals who endorse the LGBTQ agenda are essentially asserting that the Church could thrive in Sodom and Gomorrah today if we would only apply the “wisdom of Richard Florida.” Dr. Mohler, Tim Keller, Ed Stetzer and others in The Gospel Coalition need to explain why they encourage our church planters and ministers and Christians in general toward these ideas in any way!  

Acton and the Road to Serfdom: A Closer Look

Valid concerns exist about Acton Institute and the Reformed camp of Evangelicals now guiding the ERLC and The Gospel Coalition, the most obvious of which is the Catholic theology behind Acton’s Social Policy. According to the 2017 Acton conference in Rome, the social justice and economic policies Father Sirico is introducing to Reformed seminaries is a Jesuit contribution and Catholic historians openly assert that the mission of the Jesuits is to undermine the Reformation. Do TGC and ERLC leadership need to be reminded why the Reformation took place and that 2017 marks its 500th anniversary? Did the Reformation not involve theological differences and a divide that is even more profound today than it was 500 years ago?

Acton also has the issue of its being a Libertarian, not a Conservative, political think tank. Do TGC and ERLC claim to promote Conservative theology? If we live out the Gospel should not our social and political engagement involve sharing the Gospel at the core? Why do TGC and the ERLC consistently land on the progressive (left of center) on every single social issue of concern to biblically faithful Christians? This is a very fair question that many in the ranks of the SBC and PCA are asking.  

Acton is a political organization and TGC and ERLC leaders are also acting politically while they shame every believer in their realm for their conservative political engagement. Why is the ERLC located in Washington, DC if not to be engaged politically?Why do Russell Moore and Albert Mohler shame Christians in the Washington Post and other political media? Why is TGC so focused on church planting in and around the Beltway? Are Christians only allowed to engage the culture if we are moving left of center? Is it not political for the Kern funded Curriculum used in Reformed seminaries to be training students in Libertarian, Catholic, Jesuit, recycled Liberation Theology and Social Justice provided by a Political Think Tank like Action Institute? How is this not deceitful? How is it serving the Gospel or preserving and fulfilling the Great Commission?

Acton boasts its inspiration from Friedrich Von Hayek, author of “The Road to Serfdom.” Though the book is often referenced as a source exposing the tyranny of centralized planning and advocating for a free market economy, Hayek’s Fabian Society has a history raising many of the same questions raised by Father Sirico’s liberal history.  According to many historians, Hayek’s book “moved American Conservatives in a more libertarian direction.” The Mont Pelerin Society appeared “when classic liberalism appeared dead” and “Hayek’s movement marked a decisive moment in liberalism resurgence, becoming the Fabian Society of renewed classical liberalism.” (Ayn Rand Cult, Jeff Walker, p. 292). It was the homosexual founder of the socialist Fabian Society, Edward Carpenter, whose book, The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women, became a foundational text of the LGBT movement of the 20th century. (Socialism and LGBT Rights)

Centralized Planning or Not?

Consider the open collectivism being espoused by Tim Keller in the name of individual faith in action. How is the collective push of the Acton / Kern Curriculum toward a Faith and Work, Doctrine of Vocation and Halftime (the give back ideology of Bob Buford which is a continuation of LBJ / John Gardener’s Great Society), in fact, not centralized planning being done covertly inside the reformed seminary and eventually within the church walls?  

Marvin Olasky, a Senior Fellow of the Acton Institute, is considered the father of Compassionate Conservatism who helped birth the Bush W. era Faith Based Partnership programs. Rev. Sirico seems to be calling for an end to these programs while espousing deeper involvement in Social Justice by evangelicals and Catholics. So whose funding (besides the massive corporate and private foundations) will pay for its expansion? Who gets to hold the purse strings if the funding is to be persuaded out of the churches and believers as they are sold wealth redistribution as a gospel mandate? And where does all of this circular and ideological, economic, theological, sociology, public relations, rebranding, blending of Reformation and Jesuit doctrine of Social Justice end – if not on an evangelical road to serfdom?

And who thinks it is intellectually honest to have taken the approach of a low flying stealth bomber upon trusting and unsuspecting evangelical borders in order to achieve these goals? If these are Gospel-centered mandates, there is no need for sleight of hand or radar masking technology. No shaming of Evangelicals out of even the use of the name “evangelical” or any other classic self-identification Christians may choose to actually identify as being part of the broader body of Christ. There is no need for the use of the same tired talking points to counter vintage Christianity in America and replace it with something devised by Acton or any other think tank in the Western Hemisphere. How is it that this new underground movement is now the historic Christian faith? They continue to tell us we must “rethink” our historic position on every major issue of the day. Which is it? How important is doctrine and theology to those at the ERLC and TGC if they have no caution or discernment about yoking with Acton (Sirico ) and Kern (who funds radical LGBTQ groups through Teach for America) and many other questionable partners? How much does Father Sirico’s reported closet homosexuality influence Acton’s Communications Officer, Joe Carter, who is simultaneously employed by the ERLC and the TGC?

And how do the ERLC and TGC assume we should respond to their efforts to redefine the faith for our families, our churches, our children and our grandchildren? Are we willing to sell the mission of the Church for liberal social justice? Are we blind to the realities Europe is facing with immigration and Islam while our evangelical leaders push for open borders with organizations funded by George Soros and Open Society Foundation? Do partners like Acton, Sirico, or the Kern Family Foundation share any of our biblically (as opposed to culturally relevant) views on human sexuality? Or are we failing to recognize the “beast” we are loosening with sexual liberation in the name of “loving our gay and lesbian neighbors,” Dr. Moore? Can you chart this path for us and for the Body of Christ and be guiltless before man and the Son of Man whose eyes are as a flame of fire and whose Word divides joint and marrow and discerns both the thoughts and intents of the heart?

It seems a moot-point to ask how we got here given all we see the ERLC, TGC, Mohler, Keller and a host of others doing – acting like a rum-soaked Jack Sparrow with a broken compass, attempting to tell us where to find True North. There has never been a set of policies on the part of church leaders and its allies in government, think tanks, Institutes and halls of learning in the US that has so impacted both the mission and doctrine of the church and posed a more clear and present danger to collective religious freedom and living out personal deeply held Christian convictions. The question that remains is how do we, the Body of Christ, recover ourselves from the bondage of this misguided leadership?

THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN IN 2016 FROM RESEARCH IN 2014/2015 AND EXPOSED IN DETAIL THE ROOTS OF CORRUPTION AND MONEY AND EVIL WHICH BROUGH THE CHURCH IN AMERICAN TO THE BRINK OF DESTRUCTION. TRUTH IS STILL THE MOST POWERFUL REALITY AND GOD’S TRUTH STILL SETS HIS PEOPLE FREE.

THIS SET OF ARTICLES IS REPRISED HERE BY REQUEST AND ,UNLIKE MANY SO CALLED DISCERNMENT EFFORTS, IT HOLDS NOTHING BACK AND GIVES THE SAD DOCUMENTED TRUTH. LET IT BE A FRESH CALL TO PRAYER FOR GOD TO ARISE AND SCATTER HIS ENEMIES WHO HAVE CREPT INTO HIS HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH TO TAKE CAPTIVE THE FLOCK OF GOD. EVEN SO ARISE O LORD.

1/23/2022

Is This the Evangelical Deep State?

December 18, 2017

By: Rev. Thomas Littleton

Editor SBC TODAY Note: This article’s length is a departure from our typical standard, but we believed it was important for it to appear in its entirety.

By now most of us have heard of former President Barack Obama’s covert operation “Organizing For Action.”  OFA is a shadow government leading the resistance to President Trump’s voter mandated efforts to reverse many if not most of the Obama administration policies.  Such well coordinated efforts by a “Shadow Government” are referred to as “The Deep State.”  Wikipedia defines this type of electorate subversive manipulation thus:  “In the United States, the deep state is an alleged entity that coordinates efforts by government employees and others to influence state policy without regard for democratically elected leadership.”  

The Hand That Rocks the Evangelical Cradle

It shocks no one that the administration which has done more to undermine Constitutional Freedoms in the U.S. would wage a covert war to protect the radical policies it fought to put in place.  What is shocking to many Christians are the radical renovations in and by evangelical leadership touted as a conservative response to Obama era challenges.  In most cases the evangelical responses have proven to aid Obama’s dangerous polices rather than bolster defenses against them.  The talking points in America have suddenly changed.  Clarity over marriage and sexuality has been lost and language obscured in the face of Obergefell and nationwide attempts to open public school bathrooms to the sexually deviant at our children’s expense.

These Obama era policies have also impacted the doctrine of the Christian Church.  The mission of the Church to preach the gospel of eternal salvation has given way to social justice /liberation theology and the Church itself is all but renamed as a “Faith Based Organization.”  But who made these decisions for the Church?  Who has written this new language and why?  Whose unseen hand has orchestrated this overhaul of Christianity?

The Brazenly Contradicted Souls

As a Southern Baptist I will try to fairly assess a few of the players who, in fact, may be more “missional marionettes” than guiding hands.  We will look later at the money and the actual hands in the proverbial Evangelical “Shadow Government.”  The following paragraph may seem absurd at first but should prove to be quite accurate and disturbing.  

Among Southern Baptist and conservative Reformed believers there is no name more trusted than Dr. Albert Mohler.  Dr. Mohler is the long-time head of Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY.  Due to his high office and reputation in the Southern Baptist Convention, Christians may find it hard to believe that Dr. Mohler would promote the pro homosexual ideology of the Obama era.  However, in his promotion of urban ministry, Dr. Mohler also promotes a key player in the radical Human Rights Campaign’s LGBTQ “Equality and Inclusion” movement.  “Absurd!” you may say.  Yet facts do not lie; they are stubborn and inconvenient truths which often show the accepted wisdom to be false.

In 2008 Dr. Mohler (echoing a host of evangelical underlings) began to promote a key Urban Planning strategist, Richard Florida.  Author of Rise of the Creative Class and Who is Your City, Florida is among the Human Rights Campaign’s favorite players in the pro homosexual Municipal Equality Index (MEI).  Dr. Mohler offered this hearty endorsement of Richard Florida’s openly pro homosexual /inclusion of the LGBTQ “Creative Class” as necessary for success in Urban Planning and Community Development:

“Florida’s work is not without its critics, but the basic argument he presents is difficult to refute.  For the intelligent Christian reader, the book raises several issues.  The clustering of creative populations seems to correlate with areas evangelical churches have found difficult to reach.  The creatives are clustered in more secular regions of the nation.  All this should underline one major aspect of our Great Commission challenge in America and around the world.”

