How Socialism Is Impacting the Country and the Church

How socialism is impacting the country and the church. We're going to recap the Christian Worldview Speaker Series event that took place just last night here on the Christian Worldview today with our guest Curtis Bowers, producer of the Agenda Films. Our mission here on the Christian Worldview is to sharpen the biblical worldview of Christians and also to share the good news that all people can be reconciled to God through faith in Jesus Christ. I'm David Wheaton the host and our website is thechristianworldview.org. Well if you didn't get a chance to come to the event last night or watch it online we have it linked at our website thechristianworldview.org. We're also going to do some of the highlights of the event last night. We were just very pleased with just everything about the event from where it was hosted to I think most of all to the message that Curtis gave.

He just did a great job and we're going to just be hearing from him in just a few minutes. Now in case you haven't been listening recently in the program we've been talking about how socialism is increasing. It's on the rise. It's favorable especially to the young generation here in America. It's an all-encompassing worldview which believes a bigger more intrusive government ordering every aspect of life will result in a better and this is the key phrase more equitable forced equality. That's what socialism is about forced equality not voluntary charity but forced equality future for all. And the structure for socialism goes right back to you know who Karl Marx in his book in 1848 the communist manifesto because socialism is the transitional step between free market capitalism and communism.

That's how you get there. Now unfortunately the the worldview of socialism and communism didn't die when the Soviet Union went under or when the famous communists of the last century like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler or Castro died. In fact socialism and communism I think they're the the natural bent the natural desire that the default position of unregenerate mankind to achieve their socialist utopia.

They're heaven on earth. They're looking for heaven too. They're going to try to create it right here on earth and to do that they need big government because ultimately at the end of government is a gun pointing at you to do what they want you to do. Socialism is alive and well in this country despite what some people may think.

All you have to do is look at the democrat party right now and its leaders of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez they're avowed democrat socialists they're just open about it. But it's also impacting the evangelical church as well which is the most troubling thing where the great commission priority of individual salvation go out make disciples individual disciples through the preaching of the gospel that's being slowly or maybe not so slowly replaced with the pursuit the priority of rectifying perceived social injustices with race or gender those kinds of things. So this weekend on the Christian worldview we're going to recap some of the highlights of the Christian worldview speaker series event last night with filmmaker Curtis Bowers and Curtis thanks for getting up early after a late night last night I know you were driving after the event last night with your family but thanks for coming on the Christian real view this morning.

Oh thanks for having me. Well just a couple things you know usually when you come to an event like this you were the speaker you were speaking on how socialism is impacting the country and the church what were some of your takeaways from the event what did you learn what struck you audience questions what'd you take away? Well I was very encouraged to see how much interest there is in this and how much concern so that was that was great to see that there was hundreds of people in there that wanted to understand this better and knew it was something that was a threat to us it wasn't just some harmless do-gooder activity it was something that was going to as Obama said fundamentally transform us and so that that was really encouraging. Why do you think this has become more relevant now I think when President Obama became president when he said what you just said about fundamentally transforming the United States of America and a lot of his policies were were on the the socialist tracks universal health care and so forth why do you think since this ideology has been around for such a long time this is nothing new this has been around since for sure since Karl Marx when he's kind of structurized it in his book but even before that the roots were in the French Revolution and all that why is it rising now do you think in the country? I think because we've raised a generation that is historically illiterate they didn't study most young people that they did not study the 20th century and all the atrocities that were committed by socialist countries whether it was national socialism or Soviet socialism so they don't know what socialism is they just know it sounds like hey they're going to get something for free and that sounds pretty good to their millennial minds that have just not been given the education and the experience and the training they should to be productive adults. You know as I think about the different issues and we'll get into these that we're you're only going to be with us for a segment today I know you have another event going on today in Wisconsin but as you think about the various policy issues being pushed forward universal health care universal basic income the green new deal unlimited immigration open borders which is really globalisms against nationalism government