It may be the single most valuable Christian ministry in America....well that's my opinion anyway.... and they have a home conference coming up that they call The Next 500 Years. They are alluding here to it's having been almost 500 years since Martin Luther's writings began the 16th century Reformation. So it's natural to take the opportunity to envision what can be done in the next half millennium.
I understand the message but what went through my mind upon hearing of the conference title was.....next 500 years? How about the next 500 days? Or even the next five years...or maybe even the next 500 souls surrendered to Christ...or even the next 5 million souls surrendered to Christ? I just don't agree with the emphasis on the next 500 years when, if I might use this expression in a very literal sense, all hell is breaking out in this world.
What it boils down to is this.....some people see events in one way...and others see it in another way. So I'll be part of the first party here. This is not normal what we are seeing. This is not problems with a Third Reich and an Imperial Japan. This is not a Cuban Missile Crisis. There is no America to defend the world anymore. We're dealing with nuclear weapons in the hands of maniacs...maniacs who actually want nuclear war... and we can't even come together to deal with them.
Nothing is holding together! Do you read the news? I'm not talking about that worthless paper delivered to your door every morning....I'm talking about Drudge. He's where he is at because he actually links to real horror...and that's what it is....horror! A kid walks out of his house a couple days ago holding his mother's head in his hands! And this horror happens every single solitary day! And even if we somehow read about it it's a shake of the head and page over to the sports or weather.
Now the second party here happens to be the vast majority. By the way I'm only referring to Christians here whether the first party or the second. Wonderful Christians! I'm but a gnat compared to any one of the dozen or so speakers at this upcoming conference. So what have we become...a church where only the well known are to be heard. I hope that we can still give an opinion.
It's not only war...the people with all the money want a one world government...and they want it bad! We do know what that means do we not? One half of our nation...one half of America...are blind to just about anything. I listen to them on the news and marvel...marvel...at how little the human mind can at times comprehend.
The same men at that conference will admit that we are now pagan. We sacrifice children! New technologies are entering into areas that make the Tower of Babel look like child's play. The last one hundred years has been one warning from God after another.
I am not alone in this by any means. There are atheists out there...Stephen Hawking for one says that "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Here's a man with no concept of God who sees what most of us don't.
The first party reads Revelation or the Olivet Discourse and sees a message that after nearly two thousand years may literally be to them. The second party reads the same words and says... "Uh...be careful there...don't want to be a date-setter!" Can anyone read my posts and think for a second that I have given up on proclaiming Christ? The crux of the matter is whether one can see disaster on the horizon...warn about it...and still trust God. I say that they can....in fact that seems to be what Scripture tell us to do. I would question others on if they trust in God so much why don't they trust in His warnings?
Let me ask this question to the majority that I alluded to a few paragraphs back....do they even think that it is possible that they may have made a mistake....that they may have actually come up short in this area? I'm just asking and honest question and I'll put it in the first person....I know how accomplished you are and how much good that you have done...and I praise God for that! I've admitted that you tower above me....but is it possible that you may have erred....is it somehow possible that an Arminian....such as Billy Graham....not educated in a Reformed seminary....or another who may wear an ill-fitting suit off the rack at Sears and dangle his misplaced modifiers...is it possible that he might have discerned what God is saying and you may not have?
I understand the message but what went through my mind upon hearing of the conference title was.....next 500 years? How about the next 500 days? Or even the next five years...or maybe even the next 500 souls surrendered to Christ...or even the next 5 million souls surrendered to Christ? I just don't agree with the emphasis on the next 500 years when, if I might use this expression in a very literal sense, all hell is breaking out in this world.
What it boils down to is this.....some people see events in one way...and others see it in another way. So I'll be part of the first party here. This is not normal what we are seeing. This is not problems with a Third Reich and an Imperial Japan. This is not a Cuban Missile Crisis. There is no America to defend the world anymore. We're dealing with nuclear weapons in the hands of maniacs...maniacs who actually want nuclear war... and we can't even come together to deal with them.
Nothing is holding together! Do you read the news? I'm not talking about that worthless paper delivered to your door every morning....I'm talking about Drudge. He's where he is at because he actually links to real horror...and that's what it is....horror! A kid walks out of his house a couple days ago holding his mother's head in his hands! And this horror happens every single solitary day! And even if we somehow read about it it's a shake of the head and page over to the sports or weather.
Now the second party here happens to be the vast majority. By the way I'm only referring to Christians here whether the first party or the second. Wonderful Christians! I'm but a gnat compared to any one of the dozen or so speakers at this upcoming conference. So what have we become...a church where only the well known are to be heard. I hope that we can still give an opinion.
It's not only war...the people with all the money want a one world government...and they want it bad! We do know what that means do we not? One half of our nation...one half of America...are blind to just about anything. I listen to them on the news and marvel...marvel...at how little the human mind can at times comprehend.
The same men at that conference will admit that we are now pagan. We sacrifice children! New technologies are entering into areas that make the Tower of Babel look like child's play. The last one hundred years has been one warning from God after another.
I am not alone in this by any means. There are atheists out there...Stephen Hawking for one says that "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Here's a man with no concept of God who sees what most of us don't.
The first party reads Revelation or the Olivet Discourse and sees a message that after nearly two thousand years may literally be to them. The second party reads the same words and says... "Uh...be careful there...don't want to be a date-setter!" Can anyone read my posts and think for a second that I have given up on proclaiming Christ? The crux of the matter is whether one can see disaster on the horizon...warn about it...and still trust God. I say that they can....in fact that seems to be what Scripture tell us to do. I would question others on if they trust in God so much why don't they trust in His warnings?
Let me ask this question to the majority that I alluded to a few paragraphs back....do they even think that it is possible that they may have made a mistake....that they may have actually come up short in this area? I'm just asking and honest question and I'll put it in the first person....I know how accomplished you are and how much good that you have done...and I praise God for that! I've admitted that you tower above me....but is it possible that you may have erred....is it somehow possible that an Arminian....such as Billy Graham....not educated in a Reformed seminary....or another who may wear an ill-fitting suit off the rack at Sears and dangle his misplaced modifiers...is it possible that he might have discerned what God is saying and you may not have?
