FEARLESS study: last week’s slides on “Why are we afraid?” Slides from Discussion 2 Fear Not Mattering

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1. Monty Wentzel
   Feb 09, 2012 @ 08:50:45

   OK Randy here’s my rant [part one]. I know you attract more with honey, but sometimes things ust need to be said…

   Christian Revival

   Hearing that more of our Christian freedoms were lost this Christmas season [2011] triggered something in me. I’ve been hearing about Christmas celebrations being banned, along with more places in which prayer is no longer allowed and other like kind Christian attacks.

   For some reason this brought to the surface other things I’ve observed among the Christian community that have bothered me.

   It seems the ideal of sacrificing all and following Christ has been replaced with joining ministries with cool looking logos and trendy names; many, not all are just popular hobbies and various forms of entertainment re-labeled ministries for Christ. You can’t storm the gates of hell by learning how to macramé for Jesus or joining the let’s study the mysteries of Jesus forever society.

   Fellowship is great, but it wasn’t meant to be our outreach. When and how do we go out and start to make a change?

   The God I know is mighty and strong and needs NOTHING from us, but in his wisdom he chose US to be his representatives, his people to fight against injustice and evil; God called US to be his soldiers, not choir boys singing love sonnets.

   Singing praises to our God is a vital part of our worship, but spending hours of pledging our undying devotion and endless love WITHOUT ever advancing God’s kingdom is wrong. We sing and dedicate all with our words, all the while the evil ones of this world successfully remove God and Jesus from public mention and continue to restrict prayer from everywhere; we standby as if we’re making great in-roads for our faith as Christmas is destroyed and reduced to a godless multi-use holiday. What are we doing about this; absolutely nothing, we are losing turf.

   I think God wants us to graduate from wearing trendy ministry logos and strap on some righteous armor, stand-up, hit the streets and get busy telling others of him, get consistent with helping others with hardships, demonstrate honest love to others and start creating a resistance against the few who continue to destroy our religious freedoms.

   We can’t pack a shoebox and visit the elderly and sign a petition ONCE a year and think we’re making great strides for the faith. A shoebox once a year, really; how about a shoebox once a month and let’s start fighting against evil laws followed up with protests and marches and shame on US for not visiting those who need it.

   You may think Christianity looks and sounds better today, but much is void of any influence of the Holy Spirit. Modern Christianity in the US does little to inspire great feats for Christ, regardless of how many times we sing the majestic words and no matter how many join the trendy new ministries; we are losing turf and losing the war.

   We hide from the world in churches, at concerts and retreats, we research the depths of God on cruise-ships for Jesus and take expensive pilgrimages to the Holy Land, but little is done as soldiers preaching the cross.

   end of part one

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2. Randy Broberg
   Feb 12, 2012 @ 15:44:19

   The video of my testimony has been moved to the page called “About Randy”.

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FEARLESS study: last week’s slides on “Why are we afraid?” Slides from Discussion 2 Fear Not Mattering