Now place this passionate endorsement of Richard Florida by Dr. Mohler alongside the assertions of Richard Florida himself in the 2017 HRC Municipal Equality Index.

“In short, LGBTQ equality is a moral imperative that pays—one that’s even more important than ever given the recent unprecedented rollback of hard won LGBTQ federal protections.  The Municipal Equality Index highlights laws and policies that cities can use to make their community more LGBTQ-inclusive.  It assesses cities on their non-discrimination laws, LGBTQ-inclusive employee practices, inclusiveness in city services and law enforcement; and their leadership’s outspoken commitment to equality.  Taking these steps can help cities not only do the right thing, but create fairer economic opportunity for all.”

Either Dr. Mohler has failed to read the books he is reviewing here or he is endorsing Richard Florida’s pro homosexual assertions.  Mohler’s admission that Florida’s pro LGBTQ concepts are “not without critics” would indicate he is aware of enough of them to know they are controversial and yet he concludes “the basic argument is hard to refute.”  I have mentioned Richard Florida in a previous writing but other evangelical leaders have failed to match the Mohler infatuation with Florida’s LGBTQ Equality and Inclusion CULT.   

The argument will be made that Dr. Mohler was not endorsing Florida’s pro-homosexual ideology but rather is exhorting the Church to fulfill the Great Commission via ‘city reaching.’  However, why then did Mohler outright abandon Reparative Therapy or so called “ex gay therapy” at the ERLC 2014 conference on “Homosexuality and the Future of Marriage” at the very time municipalities are working hard to pass local laws prohibiting and criminalizing such counseling with the broadest definition, including any NON AFFIRMING counsel on the part of PASTORS, Church counselors , Christian school counselors and EVEN PARENTS?  These city and county efforts to please, appease, and make the grade for the Human Rights Campaign Municipal Equality Index are an LGBTQ shakedown.

Personal commentary:  Dr. Mohler, in your sweeping rejection of conversion therapy and withdrawal of support for ministers and ministries working with those who wish to find help from the church to leave homosexual desires behind them, you have given GREAT occasion to the enemies of the Gospel to deny those “strugglers” the help THEY need and often seek as these laws would turn a pastor or a parent into a criminal in the eyes of local courts for offering Biblical Counseling to a /their child.  A classic case of throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater by an evangelical leader who spends more time doing book reviews and cultural posturing than in the life trenches under live fire from fallout.  Can you admit the LGBTQ agenda is taking you and us farther than you anticipated and that you have failed to offer the conservative leadership Christians look to YOU for?  By endorsing Richard Florida, abandoning Reparative Therapy and offering the rhetoric of appeasement have you played into the hands of the Gay Lobby, sir?

Strange, Dare I Say It …”BEDFELLOWS”

Mohler protégé Dr Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist ERLC has been on the hot seat for some time among evangelicals who are paying attention to ERLC doublespeak and guilt projection on all issues related to Christian ethics and cultural engagement.  The recent Nashville Statement offered great face saving opportunity on the LGBTQ issue for Moore, but his recent speech at the Acton Institute’s Acton University sheds unsettling light on the SBC leaders’ hidden ties and may point to the powers behind the Moore / Mohler enigma.  

The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty has long been at the forefront of cultural concern in the realm of religion.  Its mission statement boasts “The Acton Institute is a think tank whose mission is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.”

Admittedly, Religious Principles is a broad term so it is only fair to ask which religion and whose principles are referred to.  The best clue would be to look at Acton’s leadership.  Its President is Catholic priest, Robert Sirico, and here is where some shocking revelations come into view.  Rev. Sirico being a Catholic is reason enough for concern by some about the Acton/ Moore association but this ecumenical partnership pales in comparison to Rev. Sirico’s seldom mentioned past career.

Russell Moore and The Acton Institute’s “Gay Activist” Leader

According to Wikipedia  and the gay pride historic book “Gay Seattle Stories of Exile and Belonging” by Gary L. Atkins, (page 161 and over a dozen mentions of Sirico in the second half of the book), in the 1970s, Robert Sirico was at the forefront of the gay activist movement in several cities on the West Coast.  According to Atkins, Sirico was a major force in the “Pulpits of Healing” (chapter 9) movement to bring the homosexual community into acceptance in the Christian Community and in the churches. Sirico was raised on Coney Island but found his home among the radical West Coast homosexual rights movement on the cutting edge of its push for acceptance in the faith community.  Only after Sirico left the area and a new Bishop came into power did this effort begin to payoff in the Catholic Diocese.  By this time, Sirico was planting gay churches as part of the first homosexual denomination, Metropolitan Community Church.  Sirico went from Pentecostal faith healer to homosexual activist pastor after admitting his homosexual desires since 13 years of age.  In today’s culture he would be considered an LGBTQ Faith Activist which is a well paid career for thousands given the hundreds of millions annually funding the LGBTQ Equality organizations.  

“Sirico was ordained a Pentecostal minister and established a healing ministry in Seattle around 1970/71.  He became very popular and gained the support of several charismatic churches in the area.  A foundation was established for the financial support of his ministry.  During this time, according to Sirico, he believed that homosexuality was condemned by the Bible as a perversion.  However, he soon found it ‘impossible’ to heal a person from being gay.  He eventually made a public announcement that he was gay himself and intended to form a church for gays.  This led to him losing the support of his healing ministry’s backers.

“In 1972, Sirico founded Seattle’s Metropolitan Community Church, which primarily ministered to gays. The church became a member of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC).[7]  MCC had been founded in 1968 as ‘the world’s first church group with a primary, positive ministry to gays, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender persons.’

“In April 1973, Sirico and the MCC picketed the Seattle Police Department, claiming there was a ‘vendetta’ by the Seattle Police Department against homosexuals.  In October 1973, Sirico was arrested in Seattle for ‘walking in the roadway’ after crossing the street to come to the aid of a gay man he saw was being arrested.  In jail, Sirico was reportedly singing ‘We Shall Overcome’ until he was bailed out by a parishioner.  The citation was later struck down at trial and Sirico was let off with a warning by the judge.

“In July 1973, Sirico went to lead the newly founded Metropolitan Church of Cincinnati.

“Sirico was a proponent of gay marriage and performed same-sex marriages as a Protestant minister. In 1975, Sirico performed the first gay marriage in the history of Colorado at the First Unitarian Church in Denver.

“Sirico left Seattle for Los Angeles, where he became the director of the Los Angeles Gay Community Center.  In 1976, police conducted a raid at one of the center’s events, a ‘male slave auction.’  Sirico stated the event was merely a fundraiser for the center and that the police raided it in order to ‘discredit the image of gay people in this community for legislative gains.’”

Most important to note that after a time Robert Sirico made a return to the Catholic Church of his youth.  He speaks in many places of a political and ideological conversion but makes NO MENTION of a change in his bold self-identifying as a homosexual or his radical faith activist role in the embryonic days of the gay rights movement.  In a 2010 interview, Father Sirico was asked by a conservative Catholic writer about his homosexual /activist/ gay clergy history.  His response was suspiciously evasive:

“An agreement with a professional journalist to whom I have been giving a series of interviews about the details of this journey prevents me from cooperating in any kind of profile of my life with you.  I can,

however, respond to a number of your questions for the article you are writing which do not compromise this agreement.”

Sirico’s move across the ideological and political landscape is significant because, as we will see, he moved from ultra-liberal to Libertarian, whose policies mostly ignore moral and social issues like homosexuality and abortion, instead focusing on economic policy and smaller government.  There’s no need to even speak to the issue of his radical past in the Libertarian camp.  It is a non-issue.  What IS an ISSUE is the role which we will soon see that Sirico’s organization plays in the CONSERVATIVE camp of the Southern Baptist and Presbyterians and among Reformed evangelicals.

It may seem unfair from an evangelical perspective to “judge” Rev. Sirico by his youthful past but the present mood among Catholic researchers considers this activist’s past serious enough to look longer and harder at his organization, Action Institute, and his ordination as a Catholic Priest in 1987.  There have been numerous and persistent voices of concern over Sirico’s ordination to the Priesthood given his admitted homosexuality and radical past. His defiant statements like “two men in bed together is a holy experience… to hold one another close and confess together, Isn’t God Wonderful?” (Gay Seattle, page 162)  The author goes on to say “Sirico refused to beg for understanding.”

Given that the ERLC Russell Moore is a speaker at Acton Institutes and his has even deeper (as we shall see) associations  with Father Sirico, it would appear to be more than fair to ask if this has ANY INFLUENCE on Moore’s message for the ERLC on homosexuality?  What is the ERLC/ Moore’s position on the radical history of Rev Sirico?  He does not answer?  Will our Southern Baptist spokesperson ANSWER?  

Sirico’s past causes great concern among conservative Catholics. Here are several examples of their research.

Catholics Concerned About Father Robert Sirico

Randy Engels has written extensively on concerns over the Catholic Church welcoming and ordination of homosexuals to the priesthood.  Her 5 volume series on this subject is titled The Rite of Sodomy: Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church.

Further research specific to Father Robert Sirico can be found here and here and another writer Thomas Herron here.  In “Robert Sirico and the Sins that Cry to Heaven for Vengeance” are found more recent activities including efforts to alter / protect the history of Russell Moore’s ally, Rev Sirico.

There are several “accounts of Rev Sirico’s conversion” according to Engel but most speak to his political conversion, such as, “In the early part of the decade, Sirico held Left-leaning political and economic views, even becoming involved with Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden and their campaign for economic democracy.  However, after reading Friedrich von Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and Milton Friedman’s  Capitalism and Freedom, he became a libertarian.”

Sirico wrote about his journey from leftist politics to free-market economics: “I suppose the fact that I spent time on the left of the political spectrum isn’t the surprising thing.  I mean, I’m a New Yorker; I’m a child of the ’60s; I went to seminary in the early 1980s, when a baptized form of Marxism was next to godliness.  When you take all of that into account, my sojourn on the left has about it almost the inevitability of Marxist dialectic.”