controlled education free college and student loan debt forgiveness elimination of of citizen gun rights the redefinition of biblical family marriage and morality and then of course social justice that's the one that's impacting the evangelical church you look at all these issues and correct me if I'm wrong but all of those issues are are socialistic and in to one degree or another aren't they yes no they are we were just we're taking on a mindset um of the flawful of the people that are not productive americans traditionally have been the ones I mean you these immigrants that come here and become americans they want to become americans and then they know they're gonna work hard in their little business maybe live in the back of a shop but they can make it and they do year after year after year still it's amazing the entrepreneurial stories of families and people that come here and wanting to be here and thankful to be here and the blessings they did that used to be the american dream is I can make it through hard work and creativity and ingenuity I can I can you know goes high and far as I want to go now it's what can I get from somebody else what how can it be the easiest path for me how you know and so it's just it's a different mentality what has happened of the america 50 60 years ago that all the things that made that generation have not been put into this this generation so they don't have those ambitions and excitement about I remember when Ronald Reagan was president I was 15 and he talked about you young people go start businesses and and enjoy the free enterprise system like those those young men that started a computer company out of their garage of course he was talking about apple computer which today we know is even one of the largest companies in the world but he was talking about how they had done that and that was motivated to me I was like I can't wait to get old enough to start a business so we need to inspire them in those kind of ways which are much more fulfilling and rewarding than to get a little hand out for nothing and then but be content with very little Curtis Bowers with us today on the Christian real view the producer of the agenda films the website is is it agenda documentary.com I don't have it in front of me yes that's right agenda agenda documentary.com there's two films excellent films highly recommend them Curtis and his family came last night to be the featured guest at our Christian real view speaker series event by the way this event is I believe currently on our website already thechristianrealview.org I'm sure it's on our Facebook page at the Christian real view on Facebook so you can go there and watch the entire event for free one of the highlights of the event was just having your family sing Curtis that was just a such a special beautiful part of the evening and I know the people who attended really enjoyed that aspect of it Curtis is there any going back on this oftentimes when you get people addicted to government to big government programs there's no going back in it you know the new society the new deal people don't want to go back and what on the take from the government and I wouldn't say our country is socialistic now but there's socialistic policies interwoven in our free market capitalistic system you know I mean the most obvious one is our educational system or government controlled educational system you have to pay taxes whether you want to or not and those taxes go to one choice government schools now you can pay yourself to go to a private school you can homeschool communism would be if you had no choice say you had to go to that government school but that that's a socialistic policy right there is there any going back on this Curtis I know that we can be informed and we can have a different worldview about it and we can work hard to to to mitigate this coming into our own churches but is there any going back on this in our country well it's sometimes people have to learn things the hard way but I'm so thankful that even right now if all this is being so pushed forward God is kind enough to have had Venezuela start crumbling to again let us know that way does not work that path is a complete disaster and so I don't know if there is or not but I maybe my prayer is that if we have to step down that road several steps it will learn very quickly God will have the consequences be such that maybe there'll still be something to turn back to as we see in the young people see they were lied to that you can't get something for nothing there's no such thing as a free lunch and that but but having a system where you're free to be productive and reap the benefits of that that is worth fighting for and turning back to so it's it looks like that's where we're heading for sure because they have the hearts and minds of the young people that we need to be educating those around us and explaining to them hey this isn't what it appears to be and that we need to be praying for our country and doing what we can like you said in our churches to keep them on the right track so the light stays bright with the gospel and with the truth of the bible and with his help he might help us turn it back yeah last question for you Curtis Curtis Bowers with us today on the Christian real view you went into in depth last night how this worldview of socialism is is creeping into the evangelical church you mentioned that we'll play some sound bites after you're off the air today but how it's just taken over the mainline denominations that's why the way they are is because social justice went into those and the the gospel was lost and now they're just they're just social good leftist organizations how do you see it we've about a minute and a half here how do you see it