His Steadfast Love Endures Forever
Over and over the Bible speaks of God’s steadfast love.
Steadfast love (Heb: hesed) is “loyalty love” or “covenant love.” To speak of God’s steadfast love is to speak of His enduring, unwavering, covenant faithfulness, goodness, and affection for His people.
This is the type of love that the Bible over and over again says will never end.
As long as God is God, He will love His people. For God to stop loving His people would mean that He would stop being God. It’s more likely that the sun falls out of the sky than it is for God to feel anything but endless love for His people.
You don't even have your facts right. It's 700 alleged victims, not 700 perpetrators. And it's just leaders. Those were drawn from any case involving an SBC church in some way. So volunteers, members, etc. Not just leaders. In fact in some cases the abuse wasn't connected to the church, it just happened to be a church member.
Also, while all abuse is terrible and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, this is a MUCH, MUCH lower rate of incidence that you would find in that period from that large a pool than you would get by pulling a random similar sized pool from the general population.
The rate of incidence in the SBC is actually incredibly low.
If by these pictures, you mean "thank you for being the only significant group opposing these things and making efforts to destroy them," then you're welcome :)
Imagine telling women to suppress their biological urge to reproduce and have a family to instead answer emails that AI will do for you in 5 years.
We need more moms and less corporate middle level managers.
Protestants have gone to great lengths to demonstrate that Liberals, such as the person below, practice a different religion. Catholics like to play dumb when it comes to this.
Is @SecretFire79 suggesting men with this ideology don't exist among his clergy?
This was the oath required for members of the PA state constitutional convention in 1776.
What's actually weird is how so many of our political leaders pretend like they aren't accountable to Jesus Christ.
An award-winning 35-year longitudinal study asked how parents succeed in passing on their religious convictions.
The study found two surprising results:
First, “having a close bond with one’s father matters
even more than a close relationship with one’s mother.”
In other words, fathers wield influence, whether they want to or not.
Second, the relationship with the father must be warm and close. A father can be a leader of the community, a pillar of the church, a moral exemplar, but if he is perceived as cold and distant, the child will not follow him, will not adopt his spiritual and religious convictions.
Here's the study:
Francis Schaffer in 1982 answering the question of what has gone wrong with evangelicals that allowed the Christian consensus to be lost in our nation:
"I think a false view of spirituality, a Platonic view of spirituality which follows Plato, but certainly isn't biblical. And that is that spirituality is shut up to a small area of life...in this view, everything is worldly that isn't in this little box of spirituality. Now, as I look at the Bible, this is exactly 1000% backwards.
There are certain sinful things that God tells us are sinful, and we ought to take those and set them aside...and then, everything else is spiritual."
Robertson: "Elaborate on that. Everything then in the world, because you're saying that Jesus has a plan and a worldview and a purpose. He's not just God of the church; He's God of everything."
Schaeffer: "Absolutely. He made it. And one day, the wonder is, Jesus is coming back and is going to be the redemption of all things...God is interested in the totality of life—art, music, literature, but also the political life. So true spirituality means the Lordship of Christ in the totality of life and not just a small part of it."
Robertson: "The liberal press, particularly, would try to keep conservative Christians or evangelicals out of political life, and there's this great pressure to make fun of you when you get in politics, and they don't think it should be. And there are many Christians who say yes to the same thing. Now, what do you say to them?"
Schaeffer: "Well, they're wrong."
Robertson: "Christians should do what? Run for office, vote, register, get involved? What ought they to do?"
Schaeffer: "Well, we ought to realize that in the viewpoint of the Scripture, life is not divided up into watertight compartments, that all of life should be lived for the Lordship of Christ. Now, what exact portion each one of us should have is according to the Lord's leading for us...but the rule to lay down is that Christians have a responsibility for the society in which they live.
We're to be the salt. We're to be the light...By our silence, by refusing to be what God tells us to be, the light of this culture, the salt of the culture, we are the ones responsible before God for the mess we're in."
Evangelicals are the only religious group where a majority do not agree with these 3 statements:
Abortion should be legal
Gay and lesbian people should be allowed to marry
Homosexuality should be accepted by society
It genuinely breaks my brain to imagine what 1400 hours of annual sunshine must be like to live in.
When going to college in Chicago, I really struggled with the seemingly endless gray of the winters. Chicago gets 2500 sunshine hours!
The left and Islam share a common enemy: Western (Christian) civilization. Both are aimed at subverting/destroying it.
If Islam gains enough traction to go on without the left, then they'll destroy them, too. Look at Europe.
Why does the left have such little issue with Islam? It literally rejects everything they claim to stand for. Everything. Anti gay, anti democratic, anti inclusive. Controls women’s bodies. Male dominated—the list goes on.