Do Roman Catholics Speak for The ERLC and The Gospel Coalition When Communication is KEY?

You may say that Catholics and Evangelicals have long and helpful history partnering on social issues like abortion and marriage but these are conservative – not Libertarian – shared values. The common ground would then appear to be the issue of “social Justice” and NOT theological partnerships. However, Father Sirico is not a conservative socially or politically and, according to his 2002 booklet “Catholicism’s Developing Social Teaching” (page 19), Sirico boasted that Catholic social policy IS THEOLOGY, not political policy” So is Russell Moore’s partnering the ERLC with Acton Institute also an adoption of or endorsement for Catholic Theology on Social Policy?  Fair Question?  According to Father Sirico, Moore IS doing so.

To look closer and better understand the ties between the SBC’s Russell Moore, Al Mohler and other Evangelicals with Father Sirico and his Acton Institute, one need look no further than Joe Carter.  A former military guy, Joe is a prolific writer and Senior Editor for the Acton Institute and Rev Sirico. Where it becomes strange and unsettling is that Carter is also an editor for The Gospel Coalition, according to the Acton bio, as well as Editor and Communications Specialist “go to guy” for the Russell  Moore-led Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberties Commission.

THINKING THIS THROUGH together for a moment… Joe Carter came to the ERLC soon after Russell Moore’s ascent and radical altering of the standard conservative Southern Baptist messaging on key topics, especially LGBTQ issues.  Carter serves as ERLC “Communications Specialist” while he still holds his Senior Editor job with Rev. Robert Sirico – the once radical left wing, Marxist gay activist Pentecostal (later) gay church pastor and founder of Metropolitan Community Churches (the world’s first gay denomination), who conducted some of the nations first gay marriages and boasted he would perform exorcisms to rebuke the heterosexual spirits from his opposition – who is now a Catholic Libertarian priest.  If that is not disturbing we are simply NOT paying attention!  Carter has also worked in high level editing positions with at least two other Catholic publications according to his biography.

The Gospel Coalition – Is This an Evangelical Progressive Movement Cloaked in Conservative Theology?

Currently there is immeasurable fallout over what appears to be a theological divide among Southern Baptists.  Joe Carter is an Editor for The Gospel Coalition as mentioned above.  This movement encompasses the Reformed camp of the SBC which has grown in number at least among young pastors under the leadership of Dr. Mohler and includes much of the heretofore conservative Presbyterian breakaway group – the PCA.  The TGC movement also includes smaller reformed denominations and groups along with independents like John Macarthur and his vast network of affiliated churches.  Formed around 2005, TGC is headed by then PCA rising star Tim Keller and D.A. Carson.

While The Gospel Coalition’s opening statement of its founding documents sounds great, a sobering consideration of its connections with Acton Institute and often progressive stance on conservative issues makes it reasonable to question why TGC is promoting a Liberation Theology of social justice and a biblically baseless “Theology of Place.”  Add to this Joe Carter’s prolific messaging (TGC blog currently has 336 entries by Carter and at one point earlier this year was over 650 items by Carter) and it is a very honest assessment to say that Acton Institute and the radical Father Sirico have a huge reach into the Reformed camp of evangelicals, including the SBC and PCA.

Can we Biblically Judge the Tree by its Fruit?

Plainly put, a Libertarian, Catholic, political Institute founded by a controversial priest who helped birth the modern extreme radical West Coast homosexual rights movement and its invasion of the Christian faith community while working as a Pentecostal “Faith Healer” with Marxist leanings, a record of arrest and an “in your face” homosexual, founding gay churches and conducting some of the nation’s first gay marriages, is helping if not outright scripting the message of Reformed SBC (ERLC) /PCA / TGC Evangelicalism.  If this is not a problem in our thinking then we do not understand that the battle for the soul of our culture is not waged with the liberal social justice mantra that TGC and these intoxicated talking heads like Russell Moore are regurgitating while espousing its loss.  Rather, that battle for the “collective soul” of the church and our culture is a battle of words and ideas, to be waged with the eternal Word of God and the inspired message rooted firmly in God’s WORD.

Isn’t wrapping your progressive transformational strategies in conservative theological positions while promoting the message of a Libertarian, Catholic, former (?) radical homosexual activist akin to being a confidence man or a street hustler for TGC and ERLC?  How is it NOT?  These organizations have captivated a generation of young preachers and, with the advent of social media and a hearty web presence, the contorted message of the new evangelicalism has spread like wildfire.  Who has vetted this message or its source or the strange affiliations in this transformational dance club? What toxic stew comes from brewing these ideologies together for a bowl of which the evangelical leaders in the reformed camp appear to willing to sell not only their birthright but also that of our denominations and our children’s future church?  How is this considered kosher to a Holy God with a long history of rejecting mingled offerings?

Given that 2017 is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, the tangible irony here is almost suffocating.  If Catholic conservatives are concerned about Father Sirico and his corrupt influence in the Catholic Church then Evangelicals ought to take note of the DEEP STATE inroads made by a VATICAN policy, US-based Think Tank among SBC and PCA leaders!

What Other Bonds Abound?

The key to understanding the tie that binds these bedfellows is the work of Acton Institute in the area Social Justice.  According to the November 29th 2017 Acton Institute Conference in Rome, Globalization and Social Justice are movements the Jesuits to which have long contributed and inspired the church toward addressing.  Today’s Social Justice mantra, whether chanted by liberal humanist “Christians,“ conservative Reformed, Catholic or interfaith participants, is INSEPARABLY LINKED  with “the City Reaching movement,” cultural narrative realignments (a kinder/ gentler Christian “civility”), urban growth , “church planting,” and White House Faith-Based Partnerships.  In short, Social Justice is the new gospel and, if your leadership complies, it is becoming Big Business for the church.

Olasky’s Rules for Compassion

Marvin Olasky is a powerful influence on evangelicals as editor-in-chief of World Magazine.  He is also a Senior Fellow at the Acton Institute.  Olasky’s history intersects with virtually all of the major ideologies corrupting the evangelical church.  The biography of Olasky at NNDB states that he was born of a Jewish family, was an avowed atheist (at 14), a Marxist in High School and a “card carrying communist” as they used to say, in college.  Like Sirico, Olasky’s political views changed mid life but in the case of Olasky, a spiritual conversion is professed.  However, his Marxist ideologies may not have changed on his spiritual journey, given his role with Sirico and the Faith-Based ideology.  It is said that Olasky’s book  on “The Tragedy of American Compassion” inspired  George W Bush’s compassionate conservatism branding and the Faith Based Partnerships first  in Texas under then Gov Bush.

“In January 2001, [Olasky] saw the policies outlined in this book put into law with the creation of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.  George W. Bush has called him ‘compassionate conservatism’s leading thinker’; in 1999, Olasky had chaired an advisory subcommittee on religion and public policy for the then-governor.’”

Acton and Sirico have played a major role as well in the hard sell of Faith-Based Partnerships, especially during the formation of the Obama administration under whose directives the LGBTQ compromises were hard wired into the programs and these directives have not changed under the Trump administration.

Although Olasky is credited with having inspired Compassionate Conservatism, the concept goes back to the mid 19th century with Fredrick Stahl‘s “Living Conservatism.”  Stahl successfully persuaded Austrian and European Protestants to abandon their conservative convictions on the basis of a proposed softer approach to social issues while European Socialism took root.  History appears to be repeating itself aided by the familiar talking points.  Stahl, like Olasky was another person born into a Jewish family who converted to Christianity and, in Stahl’s case, history now bears out that he used his influence to weaken Christians in the evangelical churches in Prussia.  The jury is out for now regarding Olasky’s influence, however, his work with Sirico/ Acton and Faith Based Partnerships does not bode well for the Evangelicals over whom he exerts tremendous influence.  One of those under the influence is Tim Keller.  A closer look will help you decide for yourself.

Civil City Utopian Prophets and The Funding Machine

The following collaborations outlined as bullet points show the depths of Faith-Based involvement of Tim Keller and other evangelicals and institutions.  Several have been mentioned in previous articles without mention of the role Acton played in them.

• Leading up to the 2009 infusion of untold billions of tax dollars by the Obama administration into the Faith Based Partnership overhaul – Tim Keller (page 80) and Friends, including the Acton Institute, worked with a Faith Based Partnership model in Orlando called “Seeking the Welfare of the City” (STWOTC) which resulted in the Polis Institute.  Richard Florida’s pro homosexual ideology was promoted by the Human Rights Campaign and Albert Mohler played a key role (page 76) as has the Acton Institute.  Acton still heavily promotes the “Welfare of the City” concept which centers around Faith Based Partnerships.  If participants like churches and ministries want to find funding to “save their cities” through Community Development grants, they must be inclusive and welcoming of one of the more destructive influences within the communities they are asserting they wish to help.  The erosion of the family and sexual liberation are two of the most compelling issues urban centers face.  

Even more broad reason for concern is that the Presbyterian Church of America’s (Tim Keller’s denomination) Reformed Theological Seminary was at the forefront of this STWOTC program development while both students and graduates helped in the implementation and the operation of Polis Institute.  It now serves as an Urban laboratory of sorts for training future generation church leaders.

• As discussed in previous articles, the new mantra for evangelicals is “Civility.” Tim Keller, Rick Warren, three Christian universities, and a host of Faith Based Partnership players have convened and covenanted to “change the tone in the church toward homosexuals” and other minority groups.  Given the inclusion of pro-gay urban planning in the new wave missional strategies and the agreement to change the conversation among church folk as they are “mobilized” for faith based partnerships, it is little wonder that The Gospel Coalition and denominational groups like the ERLC want someone like Father Sirico and Acton Institute to provide the talking points for the flock.  Whether current or simply historical, Sirico would have great insight into how to make inroads into faith communities having done so in the 1970s.  Inclusive inroads are requisite if the hopes of obtaining Faith-Based Partnership grants are to be realized.  

Are Money Changers Funding Acton and an Evangelical Deep State?

