Is There a Wilberforce Out There?
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Is there a Wilberforce out there, a person whom God may use to do something titanic like overturn Roe v. Wade or end sex-trafficking? Are there bright young Christians who are not called to the ministry but who can use their gifts in the political realm in service to Christ? Do we sometimes teach young Christians that only lesser believers enter the political realm? We must not. We must celebrate the ministry, but we must also recognize that many–most–are not called to it, and that there is a tremendous need in America and many other countries for courageous Christian statesmanship. Politicians can be self-serving, and politics cannot inaugurate the salvation of the world, but so too can a righteous person accomplish tremendous good in the public square. We must not forget this, and we must not fail to teach it to our children.
The New Yorker’s Take on Evangelicals and Abstinence Education
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When the New Yorker is lecturing us on parenting, it’s time to take it with deadly seriousness. For generations, we’ve let others–coaches, teachers, youth ministers–train up our children, and we’ve acquiesced to a wealth culture that harms the traditional family by removing Mom and preoccupying Dad. The results are disastrous. Perhaps we will see a return in the church to the simple but powerful way of raising children: close to the hip, saturated in the gospel, practical and honest to the end.
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http://www.amazinggracemovie.com/resource_download.php?file=video/amazinggrace_once-was-blind_480x272.mov
This is a link to a clip from the film Amazing Grace which depicts William Wilberforce, MP, in his struggles with and efforts toward ending slave trade. He accomplished other good things as a Christian progressive Member of Parliament in England.
The essence of this clip, and another I couldn't find on the film's Web site of John Newton telling him essentially the same thing, is that as a committed Christian in Parliament, he could do much good.
I am opposed to liberation theology, because I think it stops short of the Gospel, that Christ came to pay for sin and justify sinners to God. BUT...keeping the Gospel the Gospel and not relegating it to anything short of God's grace and mercy toward SINNERS,...freed sinners with changed hearts may do much good HORIZONTALLY in this world, this age. It is for that purpose that we are freed.
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