creeping into the evangelical church well kind of that same way we were we're believing that the idea of social justice which is really just socialism packaged for the church we're believing that is a Christian thing to do because they've switched the definitions on us of what love is we've we've allowed them to take the cheap meaningless love of the world which is just tolerance tolerance um and say that is real love and so instead of loving our neighbor we're just tolerating our neighbor and that's not what we're supposed to be doing so because of the definitions change by twisting scripture and redefining terms they're leading people to believe that this your justice is having everything equal which of course we know the definition of justice is getting what you deserve or what you have earned so by changing those definitions which they've been so good at in so many different areas they're confusing the Christians which unfortunately many are biblically illiterate they haven't read their own bibles and so it just appeals to their flesh because we all kind of like to feel like we're doing something good especially if we can do the good or it doesn't really cost us anything it's it's the government's money you're fighting for to get to the right it's not too funny and so that that's why i think it's so appealing to a man or a christian man that is Curtis thank you so much to you and your family for coming last night it was just a highlight of this year we just pray all of god's best and grace on your family thank you so much thank you for having me it was a great evening okay more on the christian worldview right after this the christian worldview speaker series are one-night events that feature a compelling speaker presenting a message on a current topic followed by q and a the purpose is to provide strong in-person biblical worldview content in a short format the inaugural event is set for friday may 10th at 7 p.m central at university of northwestern st paul and will feature curtis bowers producer of the award-winning agenda films speaking on how socialism is impacting the country and the church no registration no cost free will offering seating on first come basis max capacity 315 live streaming on facebook more information at thechristianworldview.org speaker or by calling 1-888-646-2233 the christian worldview speaker series with curtis bowers friday may 10th 7 p.m central at university of northwestern st paul hope to see you there environmental scare mongering is the favored tactic of the left to gain massive government control after all if you can convince people that we are imperiling our very existence by human caused climate change there is no tax law or reordering of society that goes too far 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thechristianworldview.org thanks to all of you who came actually came out to the event it was great to see you in person and meet so many people and listeners and so forth and thank you for your support of the christian worldview all our volunteers are so helpful i mean we just couldn't do these events on our own there's just no way there's just too many moving parts with every element of an event like that so we're thankful to all of you who who came out and i have to apologize a little bit at these events you know we're we're trying to coordinate things and keep things on track and sometimes we're having conversations i feel badly i have to kind of have to go i have to go you know start this next element next part of the event tonight so i feel badly i can't just kind of sit back and relax and and and talk with some of you a little more but it's difficult when we're trying to keep the event on track so we don't end too late at night and but it was a great night last night and thank you to all who who came out to the event and curtis family is just it's just great to be with they they are they are what's great about america i'll tell you when you see them together um you know they're their faith of course in christ and just the way they live their lives and their children it just it's a beautiful thing that to see the bowers family so and those who came uh i think know exactly what i'm talking about there so today we're doing a recap of the event last night we have a lot of sound bites we're going to get to uh from the from curtis's message last night but i think i'd like to read just an article from the heritage foundation which is a conservative think tank uh and it was entitled what americans must know about socialism it's written by a historian named dr lee edwards i just want to read the first few paragraphs because i think it it gives us an understanding of of why socialism what it is and why it's on the rise so much he says there is disquieting evidence of many young americans sympathy for socialism now listen to these numbers two million people under the age of 30 voted for democrat socialist bernie sanders in the 2016 democrat primaries and caucuses polls find that not only do a large majority of millennials those are age 18 to about 40 let's say rat uh would prefer uh have a favorable view of socialism a near majority would prefer to live under socialism rather than capitalism socialism is no longer a parlor game for academics to talk about in the universities but it's a political art alternative to be taken seriously by millennials who are not put off by the radical democrat socialist platform remember there's kind of couple kinds of socialism there's kind of a soft socialism or full-blown socialism there's also fabian socialism which believes in change through evolution rather than revolution rather than violence so there's some socialists out there who want to overturn the system through violence and just this just taking