• Another major player in what appears as an Evangelical Deep State is the National Christian Foundation of Alpharetta GA.  According to its history with Conservative Transparency and a 2016 990 forms /report, the NCF has brought about $6 Billion into its Christian philanthropy circles since 2011 (page 15 of the 990 shows $1,396,381,203 in 2016 alone.)  On requesting NCF to provide its donor and recipient list and history, the organization refused to supply any information whatsoever.  Various philanthropic sites do track some of the money and its sources, but given that NCF is a “Donor ADVISED fund,” the agreement upon giving is the intention of the donor is to be recognized but not required in the distribution.  What the Conservative Transparency tracking shows is that NCF giving in large part goes to political organizations like Acton Institute, Heritage Foundation, and a variety of organizations, many being Libertarian like Acton instead of conservative Christian organizations or ministries.  NCF helps coordinate giving for the Frankfurt School / Marxist-inspired Civilitas Group in which Tim Keller and Rick Warren serve as Board Members.  

Several left-wing exposés have been done of NCF, one by Mother Jones and another, ironically, by an LGBT activist group Two Care Center Against Religious Extremism.  These researched articles show NFC again funding more politically focused organizations than ministries.  (Acton is not on the LGBT investigation list perhaps by design.)   AGAIN many of these organizations share the Libertarian views of Acton and are NOT Biblical, conservative groups.  According to these reports, a great deal of the funding moves back and forth from NCF State Chapters and the national offices of NCF and lands back in the hands of local State Policy Institutes which are sister organizations of Acton.  

A major common thread is the political Libertarian ideology and shared goals of encouraging Faith Based Partnership participation and engagement in the “Gospel of Generosity” and “philanthropic giving movement” touted by Tim Keller and other TGC partners as one of the arenas needing cultural redemption.  A similar organization with shared influence from NCF founders admit to their inspiration from Charles Sheldon’s novel “In His Steps “ and it’s Social Justice mantra.  Admission that the concept needed a Theology to maintain it begs the classic question which came first… the theology or the ideology that it supports?  As with Acton and Rev. Sirico the answer is clear.  To sell the ideology, the two must be presented as one.  Is this an honest approach for objective Biblical teaching for fundraising?

A local NCF chapter in the Midwest has as its head a pastor who (according to his ordaining denomination, The Assemblies of God) has an “unusual ministry” as he pastors a church with five different addresses, one of which is an empty lot and no congregation or regular weekly service. This pastor was brought to our region to speak at a pastoral conference last year about Faith-Based Partnerships AND Philanthropy / NFC giving.  Again he has no certain address/ often no weekly service / and from social media indicators – little or no congregation.  Who is vetting these people?

Who Cares? You Should!

Should the church be concerned that conservative denominations like the Southern Baptist Convention and the PCA have shared Public Relations/Editing and message coordination (Joe Carter) with Acton Institute?  Should conservative Christians not be made aware that our public policy spokesmen like Russell Moore of the ERLC and influential movements like The Gospel Coalition have these strong ties to Acton?  Is this influence of a Libertarian /Catholic political policy organization founded by a priest, Father Robert Sirico, who has a long undisclosed history of LGBTQ radical activism, a concern for evangelicals? It still causes concern among informed conservative Catholics!

Since 2012 a marked departure from classic Evangelical conservative stance has taken place and Russell Moore, Tim Keller and others have been peddling the new, more civil, culturally relevant tone on social issues.  Given that their partners, like Acton and Sirico, all share the goals of harnessing Christian giving while  promoting a  Social Gospel and Faith Based Partnerships (FBP) it is fair to ask, “WHY?”

Marvin Olasky, crowned the father of the Bush FBP agenda, later heavily funded and loaded with LGBTQ activism in the Obama years, provides conservative Christians with unquestioned news “from a Christian world view” in World Magazine.  Perhaps he should answer for his Fellowship with Acton Institute and Father Sirico knowing the LGBTQ infiltration of these circles and the programs he (Olasky) promotes.  

Would Albert Mohler, the highly regarded head of Southern Seminary and SBC/ TGC/ evangelical leader clarify exactly what part of Richard Florida and HRC’s pro gay urban planning he believes is so vital for the church that he endorses it along with other strategies of the homosexual agenda.  There is little else in the Florida rhetoric except a heavy dose of Cultural Marxism. So what is the Appeal and what part of the ideology are we as the church to follow if NOT its push for LGBTQ “inclusion”?

Tim Keller, please tell us what is Biblical about the Marxist Frankfurt School or the socialist Vienna Circle under whose influence you have fallen?  How far does “human flourishing, redeeming culture, and thriving cities” go in the churches before the Gospel is lost in the process of promoting human wisdom and compromise for the common good?   

If possible it would help all conservative believers if any or all of you would step up and explain to those struggling to raise families, be faithful (even if not “relevant”) in their faith in and to the culture and the workplace in the MOST CHALLENGING TIMES Christians have ever faced in our nation. The doublespeak which would appear scripted by Acton Institute IS NOT HELPING!

Why Action, Sirico, Carter?  Why Faith Based Tax Funds?  Why would you knowingly or ignorantly partner to offer this pagan brew and strange fire on Evangelical altars?  Is this an Evangelical Deep State – operating behind the scenes?  Please simply respond to the “Christian on the street” whose churches and families and futures your influence directly impacts!   Those who mislead the Church ought to heed the warning of James while there is yet time to repent.  ”My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the severer judgement” James 3:1.  Voices asking for accountability may seem faint and obscure while drowned out by the massive load of finely tuned and edited Rhetoric of Acton evangelical affiliates like ERLC/TGC …. BUT given time and the fact that God’s flock have a better handle on Biblical truth than some suppose, those voices may not seem so faint for very long.

THE ERLC SANK TO MANY NEW LOWS UNDER FORMER ACTIVIST PRESIDENT RUSSELL MOORE INCLUDING ITS CLOSE ASSOCIATIONS AND ENDORSEMENT OF THE PRO LGBTQ MOVEMENT REVOICE AND PARTICIPATION IN THE SOROS FUNDED NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM. NOW ERLC ENDORSES ISLAMIC OBAMA ERA ENVOY.

Rev. Thomas Littleton

1-3-2022

The Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission has once again decided that U S Islamic interest either outweigh or are compatible with their own job working to protect the religious freedoms of Christians . Former ERLC head Russell Moore had a keen interest in assuring the rights of Mosque to be built in communities like Mufreesboro TN in 2016.

Moore also spent a great deal of time and effort working with people Luke Goodrich and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty looking out for and promoting the notion that ensuring religious liberty for the expanse of Islam in the West was the best way to ensure the same for Christians.

Goodrich book “Free To Believe” which subjects constitutional guarantees of religious liberty in the United States to the interest of both Islam and the LGBTQ lobby (both of which are fundamentally antithetical to Christian faith and Christians religious freedom was voted “book of the year ” in 2018 by both the now progressive World Magazine and Moore’s partners in The Gospel Coalition.

Moore endorsed Goodrich and his book .

“Luke Goodrich is one of the nation’s most respected thought leaders in the arena of liberty of conscience.” –RUSSELL MOORE, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.”

ERLC ENDORSEMENT OF ISLAMIC AMBASSADOR FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

The current ERLC leadership continues on the same misguided trajectory of its former President as it endorsed Rashad Hussain the Biden administrations newly approved Ambassador.

RNS reported Hussain’s confirmation on December 16th 2021.

(RNS) — “Rashad Hussain has been confirmed as the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, making him the first Muslim American in the role.”

“Hussain was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday (Dec. 16) by an overwhelming vote of 85 to 5.”

“The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom hailed the decision on Hussain, who has been director for partnerships and global engagement at the National Security Council.”

“Hussain, 42, previously served as a White House counsel during the Obama administration, as special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and as U.S. special envoy for the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications.”

“When President Joe Biden announced his nomination of Hussain in July, the White House noted his work on countering antisemitism and defending religious minorities in countries with Muslim majorities. Hussain, who has served as a judicial clerk in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and as the editor of the Yale Law Journal, speaks Spanish, Arabic and Urdu. He also is a hafiz, or someone who has memorized the entire Quran in Arabic.”

The ambassador-at-large serves as the primary adviser to the secretary of state regarding global religious liberty and also advises the president. He supervises the State Department’s office of international religious freedom.

ERLC ENDORSEMENT

“Hussain has enormous credibility across a broad range of faith groups, built on years of leadership in efforts for religious freedom,” they wrote. “His nomination has brought enthusiastic praise from groups ranging from the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and the Baptist World Alliance to the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League and the Union for Reform Judaism, as well as widespread commendations from the Muslim community.”

(From Church Leaders.com)

“First Muslim International Religious Freedom Ambassador Rashad Hussain Receives Promise of Prayer From SBC Leader.”

“In congratulating Hussain, Brent Leatherwood, acting president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), said, “We are praying for his success and we are eager to work with him. Religious freedom is under assault around the globe and his position is vital to confronting those who would undermine this fundamental right.”

(Brent Leatherwood acting ERLC President and Russell Moore disciple)

LEATHERWOOD IN AUGUST HAD HIGH PRAISE FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN OVER THE NOMINATION OF HUSSAIN

“Brent Leatherwood, vice president of external affairs and chief of Staff for SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said in a statement that he has “long called for America to be a bold voice for liberty against these oppressive regimes.”

“Similarly, naming a U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom helps us to consistently use that voice,” stated Leatherwood, as reported by Baptist Press on Tuesday.”

“We appreciate the Biden administration prioritizing this appointment, and we stand ready to work with Mr. Hussain upon his confirmation to advance the fundamental human right of religious freedom internationally.”

RUSSELL MOORE PAL ERLC THOUGHT LEADER CATHOLIC ROBERT GEORGE ALSO ENDORSED HUSSAIN.

“An earlier religious freedom ambassador, Rabbi David Saperstein, joined Princeton University professor Robert P. George in supporting Hussain at the time of his confirmation hearing. The two men, who noted in a Religion News Service commentary that they have vastly different political perspectives, said Hussain was committed to protecting Christian rights and had garnered deep respect in the Muslim community.”

CONCLUSION

The Southern Baptist continue to seem unable to understand the activist culture of their own entity leaders. While using the SBC missions organizations the North American Missions Board (NAMB) and International Missions Board (IMB) to resettle first Syrian and now Afghan Muslim “REFUGEES” into America, Baptist are being told such actions are part of Christian world missions. Yet evangelization is prohibited in such government partnerships.

