Few other indicators of the broader evangelical decline are more pointed that the utter descent of Christianity Today into the gutters and ghettos of the far left. In 2018 the editors were endorsing and promoting the radical Revoice LGBTQ inclusion movement. CT pushed the #ChurchToo movement as well as CRT and BLM justifications.
CHRISTIANITY TODAY PROMISES TO MAKE YOU “MORE INFORMED”. BUY IT?
BEGGING TO BE PART OF THE “THOUGHTFUL COMMUNITY”?
This week Christianity Today promoted the death of Liberation Theology and lauded his influence. SOUNDS THOUGHTFUL !
“The Evangelical Legacy of Gustavo Gutierrez’s Liberation Theology”
“How the Peruvian priest influenced the fathers of integral mission.“
ACCUSING REMAINING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS OF CONSTRUCTING A GOLDEN CALF WITH THEIR POLITICAL STAND.
Christianity Today
September/October 2024
Volume 68, Number 6
October 15, 1956
THIS GOLDEN CALF GRAPHIC CURRENTLY SERVES AT CT’S WALLPAPER ON SOCIAL MEDIA. ELECTION STORIES ALL FOLLOW A LEFTWARD AND ACCUSATORY BENT MUCH LIKE CURRENT EDITOR RUSSELL MOORE’S HISTORIC RHETORIC AGAINST CONSERVATIVE. CONVICTIONAL EVANGELICALS.
July/August, 2024
“Our September/October issue explores themes in spiritual formation and uncovers what’s really discipling us. Bonnie Kristian argues that the biblical vision for the institutions that form us is renewal, not replacement—even when they fail us. Mike Cosper examines what fuels political fervor around Donald Trump and assesses the ways people have understood and misunderstood the movement. Harvest Prude reports on how partisan distrust has turned the electoral process into a minefield and how those on the frontlines—election officials and volunteers—are motivated by their faith as they work. Read about Christian renewal in intellectual spaces and the “yearners”—those who find themselves in the borderlands between faith and disbelief. And find out how God is moving among his kingdom in Europe, as well as what our advice columnists say about budget-conscious fellowship meals, a kid in Sunday school who hits, and a dating app dilemma.”
CHRISTIANITY TODAY RUNS A STANDARD “3RD WAY” POLITICAL STORY FEATURING A DIVIDED CONGREGATION FROM THE PCA… POOR LOST CHRISTIAN VOTERS.
“How Can Evangelicals Navigate Political Tensions? Practice.”
“This campaign season, Christians have tried to proactively address political polarization—starting with tough conversations among themselves.”
“Emmaus Road Church in Appleton, Wisconsin, draws in around 200 faithful on a Sunday. It’s a mostly conservative Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) church; some congregants sport Donald Trump campaign signs on their cars or lawns, and others voted for Joe Biden in 2020.”
AS ALWAYS CHRISTIANITY TODAY IS A MAINSTREAM OUTLET FOR THE LAUSANNE MOVEMENTS GLOBALISM.
“Lausanne Theologians Explain Seoul Statement that Surprised Congress Delegates”
“Leaders of the 33-member Theology Working Group offer insight on their 97-point, 13,000-word declaration.”
RUSSELL MOORE BECOMING EDITOR IN CHIEF WAS A BOLD STEP TOWARD OBLIVION AND ERASING THE REMAINS OF WHAT READERSHIP THEY STILL HAD.
“Russell Moore became the editor in chief of Christianity Today on September 1, 2022:
BackgroundMoore was hired as a public theologian for the magazine after leaving the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. He has been a prominent evangelical Christian public voice for the past decade through his books, articles, podcasts, and public speaking.
RoleAs editor in chief, Moore is responsible for setting the vision and direction of the editorial team. He will also continue to advance the Public Theology Project, with Joy Allmond serving as editorial chief of staff to support him.
ReactionCEO Timothy Dalrymple said that Moore was chosen because of his courage to express his convictions and integrity to live by them.”
IN AUGUST 2024 THE “& CAMPAIGN” ACTIVIST AND OBAMA FOUNDATION ALLY AMISHO (SHO) BARAKA LEWIS JOINED CHRISTIANITY TODAY’S STAFF TO “REACH/IMPACT NEW READERS”
READ MORE ABOUT THE ” & CAMPAIGN” AND THE LEWIS BROTHERS ROLE IN THIS OBAMA FOUNDATION LED POLITICAL EFFORT WITH MANY TGC LEADERS, INCLUDING TIM KELLER, INVOLVED WHEN & CAMPAIGN WAS LAUNCHED.
American political landscape is divided but not because of the conservative Christians who are being accused by the media and “Christian” media BUT because the left is veering even farther left and because the media is owned by the left and Christian media is no different from secular media in its “Values” or its politics.
When convictional bible believers have had enough- they are not being divisive but reacting to inflitration in their own ranks and concern over the future of America and the Church, their own families and their FAITH when they see organizations like CT supposedly sepaeking for them adn to them and headed by the kinds of people now running the show.
PERUVIAN Gustavo Gutiérrez HAS DIED IN A NURSING HOME IN LIMA PERU AFTER HIS REPUTATION HAD BEEN POLISHED AND PROMOTED BY FELLOW MARXIST POPE FRANCIS IN RECENT YEARS.
By Rev Thomas Littleton
10/24/2024
One of the central figures in the rise of social justice false gospel through his “Liberation Theology” has died but his sad legacy and impact will live on in social movements and seminaries globally.
(Gustavo Gutiérrez attended a news conference at the Vatican, May 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of liberation theology, died Tuesday night . He is rightly described as a Marxist by his detractors and held at a distance under Vatican scrutiny for much of his career. But he and his work were “partly rehabilitated” by fellow Marxist, Jesuit, Pope Francis.
EXTREMELY PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY TODAY CELEBRATED BOTH GUSTAVO AND HIS LIBERATION THEOLOGY.
“The Evangelical Legacy of Gustavo Gutierrez’s Liberation Theology “
“How the Peruvian priest influenced the fathers of integral mission“
“Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Catholic theologian who first argued for a “preferential option for the poor,” died on October 23 at the age of 96.
Scholars and pastors reflect on how his liberation theology impacted Latin American evangelical theology and church growth:”
LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND ITS ORIGINS AND INFLUENCE .
Liberation theologies first emmerged in Latin America and spread among Catholics AFTER the Second “Vatican Council” in the ealry 60s. Its ideologies are at the root of “social justice” and the call for “oppressed minorities” to be “liberated” from generational oppressions and for the oppressors to have a price extracted for their long- term oppressive actions and harm. it was criticized based on the core fundemntal aspects of liberation theology use of Marxist economic theory.
“A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation”
“It would be difficult to name another theological book these past five decades that has been more influential, has inspired more believers and non-believers alike to think differently about the Christian faith, and has engendered so much controversy.” So begins Michael E. Lee’s introduction to this 50th anniversary edition of the classic work that signaled a new style of doing theology.”
“The theological project launched in this book was, as Fr. Gutiérrez wrote, “based on the gospel and the experiences of men and women committed to the process of liberation in the oppressed land of Latin America.” It was “born of the experience of shared efforts to abolish the current unjust situation and to build a different society, freer and more human.” Yet its influence was quickly felt around the world, inspiring numerous offshoots, as well as provoking critical reactions, both inside and outside the Church.”
“A Theology of Liberation has won wide acclaim as one of the most influential works of Christian theology of the last century. Yet Gutiérrez himself concluded the book by noting that any theology of liberation “is not worth one act of genuine solidarity with exploited social classes. They are not worth one act of faith, love, and hope committed . . . in active participation to liberate humankind from everything that dehumanizes it and prevents it from living according to the will of God.”
LIBERATION THEOLOGY SATURATION AND MANIFESTATIONS ARE EVERYWHERE
Gutierrez influence came to the US in time to be merged into and inspire many in the Civil Rights Movement. Sadly MOST of that spread through the influence of churches caught up in the appeal of a message which provided “justice” in the name of Jesus. Today, for example, Liberation Theology is at the core of Black Lives Matter and the social action and riots of recent years INCLUDING THE CALLS for Palestinian Liberation. BUT the Liberation Theology movement has impacted many leaders across the church landscape as it is both rooted in Marxism and promoted as a “Gospel Cause”. Gutierrez understood these broader applications of his “gospel of liberation” for oppressed when he said “As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.“
In the article “Theology and Poverty” he said :
The announcement and testimony of the reign of God denounces poverty.
The intelligence of faith reveals essential aspects of God and provides a perspective for theological work.
Walking in the footsteps of Jesus, otherwise known as spirituality, is, on the deepest level, the basis on which everything else rests.
THE MARXIST ASSUMPTIONS OF LIBERATION THEOLOGY
“Consisting of a synthesis of Christian theology and Marxist socioeconomic analyses, liberation theology stresses social concern for the poor and advocates for liberation for oppressed peoples. In addition to being a theological matter, liberation theology was often tied to concrete political practice.”
“As a radical trend in Christianity, liberation theology can be interpreted as an ideology for the oppressed. Like Marxism, it releases a hope for the oppressed who would liberate themselves from miserable society.Using a Marxist analysis of capitalism, liberation theology argues that workers are alienated and so exploited. It argues that a capitalist system sacrifices the needs of the many for the benefit of the few.”
“If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition that we now face surely will fail. We’re going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the almighty God are embodied in our echoing demands.”
““Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a cripple. It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being hated for being an orphan.”
“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/liberate-quotes”
COMING TO THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH FROM CATHOLIC THEOLOGIANS.
EXAMPLES OF EVANGELICAL INFILTRATION OF LIBERATION THEOLOGY
“Red Letter ChristiansA group of authors, clergy, and social justice advocates that combine evangelical theology with liberation theology. They use the teachings of Jesus, and the framing of inequality as social sin by liberation theology pioneer Gustavo Gutierrez, to expand their understanding of salvation.”
“Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and JusticeA book that brings together the voices of academics, activists, and pastors to explore the relationship between liberation theology and evangelical tenets of faith. The book covers topics such as race, gender, and animal rights. “
JAMES CONE/LIBERATION THEOLOGY /CRT AND SOUTHERN BAPTIST SEMINARIES
JAMES CONE – BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY
“A formidable figure in life, Cone leaves a considerable legacy: as a pioneering figure in the development of black theology; as mentor to several generations of black theologians and preachers; and as someone who worked across boundaries to find common cause with other liberation theologians, such as Gustavo Gutiérrez.”
WALTER STRICKLAND A PROFESSOR AT SEBTS WAS FAR TO OPEN ABOUT HIS TEACHING OF (BLACK) LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND “QUOTING WITHOUT NAMING” JAMES CONE.
NEW YORK TIMES APRIL 2019
“Can Black Evangelicals Save the Whole Movement?”
“African-American spiritual leaders are talking about racism — and some white churchgoers are listening.”
STRICKLAND FROM THE NYTIMES PIECE- COMMENTS ON PRESIDENT TRUMP
““I think people are hungrier for this conversation,” said Mr. Strickland, who travels around the country to advise Christians on how to recognize and mitigate systemic racism. “The reality of Donald Trump and all the issues we’ve faced since his candidacy have really hardened the hearts of some, but it’s also ripped many people even farther away from conflating the Republican Party with the party of Christ.”
“Some of the Christian right’s most prominent leaders have split over Mr. Trump’s racist, xenophobic rhetoric. They disagree over how to fulfill the earthly duties of Christians — especially the obligation to make this fallen world look more like the Kingdom of God foretold in the Book of Revelation, when people “from every nation, tribe, people and language” shall stand together “before the throne and before the Lamb.”
STRICKLAND ON THE DIVISIVE AND EXPOSIVE MLK/50 CONFERENCE IN 2018 PRESENTED BY ERLC AND THE GOSPEL COALITION .
“Last spring, two influential conservative evangelical groups hosted a splashy conference in Memphis called “MLK50” to “reflect on the state of racial unity in the church and the culture” on the 50th anniversary of the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But other conservatives complained that the event was, as one writer put it, “dripping with critical race theory, intersectionality and cultural Marxism.”
STRICKLAND ON SBTS PRESIDENT ALBERT MOHLER’S “HELP”.
“But this old debate has taken a new turn. Mr. MacArthur’s statement on social justice provoked a backlash from fellow conservatives, like R. Albert Mohler Jr., the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. He cautioned that “part of what it means to be made in God’s image is that we are accountable to divine justice and to seeking, through human flourishing, to see God’s justice reflected in a fallen world.” Mr. Mohler helped to purge his seminary of moderate faculty members in the 1990s, but last year he commissioned a report about the school’s complicity in the “horrifying realities of American slavery, Jim Crow segregation, racism and even the avowal of white racial supremacy.””
STRICKLAND’S DECEPTIVE ADMISSIONS ABOUT TEACHING JAMES CONE
“Radical thinkers have found their way into the citadels of white evangelicalism. Reading the black liberation theologian James Cone helped Mr. Strickland, the theology professor, see how white theologians often ignore the structural sources of earthly suffering. In 1969, the Rev. Dr. Cone admonished “new blacks, redeemed in Christ” to “say to whites that authentic love is not ‘help,’ not giving Christmas baskets but working for political, social and economic justice, which always means a redistribution of power.”
“Courses in African-American theology have been on the books at moderate evangelical seminaries since the 1970s. But it is significant that Mr. Strickland has brought a thinker like Dr. Cone into the heart of the conservative Southern Baptist Convention. Mr. Strickland spent years studying in majority-white evangelical schools, where he mastered the idiom of the Christian right. When he speaks to conservative white congregations, he is careful: “While Cone’s ideas are in play, I don’t mention him by name, because I don’t want to put unnecessary stumbling blocks in their way.” Scripture’s authority comes first. “If I’m able to demonstrate that this black man in front of them has read the Bible, I gain credit with them.”
