Don't Let 'em Gouge Out Your Eyes!

The modern-day ammonites want to gouge out our eyes, spiritually speaking. I noticed on my very first time in America when I came here as a guest of your country back in 1988, I was invited to a school to speak on Africa. As I was walking up to the platform the principle seemed to turn white and he saw my bible.
He said, "What's that?"
I said, "It's my bible."
He said, "You can't bring that here, this is a public school."
I said, "Well I'm a missionary, this is what I do."
He said, "You can't mention God or Jesus or pray or anything religious. Do you understand?"
Yes, I understood. He introduced me, I stood up and I greeted the students in the precious name of our Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ, as I always do in a Parliament, or a Mosque or a terrorist base, that's the way I always start. And then I said, "Your Principle has told me not to read the bible, to pray or to say anything religious." Then I smiled and said, "I spend my life breaking those laws in Communist countries." I opened my bible, read the bible and I went ahead. I could not believe that they were serious that there could be people in a civilized country could honestly ban the bible. Instead, what are they teaching? "Once upon a time there was nothing, and then there was something, and then something became everything." A whole lot of time and a whole lot of nothing made everything. You came from nothing you are going nowhere. Life is meaningless. No wonder the children are committing suicide.

From Dr. Peter Hammond's lecture, "Christian Responsibility"

What's In The Name Iona?

"Three years ago I traveled with my son David to the island of Iona. It just so happened that we were traveling with his wife to be. He didn’t know it then, but he hoped. Now he has named his firstborn daughter, Iona Wisdom Brown...

It was here in Iona that the seeds of the American Revolution were sown. The Christian faith on Iona held the thinking that made America possible. Joe Morecraft explained it this way,

“This is the most important place on earth, for you can trace the reformation and the founding of America to the followers of Columba. Their history belongs to us. Our roots as American Christians can be traced to this community in Iona.”

~Scott Brown

http://www.ncfic.org/weblogmodule/view/id/687/src/@random493e73d2154bd/

George Muller

said that those expecting the Gospel of Christ to Christianize the nations are not serving the Lord. Muller led in changing the goal of missionary endeavours from Christianizing the world's nations to simply "soul saving." He was convinced that it was unscriptural to hope that the gospel message could bring about godly social change. The result of this teaching was that multitudes of Chinese Christians who were trained to expect an immanent "rapture," were tortured and slaughtered.

Muller's ideas impacted Hudson Taylor and China Inland Mission contributing to a neutralized, powerless gospel which helped China fall to Communism, therefore resulting in the currant limit of children and forced abortions there. Many who did NOT follow his teaching fled and were saved.

Jesus commanded us to disciple the nations, teaching them all things He commanded us. This wrong thinking tears out much of the teaching of God's word.

See Ovid E Need Jr.'s book, Death of the Church Victorious, pgs. 195-199.

George Muller served the Lord rescuing orphans. God is concerned for the fatherless and his work there was great, yet Muller's error in theology is destructive, even now.

I highly recommend, The Greatest Century of Missions by Peter Hammond. It is a thrilling book of missionaries who discipled nations, setting them free from spiritual and physical bondage of paganism like William Carey ending suti "honorable sacred widow burning,"
outlawing infanticide, and ending the slave trade.

William Carey said, "He must reign until Satan has not an inch of territory."

Missionaries went out in the 19th Century to disciple the nations, and they did. Today we believe in snatching a few embers from the fire and that is what we accomplish. We are called by God to be culture builders.

Psalm 22:27-28 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. For the kingdom is the LORD'S and He rules over the nations.

America use to send missionaries to save nations, now we send armies as if we believe in salvation by force and violence.

The Bible is pro-peace, not pro-Palestine. Jesus is not a racist, nor a land broker. The kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. It is now imperative to understand that the Holy Land is now the whole earth.

This will NOT be achieved by American foreign aide, bailouts or armies.