Baptist and Christians in general are also being told by Christian organizations and leaders like Goodrich , Moore and Leatherwood that Religious Freedoms are best being protected by promoting and protecting the rights of one of it’s most historic and fiercest persecutors. Meanwhile the entire operation is being inspired by obtaining more tax dollars. And Religious Freedom for Baptist is being overseen by a Russell Moore disciple who already carries a less than stellar reputation from his time at the TN GOP and from his actions at the 2018 Dallas Southern Baptist Convention .

ED STETZER’S RESEARCH PALS AT INTERFAITH HARTFORD SEMINARY ARE BOASTING OF VICTORY. AFTER YEARS OF WARNING ABOUT FAITH BASED PARTNERSHIPS, THE SOCIAL JUSTICE AND CRITICAL THEORIES INVASION OF CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICALISM THE DECEPTIVE END GAME IS NOW IN VIEW ACCORDING TO NEW REPORT.

Rev Thomas Littleton

12/24/2021

Corrupt evangelical leaders like Rick, Warren, Ed Stetzer, Tim Keller and Albert Mohler have been playing a long game to warp the theology and teachings of the church. from the seminaries to the Sunday school classes of toddlers the twisted vision toward a justice and equity driven mission has been packaged and sold in place of the Gospel. No one can say they were not warned that the end game for Globalist and “Equity” planners for the church was to steal its Gospel and eternal focus and replace it with a false vision of providing social services , health care, food and disaster distribution, refugee care, and now Covid 19 “response”.

Far left , interfaith Religion News Service reported on the new study by the wacky “interreligious ” Hartford Seminary- saying :

“More than half of Christian congregations say they have started a new ministry or expanded an existing outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey.”

“On average, in fact, these Christian houses of worship began or broadened more than three of their outreach activities in response to the pandemic.”

“The level of new and intensified social outreach and community ministry undertaken by the nation’s churches is monumental,” reads the report by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research.”

“Overall, almost three-quarters (74%) of churches have offered social support during the pandemic and close to two-thirds of congregations say they have been involved in new ministries.

“The new findings, a November survey drawn from 820 responses from representatives of 38 Christian denominational groups, showed significant changes in congregations’ attitudes toward change, particularly increasing diversity.”

ACCORDING TO THE REPORT OMICRON VARIENT OPENS UP EVEN BROADER OPPORTUNITY

“With the emergence of the “omicron” variant and rising infection rates across the United States, the pandemic is not over. After nearly two years of navigating public health guidelines, Zoom church, and intense socio-political conflict, it is becoming increasingly clear that congregational life is not what it once was. As daunting as that statement may be for religious leaders and laity alike, it speaks to the resilience, creativity, and convictions of congregations in the United States.”

” Change is never easy. But change allows religious communities to better address the needs of their local communities in times of suffering and hardship. And congregations have done just that throughout the pandemic. The level of new and intensified social outreach and community ministry undertaken by the nation’s churches is monumental.
This report, based on data from the second key-informant survey of the Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations: Innovation Amidst and Beyond Covid-19 project, includes an over-sampling of eight denominational groups and a random sampling of congregations in other denominations for a total of 38 Christian denominational groups and 820 responses. This online survey was fielded throughout the month of November 2021 and the resulting dataset was weighted to improve its national representativeness (see methodology section below).”

THE REPORT

“CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC:
EXTRAORDINARY SOCIAL OUTREACH IN A TIME OF CRISIS”

Some would think this report is very encouraging and that ministries have taken advantage of the chance to serve during the pandemic . But one need look no further than Hartford interfaith Seminary and it’s leadership like Scott Thumma, a close research partner with long time Lifeway Research former head Ed Stetzer to know the trends they are promoting and tracking and not Gospel driven or healthy pursuits of the church.

HARTFORD SEMINARY VISION AND NEW NAME

International University for Religion and Peace.

“As a pioneering, interreligious, international theological university, Hartford International has helped thousands of people find peace within, and many thousands more find peace with each other. At Hartford International, we use interfaith dialogue and discovery to deepen our beliefs, respect our differences, and find ourselves and love for each other.”

“Hartford International University for Religion and Peace is a dynamic learning environment, a place of higher education that is second to none. At HIU we take the word “for” in our name seriously. It is an action word. We believe that religion and peace are not only intertwined but dependent upon each other.”

HARTFORD IS FULL ON INTERRELIGIOUS ,DIVERSITY ,EQUITY AND INCLUSION

“I invite you to look around our website, viewing our course offerings, degrees, and our many programs. We have a distinct focus on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Studies and research, always with an eye toward interreligious understanding and dialogue. You’ll also notice that we are blazing new paths in Executive and Professional Education, helping our world see how religious identity is not loosely connected but fundamental to meaningful discussions on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our consulting and professional trainings are leading the way to bridge this important gap in society.”

This project is funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. and conducted by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research at Hartford International University.

HARTFORD SEMINARY STUDY IS FUNDED BY THE LILLY ENDOWMENT WHICH HAS HELPED HARTFORD EVEN LAUNCH A COVID RELIGION RESEARCH WEBSITE

“About This Study:”
“The Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations study is generously funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. and led by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace (formerly Hartford Seminary). We will continue to release targeted analyses of more specific findings from our topical surveys breaking down how Mainline/Evangelical, multiracial, Black congregations, Latinx congregations, and churches of differing sizes are navigating the pandemic. Sign up to receive our newsletter at http://www.covidreligionresearch.org and like and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to make sure you receive our reports as soon as they are released.”

A centralized hub in the making.

“Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations: Innovation Amidst and Beyond COVID-19 is a five-year research project funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. and led by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research. The focus of this expansive initiative is to research, collect, and disseminate data about the possible changes and long-term implications the pandemic might have on religious life across the United States. Through this centralized online hub, congregational and denominational leaders, religious scholars, and the general public will have free access to a growing repository of curated resources, practical tools, and guidance—drawn from our own research and from our cross-denominational partners.”

HATFORD SEMINARY RUNS “FAITH COMMUNITIES TODAY” WHICH IN 2020 PUT FOR THIS REPORT ON-“Twenty Years of Congregational Change“

Twenty Years of Congregational Change

Summary

“Twenty Years of Congregational Change: The 2020 Faith Communities Today Overview summarizes the findings of the largest national survey of congregations ever conducted in the U.S. It captures a pre- and early pandemic picture of America’s faith communities and affirms many of the trends evident over the past few decades, while also highlighting some distinct areas of change. This report is published by Faith Communities Today, a multireligious and collaborative research initiative that has been tracking trends in the U.S. religious landscape since 2000.”

National survey research

“This national survey component draws upon the Institute’s Faith Communities Today (FACT) collaborative initiative of over 20 different denominational research groups. It includes a number of different survey approaches spread across the five years of the grant. 

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Pre-COVID Baseline Portrait of Congregations

“This pre-COVID picture is gathered from the FACT 2020 survey:”

HARTFORD SEMIANRY LEADER AND ED STETZER RESEARCH PARTNER IS BEHIND THE EFFORT TO REDIRECT CHURCHES VISION TOWARD COVID RESPONSE VIA AGENDA DRIVEN “RESEARCH”.

Project Staff”

We’re a team of congregational researchers, sociologists of religion, and collaborative project leaders at an Institute with over 40 years of experience conducting research designed to help congregations flourish by providing data to support informed decision making. Our project staff, based out of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research at Hartford International University, work in tandem with a diverse group of scholars of religion who serve as advisors and consultants, leading organizations engaged in similar research, and a wide range of denominational research offices nationally. As a strategic and collaborative venture, we are committed to understanding how congregations have creatively responded to and navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how these changes may impact the religious landscape of the U.S. for years to come.”

Dr. Scott Thumma

Principal Investigator

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“Scott Thumma serves as the Principal Investigator of this project. He is Professor of Sociology of Religion at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and the Director of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research. He is the co-chair of the Faith Communities Today project and on the steering committee of the US Religious Census, as well as research advisor for several other projects and organizations. Throughout his 30-year career he has participated in many congregational study projects and national religion research efforts. He has written widely on the subject of megachurches, gay religious life, congregational dynamics, and nondenominational churches and has published three books [Gay Religion, Beyond Megachurch Myths, and The Other Eighty Percent: Turning Your Church’s Spectators into Active Disciples], many research reports, and managed over a half-dozen websites.”

Thumma has a long history promoting media driven “Church Growth” trends with Southern Baptist, Wheaton Billy Graham Center head Ed Stetzer .

Thumma was also instrumental in work promoting the “negotiation Gay Evangleical Identity since the 1980s in the book “Gay Religion which took on the same task across the board among all major faiths.

GAY RELIGION AND THUMMA/ HARTFORD SEMINARYS PAST WORK

“Conflicts over homosexuality and gay rights threaten to break apart denominations, if not North American society. These heated theological and political debates have, as well, obscured the fact that many gays and lesbians are religiously active individuals. Gay Religion is the first book to give a straightforward presentation of the spiritual lives, practices and expressions of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender. Drawing from a wide range of religious traditions, new and established scholars explore the range of gay religious expression in denominations, sects, and even outside recognized religious institutions. The essays ask what these religious innovations mean to the continually evolving religious environment of North America. With its helpful section introductions and an appendix providing profiles of organizations involved, Gay Religion is a unique and compelling resource for anyone interested in homosexuality and American religion.”

THUMMAS CHAPTER IN GAY RELIGION WHICH HE EDITED

“Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical”

Scott Thumma

“This article examines the process by which persons reconstruct their Evangelical religious identity to include the formerly incongruent homosexual identity. Members of one conservative gay Christian organization, called Good News, are profiled in the way they come to desire, construct, and solidify a gay Evangelical identity. Through a process of socialization, they renegotiate the boundaries and definitions of their religious identity to include a positive valuation of homosexuality. This accommodated, but still distinctively Evangelical, identity enables persons to resolve the dissonance between their Christian beliefs and their homosexual feelings. The case study explores how a religious identity is accommodated to incorporate incompatible aspects of the self. It provides an interesting glimpse at religious socialization outside of radical conversion. This somewhat unique example offers a look at how individuals and groups are involved in negotiating religious identities in a modern world.”