a socialist country but there's also those who want to do it through the democratic process through the voting process take over the institutions of the country the the media the the academics uh the educational system the the entertainment industry a big business you get all these organizations and it's it's pretty pervasive throughout society the article goes on to say democrat socialists believe in ending the private ownership of industries whose products are viewed as quote necessities that's pretty pretty arbitrary the production of such products it argues should not be left to profit quote profiteers so they want everything equalized you know government mandate controlled owned businesses so there's no uh there's no elite class of people who are running and creating the wealth in the country it also believes that government should quote democratize private businesses that is give workers over control over them instead of having the evil business owners controlling their workers you give the workers control over the business they make the decisions for themselves you can see how that would turn out well guess i'll give myself a raise uh socialism explains a member of democrat social of america national steering committee is the democratization of all areas of life including but not limited to the economy okay next paragraph what is happening in america once the the height the uh the the the the guiding light for capitalism the first part of that answer lies in two words and it's not carl marks although he's the inspiration but birdie sanders the senator from vermont captured the hearts and the votes of many millennials with his call for single-payer health care universal government-controlled health care free public college government paid for that's not free taxpayers income producers are taxed and that money is redistributed by the government to pay for people's college so it's free to them campaign finance reforms you can't give very much you can't give an unlimited amount to political campaigns so that that that diminishes uh the the power to influence of those who have done well in society uh in racial here's here we go racial economic and climate justice you just throw justice on the end of anything and people as their eyes roll back and think it's a good thing the prime target of his animus was the quote top one percent in america who own it is true some 40 of the nation's total wealth so one percent of the country owns 40 of the nation's wealth as they own as much as the nation's wealth as the bottom 90 percent but what bernie sanders rarely pointed out was that the same top one percent paid about 40 percent of all the taxes in this country think about that you have the top one percent is paying close to 50 percent of all the taxes that are being used for everything in this country so do you want to get rid of them they're paying everyone else's way sanders had a ready explanation for pay for how to pay for all the freebies increase the taxes on the rich of course and their corporations in bernie's world there is such a thing as a free lunch because the bill will be paid by those at the top now one thing that came up last night was the fact that christians should not be for no government no regulation because the same sin nature that people will say hey i want something for nothing yeah all this be lazy and not work and you pay for everything for me at socialism is the same sin nature that will cause a business owner that top one percent to say hey i can increase my profits and make more money if i'm allowed to hire you know 14 year old girls and make them work 18 hours a day and pay them one dollar a day okay so christians aren't for that either absolutely not because that same sin nature causes both ends of the spectrum to behave in a sinful way but what the american ideal was had had that much better in ratio in past decades than what it is now and certainly i think there was a times in american history way back further back where was maybe maybe out of whap too much where too much power was given to uh some of the business owners and the workers do need protections i'd be the first one to say that that's unjust uh to treat people in such a way that it's terrible for their health or their families everything else so there's a balance there we are for limited government the point is limited not big government let's go on to say uh in this article because uh sanders uh because um where are we here millennials rallied in the many thousands behind sanders because they are socially liberal now this is interesting millennials 18 to 40 rallied in the many thousands behind sanders because they are socially liberal now why would social liberalism lead you to socialism they're liberal especially on gay and homosexual rights but they're also saddled with mountains of student debt they're disillusioned with the status quo and eager to break with traditional models let's just break that down a little bit they're they're socially liberal you see how your world view on morality if you are liberal on morality that will lead you to being liberal on economic and other issues as well it's just the way it is we always make up an ideology for ourselves philosophies that will track with how we want to live morally right philosophy worldview follows the way we want to live morally then you go to the second aspect settle with mountains of student debt so they're in debt and they're disillusioned with the status quo they have lots of debt and they're gonna someone's gonna pay off their debt for them i mean what kind of what kind of great deal is that people often vote typically vote in their self-interest well this candidate's time he's gonna pay off my mountains of student debt wow this is a great