“The sign that you had an encounter with the living God is not emotion.
You're going to have emotion, but you can have emotion without God.
The sign of an encounter with living God is not just emotion, it's rearranged priorities.”
@howertonjosh
“The quickest way to lose your freedom and your joy is resentment, bitterness, and unforgiveness. Unresolved forgiveness will break you spiritually. It will cause you to become someone you never intended to be. You will carry that body of death until it kills you—your personality, your future, your voice.” @realjphillip
If students can handle learning algebra, chemistry, geography, literature, & history...
They can also handle learning about sin, Christology, justification, repentance, faith, sanctification, & the Great Commission.
Don't dumb it down, disciple them up! They can handle it!
The Christian worldview is the only worldview that can justify and will maintain the human rights and freedoms upon which our nation was founded 250 years ago today. Islam won’t (sharia law), Hinduism won’t (caste system), Atheism won’t (no one is higher than the dictator, which led to 100 million murdered by atheistic regimes in the 20th Century).
Those other worldviews do not believe,“that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Our founders knew that rights can only come from God—not governments—but that good governments are supposed to secure those rights. That’s what Christianity teaches.
Reflecting back on the founding of our country, John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1813, “The general Principles on which the Fathers achieved Independence, where the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite. . . And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity. . . ”
So whether you are a Christian or not, you should appreciate the principles that come from Christianity, including inalienable rights, and that governments are temporary institutions that are to protect the lives and liberties of beings that are eternal and made in the image of God—you and me.