THUMMA AND BAPTIST / LIFEWAY/ WHEATON’S ED STETZER

Ed Stetzer, Leadership Network operative in the Christian Press steadily Scott Thumma Mega Church /Church Growth hype and his work with Leadnets Dave Travis with heavy hitters like Rick Warren .

Beyond Megachurch Myths: What We Can Learn from America’s Largest Churches Hardcover – Illustrated, August 10, 2007

by Scott Thumma (Author), Dave Travis (Author), Rick Warren (Foreword)

STETZER ON WARRENS “PASTROS.COM”

February 22, 2013

Debunking Megachurch Myths: Especially the One About Sheep-Swapping

By Ed Stetzer

“So this week inadvertently turned into Megachurch Week on the blog. In the event you missed it, everything started Tuesday with some data on the continued growth of megachurches. Then on Wednesday, I shared a new infographic from Leadership Network on the financial health of megachurches.”

REALITIES TO TO CONSIDER

A Report promoting the Churches new role in social services advanced by the Covid 19 Pandemic is not something to be taken as a trend tracking investigation when it is conducted by a leading interreligious seminary and its congregational change agents think tank arms. The efforts have massive outside funding as well as subscribe to UN /NGO Global Goals and interreligious, multi-faith interfaith universalism. NO such effort is interested in the Gospel mission and focus of the church. Instead most are determined to undermine and destroy it.

Stetzer and Leadership Network are famous for tracking their own trends as a means to promote them.

The organizations in this movement are all interconnected in the push for a new paradigm church which, now aided by the Pandemic Response and billions in grant funding is fully enveloped in working as a third leg partner with the government and big business in the Faith Based Partnerships model of the Obama and now Biden era.

The organizations:

Leadership Network

Rick Warrens Purpose Driven Brand and PEACE Plan

Wheaton’s Humanitarian Disaster Institute

Along with Hartford/ Thummas groups :

Hartford Institute for Religion Research: Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations

Faith Communities Today

Many many more like Covid Collaborative , the Ad Council , National Association of Evangelicals – ALL are working to USE THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE to fast forward and advance the effort to redefine the church vision and purpose toward “Equity” Inclusion, Justice, disaster response, immigration /refugee care and being THE GO To partner for the Pandemic Industrial Complex.

CONCLUSION

The VERY organizations and people responsible for the seduction of the church – even entire denominations into the Church Growth Movement, Global Goals Christianity, The Emergent Theological errors and the Faith Based Partnerships with massive outside funding flooding the Household of Faith – are now seeing the Covid 19 virus and response as the perfect means to their long game goals of a new paradigm justice driven church with an interreligious cooperation leaving it stripped of its power in the Holy Spirit, and darkened to its real vision labor like a blinded Samson on the grist mill of social services and care of society.

Even Blinded believers can have a day of redemption and arise to do God’s will.

Judges 16:

²¹ “Then the Philistines took him and ^[d]put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze fetters, and he became a grinder in the prison. ²² However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven.”

Samson Dies with the Philistines

²³ “Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice. And they said:

“Our god has delivered into our hands
Samson our enemy!”

²⁴ When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said:

“Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy,
The destroyer of our land,
And the one who multiplied our dead.”

²⁵ So it happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, “Call for Samson, that he may perform for us.” So they called for Samson from the prison, and he performed for them. And they stationed him between the pillars. ²⁶ Then Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars which support the temple, so that I can lean on them.” ²⁷ Now the temple was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there—about three thousand men and women on the roof watching while Samson performed.

²⁸ Then Samson called to the Lord, saying, “O Lord God, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes!” ²⁹ And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars which supported the temple, and he braced himself against them, one on his right and the other on his left. ³⁰ Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life.”

NO SOONER HAD THE EMOTIONAL SCENES FROM THE BIDEN GENERATED “FALL OF KABUL” AND THE RESURGENCE OF THE TALIBAN REACHED THE U.S. , THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST SEND RELIEF HAD POSITIONED THEMSELVES WITH WORLD RELIEF, CATHOLIC AND LUTHERAN AGENCIES TO AID GOVERNMENT RESETTLEMENT OF MUSLIMS INTO AMERICA.

Rev Thomas Littleton

12/7/2021

No one in Southern Baptist churches has any idea how much money is flooding into the SBC coffers for Afghan Refugee resettlement through NAMB /IMB or it’s Clarkston Georgia -Send Relief Center and others ( there are dozens open and or planned) across the nation. No one knows because NONE OF THE SBC LEADERSHIP are talking about the funding or the government partnerships, or that most of the refugees are in fact not persecuted Christians fleeing the Taliban but Muslims being patriated as “New Americans ” and labeled as the Christians “New Neighbors”.

SEND RELIEF PRESIDENT LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG THAT MOST REFUGEES ARE MUSLIM AND THE CHURCHES ROLE “IS TO WELCOME THEM IN”.

Send Relief Center for Refugees in Clarkston Georgia was set up to help process Syrian Refugees for government agencies , match them with welfare and social services, housing, healthcare, and job training and placement in the name of Christian Mission. The only problems with this scheme is that government agency contracting and funding prohibits ministry (aka explicit religious activity ) to the recipients of the services by those missions agencies involved. Also down the road the tax funding for such “Faith Based Partnerships ” will go away and be replaced by the money and resources of the churches and Christian agencies involved.

Bryant Wright

PRESIDENT SEND RELIEF

“Bryant Wright served in Southern Baptist life as both a pastor and SBC president before joining Send Relief in 2020. He retired as the founding Senior Pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia, on December 15, 2019, where he had pastored for 38 years.”

WRIGHT LAYS A HEAVY DOSE OF VERSES ON “CARING FOR STRANGERS” AND THE GOOD SAMARITAN BUT FAILS TO GRAPS THE INTENTIONAL PROGRESSIVE POLICIES BEHIND THE ONGOING WAVES OF HUMAN MIGRATION BY U.S. DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERS

WRIGHT ALSO NEVER MENTIONS THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS WHICH THE SEND RELIEF PARTNER WORLD RELIEF RECIEVED IN THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS

“Video: Care for Refugees Workshop”

“… archived video for the Care for Refugees Workshop, held September 10, 2021, at the Send Relief Ministry Center in Clarkston, Georgia.”

Care for Refugees Workshop

“This one-day training offered by Send Relief in partnership with World Relief shares practical ways for you to mobilize your family, friends, small group or church to meet the needs of refugees and internationals as they transition to a new home.”

During a September Refugee Volunteer Training Film available on the Send Relief website, Wright told trainees

“After 20 years of US rebuilding effort .. in a disastrous exit everything fell apart .. ( paraphrased from @ minute 28 )”the government has a job to do and that is to take in refugees onto military bases and vet them …and they are vetted a great deal because some people with other intentions. But they will not stay on military bases because it is not the militaries job to care for refugees. The role of the churches is to care for refugees and welcome them in to out neighborhoods, our homes and our churches.. and that makes it difficult in a lot of our churches because of fear (minute 30:23) ” because THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THESE AFGHAN REFUGEES ARE MUSLIMS”

AGAIN WRIGHT ADMITS :

THE FEAR FACTOR BECAUSE …MOST OF “THESE REFUGESS ARE MUSLIMS “

Wright goes on to say that (PARAPHRASED ) ” and here we are in the twenty year shadow of 9/ 1 when Muslims terrorist attacked our land we know the understandable and natural fear that will be there because most of these people are Muslim.”

Wright again admits ” THERE IS FEAR because MOST OF THESE AFGHAN REFUGEES ARE MUSLIM”. Earlier Wright had point out that over 70 % of those Refugees left behind are Women and children .So we can by that admission suppose that most of those being processed into America are Males.

Wright “Muslims are simply deceived by a false teaching that they need to be liberated from …”

But Wright does not explain why Muslim people are fleeing a return to Muslim rule in Afghanistan or why the Refugees are not mostly Christians fleeing persecution. The Obama administration is reported to have placed persecuted Christians last and left many in harms way during it’s “Refugee Crisis” after the poor policies of the Arab Spring. The Biden administration looks to be repeating the pattern.

MORE FROM WRIGHT’S BIO

“He is a straightforward communicator who uniquely connects God’s unchanging truth with a diverse culture through compelling and creative teaching.”

Wright seems accustomed to talking down to his ill informed listeners. This is now a common practice in todays agenda driven pulpits.

Wright does not inform the Baptist volunteers of how much money the SBC/ NAMB and Send Relief or World Relief its direct partnering agency are getting to process refugees. In FACT no one in the SBC outside these insider agency leaders is even told that tax funding is involved. BUT the Baptist are raising more money form their own for the “ministry ” to refugees which the government partnerships prohibit.

“Creative and compelling ” but so much for honesty and integrity.

THE MONEY IS NEVER MENTION BUT HOW MUCH ARE WE TALKING ABOUT FOR MINISTRY ORGANIZATIONS LIKE SEND AND WORLD RELIEF?

Don’t wait for them to bring it up because they will not but Catholic Charities received some $5.4 billion during the last “Refugee Crisis ” and World Relief – its evangelical partner and recruited received some $300 million form that .

HOW MUCH IS IN THE MIX FOR BAPTIST /SEND RELIEF AND OTHER EVANGLEICALS? IT MAYTAKE YEARS TO KNOW BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT TELLING.

Meanwhile these leaders are TRAFFICKING IN THE FAITHFUL and the selling the faith of their followers to global goals deceptions.

Read MORE here :

PARADISE LOST : FAITH TRAFFICKING AND THE PLIGHT OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH

MUSLIM POPULATION GROWTH IN AMERICA VIA CHRISTIAN AID MISSIONARIES

The long term outcomes of this and other refugee resettlement efforts is a massive Muslim migration into the West. That is the intention of both the Obama era Syrian crisis and the present day efforts to resettle Afghan refugees. It has little to do with compassion for persecuted peoples and far more to do with the progressive open borders agendas of globalist. Americas conservative and Christian demographics are being diluted and weakened while our own people are being told they are ministering the Gospel to the refugees of the world.