deal they're disillusioned with the status quo as well i i think that's partly due to the fact that the there's a tunnel vision here in america we don't realize often what the rest of the world is like you know i i like to call them first world problems oh you know my you know my my lawn or my my car you know my i'm always having trouble with my car you know well people in the process don't even have cars they're running bikes around they don't have lawns they don't have individual homes you start to complain about the the luxuries that we enjoy in america and that the the bottom one percent in america uh lives uh lives uh like a middle class life compared to somewhere else uh in the world who live in abject poverty so it's easy to not have perspective and how great of a country we actually have bernie provided solutions to all their problems without detailing the price and this is important or conceding the lessening in individual liberty that is key because socialism is always done by force people think oh it's going to help people and so forth yeah you know how it's going to help people you're going to tax people what's taxation taxation is forced coercion you're taking money from people against their will it's not charitable at all not charitable in one sense at all it says in acts 2 they had all things in common in the early church jesus said in matthew 25 help the least of these that's all charitable it's all voluntary you helping another because of your love for someone else and the opportunity to tell them about the gospel it's that's all voluntary charitable that's not socialism socialism is completely not voluntary it's completely forced coercive where the government big government comes in and says we're going to do it this way and you get in line or else that is the huge difference that we need to understand article goes on to say uh you can build a powerful political movement with a base of two million true believers and he gets into the whole uh situation in scandinavia it's always held up as this great socialist utopia but it's not exactly socialist over there it's kind of a cross breed system of big government socialist social programs mixed with a capitalistic engine uh in the business world so they can make the money there and then they redistribute it in other elements but the dirty little secret is they don't have the kind of diverse gigantic huge country with the kind of military we need to be able to keep the cut the world in a safe place of being taken over by the evil regimes back after this i think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically delinquents prisoners all sorts of things just mark where they're born that's margaret sanger founder of planned parenthood we ought to never become indifferent to the slaughter of the innocents taking place in our country this is why we are offering a dvd series entitled life is best that will equip you to stand for life and against this injustice in this two dvd set are 13 episodes that address all the facets of abortion from the world view battle to 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partners can choose to receive resources throughout the year call 1-888-646-2233 or go to thechristianworldview.org thank you for your support thanks for joining us today on the christian world view recap radio program as we recap our event last night the christian world view speaker series event and how socialism is impacting the country in the church our featured speaker was curtis bowers the producer of the agenda films you can find out more and order the films at his website agenda documentary.com or we have them as well at thechristianworldview.org i was just thinking during the break there just what it's like the dynamic of let's say a young woman in her let's say early 20s i've never been married has a child out of wedlock in the situation she's in in current america and so she gets support from the government for for food for housing for child care and what does that do to her and there's an incentive if she has more children out of wedlock that she'll get more money so what does that do to her first of all it puts her in a position of not feeling the the consequences of of making a making a bad decision in in being with a man before she was actually married and so it it perpetuates that sort of sinfulness children out of wedlock immorality out of or sexual engagement out of marriage it also enslaves her because she has really no other option now what is what does she do you know she she needs money to live everyone needs to eat right and so she's she has to be on on the take from the government and to do that again you have to take more from those who are working hard and income producing to support those who aren't able to or who can't or don't want to and if she doesn't want to she doesn't have to so it can lead into a laziness like well gee i don't have to get a job and i really can't get a job because i have a child now you can see this perpetual cycle is just horrible and then the the last part of it is she's never going to hear a message from the government supporting her about how she can become right with god through jesus christ which will change her world view and the way she sees her life the way she lives morally the way she sees marriage the way she sees work all these things the way she's going to raise her child because it just perpetuates with her child her child grows up and does the same thing and the whole thing's a vicious cycle that is socialism and that's why it is so not just bad for society but so unbiblical you know we we there there are no there are no consequences when there are no consequences to the decisions we make in life scripture bible has consequences you you reap what