Evangelicals are Liberals

It has taken me a while to realize that the evangelical churches that I have been associated with in the past are in fact liberal.  That is not to say that they believe themselves to be liberal, but that they are so in word and deed.

One of the reasons it took so long for me to find out was that my first Pastor was not a feminist or an egalitarian, so from my worms-eye-view the denomination looked rosy.

That church is now openly committed to the whole soft left agenda.  Women preach to men in church,and those who oppose it are ignored or slandered.  Arminianism is rampant, and those who preach the Protestant doctrines are called in by senior clergy and ordered, yes ordered, to cease and desist.

Those who speak out are viciously slandered and their careers destroyed.  All of this is standard practice for the liberal left, the same people who see themselves as the standard bearers of fairness and truth.

The sad fact is that this is a denomination that once stood fearlessly for the truth of the Gospel at great cost.

The New Stone Table

When liberals say they are not interested in doctrine, but in what touches people’s lives, they want you to think that they are very practical people, in opposition to pie-in-the-sky doctrinalists.  

Have you noticed that the ethical laws that they teach people to observe do not include the Ten Commandments at all?  What you get is soft liberal left political correctness, time after time.

I bet that if you asked any of these men (and women!) to recite the Ten Commandments they will fail after getting two, maybe three out of ten.

They know neither the Gospel nor the law of God.

For example, scripture explicitly forbids women to speak in church or to have authority over men.  The gymnastics that are required to make these passages disappear are spectacular.  Why?  Modern Western society, meaning the left-wing opinion formers, are feminists who refuse to accept the biblical teaching on gender.  And so the commandments of God are overthrown in favour of their self-chosen tradition.

The list could go on over several pages, but this is supposed to be just a sound-bite.

 

This is what happened re the previous article

ALBERTA, CA: Pastor Fined $7000 and Ordered to Publicly Apologize and Remain Silent on Homosexuality
Says he won’t apologize – “I stand by what I said.” Will appeal decision.

By Tim Waggoner 
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08060902.html

OTTAWA, June 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Friday, the Alberta Human Rights Commission ordered Alberta pastor Stephen Boissoin to desist from expressing his views on homosexuality in any sort of public forum. He was also commanded to pay damages equivalent to $7,000 as a result of the tribunal’s November decision to side with complainant and homosexual activist Dr. Darren Lund. The tribunal has also called for Boissoin to personally apologize to Lund via a public statement in the local newspaper.

The remedy order demands the pastor to pay $5,000 to Lund personally for the “time and energy” he has expended and for the “ridicule and harassment” he has faced. Combined with that financial burden, Boissoin must also pay up to $2,000 in expenses to one of Lund’s witness, provided she produces records of such costs.

Boissoin was first hauled before the Human Rights Commission to answer to a complaint filed by Lund, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary. Lund made his complaint after Boissoin published a letter to the editor in the Red Deer Advocate, in which he denounced homosexuality as immoral and dangerous, and called into question new gay-rights curricula permeating the province’s educational system.

“Children as young as five and six years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights,” wrote Boissoin in the letter.

In an interview, Boissoin told LifeSiteNews.com that he’s under attack not only for his letter, but more significantly for his beliefs.

“The point I am trying to make here is what’s being attacked at the core is what I believe, according to my personal beliefs and my religious beliefs.”

Most disturbingly, says Boissoin, is that the ruling calls for him to “cease publishing in newspapers, by email, on the radio, in public speeches, or on the internet, in future, disparaging remarks about gays and homosexuals.” Boissoin wondered to what extent the right to freedom of expression in Canada will be deteriorated, stating, “I am not allowed to hold on to my views.”

The pastor also maintained that his beliefs are founded not on hate or malice, but derive from a personal concern for the family and society rooted not only in faith, but also in science.

“I am not allowed to hold my views, but the Lunds of the world are allowed to bring gay ministers into schools, they are allowed to present scientifically baseless teachings to kids that people are born gay.”

“I am all for tolerance, I don’t want to see anyone who calls themselves homosexual be discriminated against,” added Boissoin. “At the same time I believe it is a behaviour, there is no scientific proof that anyone is born gay, but these teens are taught in our school systems that that is the way it is, that people are born homosexual.”

Boissoin then addressed the potential implications of what he called a scientifically baseless pro-homosexual curriculum being taught in schools. “When you deem something acceptable, you increase the likelihood that they will participate in that, and that’s a great concern to me,” he said.

Boissoin also accused Lund of considently defaming him in another local newspaper, which either refused to publish Lund’s rebuts or edited them severely.

He concluded by commenting on the Remedy order and the entire ordeal, which over the last six years has consumed tremendous time, energy and money – both from the pockets of taxpayers and Boissoin.

“Absurd – beyond absurd. I will never make a public apology; I stand by what I said. My context has never been taken into consideration. Lund’s context has always been taken into consideration.”

This will not be the last edition to the Boissoin story as he admitted to LifeSiteNews.com that he “will be appealing to an actual court of law.”

Boissoin’s is the latest in the string of actions by human rights commissions at both the national and provincial levels which have the nation in an uproar over the threat to freedom of speech and freedom of religion posed by the human rights commissions.

The Alberta government, which created the human rights commission, has ultimate authority over the Commission and its mandate, rules and who is appointed to the commission.

To Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach:

Office of the Premier Room 307, Legislature Building 10800 – 97th Avenue Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2B6 Phone: (780) 427 2251 Fax: (780) 427 1349

Link to Alberta Human Rights Commission Remedy order for Stephen Boissoin: http://www.albertahumanrights.ab.ca/Lund_Darren_Remedy053008…

This article has been banned in Canada

Homosexual agenda wicked

Rev. Steven Boissoin

Central Alberta Chairman Concerned Christian Coalition

6/17/02

The following is not intended for those who are suffering from an unwanted sexual identity crisis. For you, I have understanding, care, compassion and tolerance. I sympathize with you and offer you my love and fellowship.

I prayerfully beseech you to seek help, and I assure you that your present enslavement to homosexuality can be remedied. Many outspoken, former homosexuals are free today.

Instead, this is aimed precisely at every individual that in any way supports the homosexual machine that has been mercilessly gaining ground in our society since the 1960s. I cannot pity you any longer and remain inactive. You have caused far too much damage.

My banner has now been raised and war has been declared so as to defend the precious sanctity of our innocent children and youth, that you so eagerly toil, day and night, to consume. With me stand the greatest weapons that you have encountered to date: God and the “Moral Majority.” Know this, we will defeat you, then heal the damage you have caused.

Modern society has become dispassionate to the cause of righteousness. Many people are so apathetic and desensitized today that they cannot even accurately define the term “morality.”

The masses have dug in and continue to excuse their failure to stand against horrendous atrocities such as the aggressive propagation of homo- and bisexuality. Inexcusable justifications such as, “I’m just not sure where the truth lies,” or “If they don’t affect me then I don’t care what they do,” abound from the lips of the quantifiable majority.

Face the facts, it is affecting you. Like it or not, every professing heterosexual is having their future aggressively chopped at the roots. Edmund Burke’s observation that, “All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing,” has been confirmed time and time again. From kindergarten class on, our children, your grandchildren are being strategically targeted, psychologically abused and brainwashed by homosexual and pro-homosexual educators.

Our children are being victimized by repugnant and premeditated strategies, aimed at desensitizing and eventually recruiting our young into their camps. Think about it, children as young as five and six years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights.

Your children are being warped into believing that same-sex families are acceptable; that men kissing men is appropriate.

Your teenagers are being instructed on how to perform so-called safe same gender oral and anal sex and at the same time being told that it is normal, natural and even productive. Will your child be the next victim that tests homosexuality positive?

Come on people, wake up! It’s time to stand together and take whatever steps are necessary to reverse the wickedness that our lethargy has authorized to spawn. Where homosexuality flourishes, all manner of wickedness abounds.

Regardless of what you hear, the militant homosexual agenda isn’t rooted in protecting homosexuals from “gay bashing.” The agenda is clearly about homosexual activists that include, teachers, politicians, lawyers, Supreme Court judges, and God forbid, even so-called ministers, who are all determined to gain complete equality in our nation and even worse, our world.

Don’t allow yourself to be deceived any longer. These activists are not morally upright citizens, concerned about the best interests of our society. They are perverse, self-centred and morally deprived individuals who are spreading their psychological disease into every area of our lives. Homosexual rights activists and those that defend them, are just as immoral as the pedophiles, drug dealers and pimps that plague our communities.

The homosexual agenda is not gaining ground because it is morally backed. It is gaining ground simply because you, Mr. and Mrs. Heterosexual, do nothing to stop it. It is only a matter of time before some of these same morally bankrupt individuals such as those involved with NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Lovers Association, will achieve their goal to have sexual relations with children and assert that it is a matter of free choice and claim that we are intolerant bigots not to accept it.

If you are reading this and think that this is alarmist, then I simply ask you this: how bad do things have to become before you will get involved? It’s time to start taking back what the enemy has taken from you. The safety and future of our children is at stake.

Rev. Stephen Boissoin

Central Alberta Chairman

Concerned Christian Coalition

Red Deer

Wright and Caesar

Tom Wright often speaks of the political nature of the gospel, namely, that there is another Caesar who is the rightful Lord of Lords, Jesus of Nazareth who was raised from the dead.  To that we add our amen.

So here is the question: has the Bishop of Durham used his position as the fourth most senior person in the National Church to tell that to HM the Queen and her Prime Minister?  If not, why not?

The pointlessness of exegesis

I went to College to learn Greek so that I could do an excellent job of exegeting the Bible.  I believed that if I did that I would get right to the the meaning of the text, making me a better teacher of the Bible.  That has certainly happened.  I expected that when others read my exegesis they would be enabled to clearly see the meaning of that passage.  

The fact that that has so often not been the case has led me to reassess the value of exegesis.  I have come to the conclusion that most Pastors and theologians prefer to read theology to doing exegesis, and that they have the greatest difficulty following an exegetical argument.  Why?  Because it is very hard work, and most Pastors are allergic to the hard work of reading closely, exegeting, and assessing the exegetical work of others, never mind doing it for themselves.

Is it a total waste of time then?  Of course not.  But it is nowhere as influential as I had once hoped it would be.  The people who benefit the most from my exegesis are my congregants, and in the end they are the ones whom Christ has appointed me to serve.

The Sovereignty of Christ

We all know and love the fact that God is sovereign, but how many of us ever speak of and think about the sovereignty of Christ?  In John 5 Jesus teaches us that all authority, all judgement, and all power has been given to him by the Father, and that the Father does nothing without him.  Nothing.  Whatever the Father does he does through Christ!  IOW Christ is sovereign too!!!!  And that is concerning his humanity, it is not the innate power and dignity of his deity.