THE SEND PARTNERSHIPS IN DETAIL

“Send Relief, World Relief working together to resettle Afghan refugees“

“ALPHARETTA, Ga.—In the aftermath of the sudden, tragic fall of Afghanistan into the hands of the Taliban, thousands of refugees have been fleeing the landlocked nation to escape persecution and retaliation from the extremist group. Send Relief, the compassion ministry arm of Southern Baptists, has begun the process of helping Afghan refugees as they resettle around the world by working with World Relief and other ministry partners.”

“The Taliban recently seized power of Afghanistan, storming the nation and capturing most major cities within a matter of days.”

“In the aftermath of the political coup, a mass exodus is taking place as Afghans try to flee the country by the thousands. Religious and ethnic minorities, along with women and girls, are the groups most in danger of Taliban violence as they try to escape.”

“As Afghan refugees are resettled, this crisis will impact communities all around the world, including yours. Through Send Relief and the combined resources of the IMB and NAMB, Southern Baptists are able to serve Afghan refugees wherever they are resettled.”

“Send Relief is strategically working with our trusted ministry partners to minister to Afghan refugee families. We can connect you and your church with opportunities to pray, serve and give to support this response!”

“Your gifts to the Afghanistan Refugee Crisis Fund will support churches and refugee ministries in the United States and around the world as they care for resettled Afghan refugees. Give today to bring help and healing to the hurting!”

“Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for the latest updates on our response.”

“How You and Your Church Can Serve”

Partner with World Relief

“The most immediate way your church can serve resettled refugees is by volunteering as a host home through your local World Relief office. If your church is interested in ministering to refugees by becoming a host home, fill out the World Relief interest form.”

Afghan Refugee Ministry Coaching

“Your church can request personalized coaching from a Send Relief Afghan refugee expert as you minister to Afghan refugees in your community. Our team will coach you in evangelism, discipleship and cross-cultural awareness.”

Care for Refugees Workshop

“Did you miss our Care for Refugees Workshop on September 10? Don’t worry! You can still watch a video of the entire event. Watch now by clicking here.”

THE GRAND DECEPTION GOES MUCH DEEPER

MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS CANNOT FAITHFULLY COEXIST NOR CAN THE US CONSTITUTION MERGE WIHT SHARIA

Religious Liberty in America is born out of its Judeo Christian influence on the Constitution. Sharia is not compatible with the US Constitution and its understanding of Religious Liberty. Americans have been a very tolerant people but the suppression of Christianity in the US has reached an all time high while the posture toward Islam is shifting in it’s favor. The progressive political movements in both Faiths and in fact among ALL FAITHS is a deception of globalist toward a “Global Spirituality ” where faiths and people are allowed some distinctions and doctrines but are all hard pressed into the common ground for the common good and for a toxic new age mixture of comingled nothingness.

NO TRUE ADHERENTS TO ANY FAITH WILL BUY THIS LIE.

No True Christians can allow it to prosper among our churches.

Christian faith cannot successfully be merged into Interfaith and Multi-faith alliances such as those promoted by Baptist leaders like Rick Warren, Ed Stetzer,or Bob Roberts via Neighborly Faith or Multi Faith Neighbors Network.

REFUGEES ARE ON THIER WAY TO CITIZENSHIP–FASTRACK

“OFFICE OF NEW AMERICANS”

“The Office of New Americans (ONA) was established in 2020 to promote the economic and civic success of Virginia’s diverse immigrant communities. The Office is comprised of an Immigrant Services unit and Refugee Services unit (formerly known as the Office of Newcomer Services).”

The Office is responsible for the implementation of a statewide strategy to provide immigrants with comprehensive assistance related to employment, housing, healthcare, education, citizenship and other services for which they may be eligible.

A LOOK AT VIRGINIA FOR HOW IT IS WORKING IN THE BROADER EFFORT WITH CATHOLIC AND LUTHERAN AGENCIES

US News in August

More Virginia Sites Set to Welcome Afghan Immigrant Influx

“Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration has received notification that the Department of Defense has authorized the use of Marine Corps Base Quantico to house Afghan refugees, as well as a national guard installation in central Virginia.”

“Fort Lee, an Army training site in Virginia, was already housing immigrants who recently fled Afghanistan. Over the coming weeks, capacity at Quantico and Fort Pickett in Nottoway County “will build” to support about 5,000 and 10,000 people, respectively, according to an email a senior Northam administration official received and shared with The Associated Press.”

“We welcome these refugees, no matter how long or short they are here,” said Billy Coleburn, the mayor of Blackstone, which neighbors Fort Pickett.”

“VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES.“

“Virginia’s Refugee Resettlement Program supports refugees with social integration and economic empowerment. Support services available to refugee-eligible clients include employment, health, education, youth mentoring, services for older refugees and foster care for unaccompanied refugee minors through the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Foster Care (URM) program .

VDSS works in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and federally-contracted agencies to administer the URM program.

Refugee services are currently provided by six resettlement agencies across the state: Catholic Charities Diocese of Arlington- Migration and Refugee Services, Commonwealth Catholic Charities, Church World Service, Ethiopian Community Development Council, International Rescue Committee and Lutheran Social Services. Click here for Resettlement Contracts“

Reports & Information

• 2021 Kick-Off Meeting (MP4)
• Virginia Refugee Statistics (XLSX)

Virginia’s Resettlement Agencies

• Catholic Charities Diocese of Arlington – Migration and Refugee Services
• Church World Service
• Commonwealth Catholic Charities
• Ethiopian Community Development Council
• International Rescue Committee (Charlottesville)
• International Rescue Committee (Richmond)
• Lutheran Social Services

Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Foster Care Programs

• Commonwealth Catholic Charities – Richmond
• Lutheran Social Services – Fairfax
• Office of Refugee Resettlement URM Program Overview

DETAILS OF SCOPE OF SERVICES AND POLICY

Highlights of Resources, Services, News and Upcoming Events

• Arlington Community Outreach Program Citizenship Classes are open for enrollment. The free, virtual classes are open to both Arlington and non-Arlington residents.  Contact Susan at sstolpe@arlingtonva.us or 703.228.1198 with any questions or to register
• Afghan Women’s Group is offered through ECDC on Zoom. This group provides an opportunity to make friends and gain support during the resettlement process and learn tips on living in the United States as an Afghan woman. Register online. 
• The Career Pathways Program is actively enrolling new participants in their employment services program for refugees, SIVs, and approved asylees. Enrollees receive employment assistance with resume development, interviewing practice, case management. For more information check the website or email savannah.hill@alexandriava.gov.
• The City of Alexandria, Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) and local preschool providers are working together to connect qualifying families to a free or low-cost educational program. Alexandria residents with a child turning four by September 30 can learn more information by visiting the ACPS website.
• Lutheran Social Services is looking for more mentors for refugee youth and families. Now that mentoring is fully remote, you can do so from wherever you live! See the website for details or contact Debi Kant at kantd@lssnca.org.
• Adult Dental Service. Dental Services for Adults covered under Medicaid will now be offered through DentaQuest starting July 1. For more information visit vahealthcatalyst.org/AdultDentalBenefit.
• Asylee Assistance for Mandarin Speakers. Catholic Charities Diocese of Arlington now has a Mandarin-speaker on staff that can assist Uyghur asylees in need of services. Ms. Lee can be reached at chia.lee@ccda.net or 571.469.2728.
• Good Neighbor Partner Program. LSSNCA’s Good Neighbor Partner is now recruiting organizational and congregational partners to help welcome refugees to the DMV. To ease this transition and provide an extra layer of care and support, LSSNCA matches families with local congregations and groups as Good Neighbor Partners. For more information contact Shelby Kruczek kruczeks@lssnca.org. 
• USCIS is no longer applying the Trump administration’s Public Charge Final Rule: The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is no longer applying the has returned to applying the public charge inadmissibility statute consistent with the 1999 Interim Field Guidance. In other words, an applicant’s receipt of Medicaid (except for long-term institutionalization at the government’s expense), public housing, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are no longer considered as part of the public charge inadmissibility determination. Learn more and access a set of FAQs at alexandriava.gov/DCHS.
• Updated student financial aid eligibility coming August 2022: House Bill 2123, sponsored by Delegate Alfonso Lopez, and Senate Bill 1387, sponsored by Senator Jennifer Boysko, make any student eligible for state financial aid if they are eligible for in-state tuition, regardless of citizenship or immigration status. This law will take effect August 1, 2022.
• Medicaid has expanded coverage eligibility for certain Lawful Permanent Residents: Effective April 1, 2021, a qualified Lawful Permanent Resident who entered the U.S. on or after August 22, 1996, and who has resided in the U.S. for at least five years is no longer required to have any qualifying quarters of work to receive full Medicaid benefits. Lawful Permanent Residents who previously were ineligible due to not having required working quarters are encouraged to reapply online or call CoverVA at 855.242.8282.

CONCLUSION

Progressive policy and Democratic Party/ Saul Alinsky inspired politics say “NEVER WASTE A GOOD CRISIS”. Alinsky , who realized the Catholic Charities were a great target for his efforts to radicalize and rally professing Catholics and “Christians” for the left – would be proud of current efforts to distort and deceive “do good” Christians into thinking that furthering open borders and globalist agendas and undermining the influence of Christian faith and religious liberty in America is “The ministry of the Gospel”.

Alinsky Rule number 6- “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”

Baptist and Christians love to SERVE. Tell them they are serving the Refugees and God while you harness them for Global Goals and the spread of a false one world spirituality where all faiths join forces for eh kingdom of anti Christ. Brilliant deception.

Deuteronomy 28

“Curses on Disobedience”

⁴³ “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. ⁴⁴ He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

⁴⁷ “Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, ⁴⁸ therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.”

THE SALVATION ARMY CAN NO LONGER HIDE THE TROUBLING FUTURE IT HAS CAST FOR ITSELF. THE WOKE JUSTICE MOVEMENT WHICH LED THEM TO DEMAND DONORS REPENT OF RACISM DID GAINED ATTENTION. YET THE APOSTATE COMPROMISE RUNS MUCH DEEPER.

Rev Thomas Littleton

12/3/2021

Another historic Christian Institution is gone down the worm hole of the United Nations Global Justice Sustainability Goals. There is NO coming back.

By 2014 it was obvious that the Salvation army was veering sharply to the left and appeasing activist culture like the Human Rights Campaign .