ACTIVIST PROFESSOR AND RESOLUTION 9 CRT/INTERSECTIONALITY CO-AUTHOR WALTER STRICKLAND IS ONE OF THE MORE WELL KNOWN AND EXPOSED SOUTHERN BAPTIST LIBERATION THEOLOGY ADVOCATES. HE REMAINS EMPLOYED AT SEBTS INDOCTRINATING MINISTERIAL STUDENTS AND IS ALSO HELPING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ORGANIZATION ACSI TO SPREAD THE FALSE TEACHINGS OF CRT / INTERSECTIOANLITY AND BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY among conservative biblical Christian faith in America.
“Assistant Professor of Systematic and Contextual Theology and Associate Vice President for Diversity at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Walter R. Strickland II appeared in the below podcast (in 2016 I think, the video has been doing the rounds on social media) promoting the writings of black liberation theologian J. Deotis Roberts. There is a particularly worrying discussion from around 13:40mins about what it means to be saved and what is justice. Whilst in reference to James Cone’s eschatology, in distinction to Roberts’, the lack of Biblical clarity is very troubling. In the latter half of the discussion Strickland also appears to advocate a racialised understanding of God and “restoration”.”
“This is what is being taught in supposedly conservative seminaries. Along with the recent cover-up by SBTS and Al Mohler of self-professed racist Matthew Hall’s outrageous statements it’s clear something is deeply wrong in “conservative” Christianity.” ( FROM POST AT “PURITAN BOARD)
CRT/ INTERSECTIONALITY REMAIN IN CONSERVATIVE BAPTIST SEMINARIES.
THE CULTURAL IMPACT. GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ “GRAVE INFLEUNCE” LIVES ON.
Brannon Howse in his book “Grave Influence” documents many key progressive and Marxist leaders of the past who have their influence continue to expand BEYOND THE GRAVE.
“Grave Influence: 21 Radicals and Their Worldviews That Rule America From the Grave.”
By Brannon Howse 2009
Gustavo Gutiérrez HAS NOW JOINED THEM as Liberation Theology /ideology continues to spread.
Liberation Theology and its trickle down identities dividing class and seeking to excercise its power through endless protest and activism are not going away. The media, entertainment, politics, and cluture in general are salted and saturated with it like a poison waterhole in a desert western. People are hungry for change but have no idea when their voices join the chorus of Liberation Theology that they are actually crying out to become voices of advocacy toward an even more oppressive system which has inspired it … Marxism.
CONCLUSION.
THESE are the kinds of deceptions being used to teach “LIBERATION THEOLOGY in once conservative biblical seminaries by hired activist working for men like Albert Mohler and other SBC seminary Presidents.
Let the NY Times Strickland interview say it in thier own words:
“Radical thinkers have found their way into the citadels of white evangelicalism. Reading the black liberation theologian James Cone helped Mr. Strickland, the theology professor, see how white theologians often ignore the structural sources of earthly suffering. In 1969, the Rev. Dr. Cone admonished “new blacks, redeemed in Christ” to “say to whites that authentic love is not ‘help,’ not giving Christmas baskets but working for political, social and economic justice, which always means a redistribution of power.”
AGAIN IN STRICKLANDS OWN WORDS-
““While Cone’s ideas are in play, I don’t mention him by name, because I don’t want to put unnecessary stumbling blocks in their way.” Scripture’s authority comes first. “If I’m able to demonstrate that this black man in front of them has read the Bible, I gain credit with them.”…”He walked me through the argument he used when he spoke at North Greenville University, a Baptist school in Tigerville, S.C. “There was the fall, and all we do now as God’s vice regents is influenced by that fall. So if we’re sinners in need of redemption, so, too, are all the things we create, like law, policy, procedure, practice. That right there is systemic injustice,” he said. “Before they know it, they’re nodding their heads. They’re agreeing that systemic injustice and racism are a form of sin. I get in the back door by walking around the linguistic land mines that are so charged in our cultural climate.”
“Seminaries like Southeastern play a crucial role in shaping the mind-set of future pastors. There is already evidence that some church leaders are rethinking the traditional strategy of trying to win converts by persuading people that church is full of members just like themselves. “The homogeneous principle of church planting — once the norm — is out of favor,” Kevin Smith, a pastor in Chattanooga, Tenn. wrote in Evangelicals magazine. “Homogeneity is out and multiethnic is in.”
Churches seeking to diversify their pews can turn to a growing library of books and study guides…”
Liberation Theology all stems from the Marxist influences on a Latim American Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez twisting scripture- wrapped in bible verses and seducing his inspired activist henchmen like James Cone and Walter Strickland and hundreds of others whose influence will continue to trickle down through and dismantle churches and movements once committed to Biblical truth the faith of many who are taken in by it.
“REIMAGINING MISSIONS” REMAINS THE MANTRA OF PROGRESSIVE/ JUSTICE INSPIRED GLOBALIST PARTNERING ADVOCATES OF CHANGE WHILE IT REBUKES WESTERN INVOLVEMENT AS “COLONIALISM” BUT INSIST WESTERN CHURCHES BRING THEIR “RESOURCES” TO THE REIMAGINED FUTURE OF “Polycentic Missions”.
Rev Thomas Littleton
10/14/2024
Lausanne Congress 2024 outcomes promise to offer MORE OF THE SAME activism and progressive voices seeking to “Redefine ” and “Reimagine” global evangelism for years to come as the 2010 South Africa Congress set in motion. REcall that Captown 2010 Congress gave us amplified progressive voices like Tim Keller, Rick Warren / Same Sex Attracted Christinaity promoted by an army of gay identified Christian activist and deepening commitments to “Social Justice” ( now known as WOKE Justice ), egalitarianism, and all around humanitarian and redistribution efforts in the new “global Christianity” it envisions.
A LOOK AT WEA REVIEW OF LAUSANNE CONGRESS 2024 OUTCOMES.
“Grace and peace to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Immediately following the Fourth Lausanne Congress in Incheon, South Korea (22-28 September, 2024), a group of around 100 Majority World Christian leaders with a passion for missions gathered in Busan, South Korea (29 September – 2 October). The forum was hosted by the new COALA network of Majority World missions leaders. COALA’s acronym stands for “Christ Over Asia, (Africa, Arab World) and Latin America”, with the first A covering increasing territory as more regions join the conversation (hence the parenthesis).”
“The central focus of the gathering was to further explore the meaning of “Polycentric Missions”, which was promoted in the lead-up to Lausanne 4, in the State of the Great Commission report, and celebrated in the diversity of cultures participating and working behind the scenes at the Congress.”
“In this essay, originally titled “An Indigenous Engagement with Polycentic Missions”, Mission Commission Executive Director Jay Mātenga reviews the Mission Commission’s historic commitment to Majority World missions perspectives, corrects some unhelpful ways “polycentrism” is being applied to missions today, emphasises the benefits of the concept for missions in local contexts, and suggests a better term to describe missions from everyone to everywhere with a stronger biblical emphasis and the addition of a 5th ‘self-‘ to the classic 3- and more recent 4-self model of indigenous church development.”
“ALL KINDS OF PARTNERSHIPS”
BUZZPHRASE FOR EXPANDING FAITH BASED PARTNERSHIPS WITH GOVERNMENT AND SECULAR PARTNERS & MORE REDISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES AKA WESTERN WEALTH REDISTRIBUTED.
“To paraphrase, the statement goes on to make six recomendations:”
The primacy of the Holy Spirit.
The importance of the local and multi-church connections.
The need for missionary humility and service to the local church.
Contextual and cultural sensitivity.
Promoting growth in the depth and breadth of indigenised Christianity.
And, careful use of outside resources for mutual benefit.
“In the concluding call for unity and partnership, the COALA 2 statement reaffirms that our “era of polycentric missions” requires the development of all kinds of partnerships to bring resources together “into a powerful synergistic whole for world mission”. Bravo! Those of you who helped craft those recommendations deserve to be applauded. Well done.”
COLONIALISM BAD BUT YOUR MONEY IS WELCOME.
“WEAMC: A bridge-building body between the new Third World Missions and the traditional Western Missions so that help can travel in both directions in the furtherance of the Lord’s work worldwide.”….” We continue as a bridge and from that perspective let me encourage you—in all that the COALA movement seeks to promote, let us take care not to diminish the wonderful contribution our Western brothers and sisters have and will continue to bring into the mix—mutuality demands it.”
“ The old missions paradigms are fading away. “
“Some of us here are representative of a new generation that is facing a radically different global context and a diminishing interest in traditional long-term foreign or cross-cultural missions. Not just from the West but also the Majority World. If the change is not yet apparent in your context, it is coming. We can deny it all we want, we can pour resources into trying to change it. We can recommit and double down (and develop digital tools to try and stem the tide). But, as a missions mobiliser at heart, who literally (co)wrote the book on the subject of mobilisation, called “Mission in Motion”, it pains me to recognise that the traditional missions model is decreasingly fit for purpose in our global context. The old missions paradigms are fading away. The Spirit of God is doing a new thing. But, as Mission Commission Deputy Leader Ken Katayama, President of Crossover Global, has paraphrased Isaiah 43:19, “do we DARE perceive it?””
“Polycentric Defined“
“In its technical sense, polycentric, polycentricism, or polycentricity has very little to do with “from everywhere/one to everywhere”. When it comes to the universal Church, it is probably best to consider it as PLURIcentric—the single body of Christ spreading throughout the world. One authority, in many places with different expressions.”
“DO WE DARE LOOK…”
“God is doing a new thing. Do we dare perceive it? Do we dare honour the local and hold back from imposing our cultural Christianity upon them? Do we dare say to the Western missions paradigm, “thank you for all you have done, but let us reset the drawing board, lay aside your assumptions, and find new ways forward from here, together, with high mutuality”? Do we dare work in NEW ways to co-create New Creation in specific contexts, inspired by many voices from across the global church, yet led by local voices?….
…Regardless of our backgrounds, do we dare look in the mirror and acknowledge our own ethnocentricities, our biases and prejudices, and repent? Let us beware of repeating the same colonial mistakes with a different skin tone.”
“Where the congress fell short“
“The ‘declare’ camp remains worried that the Seoul Statement has not gone far enough to ensure that evangelizing the lost, the last, and the least. They lament that, while not the only task of God’s people, proclamation evangelisation should have been confirmed as a priortity, but it wasn’t. The ‘display’ camp, on the other hand, were frustrated that not much space was given to articulate the cause of justice, peace, and reconciliation. Furthermore, at one of the very few times it was forcefully articulated on stage, the L4 organizers were influenced to issue a public apology, which then upset another group at the event.”
“Confronting colonial missiology”
“What Rene Padilla, Samuel Escobar, Kwame Bediako, John Stott, among others, accomplished, together, in 1974 was to remind the evangelicals molded in the tradition, history, and context of the Western hemisphere that the Western approach to doing missions does not (and cannot) apply to everyone else in the world. The other regions of the world, today called the “Majority World”, are facing battles of their own with regard to how the gospel takes root in the hearts and minds of their people, amidst the social and political issues of their communities. It is naive to think that there is a singular way to address these multifaceted dimensions of mission and ministry across the world.”
THE HORRORS OF 2010 LAUSANNE INFLUENCE.
READ HERE FOR OVERVIEW OF LONGTERM CAPETOWN 2010 INFLUENCE
“THE World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has been closely involved in the development of the congress programme, but participants will be drawn from beyond the constituency of the WEA. One of the notable features of the second Lausanne Congress in Manila in 1989 was to bring into dialogue Pentecostals and those engaged in Charismatic renewal with those from other Evangelical traditions.”…”“The Cape Town Congress was particularly concerned about the crises of our time. Prominent themes were, for example, the increasing impoverishment of many segments of the population in underdeveloped countries and the accumulation of wealth and assets of affluence among a relatively small upper class, not only in the Southern Hemisphere but also in the West. Other themes of the Congress that affect the spread of Christianity worldwide included the reconciliation of human races, the achievement of social justice, the mitigation of global warming, the increase of women in leadership positions, the right approach to homosexuality, the oral tradition of the Bible, and the conduct of spiritual warfare. These are all issues that fit into the category of dominionism (establishing the Kingdom of God as an earthly kingdom).”
(This quote is from Dr Martin Erdmann who has written several books on the dangers of
the Lausanne Movement and the special focus of the 2010 meetings)
THE WEA & WCC ROLE IN AND CRITIQUE OF LAUSANNE CONGRESS 2024.
“Within Lausanne, there are those who wished to see declaration emphasized more so that evangelical churches would not lose their fervour for evangelism, which distinguishes evangelicalism from the more socially active missions trajectory of the World Council of Churches (WCC). These are likely people who remember that the first Lausanne in 1974 was held in reaction to waning evangelistic energy and calls for a moratorium on missionary sending within ecumenical circles. The proponents of proclamation prioritisation also promote ‘finish the task’, classify ‘unreached people groups’, and develop specific ‘strategies’ with the aim of fulfilling Jesus’ command to evangelise the world in anticipation of ‘hastening’ His return. They view Lausanne as the platform to achieve this—with this focus seen as the core strength of what Lausanne is and their hopes for what the movement will continue to be. While some of them also believe that the gospel has to be ‘holistic’, in a practical and even a theological sense, ‘priority’ remains on finding ways of ‘telling the gospel’ clearly and effectively (this is also known as ‘prioritism’). Ed Stetzer, regional director of Lausanne in North America, has already written a post-conference reflection that articulates exactly this conviction.”
CONCLUSION
The WEA and NAE ,along with multiple central Lausanne influencing organizations have FULLY SUBSCRIBED to Global Christinaity and to the United Nations Agenda 2030. There is no longer shame, denial, or doubt left about this reality in the organizations own media and statements. Given this hard reality -Lausanne today is nothing more that the gatheirng of the global harlot church in Revelation 17 working directly with the powers seeking to establish the kingdom of anti christ at the midnight hour in these last days. God is certainly not impressed of looking to such compromised leaders to “reimagine missions” on HIS behalf. Rather HE has condemned these blind guides in advance of their pending shipwreck ideology and pathetic earthly wisdom.
