Proclaim
August 2003
Epic
Struggle For A Generation’s Very Soul
To say we are literally
engaged in a life and death struggle for the very soul of a generation may
sound overly dramatic. Please take note, we are. Do you have children? A
ferocious predator is lying in wait, crouched and ready to devour their
soul at the earliest possible age! Don’t think so? Read the following. You
will be astounded at the blatant agenda to greedily swallow up your
child’s soul. The editor of Humanist magazine published their battle plan
in the clearest possible terms in 1983. I am convinced that the battle
for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school
classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the
proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and
respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being.
These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid
fundamentalist preachers, they will be ministers of another sort,
utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanists values in
whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level—preschool
day care or large state university. The classroom must and will become an
arena of conflict between the old and the new—the rotting corpse of
Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new
faith of humanism. It will undoubtedly be a long, arduous, painful
struggle replete with much sorrow and many tears, but humanism will emerge
triumphant. J. Dunphy, “A Religion for a New Age, The Humanist,
Jan-Feb 1983 23, 26
What’s A Parent To Do?
I’m sure if you have children you must realize how important it is to
insulate them from this destructive and hideous attack. You must surround
them with prayer, and bring them up in the nurture and admonition
of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4). The banner of humanism is RELATIVE
TRUTH. They wave it in our children’s faces from pre-school to graduate
school. This philosophy dethrones God, exalts humans as the ultimate
authority, and screams that nothing is really right or wrong! Everyone can
decide for themselves what is right and wrong. With the exception of brave
Christian educators, this philosophy has permeated our educational system.
We must realize that the greatest danger lies within. Especially by the
time our kids reach their teens, this philosophy is incredibly enticing.
So you as parents must truly FORM them in their formative years. It
is their greatest hope!
A Taste Of Humanism
In the sixties, our nation very deliberately kicked God out of our
educational system. Now for almost four decades we have cranked out
students with no moral compass. Today we are eating the fruit of our
“secular” society. Not everyone likes the taste. Look how far we have
come! The Enron, and World Com scandals show us what happens when our
corporate leaders decide for themselves what is right and wrong. School
shootings like Columbine show us the result when we fail to provide moral
boundaries for our high schoolers. And we recently elected a president for
two terms that smoked pot, constantly lied and deceived the nation, and
had sex many times with a young intern right in the oval office.
Homosexuals now yield an enormous and inordinate amount of political
might, and are on the verge of foisting the warped concept of same sex
marriage on the entire nation.
Even in my immediate area just in the last few months, a nineteen year old
girl ran over and killed her waitress in the parking lot of a restaurant
to avoid paying the $100 tab she and her friends had just ran up. Another
twenty-three year old coming home from a night of partying struck a
pedestrian and let him slowly die while lodged in the windshield of her
car parked in her garage.
Mixed-Up Students
When will our society see the destruction we are heaping on our young
people’s lives by warping their young minds with secular humanism? At the
college level, recent polls reveal that the vast majority of students
believe there is nothing wrong with cheating and that it is necessary to
graduate. Sixty-one percent of them view Islam in a favorable way, while
the same number view Christianity in a negative way. Amazingly, this poll
was taken shortly after Muslims highjacked four commercial airliners and
turned them into bombs and killed more than 3,000 completely innocent
people. News footage showed Muslims dancing in the streets all over the
Middle East as they heard the news of the death and devastation of 911.
The Apostle John said many anti-Christ spirits are already in the world.
Humanism is really just that. It is an excuse to throw off the entire idea
of God’s moral law and utterly despise the notion that Jesus Christ is the
only way to salvation.
Campus Ministry * A Door of Opportunity
I have spoken briefly to what you, as parents must do. Now I want to speak
about what I as a minister of the gospel must do. I believe I have a
solemn responsibility to bring the light of the gospel to the dark
humanist thinking of our nation’s young people. Or as the psalmist put it,
Till I declare your power to the next generation. Psalm 71:18
We have been praying for quite some time for an effective door to reach
more people with God’s solid, unchanging message. We believe that door is
opening directly onto the university campuses. Most universities have a
free-speech policy and tradition already in place. Here we can address
contemporary moral and social issues and give them the Biblical
perspective. A perspective that for most of them has been completely
drowned out by humanism. Students this age are eager to engage in
discussion. It is an almost unbelievably strategic age to reach out to
them.
Most students in this age bracket are in “search” mode and have not yet
made life-changing decisions as to their spouses, careers, or religious
beliefs. Furthermore students have literally come from around the
world—creating a very accessible mission field right in our own backyard.
Lastly, to influence these young people towards faith in Jesus Christ is
to shape tomorrow’s leaders.
Starting this fall we want to regularly visit campuses all over this
nation and proclaim the life-changing message of Jesus Christ. Some
campuses are small, only a couple of thousand students, while others are
like small cities with as many as 50,000 inhabitants. Although most
campuses are wide open for evangelism, there are not many campus
preachers. The ones that are out there range from the outlandish to
the intellectual. My prayer is that God would send workers into this
harvest field, and that we also will have our part in this vital ministry.
In May we attended a weeklong conference of open-air evangelists and
campus preachers. Along with lots of inspiration, and instruction, we also
got hands-on experience. I had the opportunity to preach on two campuses,
and witness at a third. I don’t know when I have ever seen such a
potentially rich field for the saving of lost souls than here. We heard
testimonies of so many who were at one time living ungodly and sinful
lives. They had no desire to know God or serve Him. But one glorious day
they were confronted with the claims of Jesus’ message by a campus
minister, that forever changed their life. The seeds of His Word did not
return void, they accomplished what He desired and achieved
the purpose for which he sent it. And these young people were translated
out of the kingdom of darkness and into the Kingdom of God’s dear Son!!!
Jesus said the Kingdom of God is like a net. It is my prayer with God’s
grace and help we can be on campuses throwing out that net to capture
young souls for Jesus our Savior!
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