By the time you heard the Christmas donor bells ringing during shopping season the situation had obviously gotten much worse as the Salvation Army released a GUIDE asking white donors to repent of racism. YET a deeper look at the Salvation Army’s International Social Justice Commission and its work with the United Nations proves just how far the once Gospel centered ministry has fallen.

WHY WE SEEK JUSTICE

• To promote a vision of justice based on the life and teaching of Jesus Christ.
• To advocate and advise on social, economic, political issues and events which lead to the perpetuation of injustice in the world.
• To amplify the voices of poor, marginalized and oppressed people and translate their real life insights into policies, practices and life-giving opportunities.

‘”God is still leading and blessing the Army. With that comes a clear call … to link who we are with the very essence of what we do, the mission that is ours. […] It is a call to be a justice-focused Army.’- The Officer – July-September 2018“

THE FULL GLOBAL GOALS BUY IN OF SALVATION ARMY

The UN Sustainable Development Goals are the globalist dream list of redistribution and global governance attainments and how to nuance compliance of them by faith based organizations to serve in the grand scheme called Agenda 2030 . Other “Christian” organizations have already sold out to the Globalist like the Lausanne Movement , Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven and PEACE Plan and the Catholics current Pope Francis who in Sept 2015 fully embraced the scheme at the UN itself. At that time the shortened timeline for attaining the Global Goals controls had been by 2050 but the progress under the Obama administration had enabled 20 years to be shaven off the timeline and the movement renamed Agenda 2030.

HERE IS SALVATION ARMY IN ITS OWN GLOBAL GOALS ALIGNMENT WORDS

Why should we get involved with the SDGs?

“The fact that world leaders agreed on a set of goals reflecting values which The Salvation Army has promoted for 125 years is something to be welcomed – especially as it can result in positive change for the poorest and most vulnerable people. The goals identify issues and promote values very familiar to Salvationists: equality of all people with no discrimination; the well‐being of all people with all people able to flourish; being good stewards of the earth and its resources; seeking peace and security for all people. These are values that shine through the Bible and have inspired Christians for more than 2000 years. All people, without exception, are made in the image of God and are equally precious to him (Genesis 1:27‐31). In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus declared: ‘Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God’ (Matthew 5:9). Jesus declared that he came that we might ‘have life and life in all its fullness’ (John 10:10). The SDGs recognise a lesson The Salvation Army learnt many years ago – people and communities need to participate in their own development. In addition, The Salvation Army recognises the importance of integration. Just as God created people as integrated persons with body and soul so those seeking to participate in God’s mission to save the world should not fragment services or treat only the body while trying to ignore the soul and spiritual healing. General André Cox is encouraging The Salvation Army to focus attention on the SDGs in every programme. This does not mean only in the developing world. The goals are universal, for every nation, for all people, everywhere.”

“The International Social Justice Commission is The Salvation Army’s strategic voice to advocate for human dignity and social justice with the world’s poor and oppressed. Building on The Salvation Army’s participation in the United Nations since 1947, the International Social Justice Commission has embraced the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a focus of its research, teaching, policy, and coalition-building work. The International Social Justice Commission staff are deployed in New York, Vienna, Geneva and Nairobi.The Salvation Army International Social Justice Commission (ISJC) promotes constructive conversation and respect among individuals. In participating on this page users agree to respect other people’s differences and engage in mutual understanding. The ISJC reserves the right to remove or edit any comments that it considers inappropriate or unacceptable.”

SALVATION ARMY WANTS TO THINK THE WORLD HAS ALIGNED WITH THE GOSPEL AND THE SALVATION ARMYS MISSION?

REALLY ?

While Intersectionality is ravaging the Southern Baptist Church and other denominations and setting them up to be pillaged by the feminist /metoo movement and forced into “Diversity Equity and Inclusion” culture -the Salvation Army has chosen to be an ally for the feminist justice /intersectionality march through the institutions.

NOTE the Salvation Army has always been an egalitarian movement so why does it need to champion feminine theory calls for “justice” ?

SOME OF THE KEY ELEMENTS OF THE PARTNERSHIP WITH GLOBAL JUSTICE

CRY JUSTICE “

“The international Salvation Army is being called to prioritise prayer, specifically for justice on behalf of women and girls.“

“In every context of injustice females suffer most. Globally, women do three times more unpaid care work than men. The gap is largest in Northern Africa and Western Asia, but it exists in every region. Globally one in two women who are murdered are murdered by a male partner or family member. 71 per cent of all trafficking victims globally are females.”

“Our hearts anguish to see the images and read the headlines. We cry out for justice in the streets, and before God in prayer.”

“We cry for justice because of the image of God in every human being, the God revealed in Jesus Christ, the One who loves justice, and works justice for all the oppressed (Psalm 33:5; 103:6).”

“Will you join us in seeking justice together, by crying out to God in prayer for justice in the earth, following the example of the persistent widow as described by Jesus? ‘And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?’”

“WOMEN LEADING IN THE CHURCH”

(NOTE THE JUSTICE AND RACIAL NARRATIVES DEVELOPED BY THE QUESTIONS IN THIS SALVATION ARMY EVENT.)

“What challenge have you faced as women of colour leaders? What has it been like to sit at the decision-making tables?

What difference do you think it makes to have Women of Colour at the table where decision are binging made? How has it taken shape in your own experience as leaders.

What violence against Women and girls do you see that needs to be eliminated in the context of the Church?

Is the Church ahead or behind of the larger society when it comes to embracing Women’s leadership? How do we model that in the church?“

SALVATION ARMY WANTS TO TEACH KIDS SOCIAL JUSTICE INDOCTRINATION

WORKING WITH SAVE THE CHILDREN SALVATION ARMY IS PUTTING FORTH THIS GUIDE

“12 TIPS YOU CAN TRUST:
Talking with Children About Racism
and Social Justice”

“Every child has the right to grow up healthy, educated and safe – regardless of race, gender or socioeconomic status. Systemic change to end racism is essential to achieving this vision.
Save the Children was founded over 100 years ago to fight for universal values and
children’s rights. However, we also live in a society that still suffers from a legacy of
institutional racism. This is a difficult time for America, and for anyone who believes in and is fighting for a more just world.
Save the Children remains committed to fighting for what is right and against injustices. We proudly stand in solidarity with the Black community.
As you seek ways to navigate conversations with children in your life about recent events, including violence, and race in America, we are here for you. We know that these are not easy conversations to have. Nor are they a one-time occurrence. There is also no unique individual or organization that holds all the answers to every question that may arise. But we encourage you to use the following tips to start a conversation or as a continuation, aimed at helping children to better understand what is happening around them.”

THE SALVATION ARMY PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE UNITED NATIONS IN SOCIAL JUSTICE PROVIDE ANNUAL REPORTS. ON THIER APOSTATE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

“The high-level political forum on sustainable development (HLPF) is the core United Nations platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.”

“The meeting of the HLPF in 2021 was held from Tuesday, 6 July, to Thursday, 15 July 2021, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. This included the three-day ministerial meeting of the forum from Tuesday, 13 July, to Thursday, 15 July 2021“

SALVATION ARMY PLAYS THE RACE CARD

“LET’S TALK ABOUT RACISM”

“Consistent with its scriptural foundations, The Salvation Army stands against racism in all forms. Our International Positional Statement on Racism makes that clear.“

“Elements of the recently issued “Let’s Talk About Racism” guide led some to believe we think they should apologize for the color of their skin, or that The Salvation Army may have abandoned its Biblical beliefs for another philosophy or ideology. That was never our intention, so the guide has been removed for appropriate review.”

SALVATION ARMY AND “REFUGEE CARE”

“THE SALVATION ARMY
INTERNATIONAL POSITIONAL STATEMENT
REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS”

“The Salvation Army is gravely concerned for the needs of the millions of people who are refugees and asylum seekers. People are fleeing their homes and countries because of a well-founded fear of persecution. Many of these people have experienced significant grief and trauma, which have potential long-term consequences for their health and well-being.”
“The Salvation Army recognises that the ability to seek asylum is a basic human right, with all people having the right to life, liberty and security of person. The Salvation Army supports international efforts to eliminate persecution and displacement through the promotion of peace, tolerance, understanding and respect for human life and dignity.
God’s hospitable loving concern for the stranger and foreigner are evident in Scripture and therefore, The Salvation Army contends that individuals and governments should act compassionately and humanely towards persons seeking asylum.”

SALVATION ARMY LOST IN AND ENDLESS CIRCLE OF DEADLY DIALOG WITH NO GRASP ON THE GOSPEL

“International Discussion Documents aim is to stimulate personal reflection rather than to provide conclusive positions. The hope is that these documents will better equip Salvationists to contribute towards broader dialogue or help inform personal choices related to the issue.”

BY 2015 THE SALVATION ARMY WAS SINKING IN THE MIRE ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN REPORTS WITH THE UN.

2015 ISJC UN REPORTS

2015

DECEMBER 2015

• (17 Dec 2015) Updates on the Paris Climate Agreement (COP21)
• (10 Dec 2015) The Economic Cost of LGBT Exclusion
• (03 Dec 2015) Combatting racism in the 21st century
• (02 Dec 2015) Unshackling Development – SDG 8.7 and the struggle to end modern slavery, forced labour and human trafficking
• (02 Dec 2015) 50 Years of Fighting Racism: Introducing Tolerance on the Internet: Changing Attitudes and Patterns of Behavior

NOVEMBER 2015

• (19 Nov 2016) Fourth Youth-Led Briefing, Youth at the Forefront: Bridging the Gap between Climate Change and Climate Action
• (05 Nov 2015) Art as Tool for Conflict Prevention and Reconciliation

OCTOBER 2015

• (30 Oct 2015) Engaging Religious Men and Women Leaders in Empowering Women
• (28 Oct 2015) Men on the Stand

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CONCLUSION

The Salvation Army provides ample proof that it has joined the growing list of lost organizations who have joined globalist to build TOWARD the very kind of end time prophetic fulfillment ensuring its own demise as a Christ honoring and Gospel proclaiming organization. NO organization- no matter how solid it was in its origins or how much fruit it may have born in the past – has ever recovered it’s God given calling from this apostate abyss.

Somewhere -someone -somehow enticed the Salvation Army to sell its most precious possession .

Genesis 25:29-34

“²⁹ And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

³¹ And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

³² And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

³³ And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.”