Revelation
“The Scarlet Woman and the Scarlet Beast”
17 “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying [a]to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”
3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of [b]her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written:
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.”
THE LATEST GATHERING OF COMPROMISED CHRISTIANITY OWNED BY GLOBAL GOALS AND COMMUNITARIAN PRINCIPLES IS OVER BUT THE “CONVERSATIONS” FOR SOCIAL CHANGE WILL LINGER ON UNTIL THE NEXT GATHERING. HERE IS A LOOK AT ” SEOUL STATEMENT” FROM THE FOURTH LAUSANNE CONGRESS.
BY Rev Thomas Littleton
9/30/2024
The latest gathering of Globalism in the name of Christianity just took place in Seoul South Korean and ,like the previous 2010 gathering in Capetown, the labels and narrative might sound very biblical to the untrained listener but the focus, topics and outcomes are set to keep the “conversations” of social change and manipulation of the church toward Global Goals, DE&I , Community Development and JUSTICE going for another decade and a half …until the next Congress.
SOME LAUSANNE ACTIVISM HISTORY THE 2010 CONGRESS.
READ THE BELOW ARTICLES FOR THE 1974 HISTORY & OF THE 2010 CAPETOWN CONGRESS, ITS FOCUS AND LONGTERM IMPACT .
“The Cape Town Congress was particularly concerned about the crises of our time. Prominent themes were, for example, the increasing impoverishment of many segments of the population in underdeveloped countries and the accumulation of wealth and assets of affluence among a relatively small upper class, not only in the Southern Hemisphere but also in the West. Other themes of the Congress that affect the spread of Christianity worldwide included the reconciliation of human races, the achievement of social justice, the mitigation of global warming, the increase of women in leadership positions, the right approach to homosexuality, the oral tradition of the Bible, and the conduct of spiritual warfare. These are all issues that fit into the category of dominionism (establishing the Kingdom of God as an earthly kingdom).”
(This quote is from Dr Martin Erdmann who has written several books on the dangers of
the Lausanne Movement and the special focus of the 2010 meetings)
WORLD EVANGLEICAL ALLIANCE AND NAE DRAFT LAUSANNE FOCUS ON AGENDA 2030 -GLOBALISM
( FROM THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER COVERAGE OF TIM KELLER’S MEMORIAL SERVICE.)
Tim Keller’s influence on the evangelical church and especially on the American Reformed movement, including his own Presbyterian Church in America,has been both far reaching and destructive. Keller’s political movement TGC has helped reek havoc in American seminaries, churches and ministries since its founding in 2006. Yet no one has ever been able to fully unravel the funding or influences behind it. Keller came out of obscurity as a Virginia pastor and into his position as pastor of a planned and “hopeful PCA flagship church plant in NewYork City”. He is said to have been the 3rd choice for the job. Who pulled the strings within these PCA has never been revealed.
In 2008 Christianity Today and Peter Drucker evangelical machine “Leadership Network” operative Ed Stetzer began helping Tim Keller’s name become a household word by hard selling his new book. Keller, Stetzer and fringe emergetns like Brian McLaren began a movement call “Mission Shift” inorder to flood the EMERGENT MOVEMENT intomission organizations and visions.
By 2010 the Lausanne Movements choice of Keller as a keynote in Lausanne South Africa and his later choice to speak at Lausanne’s North American memorial to John Stott had Keller touted as one of the churches leading “intellectuals” and dubbed “the new John Stott”. Since that time Keller’s influence has continued to explode. Keller’s TGC, his Redeemer Church NYC , his MANY books and publishing arm “Gospel in Life” his global church planting arm “Redeemer City to City”. His “New York City Movement Day”, his SOCIALIST ECONOMICS model “Center for Faith and Work” and his Frankfurt School inspired narrative of “human flourishing” and “theology of Cities” have seen to that non stop growth. Most often his talking points have come from political think tanks like the Institute for Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (IASC ) and his strong GLOBALIST and left leaning political affiliations. These have helped secure Keller’s place as a leading “thinker” of modern day evangelicalism.
THE SOURCE OF KELLER’S TALKING POINTS
Keller was most skilled at appearing contemplative and thoughtful while presenting the narrative such think tanks as FRANKFURT SCHOOL inspired IASC had honed.
(NOTE :MANY of Kellers key concepts and terms came from IASC which admitted to its Frankfurt School inspiration on its very own about page.
IASC -“Our institutional inspiration comes from the close-knit intellectual fellowships of the past (such as the Frankfurt School and the Vienna Circle); our philosophical inspiration comes from a thoughtful re-appropriation of the theologies and classical philosophies which characteristically champion the dignity of the person, the pursuit of the just life, and the flourishing of the human community.”
(NOTE also that his revealing statement was later removed AFTER it was brought to light in an expose on Tim Keller.)
HERE ARE THE HIGH /LOW POINTS- DEPENDING ON ONES WORLDVIEW:
“The Lausanne Covenant (1974) declared, “World evangelization requires the whole church to take the whole gospel to the whole world.“- BUT WHAT DOES THIS MEAN IN A GLOBAL ACTIVIST SETTING? Take a look
The church displays Christ in diverse yet faithful ways.
” The church has been called to express its common life by forming local, counter-cultural communities in every society. Local churches vary in form: from small bands of believers meeting in secret, to house churches, to much larger congregations that gather in public view. The emergence of digital spaces has provided Christian believers yet another means to come together, prompting ongoing theological reflection on the nature and form of the local church.
Local churches throughout history and across the world display spectacular diversity in traditions and forms, which are shaped by the influence of their distinctive cultures and by the unique contextual challenges they face. Nevertheless, what such Christian communities have in common, and what makes them authentic manifestations of the body of Christ is their worship of the triune God in response to their shared faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ—the faith that Christ calls them to share with the world.”
ADOPTING THE WORLD’S NARRATIVE TO ERASE HUMAN RIGHTS BY REDEFINING THEM.
IV. The Human Person: The Image of God Created and Restored
“Today, the world is absorbed with the question, “What does it mean to be human?” This makes the Christian doctrine of the human person critically important. How we answer this question has profound implications for our witness in the world and our life in the church. It goes to the very heart of the great upheavals in the world with regard to issues such as identity, human sexuality, and the implications of advancing technologies. A sound doctrine of the human person is also vital for dealing with the growing phenomenon of leaders that claim supra-human powers and God-like authority within the church.“
(NOTE:CRAFTED TALKING POINTS TO PROTECT THE ACTIVIST FROM MARGINALIZATION)
“The image of God is the essence of being human.”
“Scripture teaches that human beings are uniquely created in God’s image. This uniqueness includes stewardship roles and responsibilities in the world. The gift of image-bearing provides all human beings with inherent dignity, equality, and worth, regardless of gender, ethnicity, race, caste, age, physical and mental capacities, and socioeconomic and cultural contexts. The triune God created human beings to be relational, including personal relationships with God and the formation of communities. (Gen 1:26-28; 2:15)
Human beings are an integrated physical and spiritual unity, possessing a spiritual dimension that complements the physical. We therefore reject any privileging of body or spirit over and against the other.
We acknowledge that sin affects the degree to which human beings can fully reflect the image of God. Sin corrupts our inherent human nature and capacities, our relationships with others, and our human vocation in the world. Sin adversely influences people to treat other humans as objects, not as persons of intrinsic worth. At times even Christians have sinfully misinterpreted the image of God out of self-interest, to marginalise and dehumanise others.”
“The image of God and human sexuality”
(NOTE: KEEPING THE CONVERSATIONS GOING AND ACTIIVST LIKE REVOICE AND YARHOUSE- IN THE GAME.)
The Christian understanding of sexual identity
“The biblical account of creation recognises that humans are created as sexual beings with clearly identifiable physical characteristics as male and female and relational characteristics as man and woman. The “sex” of an individual refers to the biological characteristics that distinguish male from female, whereas “gender” refers to the psychological, social, and cultural associations with being male or female. The Bible unambiguously affirms that human beings, both male and female, bear the image of God, representing the Creator in the care of his created earth. (Gen 1:26-28; 2:22-23)
We lament any distortion of sexuality. We reject the notion that individuals may determine their gender without regard to our createdness. Although biological sex and gender may be distinguished, they are inseparable. Maleness and femaleness are an inherent fact of human createdness—a fact to which cultures give expression in distinguishing between men and women. We also reject the notion of gender fluidity (the claim to fluctuating gender identity or gender expression, depending on situation and experience).
Throughout history, however, persons whose sex is not observably clear at birth (broadly designated today as intersex individuals) have faced significant psychological and social challenges. In the Scriptures God expresses his deep concern for eunuchs in their experience of alienation and pain, and has prepared a better future for those who put their trust in God, promising them the restoration of their dignity. In this same way, the people of God are called to respond with compassion and respect towards those who face similar circumstances today. (Isa 56:4-5)”
SUPPORTING THE SSA CREWS CONCEPT OF “SINGLENESS”
“We call all local churches to support both singles and married couples within the community of Christian believers through teaching, mentoring, and networks of mutual encouragement and practical support. Such a community witnesses to the power of the gospel by modelling the biblical values of deep friendships, love and faithfulness in marriage, the honouring of parents, and the dedicated nurture of children within the context of loyalty to the lordship of Jesus Christ, and to the glory of God.”
“The Christian understanding of same-sex sexual relations”
(NOTE: END GAME IS CHANGING THE CHURCH TO ASSURE INCLUSION – NO MATTER HOW MANY BIBLE VERSE ARE QUAOTED- WHY ? IT IS ALL BASED ON SSA/SOGI TO THE CHURCH CANNOT EXPOECT REAL CHANGE IN CONVERSION)
“Sexual intimacy between persons of the same sex is a phenomenon that is as old as human civilization, and the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments, shows its awareness of such practices. On six occasions we find the explicit mention of same-sex sexual behaviour in the Bible. Because of the extraordinary importance of the subject for society and the church today, it is vital that Christians become familiar with all the references to same sex sexual intimacy in the Bible, and their meanings in context—Genesis 19:1-3; Leviticus 18:20; 20:13; Romans 1:24-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; 1 Timothy 1:9-11:
The Old Testament refers to sex between persons of the same sex in the account of Genesis 19:1-3 where the life of Abraham and his family intersected with the culture of Sodom, which God had declared to be grievously wicked. Sodom’s notoriety had been due to multiple forms of social evils, including the attempted male-rape of Lot’s guests by all the townsmen being highlighted in the narrative as evidence of the abysmal moral condition of the city. (Ezek 16:49-50; Gen 18:20-21; 19:1-13; Jude 7)
In the apostolic witness of the New Testament, same-sex behaviour is referenced in Romans 1:18-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, and 1 Timothy 1:9-11, against the backdrop of Greek and Roman culture. The historical record makes clear that sex between persons of the same sex was a well-known practice during this period, having been normalised, especially in the upper strata of society. In this context, it is striking that Paul places sex between persons of the same sex in the same category of sexual sin as fornication and adultery, and within a broader list of sins that included thieving, greed, drunkenness, slander, and swindling. In 1 Timothy 1:9-11, the list that proscribes same-sex behaviour includes patricide, murder, fornication, slave trading, and perjury. All who do such things are called lawbreakers, rebels, ungodly, sinful, unholy, and irreligious people.
In 1 Corinthians 6:9, Paul coined a term to describe sex between men from two references in Leviticus 18:20 and 20:13. These texts state that sex between persons of the same sex violates God’s standards for the Israelites who had been bound by their covenant to God.
When Paul refers to sex between people of the same sex in Romans 1:24-27, he does so to express how humanity’s rebellion against God has led to the rejection of his created order. As indications of humanity’s total moral bankruptcy, he cites the widespread practice of idol worship and sexual immorality. With regards to sexual impurity, Paul specifically condemns sex between women and sex between men, which were clearly well-known practices in what was considered the sophisticated culture of the time.
All the biblical references to sex between persons of the same sex lead us to the inescapable conclusion that God considers such acts as a violation of his intention for sex and a distortion of the Creator’s good design, and therefore, sinful. However, the gospel assures us that those who have, by ignorance or knowingly, given into temptation and sinned, will find forgiveness and restoration of fellowship with God through confession, repentance, and trust in Christ.
We recognise that a number of people, both within and outside the church, experience same-sex attraction, and that for some, this is the only or dominant attraction. The biblical insistence that Christians must resist temptation and so maintain sexual holiness, in both desire and behaviour, applies equally to heterosexually attracted individuals as it does to same-sex attracted persons. We acknowledge, however, that Christians who are same-sex attracted face challenges even in Christian communities. We repent of our lack of love towards our brothers and sisters in the body of Christ.
We urge Christian leaders and local churches to recognise within our communities the presence of believers who experience same-sex attraction, and to support them in their discipleship by pastoral care and by developing healthy communities of love and friendship.[2]“
DID LAUSANNE JUST GO AFTER “CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM? YES IT JUST DID...AND REPENTED ON BEHALF OF THE CHURCH OF IT.
“We repent of our failures to condemn and restrain violence by remaining silent, by promoting nationalism, or by unjustly supporting conflicts through deficient theological justification.“
“We condemn those who use their influence in world affairs to promote avoidable conflicts and wars, merely to further their economic and political interests. We are saddened by the immense suffering their actions have caused. We believe that they will be held accountable before God on the day of judgement.
We call all Christians to serve the vulnerable in contexts of war by pooling our resources and supporting the relief efforts of churches and humanitarian organisations that are situated near conflict zones. We also commit to serve as peacemakers, by supporting negotiations aimed at ending conflicts and by calling for justice and reparation for the innocent victims of violence.
