Our Only National Debt Solution, Part 5, Step 2: Talking in Church
Saving America with a solution that must be acted upon within 6 weeks requires something like a news network. News media are able to verify and distribute information within hours of when they receive it. It would be a simple matter for politically aware members of any church, if they were allowed, to meet together to discuss the trustworthiness of news sources, and to make recommendations to the congregation about who to trust, and to agree on particularly urgent breaking news that should be brought to the attention of worshipers at their next service through announcements or bulletin inserts.
Many activists have struggled for the past 59 years to establish such networks. But they are very seldom allowed. Thus Christians are left on their own by their church to scrutinize information sources, which very few know how to do, or care to do, well. Their church leaves them uninformed, and indirectly assured that being informed is not central enough to the mission of “Church” – indeed, not important enough – to even be allowed on church property.
Christians need information and vetting thorough enough to identify and retire baseless conspiracies and media liars, who both deceive members and draw their attention away from solid, substantiated, urgent information. But by pastoral decree the church body must remain uninformed, deceived, and comfortable remaining so. That is, they must keep Light seated in one corner and Darkness in the other, so that Darkness may invade their own lives, not to mention their neighborhoods, workplaces, families, and communities, without fear of exposure – so that they may even vote for Darkness, safe from realizing what they are doing.
As long as churches won’t even listen to their own activists, who can inform them?
In order to proclaim the message of America’s judgment and America’s choice, we need churches willing to share the message of this one solution coming to them from outside their church. How can we expect any church, pastor, or board to give any attention to messages from outside when they won’t even listen to their own members?
If a church is not in the habit of trusting their own activists to inform them about what news is true and urgent, who else in the church will process the warning and call to action we send them? The pastor, already overwhelmed with preparing sermons and visiting people? The secretary who can’t act on anything controversial without the pastor’s approval?
So what we need is the hardest goal of all: complete freedom of speech, even in church, for church members.
This wouldn’t just save America from its debt. It would instantly push back Satan’s assaults on America over the past century back into Hell, and would cause revival to break out in every church that allows it. Well, actually “revival” has become a controversial word, meaning unpleasant things to some people. But see if this description of what would happen sounds like something you would like to see in your church:
1 Corinthians 14:24 and if all [the members of your church] may [build up, correct, and comfort], and any one may come in, an unbeliever or [Biblically] unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all, 25 and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon his face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.(YLT)
(This passage is combined with verse 3. Verse 24 uses the word prophesying”, but verse 3 describes the spect of “prophesying”, which is meant in the context of this chapter, as “edification, exhortation, and comfort”.)
Sermons by politically literate pastors are a light without which America could not have survived this long. But it is a flickering match compared with what we need in this late hour. This urgent information needs a wider distribution than an occasional sermon. Most pastors are not political experts anyway. It is hard to preach about something you little understand. Information must be allowed to be presented by the people who understand it, just as a piano must be allowed to be played by a piano player.
And even when the pastor is a political expert, and let’s say his expertise attracts 19 other political activists to his congregation, just him preaching about an issue, and not allowing anyone else to discuss it, would make only 5% of the church brain power on the issue available to the church.
Perhaps the biggest tool of Satan is the rationale for only allowing the pastor to speak: to avoid offense. To avoid controversy. To censor whatever someone might disagree with and not like to hear.
That rules out most of reality. It rules out much mention of sins which infect the congregation so much that half the congregation votes for government to promote them and punish obstruction of them.
It certainly rules out wide ranging group discussion where members are free to share all the things they believe. (Some of those monsters are really weird, so it is thought best to “let sleeping dogs lie.”)
But imagine the benefits of that much Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religious Expression! When sound information is presented, the whole body would benefit! Even when false doctrine is presented, everyone would benefit and no one would be harmed, because in a setting where correction is allowed, the scrutiny of the entire group would be far more likely to spot the subtlest errors and correct them than if the burden is left to one person. All would share in the mind-sharpening experience of discerning error and searching Scripture to learn how to persuasively and lovingly correct it. This experience of reasoning with people even when you disagree would prepare church members to witness to unbelievers. It would even heal marriages and solve child rearing problems by providing members the relationship skills needed to reason with their loved ones even when they disagree.
All this would result from allowing church members the experience of sharing all the things they really believe, in a spirit of willingness to be tested. It would give church members a lot more incentive to study their Bibles, if their ability to respond to friends at the next service required it.
Precisely this much freedom of speech is commanded by God.
Its Ol’ Dave the L – again Preachin’ with Chapter and Verse on this Blog Space – which is your right – BUT – WHICH IS NOT SANCTIONED for the Cafe Con Leche Republicans Blog Space !!!!!
I guess that you enjoy Preachin’, Dave, WITHOUT SANCTION – which again is your right – PARTICULARLY – SINCE YOU, Dave, have the Right AND the Power – to START threads on the Cafe Con Leche Republicans Blog Space.
I personally see you, Dave, as abusing the Right and the Power to START threads on the Cafe Con Leche Republicans Blog Space!!!! Obviously, Dave, this is my personal opinion – so take it as such. There are a number of us folk who regularly comment on a great number of threads within the Cafe Con Leche Republicans Blog Space – who Neither have the RIGHT or the POWER to START threads on this Blog Space.
