“You can’t change just one thing” and “You can’t beat something with nothing” are foundational to American Vision’s mission. While American Vision has been working for 30 years to set the intellectual and apologetic foundation for the development of a comprehensive Christian worldview, there has always been a missing element. I’ve been having conversations with lots of people who have no idea what’s going on in the realm of colliding worldviews. What you and I argue instinctively, there are tens of millions of Americans who don’t even know the categories of the ongoing debate over the existence of God, the role of the State in society, church-state issues, eschatology, economics, and morality. I’ll mention some books and authors in conversations with people I meet that are familiar to most people who frequent this site. I get blank stares. Nothing registers. Why? We’ve been speaking to the Christian choir. Of course, this has been necessary since the majority of Christians are as ignorant as the general public on these same issues. You should read some of my emails if you think I’m exaggerating.
One way to reach the general public is to travel on Roman roads and use the Koine(common) language of the day. Rome built roads for commercial and political (military) reasons. Christians used these same roads to convert the Empire. Koine Greek unified the Greek Empire and became the common language of subsequent empires. This common language helped spread the gospel throughout the Roman Empire before the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70 (Rom. 1:8; 10:18; 16:25-26; Col. 1:6, 23).
Latin replaced Greek, and Jerome’s 5th-century Vulgate was the new language bridge to those who could read. The church resisted new vernacular translations. Wycliffe and Tyndale were persecuted for their translation efforts. Can you imagine the church fighting to stop people from translating the Bible so the common people could read it and know their Savior? There is a church near my house that has a sign out front that reads “We sing old hymns” and “We use the KJV.” I suspect that those who attend the church are also old, and the church is having a difficult time reaching the generations that will replace the old-hymn singers. This and future generations will be reached by a new set of roads and common language. . . . To Be Directed to the Full Article Click Here
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"In the State We Trustt" |
by Gary DeMar |
I’ve been watching the debate over privatizing some parts of Social Security and have been amazed at the reaction of liberals. The head of NOW does not support any type of privatization. When she was asked to explain her position in light of her pro-abortion stance of “choice,” she offered a smile and said the government is needed to protect citizens in their retirement years. But what of “choice”? Why not give people a choice to do what they want with their own money? It’s OK for a woman in her child-bearing years to exercise unfettered choice in the killing of her preborn child, but when it comes to real choice about a person’s own money, the government should play a significant role. While government should stay out of our bedroom, it has a vested interest in our wallets.
A certain segment of the population is afraid of freedom. The side you take in the presentSocial Security debate says a lot about your view of economic and political freedom. While tyrrany is often forced upon a population from the muzzle of a gun, it can also be imposed gradually on a savior-starved people. The history of socialism and communism is the history of how people prefer slavery-in the name of security-over freedom. . . . To Be Directed to the Full Article Click Here
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