Christians at various times in history have not only promoted violence and war but also remained silent in the face of such atrocities rather than speaking with prophetic integrity and courage. This is captured in the Cape Town Commitment:
We acknowledge with grief and shame the complicity of Christians in some of the most destructive contexts of ethnic violence and oppression, and the lamentable silence of large parts of the church when such conflicts take place. Such contexts include the history and legacy of racism and black slavery; the holocaust against Jews; apartheid; ‘ethnic cleansing’; inter-Christian sectarian violence; decimation of indigenous populations; political and ethnic violence; Palestinian suffering; caste oppression and tribal genocide.
We echo the Cape Town Commitment in calling “for repentance for the many times Christians have been complicit in such evils by silence, apathy or presumed neutrality, or by providing defective theological justification for these.” Much of this defective theological justification arises from a failure to distinguish between the “nations” of Scripture and modern “nation-states” and from a failure to think biblically about nationality. In Scripture, nations were culturally distinct peoples whose identities were shaped by historical attachment to loosely defined territory, the worship of a god (or gods) whose rule over a people was exercised through a king. By contrast, “nation-states” (or “nations” in the modern sense) are governments that administer internationally recognized political sovereignty by means of constitutionally ordered institutions and laws, over territories with clearly demarcated borders and the individuals and peoples who live within them. Most modern nation-states govern multiple peoples, that is, groups within their borders who do not derive their collective identity from nationality alone but from ethnicity, race, country of origin, and the many other forms of collective identity that enrich the modern world. In terms of identity, these culturally distinct groups are often closer to the peoples that formed the “nations” of Scripture than to modern states. We affirm that every modern state is accountable to the divine demand for the just and merciful treatment of both the individuals and peoples over whom it exercises sovereignty as well as those of its neighbours.
It is critically important that Christians think clearly about biblical peoples when they (e.g. Israelites, Egyptians, Syrians) are associated by name, history, geography, or ancestry with modern nation-states (e.g. Israel, Egypt, Syria) and the peoples who live under the political sovereignty of these states (Jews, Palestinians, Arabs, Copts, Druze, Armenians, Kurds, and many more). God is fulfilling his promises to all these peoples—both Jews and Gentiles—through the good news of Jesus, the Messiah. In the Middle East, and elsewhere, Christian leaders must work to correct theological errors that provide ideological justification for unjust violence against innocent civilians or seek to legitimise violations of international humanitarian law.
We lament that some Christians have looked to the state rather than the gospel as the key means for bringing about God’s intentions for the world. This takes an especially regrettable form when wed to nationalism—here defined as the belief that every state should have a single, national culture and no other—or ethnonationalism—which is the belief that every ethnic group should have its own state. This is a great evil in our world. We lament that many Christians have been sadly complicit in it, as well as in the claims of ethnic and racial supremacy it fosters. Against this, we assert that no modern state is able to claim or will ever be able to claim to be the special agent of God’s saving rule.
“DIGITAL CHURCH IN A DIGITAL WORLD”
“Christians are called to faithfully steward technology.”
“We call all Christians to pursue technological innovation and use with love, justice, and faithfulness, both before God and toward others. We recognise that technology shapes the environments in which humans live, play, relate, and work, as well as how Christians fellowship with one another, pray, read Scripture, grow in faith and character, worship God, and share the gospel. Therefore, Christian development and use of technology must seek the welfare of our neighbours and enemies, promote human flourishing and dignity, having fixed our eyes more fully on the future that awaits us in the new heavens and the new earth. (Mic 6:8; Luke 10:25-37; Gen 9:6; Jas 3:9; Gen 1:31; Rev 21:1-8)
As digital technology is negotiated and adapted within church communities today, we see existing church life practices shaped by it along with new church practices emerging from it. Recognizing that digital technology is not monolithic, the church must use its discernment to judge when, how, and where different technologies should be adopted with the focus always on how the gospel of Jesus Christ is proclaimed and honoured in their use. We therefore call Christians and churches to explore and adapt digital technologies for the worship of God, the bridging of divides, the shaping of Christ-honouring culture, and the work of Christian discipleship.
Finally, we applaud the church’s evangelistic drive that has led to increasing technological adaptation and unprecedented opportunities for sharing the gospel. We delight that technology has extended the reach of the gospel into many regions of the world that have previously been inaccessible, hastened the work of Bible translation, and facilitated the movement and ministry of God’s people around the world. We pray that gospel-motivated, faithful stewardship of technology will help a new generation to follow and bear witness to Christ in our increasingly technological world.[4]
NO MORE HIDING THE REAL AGENDA – UN AGENDA 2030
The World Evangelical Alliance and partners like National Association of Evangelicals and the Lausanne Movement have come out of the shadows and into the full light of day shamelessly owning open promotion of the World Economic Forum/ United Nations Global Sustainability Goals of Agenda 2030. After taking part in the G20 Religion Summitt R20 and the COP 27 gatherings WEA has launched Roadmap to 2030 and multiple partners like The Gospel Coalition are fully committed to priming the next generation of Christians to be “global citizens” and embrace Agenda 2030. WEA openly invites you and your church to join them and “collaborate” the fulfillment of these global goals possible and to offer your children on the altars of pagan earth worshippers in the name of serving Jesus.
LAUSANNE IS LITTLE MORE THAN A PLATFORM FOR GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY MANNED BY POLITICAL OPERATIVES AND ACTIVISTS AND ATTENDED BY FOOLISH AND GULLIBLE BELIEVERS.
” REVISING TO FURTHER ACCOMIDATE ACTIVIST.”
“Lausanne edits Seoul Statement’s paragraphs on homosexuality, says there may be more ‘non-substantive changes’”
After releasing the Seoul Statement just before the start of the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization held in Incheon, Korea from September 22 to 28, the document’s editorial team adjusted two paragraphs that speak to the issue of the Church’s response to homosexuality. A spokesperson commented that more minor changes are possible.
“In the first of the two paragraphs, the new version changed the wording that spoke of “many churches” and instead now simply refers to “Christian communities”. It also removed references to “ignorance and prejudice”, “discrimination and injustice” and “harm”, while maintaining the need for repentance for shortcomings in some churches that have not treated brothers and sisters in Christ who are same-sex attracted with love.”
Paragraph 69 as released on September 22:
“We recognise that a number of people, both within and outside the church, experience same-sex attraction, and that for some, this is the only or dominant attraction. The biblical insistence that Christians must resist temptation and so maintain sexual holiness, in both desire and behaviour, applies equally to heterosexually attracted individuals as it does to same-sex attracted persons. We acknowledge, however, that Christians who are same-sex attracted face challenges in many local churches due to ignorance and prejudice, and have consequently suffered discrimination and injustice within Christian communities. We repent of our failures and lament the harm this has done to our brothers and sisters in the body of Christ.“
New version of paragraph 69:
“We recognise that a number of people, both within and outside the church, experience same-sex attraction, and that for some, this is the only or dominant attraction. The biblical insistence that Christians must resist temptation and so maintain sexual holiness, in both desire and behaviour, applies equally to heterosexually attracted individuals as it does to same-sex attracted persons. We acknowledge, however, that Christians who are same-sex attracted face challenges even in Christian communities. We repent of our lack of love towards our brothers and sisters in the body of Christ.“
“It is not the Congress’ statement, it is not one of the foundational documents that we are pinning everything on. And so, like in any editorial process, there may be changes, but those changes are not substantive or significant, at least from an editorial perspective.”
‘Remember there are always people in the room who struggle with this issue’
The issue of human sexuality and the sexual revolution that marks today’s secular culture continues to pose a challenge to many pastors and Church leaders who seek to biblically and pastorally respond to those who struggle with their sexual attraction or identity.
CONCLUSION.
2 Peter 2:2-4
2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
Doom of False Teachers
4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment”
PROFESSIONAL VICTIM / ADVOCATE / ATTORNEY/ ACTIVIST/ CONSULTANT / ALBERT MOHLER /RUSSELL MOORE ALLY RACHAEL DENHOLLANDER HAS SUDDENLY SURFACED IN THE UPCOMING OCTOBER 7TH 2024 EVENT OF FORMER OBAMA FAITH BASED PARTNERSHIP RECRUITER AND CURRENT “AMBASSADOR TO AMERICA’S BELIEVERS FOR THE OBAMA FOUNDATION” MICHAEL WEAR.
Rev Thomas Littleton
9/13/2024
Rachael Denhollander first became a national figure when she exposed her gymnastics coach for abusing her and other girls during medical thearpy sessions. She then becae a go-to voice as a victims advocate and later as an attorney. In the early insider launch of the #MeToo movement in the Southern Baptist Convention , Denhollader and her husband had joined Albert Mohler’s SBTS to purge the Seminary of past abuses before long time SBTS graduate, employee , ERLC President Russell Moore hand picked Denhollander to address the reported years of abuses and coverups among Southern Baptist ni 2018. By 2019 the so called # ChurchToo Movement was in play and by 2021 was in full orbit. Russell Moore hit the “ignition, blast off ” button with his leaked emails/ letters/ communications accusing the SBC Executive Committee of hindering his investigations and of long term coverup and ignoring sexual abuses in the Southern Baptist Convention churhces and leadership.
Soon Denhollander would play the role of publicity agent, victims advocate, counsultant to a host of entities, to the “investigative ” organization Guidepost Solutions, and to a host of “task forces” and SBC “Responses. Perhaps with the disasterous results of the SBC /Guidepost Solutions investigation ,report and failed efforts to put together a website listing those deemed “credibly accused” of abuse ..Denhollader might be looking for a new gig.
(Note in many cases the accused were being named while having been able to face thier accusors or answer the charges in court. The planned SBC website, which Denhollander was part of assembling was a non starterstraight out of the gate. Lawsuits began to fly which was no shock to most Baptist and…one would think a professional attorney /victims advocate who wears too amny hats to number would know to expect such and outcome.)
THE EVENT: DENHOLLADER AND HER NEW CIRCLE OF ADVOCATES – PUSHING FOR “THE GOOD OF THE PUBLIC”
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I would love for you to join us on October 7-8 in Washington D.C. to add your voice and presence to our gathering. If you use the code Summit24, you’ll receive a significant discount on the tickets you purchase. If you’re able to come, or if you’re considering attending, let me know! It will mean a lot to me that members of this community, in particular, are there.
I am excited about how the summit is shaping up, and I believe you will be blessed by it. And we would be blessed to have you with us!
I hope to see you next month.
Michael
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For the Good of the Public” offers an annual opportunity to hear from leading voices on issues of public importance, and to consider the resources Christianity has to offer for the public good. The Center for Christianity and Public Life’s inaugural summit took place on November 6-7, 2023, in Washington D.C. at the Capital Turnaround. Speakers included Eboo Patel, Interfaith America; Liz Bruenig, the Atlantic; Dr. CJ Rhodes, pastor of the historic Mt Helm Church in Jackson, MS; Rev. Eugene Cho, Bread for the World; Christine Emba, the Washington Post; Gary Haugen, CEO of International Justice Mission; Dr. Rosalind Picard, MIT; U.S. Senator Chris Murphy; and U.S. Senator Chris Coons.
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WHO IS MICHAEL WEAR AND WHY IS HE WELCOMED BY TGC/ RUSSELL MOORE/ TIM KELLER AND NOW GIVING A PLATFORM TO DENHOLLANDER?
“Michael Wear is the founder of Public Square Strategies LLC, and a leading expert and strategist at the intersection of faith, politics and American public life. As one of President Obama’s “ambassadors to America’s believers” (Buzzfeed), Michael directed faith outreach for President Obama’s historic 2012 re-election campaign. Michael was also one of the youngest White House staffers in modern American history: he served in the White House faith-based initiative during President Obama’s first term, where he led evangelical outreach and helped manage The White House’s engagement on religious and values issues, including adoption and anti-human trafficking efforts. “
National Board MemberNational Board MemberBethany Christian Services–National Board of DirectorsBethany Christian Services–National Board of DirectorsJan 2014 – Jun 2021 · 7 yrs 6 mosJan 2014 to Jun 2021 · 7 yrs 6 mos
Founding PartnerFounding PartnerValues Partnerships Values Partnerships Feb 2013 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 2 mosFeb 2013 to Mar 2014 · 1 yr 2 mosWashington D.C. Metro AreaWashington D.C. Metro Area
Associate Director for Religious AffairsAssociate Director for Religious AffairsPresidential Inaugural CommitteePresidential Inaugural CommitteeDec 2012 – Jan 2013 · 2 mosDec 2012 to Jan 2013 · 2 mosWashington D.C. Metro AreaWashington D.C. Metro Area
National Faith Vote CoordinatorNational Faith Vote CoordinatorObama for AmericaObama for AmericaMay 2012 – Nov 2012 · 7 mosMay 2012 to Nov 2012 · 7 mosChicago, IllinoisChicago, Illinois
Responsible for faith outreach and mobilization for President Obama’s re-election campaign.Responsible for faith outreach and mobilization for President Obama’s re-election campaign.
White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood PartnershipsWhite House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood PartnershipsThe White HouseThe White HouseFeb 2009 – May 2012 · 3 yrs 4 mosFeb
Michael Wear
“Michael Wear is the Founder, President and CEO of the Center for Christianity and Public Life, a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution based in the nation’s capital with the mission to contend for the credibility of Christian resources in public life, for the public good. For well over a decade, he has served as a trusted resource and advisor for a range of civic leaders on matters of faith and public life, including as a White House and presidential campaign staffer. Michael is a leading voice on building a healthy civic pluralism in twenty-first century America. He has argued that the spiritual health and civic character of individuals is deeply tied to the state of our politics and public affairs. “
“Michael previously led Public Square Strategies, a consulting firm he founded that helps religious organizations, political organizations, businesses and others effectively navigate the rapidly changing American religious and political landscape.”