YOU, Dave – DO have the Right and the Power to start threads on this Blog Space – AND, Dave – YOU use this Right and this Power – to Preach – Chapter and Verse – on Theism – when you start a large number of threads on the Cafe Con Leche Republicans Blog Space.
JUST reportin’ on a NON-equal right and power issue,
Robert Allen
Robert, you have uncovered the ugly truth about me: I am power hungry! I am so covetous of my power to wash your atheist brain that I write even without your sanction! And thanks to you, the world now knows my sordid dark secret: I am a Christian. And not the quiet, politically correct, light-under-a-bushel, never-offend-anybody kind, but the kind who will happily abuse my right and power to post threads on the cafe con leche Republicans website, and anywhere else I can, to wash every atheist brain in the country if possible, without regard to whether it is popular, politically correct, or even legal, to WITNESS! Yes, that’s right, even if it were a crime to even mention the blessed name of Jesus Christ, and the penalty were torture, I would persist, shamelessly lawless to my last breath!
That is what it means to be a Christian, according to the Bible and the examples of martyrs, prophets, and Jesus: to live and act without regard for any law, by any authority, that punishes what any regime considers offensive, without regarding as a defense any evidence that it is true.
In the same spirit with all speech-suppressing tyrants of human history, you would ban me, if you have the power, not for anything you can identify in anything I have written that is untrue, but only for statements which, to you, are unwelcome. Because you are an atheist, and that is what atheists do.
As for all those other sites you want me to run off to, will you promise to follow me there? Because so far, I have never yet experienced so faithful a comment-leaver after my articles as you! And you want me to voluntarily give up that fulfilling experience? You surely must know it is the dream of every Christian to get the attention of the most hopeless atheist he can find, and you have given me that blessing! I grant you the freedom not to even read my articles, yet like an iron filing to a magnet, like a moth to light, you are drawn despite all your resistance to Truth
Actually I probably shouldn’t flatter myself that you have read any of my articles. Your comments don’t indicate that you do any more than do a word search through Cafe Con Leche Republicans articles for “God” or “Jesus”, and go marching off for the kill when you find it. Otherwise I wouldn’t think you would complain of the lack of “secular content” in my articles, which there was plenty of in these. But perhaps in your atheist mind any mention of God cancels any secular evidence or reasoning.
But of all the words in my articles, you have read the two that are most important, and I praise God for that.
Should you decide at some point to read the rest of my articles beyond those two words, you will discover that my strategy goes even beyond reaching you, to shining light on all the darkness in America which has brought her to her economic knees. Unopposed atheism, courtesy of pastors pulling their bushels of noninvolvement theologies snugly over their churchlight, have created the vacuum of truth and intelligence that has allowed atheists to successfully attack and tear the fabric of America. We are at a historical turning point where if this continues, freedom of speech is only the first of our freedoms which we will lose.
Why would I want to write for any other blog, when it is this blog where I can talk with you? Where I can get a genuine atheist to read the word “God” every time I write it?
I hereby dedicate all the articles I have written on this blog to my favorite (and only) comment-leaver: Robert Allen!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
So, Dave – Since you have the RIGHT and the POWER to START Threads on the Cafe Con Leche Republicans Blog Space – you ALSO exercice your right to rant about my simple objection that you, Dave, appear to be ABUSING your RIGHT and POWER, within an oligarchical-like monopoly of folk – to Cite Chapter and Verse of your Theism.
ALL I’m doing, Dave, is Objecting to your oligarchical-like monopoly to start threads, citing Chapter and Verse of your Theism – on the Cafe Con Leche Republicans Blog Space.
Pressin’ for a curtailment of your Abuse of Power, Dave,
Robert Allen
Ah Shucks, Dave – still AVOIDING a conversation, I see !!!!!!
Double DOG Shucks, Dave – STILL AVOIDING a conversation – about what I perceive as an abuse of your power !!!!!!
Just Commentin’ – AGAIN – and again,
Robert Allen
I betch, Dave – that not ONLY am I your most NON-Theistic Faithful Fan (NFF) – but that I’ve more than doubled ALL of the comments that you have received within this Blog Space.
You SHOULD be proud, Dave – that you have SUCH a LOYAL NFF !!!!!
Your Loyal NFF,
Robert Allen
Robert, I am absolutely thrilled that you have blessed me with comments, at least comments up to the standards of a web counter. As for “conversation” with you, as much as I look forward to that day, so far that dream has been elusive. When I respond thoroughly to your bubbly barbs, and then you keep on bubbling without responding to anything I wrote to let me know how it fails to satisfy you or if you even read it, is that how you define “conversation”? I suppose I could just repeat all the things I already said, like you do, but actually I’m kind of busy right now with a tuba repair.
So, Dave – WHEN are you ready to speak with me about what I perceive as you abusing the power that you have with the Cafe Con Leche Republicans Blog Space – of PREACHING your Christian Theism – when you know FULL WELL from Bob Quasius – that the Cafe Con Leche Republicans Blog Space Neither sanctions nor condones your PREACHING of your Christian Theism ???
Just askin’,
Robert Allen
Asked and answered, as they say in court. But keep on repeating. I need the traffic.
Ah, Dave – I DON’T see you answering the question – of you abusing the power to start threads within the Cafe Con Leche Republicans Blog Space!!!!
WHY, Dave – do you – and do you want to – ABUSE Power ?????
Just askin’,
Robert Allen