you sow and if we don't feel those consequences because someone's always propping us up we're never going to change and the only way that changes that young woman changes is for her to to feel the consequences of what she's done wrong and to then um hear the gospel message and and understand that god created her to be in relationship with him and he's created the family and he's created marriage and that's that's the that's the institution the fundamental institution of society that god's created so that humans can flourish so that she can have a husband and the husband can work and maybe and then they can uh they can earn money and then they can pay for their their their kids and they can pay for food and they can be independent from the enslavement of being in bondage to government that's the battle that is that at taking place in this country and it is socialism versus free market capitalism and it's not just economics gets into all the social fabric the lgbtq movement all that stuff is all part of the socialist agenda okay let's go to the we have a lot of sound bites we could get to today we're not going to be able to get to all of them um so just bear with us we're just going to go through some of the important things that that uh so that um curt has talked about last night the first one is why is socialism taking root right secondly you see more and more people are believing the idea the good of the many outweighs the good of the few now if that doesn't sound too bad you you've been influenced by the media by movies but whatever the good of the many outweighs the good of the few all that is is marxism that's communism when that belief it is is believed and then implemented from the top down it always creates slaughter and abuse of different groups of people and and different individuals our founding fathers knew that was a disaster so they carefully crafted the declaration the constitution and everything to be focused on only one thing protecting each individual person that's all they cared about they said no no no if we take care of the individual the collective will be just fine that's exactly right now just flipped today we take care of the collective and you can't have forced equality everyone having the same thing forced universal equity without taking away personal liberties that that's just that's like a formula you cannot you cannot have both perfectly if you want individual liberty there's going to be differences in society you can't have perfect equity in society but that's what socialists do that is flip it the founders focused on individual liberties knowing if they foster these biblical principles of individual liberties freedom of speech and religion and in work and and business and so forth that would build people incentivize them to work hard to make good decisions to be in families to raise kids in the discipline and instruction of the lord that's that's the way it started but now it's flipped the other way where the incentive is how do we take care of the the big group forced equality for all which then just tramples in the end on individual rights of people we see that right now in the in the whole the the whole battle between the homosexual movement and in christians who want to have their own convictions biblical convictions whose rights are going to win out well you can see whose rights are winning out in this country sadly it's whenever there's a conflict whenever someone a homosexual couple goes into a cake shop and wants to get a a wedding cake done for their so-called marriage and a christian says i do not it's against my religious convictions my beliefs to participate in that ceremony uh it seems like the government is often siding uh with the homosexual movement so there's a loss of religious rights for christians in this country because of that it's not it's not a matter of hey just go find go somewhere else to go bake a cake for your so-called marriage somewhere else if it would that would be one thing that would be more tolerance okay you don't want to bake a cake for us that's your conviction fine we'll go somewhere else someone else who's willing to do it great but that's not what happens it's you won't bake a cake for us okay you're going to be punished you're going to be forced to comply and you're going to be forced to go along with you're going to be forced to affirm the sin that you that you that offends you that that's where the rub comes in okay let's go next to the the next a sound bite which is a little later here let's have to i don't have an easy way of getting the sound by today but here is how socialism is being manifested to the younger generation self very powerfully is through the millennials and i see some here tonight i'm so thankful you are here now listen to me this is what is happening to our precious children okay the media gives them disinformation that brainwashes them just kind of like the soviets did so they don't have a clue what's really going on then the entertainment world pressures them through political correctness to believe it's wrong to speak against the trends of the day like socialism and if you want to be cool you better go along to get along so it destroys their individuality and their thinking ability and then the educational system using psychological manipulation intentionally dumbs them down and has been doing it for 50 years while telling them all the time you're the smartest kids there's ever been this generation of millennials and i know there's exceptions and probably those of you that are here you're the exceptions but have been taught everybody gets a first place trophy and there are no losers and there are just all this lies of psychological manipulation all the while okay i'm going to go on to the