“Michael is the author of The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life, a paradigm-shifting book that advances a vision for spiritual formation in the context of political life. Michael’s first book, Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America, offers reflections, analysis and ideas about the role of faith in the Obama years and what it means for today. He has co-authored, or contributed to, several other books, including Compassion and Conviction: The AND Campaign’s Guide to Faithful Civic Engagement, with Justin Giboney and Chris Butler. He also writes for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Catapult Magazine, Christianity Today and other publications on faith, politics and culture.”
RACHAEL AND HER HUBBY AT SBTS.
READ THE DETAILS OF JACOB DENHOLLANDERS ACADEMIC PAPERS IN FEMINIST THEOLOGY AND VICTIMAS ADVOCATE WORK AND HE /RACHAELS YEARS AT MOHLERS SEMINARY SBTS.
@JJ_Denhollander “I am extremely grateful to see these words from the president of my school, albertmohler. There is much more work to do and many more hard conversations to be had @R_Denhollander and I hope to be helpful in anyway we can.”
“FROM THE MOHLER “WRATH OF GOD ” ON THE SBC ARTICLE”
“America’s largest evangelical denomination has been in the headlines day after day. The SBC is in the midst of its own horrifying #MeToo moment.”
“The history of Feminist Theology is Anti- Gospel and Anti- Family and Anti- conventional Conservative Theology . It is certainly against the Baptist Faith and Message. Feminists theologians INSIST that theology has been developed not just by males, but by males within a patriarchal culture in a patriarchal church which is rife with systemic abuse of women by men who subordinate and exploit them.”
COLLUSION?
(Photo from Jacob Denhollander social media of his SBTS graduation)
“After 11 years, two degrees, and a lot of life, my time @SBTS is over. Forever grateful to these professors for the way I have grown as a scholar and as a man. It’s a bittersweet day as I move on to finish my PhD elsewhere, but part of me will always be at Southern.”
CONCLUSION
Rachael and Jacob Denhollader were invited to SBTS by Mohler to purge his seminary of its known and rumored sexual abuses. The Denhollander’s made SBTS their home and STAYED for 11 years. Rachael and SBTS former Provost and Professor turned ERLC President and progressive agitator Russell Moore were allies in the soft launch of the sex abuse scandal in the SBC in 2019.
“Russell Moore, President of the ERLC, has a conversation with Rachael Denhollander, advocate, author, and speaker, on the Church’s abuse crisis at the 2019 Caring Well Conference.”
By the time Russell Moore’s “leaked letters” accusing the SBC Executive Committee of covering up sex abuse in 2021 -the “SBC #ChurchToo movement was in full swing and
Rachael Denhollader not only had a front row seat BUT the opportunity to play many roles wearing TOO MANY HATS to COUNT in the now FAILED investigations and answers to the Southern Baptist “abuse crisis”.
NOW the Denhollader train looks to be hooking up with the Democratic Party and THE biggest evangelical face in the Obama camp- Michael Wear. WHY?
FROM SPRINGFILED OHIO TO SMALL TOWNS IN ALABAMA AND THE SOUTH-TO A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TOPIC EXPOSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP, DENIED BY ABC JOURNALIST AND LAUGHED AT BY KAMALA HARRIS- THE HAITIAN MIGRANT SURGE IS A SIGN OF THE MASSIVE AGENDA 2030 /UN END GAME TO “REDUCE INEQUALITIES” AND RESHAPE THE POPULATION LANDSCAPE OF AMERICA AND THE WEST.
By Thomas Littleton
9/11/2024
Yes America there is a MIGRANT Agenda and the Catholic Charities “Global Sisters Report” admits it is to ” reduce inequalities”…at your expense.
2021 CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOCUS ON HAITIAN REFUGEES CONFIRMS THE AGENDA 2030 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN THE HAITIAN RESETTLEMENT
“Faith groups band together to help Haitians camped at US-Mexico border”
“This story appears in the Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities feature series. View the full series.“
IN SPRINGFIELD OHIO
(NewsNation) — NewsNation’s Rich McHugh is in Springfield, Ohio, where he says the immigration crisis is affecting the entire town as crime, accidents and unemployment have surged since thousands of Haitians have moved in. McHugh tells “On Balance” that, though the claims of Haitians grabbing people’s pets for food are unsubstantiated, longtime residents are upset, and they fear what will happen.
IN SMALL TOWNS OF ALABAMA.
“Alabama city council meeting closed after questions about Haitian immigrants.”
“Sep 6, 2024- Sylacauga City Council meeting was cut short after only 20 minutes Thursday following questions from several residents about recent Haitian immigration to the area. Council President Tiffany Nix brought the meeting to a close after several residents asked questions about how the city knew workers coming there were legal immigrants, who had determined this, and what effect they were having on crime and housing. Full Story: https://www.al.com/news/2024/09/alaba…“
NOTE -SUPPOSEDLY THESE SMALL TOWNS ARE THE DUMPING GROUNDS FOR THIS AGENDA BECAUSE THE HAITIANS WILL PROVIDE CHEAP LABOR FOR LOCAL POULTRY AND OTHER INDUSTRIES.
THE DEBATE-KAMALA THINKS IT IS FUNNY.
Fake News at PBS and other outlets called the concerns about Haitian migrants eating the pets and park water fowl -“Fake News”. Imagine Fake news outlets labeling the trials in American communities brought on by the administrations global goals migration policy to be “FAKE NEWS”.
“WATCH: Trump amplifies false racist rumor about Ohio’s Haitian immigrants in debate”
COLUMBUS, Ohio — “Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting and eating pets, repeating during a televised debate the type of inflammatory and anti-immigrant rhetoric he has promoted throughout his campaigns.”
“There is no evidence that Haitian immigrants in an Ohio community are doing that, officials say. But during the debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump specifically mentioned Springfield, Ohio, the town at the center of the claims, saying that immigrants were taking over the city.”
“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” he said.”
“Harris called Trump “extreme” and laughed after his comment. Debate moderators pointed out that city officials have said the claims are not true.”
HARRIS INSULTING RESPONSES
“Harris, 59, flung her head back and appeared to mouth, “Oh, come on” before laughing at Trump, 78, for suggesting that migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were “eating the dogs” in the town. “
“The vice president licked her lips and narrowed her eyes as she stared in apparent disbelief of the former president’s claim. “
“Harris at times tilted or shook her head in disbelief, smiled incredulously and at one point looked right at Trump, putting her hand to her chin in an exaggerated gesture as though to convey she was listening to a tall tale.”
OHIOS OWN ATTORNEY GENERAL PUSHED BACK ON ABC DENIALS
“Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on Wednesday accused the “media” of ignoring evidence surrounding claims Springfield, Ohio residents are having their pets abducted and eaten.”
SO HOW IS ALL THIS HAPPENING AND WHO IS AIDING THIS FLOOD OF HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS?
WORLD RELIEF -HUMANITARIAN ARM OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS IS THE GO BETWEEN FOR CATHOLICS AND EVANGELICAL PARTNERS.
“Our Ongoing Work in Haiti.”
“Haiti remains among the poorest countries in the world.”
“For over 35 years, World Relief has partnered with Haitian churches to renew Haiti’s beauty and strength. Through the implementation of the Church Empowerment Zone model, World Relief seeks to support the Haitian Church in such a way that the Church will be a light for all to see. In this present darkness, the Church of Haiti will shine, and God will get the glory.”
Welcome to the world spawned by UN Global Goals driven humanitarian “Christian Ministry” and Faith Based Partnerships.
THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST ROLE,
Haitian fellowship, Florida Baptists to open migrant center in Mexico
(Southern Baptist Conventions organizations under North American Missions Board involvement in Haitian migration.)
“The Southern Baptist Convention National Haitian Fellowship, led by Felix, and the Florida Haitian Baptist Fellowship, led by Voltaire, are initiating the work that to date has the support of the Florida Baptist Convention (FBC) and the National Baptist Convention of Mexico, the pastors said.”
“We wanted to take the initiative and start it and then tell our partners this is what we see, this is what we would like to do, and how you can partner with us,” said Voltaire, lead pastor of the multisite Grace Connection Baptist Church in the Miami area.”
“The Haitian pastors appreciated the opportunity to help the migrants who’ve made treacherous journeys, often en route to the U.S., from several global locations”
SOUTHERN BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS BOARD AND SEND RELIEF ROLE.
“Haitian American churches respond to the nations”
“Haitian American Southern Baptist churches are on mission to create a greater evangelical presence among the nations. These 500+ churches in the United States have always been missions-minded, but as Felix pointed out, most focused on Haiti where relatives lived. With Haiti’s political instability, many churches shifted their focus to other areas of the world where they can use their language skills. “
SO IN THE NAME OF HAITIANS DOING GLOBAL MISSIONS- THE MIGRATION INVASION INTO AMERICA AND WESTERN EUROPE IS UNDERWAY.
“IMB -Respond to the nations”
“The prayer team walked quietly through an affluent Paris shopping district. They prayed for workers in the high-end shops advertising joy through retail therapy. The team kept walking past the famous French cafés and into an upscale neighborhood. “
“Keny Felix felt a heaviness as he prayed for families in the homes they passed. The affluent neighborhood stood in stark contrast to the sugar cane fields lined with migrant shacks he walked the week before in Dominican Republic. Yet, he’d felt the same heaviness there.”
(Paris is a diverse city with people groups from all over the world. Keny Felix, president of Southern Baptist Convention National Haitian Fellowship, is urging Haitian American congregations to consider partnering with the IMB in French speaking countries around the world. IMB Photo)
“Both cities — whether no running water or glitzy lights — have the same deepest need,” the senior pastor of Bethel Evangelical Baptist Church and president of the Southern Baptist Convention National Haitian Fellowship realized. “People are [spiritually] lost and need to understand the love that God has for them. This is a spiritual fight — the very presence of light searching to repair the darkness.”
“John Voltaire, Haitian multi-cultural catalyst for the Florida Baptist Convention, pointed out most Haitian American young adults grow up speaking three languages – English, French and Spanish. This opens partnerships with International Mission Board missionaries in Europe, Africa and the Americas. “
(Haitian American Southern Baptist churches are using their language and culture skills to reach the nations with the gospel. Members from Bethel Evangelical Baptist Church, Miami, Florida, participate in a broad gospel seed-sowing project in Paris. Photo Provided)
MORE FROM MEXICO PASTOR LEADING SOUTHERN BAPTIST “EFFORTS”
“Most people think Haitian churches just go to Haiti but it’s quickly becoming the opposite. The younger Haitians have a big worldview and are going across the globe on missions,” Voltaire said, noting one of the 350 Florida Haitian churches just returned from partnering with missionaries in Kenya while another group had been to Mexico. “The gospel was taken to Haiti by missionaries. Now, Haitian pastors and churches look forward to being missionaries and taking the gospel to those who do not know.”
“In any given month, Felix said his church is somewhere partnering with International Mission Board missionaries, like on this recent trip to Paris. His team worked with Jason Harris, IMB missionary, and even helped translate for other short-term teams working the same broad gospel seed-sowing campaign. The American volunteers from Florida, Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina did everything from English clubs to homeless projects to worship services in the park.
People are [spiritually] lost and need to understand the love that God has for them.
“Felix’s team found a local Caribbean church made up of Haitians and others from French-speaking countries in the Caribbean. Harris said the connection between the two groups was instant. “
“Several churches from Florida, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina joined forces on a recent mission trip to Paris. Haitian Americans from Miami, Florida, served as translators and mentored the younger team members in how to engage in gospel conversations. “
FOX NEWS LOCAL TEXAS CONFIRMED THE NGOs AND COMMUNITIES GET “MILLIONS FROM FEMA”
“NGOs that helped house and feed migrants receive millions from FEMA”
August 29 2024 Report
“McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The Department of Homeland Security has distributed millions of dollars to nonprofits and communities that assist the migrants the agency releases, despite previous concerns about how some of those funds are being used.”
“DHS on Wednesday announced the allocation of over $380 million to various entities nationwide through the agency’s Shelter and Service Program. The program is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”
“This includes almost $17 million to the Catholic Charities Archdiocese of San Antonio, which received over $10 million in a previous tranche of Shelter and Service funds released in April”
“Other NGOs receiving funds announced Wednesday through Shelter and Services Program include:Services Program include:
$22 million to Jewish Family Service, San Diego
$21.6 million to Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego
$15.1 million to Border Servant Corps., of Doña Ana County, New Mexico
$8.7 million to Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley
$3 million to Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Laredo, Texas
Municipalities and government entities recipients include:
$22 million to New York City’s Office of Management and Budget
$19 million to the state of Arizona
$18 million to Pima County, Arizona
$16.6 million to El Paso County, Texas
$15.4 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$12.6 million to the city and county of Denver, Colorado
$12.2 million to the city of Chicago
$8.5 million to the city of San Antonio
$7.5 million to the District of Columbia
$6.6 million to the city of Columbus, Ohio
$5.8 million to the city of Brownsville, Texas
$5.4 million to the city of Philadelphia
$3 million to the city of Laredo
“Shelter and Services Program”
“The Shelter and Services Program (SSP) is administered by the FEMA in partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). SSP provides financial support to non-federal entities to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The intent is to support CBP in the safe, orderly and humane release of noncitizen migrants from short-term holding facilities.”
FY 2024
Total funding available for fiscal year 2024: $650 million
“DHS directly supports communities that are providing critical support such as food, shelter, clothing, acute medical care, and transportation to noncitizens recently released from DHS custody and awaiting their immigration court proceedings. FEMA, in coordination with CBP, is administering these SSP grants with state, local and tribal governments as well as nongovernmental organizations to help prevent the overcrowding of short-term CBP holding facilities,” the agency said in a statement.”
