Posted on 09/28/2013 3:28:23 AM PDT by Ravnagora
Christians are being singled out and massacred from Pakistan to Syria to the Nairobi shopping mall. Kirsten Powers on the deafening silence from U.S. pews and pulpits.
Christians in the Middle East and Africa are being slaughtered, tortured, raped, kidnapped, beheaded, and forced to flee the birthplace of Christianity. One would think this horror might be consuming the pulpits and pews of American churches. Not so. The silence has been nearly deafening.
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Pray for the conversion of ALL to Christ.
As the saying goes, “the blood of the Christian marytrs is the SEEDS for new Christians.”
Not really.
Remember, many Americans are ARMED to the teeth.
Rather, it goes down.
Exactly, go ahead an let one priest, preacher, reverend speak on the atrocities truthfully from the pulpit and see what happens. They will be accused of fomenting hate and will bring violence to their own doorsteps, chapel, and church.
No, they will gently remind their congregations to pray for the Middle East. Go to a Bible study, prayer circle, or Rosary prayers and I ask they pray for the Christian girl who was dismembered and had her liver eaten at the pleasure of Syrian rebels in the name of allah(god) and watch the response you get. Have these religious leaders start speaking of these true horrors of Christians crucified in Egypt by islamists in the name of their allah.
The outcry would be like white on black crime...
Thank You liberal democRATS !
And this will help you when your church congregation is bombed on a Sunday morning how?
Less likely because they mind their p’s and q’s when they KNOW Americans are armed.
What’s that saying? “Turn thy other cheek?”
Well, that’s what they are doing and it isn’t doing any good.
Wait a minute, I going to check my local diocese’s web page.
The churches do also. I attend Sunday morning and Sunday evening services, and Wednesday. Our pastor never talks about it. I have visited at some other churches and I have never heard any pastors speak of it there either. Very few pastors take on anything controversial today. They are afraid to make their congregations mad. They are afraid to lose the tax exemptions. They have no back bone. It took us a year to find a church when we moved back here to Alabama. Now our pastor has gone simple with his sermons. He preaches these days like he is preaching to a room full of brand new Christians. People who have only been hearing the word for a few months or a year or two. He has quit going into the tough areas. He has gone down a road where he is afraid that he will scare the old folks, and does not want to scare off the people who are coming with anything controversial. We come home on Sunday mornings now and discuss when we just heard todays sermon. Was it a month ago or two months ago he gave this same sermon. We are now in a search again to attempt to find a church where a pastor will stand up for the Word of God and is not afraid to speak it. We have been visiting a church the past couple of weeks where the pastor seems to be that man. We will continue to visit there for a while and hope he continues to bring God’s Word direct from the pages of the Book. The Bible warns us of these days in these last days of a dying world. Pastors falling away from preaching God’s Word with authority.
...yeap - and the entitlement junkies would have to walk farther to get their cigarettes and Mountain Dew with their stolen shopping cart in tow...
The Strategy of Islam to Infiltrate and Dominate a Host Population
- They seek out nations that have basic social freedoms or areas that our depressed or void of law
- They immigrate to these areas using the laws of freedom or take advantage of those in depressed areas by offering the basic essentials of life
- Once they have merged in the host country, Islam demands respect for its customs by the host population
- They immediately begin to import their own laws into the host population
- They use the “minority” radicals to spread fear among the host population and enforce Islam’s code
- They begin to populate large numbers of Muslims through immigration and birth in the host nation
- They do a show of force through large gatherings when outnumbered by the host population and center themselves in urban areas
- When outnumbered, they will appear as the victim. When they obtain the majority, they become the aggressor
- Once they gain the majority, they strike down the host population or drive them out by use of the “minority” radicals and seize what were the host population properties
- Once Muslims move into an area, they spread into the social fabric through the establishment of mosques, by the economic through stores in every part of the city to bring Muslims into areas once dominated by only the host population, the use the political sphere to get Muslims elected into local, then state, then federal offices by sheer numbers in order to take over the entire social, economic, and political host through the protection of what is defined as a religion
It more commonly fits the definition of a virus: a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Most viruses are too small to be seen directly with a light microscope. Viruses infect all types of organisms...
Amazing how Powers manages to be in every church in America on Sunday mornings.
Beyond praying for these people I’m not sure what it is she thinks we can do. The people who have the clout are the people who don’t care. Powers ought to know that, and I thinks she does. But she voted for that muslim in hiding, so she has to blame us to assuage her conscience instead. Powers has more influence as a member of the media than the people she blames.
Why aren’t YOU speaking out, Kristen?
Diversity gone mad
The churches are leftist organiztions. They have been co opted to act as leftwing organs rather than real churches.
Agreed with much of what you say.
In many ways though even the new Pope seems to be scaling back and stepping away from the Church’s edifice of morality. Simplifying the message to one of forgiveness, mercy, and grace. I don’t think it is necessarily a bad thing. If we are in the last days, then many like the thief on the cross, need to seek God’s forgiveness.
I also don’t think ministry is just up to the priest, preacher or pastor. It is up to the congregation. Attending services these days really isn’t enough. One needs to be involved in the Life of the Church too. I myself am guilty of a ‘services’ only member, but have made the commitment to change that habit.
We often speak about this in our men's Sunday school class. (yes, we old men meet separately from the women's Sunday school class.)
I need not ask which church you belong to. It does bother me that a group here are constantly emphasizing where other Christians are not living up to their charge and duty.
Most of America’s churches are too busy being politically correct, “involved” churches to be reminded that Jesus said the world would hate Christians, and they would have to bear the cross of being His followers. They’d rather be the newest version of “The Church of What’s Happenin’ Now,” as Flip Wilson satirized it years ago.
When our time for outright persecution comes, the leaders of today’s churches will be the least prepared of all, because they believed their own teaching that emphasized present happiness on earth rather than eternal joy in Heaven.
Where is my (our) God, the same place he’s always been.
He uses people. So he just might be waiting for us to do something.
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt’s Generals:
‘How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?’
Foreign Policy | 15 Aug 2013 | John Hudson
Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055253/posts
Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt’s military — even as Cairo’s security forces massacre anti-government activists.
[by “anti-government activists” is meant church-burning jihadists]
I don’t think churches are silent, it’s the leftist media that silently cheers the slaughter.
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