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My friend, Richard Ecstein, sent this to me.  I wonder how you feel about the writer’s indictment.  Do you agree or disagree?

“A George Barna survey reveals the fact that 90% of America's pastors are purposefully keeping the people in the dark. (And this one that just came out today). They are concerned with hurting the growth of "their church" by talking about "controversial" issues.

Who was it that classified marriage, abortion, un-holy wars, tyrannical government, government thievery, unrighteous taxation, dishonest courts, drug legalization, deviant sexual behavior, indoctrination of children, and public filth as "controversial" issues? The church used to be the "wave machine" on all of these issues, but alas: The salt has lost his savor.

The words of Charles Finney are worth repeating:

"If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discernment, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in Christianity, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible."

Martin Luther declared:

"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point."

Flight and disgrace are the fruits of abandonment. Abandonment is treason. Those who commit treason are traitorous. If Barna is correct, can any other term be more appropriately applied to America's churches where 90% of the pulpits are filled by traitorous, cowardly men? It is not the politicians who are to blame. It is the pastors...the pulpits. Stop giving them your money. That is all they understand. Find a mission worth supporting and direct your giving there.

We are a nation adrift...meandering down the river of history...rudderless.devoid of propulsion. drifting wherever the current might take us. There is a waterfall ahead. Who's steering the ship? Is your family willing to blindly follow the captain over the cliff?

By Coach Dave Daubenmire, NewsWithViews”