THE BIG ADMISSION FROM AGENDA 2030 HOW WILL IT END ..OR WILL IT END?
Effective migration governance is vital for safer, more orderly and regular migration, which is a crucial factor to achieve sustainable development.
“What is the migration agenda for 2030?”
“Introduction. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes for the first time the contribution of migration to sustainable development. Migration is a cross-cutting issue in the 2030 Agenda, relevant to all of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).”
How many people migrate from Haiti?
“The Census Bureau’s much larger American Community Survey (ACS) shows 727,000 Haitian immigrants (legal and illegal) in the United States in July 2022, up from 596,000 in 2010, 409,000 in 2000 and 224,000 in 1990.Apr 10, 2024″
What are the goals of the UN migration?
“According to IOM’s latest strategic plan, the organization’s three main objectives for 2024-2028 are: to save lives and protect people on the move, drive solutions to displacement and facilitate pathways for regular migration”
Why are Haitian migrants leaving Haiti?
“Haiti’s people have endured successive generations of intensifying poverty, soil erosion, deforestation, and shrinking average farm sizes, leaving many peasant families unable to meet bare subsistence levels.”
Which state has the most Haitian immigrants?
Florida
“Florida has the highest number of Haitians in the United States, with 487,632 individuals, representing 2.15% of the state’s population.”
Why is 2030 so important?
“The Global Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development seek to end poverty and hunger, realise the human rights of all, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources.”
Which country has the most immigrants?
The United States
“The United States has long had more immigrants than any other country. In fact, the U.S. is home to one-fifth of the world’s international migrants. These immigrants have come from just about every country in the world.Jul 22, 2024″
Which U.S. city has the most Haitians?
“Haitian Americans represent the largest group within the Haitian diaspora. Majority concentrated in the metropolitan areas of Miami, Orlando, New York and Boston.”
How are Haitian migrants getting to the US?
“As of mid-February, more than 5,000 Haitians arrived through a new humanitarian parole program that allows people in the United States to sponsor arrivals coming by plane, which has prompted the exceptional demand for Haitian passports (the program is also available to Cubans, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans); more than …Jul 5, 2023.”
CONCLUSION
Far less of a humanitarian effort or Gospel outreach – this massive UN driven human migration agenda is about WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION, WEAKENING WESTERN NATIONS The United States in particular and about diluting the Eternal Gospel focus of the evangelical churches and denominations and missions organizations.
All that was needed for some pastors and missions organizations was a few grants and a winning narrative to persuade their own flocks that not subcribing to the vision and its Agenda 2030 # 10 would be against the Gospel and a grief to God. Not so beloved.
LAUSANNE MOVEMENT HAS ALREADY BEEN DOCUMENTED AS ONE OF THE MAIN SOURCES OF THE “SSA”/ “SSA GAY CHRISTIANITY” MOVEMENT IN THE CHURCH SINCE 2010 WHEN LAUSSANE SOLD THE GLOBAL EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT INTO THE HANDS OF ACTIVIST IN ORDER “CHANGE THE APPROACH TO HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE CHURCH”. NOW WITH THE 2024 CONGRESS THIS FALL THE RADICAL REVOICE LGBTQ MOVEMENT SPAWNED AT THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST FLAGSHIP SEMINARY UNDER PRESIDENT ALBERT MOHLER WILL HAVE A VOICE IN DRAFTING THE NARRATIVE FOR EVANGELICALS FUTURE.
Rev Thomas Littleton
9/6/2024
Lausanne has been instrumental in promoting the LGBTQ /SSA /Sexual Orientation -Gender Identity (SOGI) talking points of U N globalist, Planned Parenthood and the American Psycological Assiciation for decades. In the 2024 Lausanne Congress the primary APA /SOGU thought leader an interfaith activist from Wheaton College Mark Yarhouse and Revoice leaders now join in the activist agenda pushing “inclusion” and so called “LGBTQ Christinaity” .
NOW AN UIPDATE STRAIGHT FROM THE ACTIIVST MOUTH AT REVOICE IN ITS SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER .
“Let the Church Declare and
Display Christ Together”
“The Lausanne Movement, a global initiative for world evangelization, continues to bring Christian leaders together to collaborate on spreading the Gospel. Founded by John Stott and Billy Graham, this movement has hosted three landmark global gatherings in Lausanne, Switzerland (1974), Manila (1989), and Cape Town (2010). The Lausanne Covenant, born from the 1974 conference, stands as one of the most significant evangelical documents today, used as a statement of faith by Christians worldwide.”
“From September 22-28, the global church will converge in Incheon, South Korea, for the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. This event will unite over 10,000 men and women from diverse backgrounds to assess the gaps and opportunities in the global mission. The Congress aims to advance the movement’s vision of reaching every person with the Gospel, establishing disciple-making churches, fostering Christ-like leaders, and impacting every sphere of society.”
“We are thrilled to share that Revoice’s Executive Director, Rev. Michelle Sanchez, has been invited to attend this historic event. Her presence marks an exciting opportunity for Revoice to engage with and contribute to international conversations on human sexuality.”
If you are also attending, please let us know at info@revoice.org so we can connect!“
“Please Join us in Saying a Prayer for Rev. Michelle and this Movement:“
“Heavenly Father, we thank You for the Lausanne Movement and its impact on global evangelization. We lift up Rev. Michelle Sanchez as she represents Revoice at the Fourth Lausanne Congress. May she be filled with Your wisdom, grace, and love as she engages with leaders from around the world. Guide her steps, and may her presence be a testimony to Your work in and through Revoice. We pray that this Congress will catalyze greater unity, collaboration, and kingdom impact across the globe, especially in conversations on human sexuality. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
HIDING THE SBC/SBTS ORIGINS OF REVOICE AND THE MEGAN BASHAM BOOK “SHEPHERDS FOR SALE”
AS REVOICE ADVANCES IN GLOBAL LAUSANNE CONGRESS -CONTINUED EFFORTS TO HIDE MOHLER’S ROLE IN REVOICE INCUBATION AT SBTS REMAIN FULLY IN PLAY.
HOW MEGAN BASHAM’S BOOK HIDES THE SBTS/ MOHLER ORIGINS OF REVOICE
FORMER WORLD MAGAZINE RED CARPET REPORTER HAS A HISTORY WITH ALBERT MOHLER COVERING HIS OWN TRACKS IN THE REVOICE MOVEMENT AND ,AT LEAST APPEARS, TO BE DOING SO AGAIN. SEE “MEGAN’S MISTAKES” BELOW
BASHAM SAYS THAT REVOICE SBTS DEGREED /NT TEACHER FOUNDER COLLINS AND PARTICIPANT WESLEY HILL “BOTH GRADUATED FROM A PCA SEMINARY”
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BASHAMS BOOK THEN CREDITS MOHLER AND BOYCE COLLEGE UNDERLING DENNY BURK WITH “SOUNDING THE ALARM ON REVOICE AS SOON AS ITS LANGUAGE SURFACED. NOT TRUE GIVEN SBTS ORIGINS AND REVOICE COLLIN’S WORK FOR SBTS AT ETS SINCE 2014/2015
CONCLUSION
REVOICE , despite it’s horrific roots in gender, feminine and queer theory as well as in feminist theology is moving on as the gold standard for the Southern Baptist ERLC for paretns Guide to teaching Children about Gender. and now it moves on to Lausanne with Mark Yarhouse the Revoice SOGI thought leader and activist Preston Sprinkle and now Revoice own Executive Director, Rev. Michelle Sanchez are leading the church into the future setting the gold standard at Lausanne Congress for the global church on LGBTQ Christianity.
How long O Lord?
Psalm 94
God the Refuge of the Righteous
“94 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs— O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth! 2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth; [a]Render punishment to the proud. 3 Lord, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?
4 They utter speech, and speak insolent things; All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves. 5 They break in pieces Your people, O Lord, And afflict Your heritage. 6 They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless. 7 Yet they say, “The Lord does not see, Nor does the God of Jacob [b]understand.”
8 Understand, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when will you be wise? 9 He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see? 10 He who [c]instructs the [d]nations, shall He not correct, He who teaches man knowledge? 11 The Lord knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.
12 Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord, And teach out of Your law, 13 That You may give him [e]rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked. 14 For the Lord will not [f]cast off His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance. 15 But judgment will return to righteousness, And all the upright in heart will follow it.”
TODAYS CHRISTIAN LANDSCAPE IS LITTERED WITH THE DROPPINGS AND DISCHARGE OF AGENTS OF MIS-INFORMATION AND COORDINATED CONTROLLED OPPOSITION.
Rev Thomas Littleton
9/1/2024
“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” – Lenin
The tools of the trade for deceivers are the same no matter what realm they are engaged in. This is most disturbing to discover at work in Christian media circles and especially in “Christian Discernment” ministries. Actually it should come as no surprise that the significant EXPOSURE OF deceptions, false teachings and COMPROMISED evangelical leaders would give rise to a significant UPTICK in highly trained Controlled Opposition. MANY “big faced” Christian leaders who play both sides of the streets have dedicated teams of social media trolls and infiltrators engaged to protect them from being exposed.
SIMPLE RULE OF THUMB- NEVER FOLLOW THOSE WHO ASSOCIATE WITH THE FRINGE OR WANT TO TAKE YOU THERE.
EXAMPLES IN THE CURRENT LANDSCAPE :
AVOID IDENTITIES LIKE “CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST” AND NEO -CONFEDERATE CHRISTIANITY”,
DO NOT FOLLOW ANYONE WHO TAKES FUNDING WITH STRINGS AND IDEOLOGIES ATTACHED OR WHO WORKS FOR SOMEONE WHO DOES.
NEVER TRUST A “MAINSTREAM WHISTLEBLOWER” WITH OLD INFORMATION & WHO IS GIVING COVER TO -OR HIGHLY PRAISED BY KNOWN AND EXOSED BAD PLAYERS.
HOW CONTROLLED OPPOSITION WORKS
There is no doubt for those who detect when it is in play and those who fail to detect it that “Controlled opposition is no doubt a powerful strategy”.
ONE CLUE- When a group of researchers has been exposing a significant new set of details and dirty players for some time and suddenly a new “whistleblower” or insider comes out of nowhere with much hype and runs to the head of the line claiming to “expose” what is already known by those engaged in the issues for some time – this person is very likely sent in as controlled opposition.This is especially likely when the new arrival has a more mainstream outlet and receives PRAISE from the very people or group that others have been exposing at the core of the concerns . Suddenly these kind of operatives will seek to change the talking points, DEFLECT FROM the larger guilty parties AND establish a new narrative with lesser “villains”, heavily edited information and significant GAPS in the most critical information.
WARNING
Christian media is perhaps an even MORE infiltrated reMORE infiltrated by them than ever.
SOME HISTORY AND STRATEGY OF “CONTROLLED OPPOSITION”.
Originally the term was coined to describe government agents hired to infiltrate activist groups and subvert them from within, it has come to describe any person or a group or organizations that isn’t actually working for the side they claim to align with . Controlled opposition could be directly controlled by or in contact with a movement’s opposition, but they could also merely have an agenda aligned to interests other than the one presented. Either way the outcome is the same..DECEPTION is intensified. TO MIS-INFORM – DIVIDE AND CONQUER
Controlled opposition can send spies to infiltrate and send information back to opposition organizations, while at the same time be publishing disinformation to the groups they only are pretending to ally with. This also allows the agents to inspire and feed infighting to make sure the work of the infiltrated group does not succeed. SUBVERSION BY ENTICEMENT TO THE FRINGES
Controlled opposition will often make decisions harmful to their movement and try to get THEIR DECEIVED VICTIMS to follow. It might look to be helping and even allow token “wins” but NEVER seeks REAL victory.The goal is not to WIN. That is NEVER the plan. The GOAL is to undermine that strategy and ensure failure in the end. Controlled opposition can be TOUGH to identify for some. However, the easiest way to identify controlled opposition is to observe who and what information they seek to hide from the public and WHO THEY ARE PROTECTING FROM exposure. DOES IT ALL SOUND LIKE “CONSPIRACY THEORY”? PROPAGANDA IS EVERYWHERE. NEVER FORGET IT.
GUESS WHAT- COUNTERING CONSPIRACY WITH MORE CONSPIRACY WAS PERFECTED BY THE OBAMA WHITEHOUSE. EXAMPLE-
NITIVE
” COGNITIVE INFILTRATION” – COUNTERING CONSPIRACY WITH CONSPIRACY THEORY.
“In 2010, Marc Estrin, a novelist and far-left activist from Vermont, found an online version of a paper by Cass Sunstein, a professor at Harvard Law School and the most frequently cited legal scholar in the world. The paper, called “Conspiracy Theories,” was first published in 2008, in a small academic journal called the Journal of Political Philosophy. In it, Sunstein and his Harvard colleague Adrian Vermeule attempted to explain how conspiracy theories spread, especially online. At one point, they made a radical proposal: “Our main policy claim here is that the government should engage in cognitive infiltration of the groups that produce conspiracy theories.”
CONCLUSION
“Controlled opposition is more dangerous to a movement than open opposition. Open opposition inspires resistance, while controlled opposition is designed to absorb that resistance.”-
Since FIRST engaging the concerns over massive infiltration into Christian Seminaries which has flooded our pulpits with the chaff of serious false teachings and eroding the GOSPEL – this writer began to speak out, research and write articles to help other believers who were seeing and detecting the same in their churches and Christian institutions. This author’s goal has always been to seek the truth and speak it no matter who wants it hidden or how determined they are to hide the TRUTH. Within weeks of first getting some national attention to the research, “controlled opposition ” agents descended on this author seeking to tell this author who to expose and who NOT to expose, who to work with and who not to work with …and what details to address and what to leave out. Navigating this sad landscape has not, and will never be easy.