next part of this answer because it's what what millennials are now think of themselves as a result of all this this manipulation by the media and others here's that soundbite when they are asked to rate themselves as far as where do you think you stand in the world in math science history in every category where do you think american kids like yourself where do you rate do you know where they rate themselves number one in every single category even though they're 25th to 40th in most of the categories so here is what happens this has been purposeful this is not the millennial generation thinks they're the smartest generation in history when really they're the dumbest and i don't say that as a cut down i say that as and it's not their fault it's been purposeful we've got to dumb them down so they'll accept our vision of a new world and so they get out of college they go i'm the smartest guy ever i even went to college got a college degree and they find they can't get a good job and they're looking hey i do i should start at least 100 grand a year because i'm the smartest kid that's ever been and they can't find those jobs because they're not prepared for those jobs they were ripped off and so here's what happens they know the problem couldn't be me it must be the system and so they realize we need a system change this free enterprise caplet system is unjust look at me i have a college degree there's no one sharper on the planet and i can't find a good job that means this is not good and you're going to see over the next 10 or 15 years as socialism grows every the young people are going to be calling for a system change yeah they're already calling for that system change now you can feel it in this country and by the way hardly anyone goes out and talks about oh this is you know i'm a socialist i mean bernie sanders and alexandria ocasio-cortez admit it they're part of the democrat socialist party in the democrat party but they're democrats socialists but most people don't don't want to use there there's a pejorative to that word there's a negative connotation connotation to socialism at the moment so they use other nicer sounding words they talk about social justice and basic universal income and single-payer health care not just government-controlled health care uh they talk about um you know immigration how you know open open borders and so forth let's just let's just get more people into the country stress the system so the government has to be more involved all of these things a dead elimination for students in college uh the educational system gun rights redefinition of the biblical family and marriage immorality they're all just socialist policies that carl marx envisioned but they can't use the word socialism too much because it scares people but they're getting bolder and bolder and bolder about it and we're going to see more of it and that's why christians we need to be informed we need to at least close the doors at the gates of our churches more after this on the christian real view environmental scare mongering is the favored tactic of the left to gain massive government control after all if you can convince people that we are imperiling our very existence by human-caused climate change there is no tax law or reordering of society that goes too far christians need to be fully informed of this nefarious climate change scheme that is why we are offering two resources by cal beissner founder of the cornwall alliance for the stewardship of 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the home page it'll take you to the video from the event last night and you can watch the entire event there just really uh really went well we're so thankful to the lord for how that event went and so many of you who came out to that event by the way we have another one coming up christian real view speaker series in september on september 15th um this one is going to be uh this one's on the impact of social justice on the gospel so it sounds the same this is a different topic here this is going to get by darrell harrison he's a former fellow of the black theology and leadership institute i believe was at princeton and he's just he's fantastic you probably remember him on the program last year and we're excited to have him come that event's not going to be at university northwestern though that one's going to be at grace church in eden prairie minnesota same time it's a sunday evening this time the september 15 7 p.m and uh that is the day before september 16th which is our golf our annual golf and dinner event which is going to be back at woodhill country club in wazetta minnesota this year so we have a lot coming up this year i hope you can uh put those dates on your calendar and come out to those events uh we we of course love the radio program and there's a place for radio but there's also a place for in-person events where we can do more in-depth examination of some of these issues um okay a few more sound bites before we end the day here on the program the next one here is about how this issue of social justice or socialism is coming into the church that's what's happening and as i get into now how is socialism manifesting itself in the evangelical church well now in september your next speaker series is specifically on this issue an expert's coming he's going to go into this in detail so i'm just briefly getting into it but it's an important topic because if we allow them to capture the church we're in trouble right and so is every lost man in trouble because then we're not shining the light of the truth of the gospel and that's not loving that's all these plans are giving false hope to the hopeless you know false road map to the lost it's it's false and that's what's going on and you