We must wise up BUT NEVER become like them.
Matthew 10:16New King James Version
Persecutions Are Coming
16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless[a] as doves.
We must NOT WASTE WORDS IN FOOLS & GOD IS WITH US TO PLEAD OUR CAUSE.
Proverbs 23:
6 Do not eat the bread of a[b] miser, Nor desire his delicacies; 7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, But his heart is not with you. 8 The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words.
9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10 Do not remove the ancient [c]landmark, Nor enter the fields of the fatherless; 11 For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause against you.
WHEN HER “MISTAKE HIDES REVOICE ORIGINS AND IMPACT IN THE SBC AND CREDITS ALBERT MOHLER AS “SOUNDING THE ALARM ” OVER REVOICE -IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO RESPOND AS IF THE CONCERNS ARE UNFOUNDED “CONSPIRACY THEORY “.
VALID CONCERNS EXIST GIVEN BASHAM’S HISTORY WITH MOHLER OVER REVOICE IN JULY 26 2018…THE DAY REVOICE WAS LAUNCHED. MOHLER /SBTS/ERLC ROLES WERE SIMPLY IGNORED AND DISMISSED FROM THE TALKING POINTS ON REVOICE EARLY ON. NOW “MEGAN’S MISTAKE” DOES THE SAME.
FACTS AND TIMELINES ARE THE FOUNDATION OF REAL RESEARCH ON WHO WAS FOR SALE & WHO HAS BEEN BOUGHT.
Rev Thomas Littleton
8/10/2024
(NOTE -This THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER author is particularly qualified to speak to the importance of the Revoice LGBTQ Christianity movement & controversial connections to SBTS and Albert Mohler and its early endorsement by members of the ERLC Fellows. Later Collins book WAS USED by Russell Moore’s crew in the ERLC “Parents Guide to Teaching your Children About Gender”. This THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER author FIRST RESEARCH AND FULLY EXPOSED REVOICE IN LATE SPRING 2018 AND ITS ORIGINS IN THE SBTS/SBC and has presented the LGBTQ infiltration by activist (like those brought in by TGC and ERLC ) in apologetics meetings to over 180 churches and dozens of events.
WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT?
At the time this author was saved in the late 70s the homosexual “Christian” movements were already sweeping through and destroying entire denominations who allowed activists to control the narrative and had forced leadership and members to begin down the path of accomodation for the NEVER ENDING demands of change agent activism Only the language has changed . The tactics and end game never has.
No Chrisitan movement can survive IF IT CANNOT get it right on this MOST BLACK AND WHITE OF BIBLICAL ISSUES. So this author has always understood this issue to be THE marker for fidelity to the Word of God or failure to remain faithful to it. Culturally and Biblically there is NO BETTER guage for where a Christian movement is and where it is HEADING.)
THE HYPE AND DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE BASHAM RESEARCH BOOK.
The last several months have been buzzing around evangelical blogs and outlets about a new book “exposing” evangelical leaders who have sold out to the left. The book “Shepherd’s for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded The Truth for a Leftist Agenda” comes from a former World Magazine red carpet reporter who now works for Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire. She can be seen covering matters of evangelical concern, speaking at Founders Conferences, NATCON with Albert Mohler and frequenting Doug Wilson’s programing. Megan Basham is the authors name and her much hyped book, like much of the information in her articles, looks to be falling far short on delivering what was promised.
“REVEALING RESEARCH ” THAT IS A DECADE OLD OR MORE.
The first and most obvious reality from informed readers is that there is nothing new in the research possibly due in part to the appearance at least that it is heavily borrowed from any one of a dozen or more evangelical researchers who have covered the material in much more ACCURATELY, indepth and sweeping fashion long before Basham joined the expose genre late “in 2021”.This timeline is according to Basham in her book tour interviews.
REVOICE EXPLODED AS A CONTROVERSIAL EVENT IN SPRING (APRIL) 2018
“MEGAN’S MISTAKE”
(NOTE This author has suggested that the “mistake” Megan makes in her book “about where someone went to seminary ” is NOT insignificant though Megam laughs off concerns saying a “conspiracy theory ” has been “developing about why she made the mistake.” This was her appanently entertained response on an interview with the “Doug Wilson and Friends” PANEL after compounding concerns arose about Bashams research and mistakes in the book. Voices of concern reached a fever pitch on social media within days of its publishing and Basham took to the air to calm the flurry.
TO SEE BASHAM LAUGH OFF CONCERN AS CONSPIRACY THEORY SEE:
Shepherds For Sale / Doug Wilson and Friends with Megan Basham, CANNON PRESS ON YOUTUBE INTERVIEW.
BUT-Can the issue of where Revoice LGBTQ Christianity movement and event originated be laughably insignificant? Basham spends over 6 pages covering Revoice in which she never mentions the origins in or any ties to the SBC at SBTS and instead declares Revoice to be a Presbyterian Church in America /PCA issue and wrongly indentifies its Founder COLLINS “as attending a PCA seminary”.
How can this be considered insignificant?
WHETHER IT IS A MISTAKE OR BAD RESEARCH OR….SOMETHING ELSE- WHAT IT IS NOT -IS INSIGNIFICANT.
THE main reason the Revoice conference, promoting LGBTQ Christianity, became an IMMDEDIATELY EXPLOSIVE issue -even eclipsing the higly hyped- preview of ” #metoo comes to the SBC “story of SWBTS/ Paige Patterson accusations- was BECAUSE Revoice came out of SBTS with its FOUNDER NATE COLLINS boasting 2 degrees and teaching New Testament at Mohlers trusted Conservative Seminary.
Megan Basham “research “reports on Revoice as part of her Chapter 8 “None Dare Call It Sin: LGBTQ in the Church” under the section “Side B and a New Kind of Christian”.
Basham for some reason has chosen here to USE the talking points of the “LGBTQ Chrisitan” activist which has aways led to confusion among Believers and draws a thin line of asserted orthodoxy based on the professed “Celibacy” or “Faithfulness to biblical sexual ethic” among self identified “Gay Christians”. This is much like the 1970s activist who played the PCUSA and other mainline denominations with the “non practicing homosexual” narrative.
* Side A vs Side B is the activist creation. Basham only adds to confusion by using it.
Basham on page 219 mentions Revoice Collins connecting him to Side B, to Tim Keller and The Gospel Coalition BUT does not connect Collins to SBTS and Mohler at all.
Basham on page 220 quotes from Collins book “All But Invisibile ” which was written at SBTS as an extension of Collins controversial dissertation relating the New Testament use of the word “virgin” as some sort of proof that a “third gender option exist in the NT”. Obviously she does not mention any of this about the book or Collins work in connection to SBTS.
REVOICE SURFACED JUST AFTER TGC/ERLCS EVENT MLK/50 HAD GOTTEN SERIOUS CHRISTIANS ATTENTION BECAUSE OF ITS CLEAR FALSE RACIAL JUSTICE MESSAGE.
THE REVOICE STORY AND SBTS CONTROVERSIAL TIES HAD BECOME A MJOR STORY AMONG EVANGLEICALS BY MAY 2018 .SBC ANNUAL MEETINGS WERE SCHEDULED FOR THE SECOND WEEK IN JUNE.
THE DALLAS STATEMENT WAS ALREADY IN THE WORKS GOING INTO SBC ANNUAL MEETINGS IN DALLAS IN 2018 THE SAME TIME REVOICE IS BEING PROMOTED.
Christians, especially Southern Baptist, were on HIGH ALERT for error due to the sudden and undeniable false gospel the ERLC/TGC event MLK/50 had vomitted onto the evangelical, especially Neo Calvinist scene. The headlines which were launched by the SWBTS scandal were developing into A GLOBAL STORY leading up to a full orchestrated invasion of the SBC by the Feminist #metoo movement (though it would take years to play out).
BUT suddenly the revelations of ERLC endorsement and SBTS oigins of a A PRO LGBT+ Christian conference called “Revoice ” took CENETER STAGE. This happened against all efforts by those long in collusion with its Founder and other activist involved in the Revoice planning and launch -to downplay it… because as the well oiled narrative went- ” we need to wait see because it hasn’t happened yet.”
BASHAMS BRUSH WITH MOHLER/ REVOICE ON THE DAY IT LAUCHED IN JULY 2018
On July 26th 2018 Megan Basham and her co-host GAVE Albert Mohler their World Radio spot “The World and Everything in It” to Mohler to use as his first platform to speak to “PROBLEMS WITH THE REVOICE CONFERENCE”.
Mohler here at Revoice actual launch date , as well as in his Aug 2nd Revoice (post- event) NEVER mentions Revoice MASSIVE TIES TO SBTS or to himself.
MEGAN BASHAM IS PROVIDING HER PLATFORM TO MOHLER FOR HIS REVOICE PR.
“MEGAN BASHAM, HOST: Today is Thursday, July 26th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from member-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Megan Basham.
NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. You probably know Albert Mohler as the president of Southern Seminary and host of the daily podcast The Briefing. But as you heard last month during our Spring Giving Drive, Mohler is also a member of the WORLD board of directors.
Now, The Briefing doesn’t run during the month of July, but he had some thoughts he wanted to share on a notable church conference that starts today.
“ALBERT MOHLER, COMMENTATOR: Even as I speak, a conference is beginning in St. Louis. It is called “Revoice,” and the name indicates the organizers’ ambition. They want to create a new “voice” for evangelical Christians on LGBTQ issues.”
“What kind of voice are they seeking?”
“A closer look at the conference indicates that they want evangelicals to accept LGBTQ identity as permanent and to welcome and celebrate LGBTQ Christians within congregations. They insist that they hold to the historic Christian Biblical ethic that restricts sexual activity to marriage, defined as the union of a man and a woman.”
“The problem arises with the conference’s use of terms like “sexual minorities” and its open embrace of identity language when it comes to sexuality.”
“Where does this lead? Well, consider this session summary from the conference. The session is entitled “Redeeming Queer Culture and Adventure.” And we are told that it asks: “What does queer culture and specifically queer literature and theory have to offer us who follow Christ? What queer treasure, honor, and glory will be brought into the New Jerusalem at the end of time?”
“That is shocking language. The organizers of the conference want to celebrate LGBTQ culture—even styled as queer culture—while claiming to hold a Biblical model of sexual morality.”
“Here is the problem: The Bible’s teaching on sexual morality is not merely a matter of do’s and don’ts – it is a comprehensive celebration of God’s gift of sexuality and God’s gift in making humanity in his image, male and female, revealed at birth. It is a vision of God’s intention in creation and His commands for how His people are to receive this gift in holiness.”
“The gospel promises that in Christ, every believer becomes a new creature. Conversion is to be followed by obedience to Christ and the ongoing divine work of sanctification. There is no way that faithful Christians can celebrate what is contrary to Christ, much less propose that any kind of sin and brokenness, including sexual sin and brokenness, will receive honor and glory in the New Jerusalem.”
“Christians are to find our identity is in Christ, and not in any pattern of temptation. Paul makes this clear in 1 Corinthians 6:11, where the Apostle speaks to the church honestly about sin, and then says, “and such were some of you.” The key word there is were. Christians do experience temptation, and each Christian has his or her own pattern of temptation, but we are not to give in to temptation, nor are we to find our identity in any temptation to sin. Our identity is in Christ.”
“That’s the key problem with this conference, but similar patterns of thinking are spreading fast. Christians must respond this challenge with both compassion and Biblical clarity.”
“For WORLD Radio, I’m Albert Mohler.”
QUESTION FOR MEGAN BASHAM-
IF SHE IS THIS CLOSE TO THE CLEARLY SBTS/SBC CONTROVERSY IN 2018 RELATED TO REVOICE –
HOW DOES SHE FAIL TO KNOW-AS A RESEARCHER SELLING A BOOK ON INFLITRATION OF THE CHURCH BY ISSUES LIKE LGBTQ- THAT REVOICE ORIGINS IN THE SBC, AT SBTS ARE THE REASON IT IS SUCH A SIGNFICANT STORY?
ON PAGES 223 AND 224 BASHAM MAKES HER CASE THAT REVOICE IS A PCA ISSUE.
MEGAN IS WILLING TO ASSOCIATE TIM KELLER AND THE PCA ALONE WITH THE REVOICE CONTROVERSIAL MOVEMENT . INDEED THE REVOICE MOVEMENT WAS AND IS DEEPLY ENTRENCHED IN THE COVENANAT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY /CTS OF THE PCA BUT IT’S FOUNDER AND DEVELOPMENT IN SBTS IS NEVER MENTIONED
PAGE 223
BELOW -NOT ONLY DOES BASHAM CONTINUE TO DRIVE HOME THE PCA OWNERSHIP OF THE REVOICE PROBLEM -BUT CLEARLY MISTAKENLY OR THROUGH POOR RESEARCH OR THORUGH BAD MEMORY OR THROUGH SOME OTHER UNTHINKABLE CHAPTER COLLABORATION FAILS TO MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT REVOICE ORIGINS OUT OF- AT THE HEART OF THE CONTROVERSY IN SBTS/SBC . MIND BLOWING.
PAGE 224
WHAT DOES MEGAN BASHAM SAY ABOUT MOHLER IN RELATION TO REVOICE?
INSTEAD OF MAKING AN ACCURATE CONNECTION OF REVOICE TO MOHLER/SBTS DURING THE BOOK RESEARCH OR EVEN SINCE THE PROBLEM /MISTAKE WAS EXPOSED- MEGAN BASHAM DISMISSES THE CONCERN AND CHOOSES TO LET HER HIGH PRAISE OF MOHLER’S PUBLIC RELATIONS RESISTANCE TO REVOICE BE CHAMPIONED
“MOHLER SOUNDED THE ALARM ” ABOUT REVOICE
Page 221 Megan Basham drowns Albert Mohler and his disciple Denny Burk with HIGH PRAISE FOR “AS SOON AS SOME OF REVOICE IDEAS BECAME KNOWN… THEY SOUNDED THE ALARM.”
Actually Revoice Nate Collins had been at SBTS for 14 1/2 years , was a Garrett Fellow and taught New Testament there. His father Chip also taught at Boyce and in SBTS network, as both father and son worked in a “ministry ” called “Aligned Grace” to promote the healthy relationship of a father to his “gay son”.
ALSO Nate Collins academic papers WERE PRESENTED as part of SBTS participation with other SBTS leaders like Burk and activist like Master’s Seminary Preston Sprinkle at ETS , Evangelical Theological Society as early as 2015 . They had all heard the papers presented and did social media backslapping and congratulations over the content as SBTS featured papers .
YET MEGAN BASHAM ISSUES THIS BOLD ENDORSMENT OF SBT/MOHLER/ BURK ALARM
THE MASSIVE FACT FINDING FAILURE BY MEGAN BASHAM
Before dedicatiing a section of Chapter 8 including over 6 pages in her book to Revoice and attributing it solely to the PCA- Megan could- should- would have found ALL THE FOLLOWING by a mere type and click about the founder of Revoice .
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SBTS PROFILE – “Collins specializes in the intersection of NT Studies, gender, and sexuality, and is the president and founder of Revoice.”
ACADEMIC REFERENCES Thomas R. Schreiner Professor of New Testament Interpretation Associate Dean of the School of Theology Southern Seminary tschreiner@sbts.edu (502) *** ****
TEACHING EXPERIENCE The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Instructor of New Testament Interpretation 2015-16 “Elementary Greek Grammar” and “Greek Review” Taught two graduate-level courses (approx. 30 students each) covering all introductory elements of Koine Greek grammar, administered and graded all learning assessments, provided outside-the-classroom help to underperforming students, assessed students’ qualifications to continue graduate-level study of Greek beyond the elementary grammar stage.
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Guest Lecturer – “Counseling and Sexuality” 2015 Delivered three hours of guest lectures on the subject of LGBT issues and Christian counseling.
RELATED EXPERIENCE The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Online Teaching Assistant 2013 – Present “New Testament Survey I” (undergraduate) and “Introduction to the New Testament I” (graduate) Create undergraduate and graduate level courses in online learning management system; Interact with students via discussion forums and email correspondence; evaluate learning outcomes and coach students based on demonstrated needs
“Secondary Gender Identities in the Biblical World” 2016 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature (San Antonio, TX) “Theological Perspectives on Non-Straight Sexuality, Gender Identity, and Sanctification” 2015 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (Atlanta, GA) “Ethnosexual Particularity and Secondary Gender Identities” 2014 Paper presented at the Evangelical Theological Society (San Antonio, CA) “Embodiment, Relationality, and the Construction of Gendered Identities” 2013 Paper presented at the Evangelical Theological Society (Baltimore, MD)
SBTS DISSERTATION
“VIRGIN” AS SECONDARY GENDER IDENTITY IN 1 CORINTHIANS 7 AND ITS JEWISH AND GRECO-ROMAN BACKGROUND”
CONCLUSION –
THE ERLC SEES THE REVOICE FOUNDERS SBTS BOOK AS SO SIGNIFICANT THAT IT IS THE GOLD STANDARD QUOTED/REFERENCED BY THE ERLC :
A Parent’s Guide to Teaching Your Children About Gender
4 See Nate Collins, All but Invisible: Exploring Identity Questions at the Intersection of Faith, Gender, and Sexuality, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2017), 208.
7 Collins, All but Invisible, 212.
23 Collins, All but Invisible, 218–19.
26 Collins, All but Invisible, 220. Also see Walker, God and the Transgender Debate, 33–35.
38 Collins, All but Invisible, 9.
“ERLC’s Andrew Walker, SEBTS/ Liberty Universities Karen Swallow Prior and Russell Moore himself are also used as sources for the “Parents Guide to Teaching Your Children About Gender”.
NOTE THIS WAS WELL AFTER THE REVOICE 2018 CONTROVERSY WHERE ERLC FELLOWS HAD ENDORSED THE FIRST EVENT. ERLC UNDER MOHLER DISCCIPLE RUSSELL MOORE -WHO BASHAM IS “EXPOSING” IT STILL PROMOTING REVOICE FOUNDER TO PARENTS
FULL FACTUAL RESEARCH ON ERLCs CONTINUED ENDORSEMENT /USE OF REVOICE FOUNDERS SBTS DEVELOPED BOOK- is HERE at the link below.
MEGAN BASHAM WANTS TO DOWNPLAY HER “MISTAKE” ABOUT COLLINS “PCA SEMINARY ATTENDANCE AND GRADUATION.
AND MEGAN WANTS TO LABEL HONEST CONCERN ABOUT HER “MISTAKE” OR POOR RESEARCH OR OTHERWISE OMISSION OF THIS IMPORTANT RESEARCHED /DOCUMENTED FACT AS A “CONSPIRACY THEORY”?
WHAT DID MOHLER KNOW ABOUT REVOICE ORIGINS ? WHEN DID HE KNOW REVOICE WAS CONTROVERSIAL ?
MOHLER HAD TO KNOW COLLINS WORK FOR HIM AT SBTS.
AND HE KNEW IT WAS A MASSIVE CONTROVERSY BY THE 26TH OF JULY 2018 WHEN IT WAS LAUNCHED AND HE USED MEGAN BASHAMS FORMAT AT WORLD RADIO TO ADDRESS IT – WHILE LIKE MEGAN ? -FAILING TO MENTION ??? IT’S SBTS ORIGINS.
ALBERT MOHLER PRESENTS THE FOUNDR OF REVOICE HIS SBTS DOCTORATE 2017
SOMETHING FAR WORSE IS GOING ON HERE IF ALBERT MOHLER WAS CLUELESS ABOUT REVOICE TIES TO HIS OWN SEMINARY. THAT IS NOT EVNE PLAUSIBLE.
IF MEGAN BASHAM CANNOT OWN AND CORRECT THIS MASSIVE FAIL NOW- IN SOME OF HER DOZENS OF BOOK TOUR INTERVIEWS AND IN A PUBLIC APOLOGY AND STATEMENT -AND DO SO LONG BEFORE A “SECOND PRINTING“- THEN HER RESEARCH AND CREDIBILITY ARE IN SERIOUS DOUBT.
*MEGAN BASHAM- PLEASE NO MORE DOWNPLAYING ANDACCUSATION OF CONSPIRACY THEORY – JUST MAKE AN APOLOGY FOR THE FAILURE ADN THE MASSIVE CONCERN IT LEGITIMATELY RAISES?
“THE TRUTH BECAME FLESH SO NOW TRUTH COMPELS US .”
JOHN 1:14 “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
SCALING UP ON THE UNITED NATION’S DREAM OF “GLOBAL SPIRITUALITY” BY PUSHING ALL WORLD RELIGIOUS GROUPS, EXPECIALLY -GREAT COMMISSION DRIVEN GROUPS LIKE THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST INTO ONE BIG COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PILE, IS UNDERWAY.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR BOB ROBERTS MULTIFAITH NEIGHBORS NETWORK/ GLOCAL NET RECEIVES ANOTHER LARGE GRANT FOR INTERFAITH DIALOG DEVELOPMENT.
By Rev Thomas Littleton
8/1/2024
“Beyond promoting mere “tolerance,” this project’s components will synergistically advance all three enabling conditions of covenantal pluralism (religious freedom, religious literacy, and pluralist virtues). By teaching and modeling engagement and catalyzing ongoing connections, this project will yield new, self-sustaining networks of creative leaders who can change the conversation about religion in challenging contexts.” ( note from TRT larger grant iniative information page.)
THE GRANT.
Grant Title
Multi-Faith Neighbors Network
Legal Organization
GlocalNet
Project Dates
Start Date: 01 May 2019 End Date: 30 April 2020
Grant Amount
$232,962
Area of Focus
“Covenantal Pluralism”
Bob Roberts, Jr., GlocalNet
“Multi-Faith Relationships Change Everything”
“What if religions built relationships through shared meals? What if religions stuck up for one another in a crisis? Pastor Bob Roberts, Jr., founder of GlocalNet and co-founder of Multi-Faith Neighbors Network (MFNN), is working with Imam Mohamed Magid and Rabbi David Saperstein to build resilient communities of mutual trust and respect among faith leaders through honest dialogue, authentic relationships, and civic engagement in an effort to build resilient cities around the world.”
STRATEGIES TOWARD MULTIFAITH COMMUNITY BUILDING
“Following the initial two-and-a-half day MFNN retreat, conversation, community building, and partnership continues in the following ways:
1. Sharing a Meal Clerics open their homes to each other and break bread with one another. This allows a comfortable, familiar, and deeply personal space where these clerics can get to know each other.
2. Socializing as a Multi-Faith Community Moving from engaging clerics to building bridges between faith communities is critical. Clerics involved in the program will host “mixers” at their individual places of worship for the other religious community members to attend, fostering a dialogue of multi-faith understanding and acceptance.
3. Participating in a Community Project Together Many people talk about interfaith dialogue, but we aim to focus on multi-faith engagements. These shared experiences allow people of different faiths to work together toward a common good.
4. Standing Up for Each Other During a Crisis MFNN is focused on creating longtime bonds that build community through religion, not in spite of it. Resilient cities are those that respect people who are different than themselves, respond to change easier, and are better prepared for unexpected events.”
THE REASON. SUPPOSEDLY
Transformation Begins with Relationships
“When pastors, say imams, rabbis, and other clerics and religious leaders come together to learn from each other, they become models for their own faith communities. By way of example, they remove fear and increase understanding within their own faith communities.”
“Multi-faith relationships allow everyone to hold onto their own beliefs while still building deep bonds with other faiths and serving their city together. Faith leaders can be a powerful, moral voice in society. Working cooperatively, they can model the very kind of society and world that all of us are trying to build – one where community, cooperation, and the common good are respected.”
REAL REASON :WHAT THE UNITED NATIONS & RIVAL RELIGIONS TO CHRISTIANITY HAVE TO GAIN BY INTERFAITH DIALOG IN AMERICA AND THE WORLD.
“ADOPTING CONSENSUS RESOLUTION, GENERAL ASSEMBLY AFFIRMS MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING, INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE AS IMPORTANT DIMENSIONS OF CULTURE OF PEACE”
13 November 2008
“Lauding the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion as integral to building tolerant societies and durable peace, the General Assembly this evening capped its two-day, high-level meeting on the Culture of Peace with the adoption of a consensus resolution reaffirming the world body’s solemn commitment to promote universal respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms, in line with the United Nations Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
“By its resolution on the “promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace”, the Assembly encouraged the promotion of dialogue among media from all cultures, and that States consider, where appropriate, initiatives that identify practical actions in all levels of society for promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue, tolerance and understanding.”
“Further by the text, the Assembly invited the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in consultation with Member states, and through extrabudgetary resources, to play a lead role in preparations for the celebration of the International Year for Rapprochement of Cultures in 2010.”
UN’S GLOBAL “NEW AGE ” SPIRITUALITY ENVISIONED
“New Genesis (Shaping a Global Spirituality)”
MAKE NO MISTAKE -THE INTERFAITH EFFORTS OF THE UN ENVISION THIS GLOBAL SPIRITUALITY.
Robert Muller (11 March 1923 – 20 September 2010) was an international globalist theosophist with the United Nations. Serving with the UN for 40 years and rising to the rank of assistant secretary-general, his ideas about world government, world peace and spirituality led to the increased representation of religions in the UN, especially of the New Age movement. He was known by some as “the philosopher of the United Nations”
THE LONG HISTORYOF ROBERTS AND INTERFAITH PARTNERS LIKE DAVID PLATT.
“MWL welcomed a number of American evangelical leaders in Washington, DC to review the contents of the Charter of Makkah and its purpose to establish community and global harmony.“
NO GOSPEL HERE -“….The third challenge is proselytizing, or attempting to convert others. This is also antithetical to the idea of respecting each other’s differences.”
“The interfaith movement in the United States is growing. Led by organizations like the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago, the Pluralism Project at Harvard, and the Groundswell Movement founded by Ms. Valarie Kaur (to name just a few), more and more Americans are engaging with people of different religious/spiritual identities than themselves. The mainstream media has finally started to pick up on this trend, and major news outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, Public Broadcasting Service, and the Huffington Post frequently report on interreligious engagement.”
“…The third challenge is proselytizing, or attempting to convert others. This is also antithetical to the idea of respecting each other’s differences. It is perfectly acceptable for dialogue participants to claim that they have the absolute truth. After all, many religions make similar claims that often conflict with beliefs of other religions. However, in interfaith dialogue, participants should enter the conversation in order to learn about other religions’ beliefs, not to promote their own. Although some Muslims consider dawah (Islamic missionary work) to be an important part of their tradition, Muslims must also respect the rule in Chapter 2, Verse 256 of the Qur’an: “There is no compulsion in religion.” Thus, although there may be a time and place for proselytizing (as in other traditions like Christianity), interfaith dialogue should not be done with conversion in mind.”
“Interfaith dialogue can be an excellent way to heal divisions in society. Social science research indicates that having a positive, meaningful relationship with someone of a different background and learning about their identity correlates to viewing that person’s entire group more favorably. The same logic applies with interfaith conversations. If we as Americans pursue interfaith dialogue while attempting to address the challenges described above, we can break down stereotypes and find more areas of common ground.”
CONCLUSION
INTERFAITH DIALOG AS A MEANS TO PEACE ADN COMMON GROUND IS UNBLIBLICAL!
28 Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
“Beware of False Gods”
29 “When the Lord your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, 30 take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’ 31 You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way; for every [a]abomination to the Lord which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
32 “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.
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