young people need to go uh-uh i'm giving them real hope because there is real hope and we're giving real answers and we're giving them the truth and so the the church of course has been a main target of the left and my movies go into this in detail because they knew if you can influence the church you can influence millions of people and they've been desperate ever since to enlist the church and their little schemes whatever they may be lenin himself who is a master strategist the founder of the soviet union said the best way the best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves and so they've been working for a hundred years to get control of the church so they could use that their number one enemy as someone that's pushing forward their agenda okay that's exactly what has been the case we've seen the the the pilot program for this took place in the mainline denominations 100 years ago when socialism was still around back then they swallowed it yep it's always couched in terms of compassion and what christian isn't for compassion oh for sure want to help those who are disadvantaged and and hurting and in need and so forth so there's a there's a desire of christians to want to help people and be compassionate it's a good thing it's a good thing but the means by which if it's being done now is advocating or was done by the mainline denomination swallowed the lie that socialism is the way to do it tax people more change forced equity in society help the poor oh you know what gets lost in all that the gospel gets lost in all that and the mission of the church gets lost in all that so there's that that's exactly the reason why mainline denominations they teach nothing on sunday but little stories and social good and you know be a good person and be nice to your neighbor and all that the powerless nothingness of a non-gospel that that's what's going on in most of these churches because they swallowed the lie of socialism 100 years ago the problem is is that the evangelical churches is dallying with this as well now through the through social justice oh social justice is a gospel issue as soon as you make that your priority that we have to rectify all these perceived injustices the the structural racism in this country that blacks are oppressed and they're still oppressed we need to have quotas so we get a certain number on each church board and you need to have this survey done of your church and we need to reach out to the the gay community because you can be a gay christian and same-sex attracted christian and we need to focus on these issues the church has been bigoted and behind the times in these okay you start thinking that way you're thinking wrongly for for uh at first but secondly what gets lost in the shuffle immediately is when the focus goes on the social good the gospel gets left way behind and then people don't actually change and the church gets altered forever we cannot allow that to happen i mentioned last night that america is the last thing standing in the world between the world imploding and going into globalism this is this country is the last thing standing but what's making this country still stand is a small segment of the population who are biblical christians or evangelicals who who have a still have a semblance of biblical values applied to government and to society and so forth you're saying no no we don't want to go down that road if that though if that segment falls the the country is going to quickly change and then the world is going to quickly change now we may not be able to have you know have that stop that i'll be honest i mean we know the way the end's going to be there is going to be a global government someday the anti-christ is going to rise the bible is true but where there still is worthiness and standing for what is right and pushing back for the gospel and biblical principles and trying to stay save and stall the the church's move towards that direction there's absolute worthiness in that we are called to contend earnestly for the the faith and the gospel we're called to to stand up for sound doctrine and point out non-sound doctrine i don't know what percentage but so much of the new testaments reach as you read it is an encouragement of of do this an exhortation to do good things but also a warning of watch out for this teacher watch out for this false doctrine don't go down that route there's a balance there and so much of evangelicalism today is only about keep it positive you know keep people happy keep them smiling get your arms up in the air crank up the music you know don't preach on topics that are uncomfortable or controversial there's no basis in in in truth for that at all in the new testament just read the new testament see what people like peter and and paul and and jesus what they say they they strongly encourage the good and they strongly point out the evil the wrong way to go and we need to do the same because we do live in a a changing and a very challenging america that is that is toying again with this going down this socialistic road no we're not socialistic yet not by a long shot but there is threads channels of socialism in our country that need to be identified and understood by christians and we must stop this move especially at our churches because there is one thing christian we can always trust in and count on and that's this jesus christ and his word they are the same yesterday today and forever and when we rely on them and trust in them we will be blessed and we will be doing what's good for god's glory and our good until next weekend think biblically and live accordingly we hope today's broadcast turned your heart toward god his word and his son to order a cd 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