Context of Our Mission. War in the West “When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe...

The 21st CenturyContext of Our Mission

Radical Islam and Fundamental Atheism

Fundamentalist AtheismWar in the West

Death of God

“When people stop believing in God,

they don’t believe in nothing,

they believe in anything.”

G.K. Chesterton

Jeremy Rifkin• "We no longer

feel ourselves to be guests in someone else's home and therefore obliged to make our behavior conform with a set of preexisting cosmic rules.

Jeremy RifkinIt is our creation now. We make the rules. We establish the parameters of reality. We create the world, and because we do, we no longer feel beholden to outside forces. We no longer have to justify our behavior, for we are now the architects of the universe. We are responsible for nothing outside ourselves, for we are the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever."

Fundamentalist Atheists War in the West

Atheism’s New Definition• Old Definition – disbelief in God• New Definition – Anti-theism•Militant Atheist• Secular Fundamentalist • Dogmatic Atheism – no discourse with opposing views

• Not content with level playing field of ideas - freedom of religion

• Freedom from religion• Stamp out all religious beliefs• Ideological tyranny

Our Rights Do Not Come From God

“Our rights do not come from God, your honor, and you know that. They come from man... That’s your faith, that’s my faith, but that’s not our country. Our laws come from collective agreement and compromise.”

Hostility

• To the culture of the kingdom of God• Truth • Beauty• Goodness

• To three basic institutions• Family (basic building block of society)• Governance of/by free men and women• Freedom of Conscience• Freedom of Religion• Freedom of the Press

• Church

The State - “The New Parents”

“How much do we regard children as being the property of their parents? It’s one thing to say people should be free to believe whatever they like, but should they be free to impose their beliefs on their children?”

Richard DawkinsThe God Delusion

(Some) Areas of Attack

• The Family•Who has responsibility for children (Dawkins)• Parents or the state

•Redefining marriage•Anti-Natal movement

• Political Correct/Cultural Relativism

Albertos Polizogopoulos

“It has become a scary time to be a Christian professional in Canada. In 2014, lawyers and doctors were targeted by their own professional associations for direct attack because of their religious beliefs”

Canadian “Legal Leaders for Diversity” excludes Christians and others who disagree

T.W.U. target of Religious Freedom

Arlene’s Flowers

VIDEO

Aaron and Melissa Klein

Political Correctness Gone Awry

Rotherham rape victim

Rotherham Rapists

Image of Political Correctness, Rotherham, England

Rotherham City Council head Martin Kimber

South Yorkshire’s Chief Constable David Compton

Radical Islam War from the East

ISIS in Syria and Iraq

ISIS in Iraq

Christians are fleeing Iraq/Syria

Christians Fleeing Mosul

Yezidi women captured by ISIS

Orthodox Christian Martyrs

Boko Haram – Baga, Nigeria

Attack on Church in Pakistan

The Christian’s Response The Great Commission

The Conflict• The conflict between Jihadists and the

infidels – believing Jews and Christians on the one hand and secularists on the other, is not about borders and armament.• It is about ideas and ideals. It is a conflict

of:•Spirit•Morality• Ideas - worldview

Three Competing Narratives

What is the solution?

What Is the Solution?

“Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

your kingdom come,

your will be done on earth as it is in

heaven. …”

Kingdom OffensiveChrist and Him

Crucified

Thy Kingdom Come

GoodnessTruth Beauty

Atheism Islam

Freedom – Our Driving Vision

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. …You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Apostle PaulGalatians 5: 1, 13-14

Manifesting the Culture of the Kingdom of God

1. Truth—Reflects God’s physical and metaphysical laws

2. Goodness (Justice)—Reflects God’s moral laws

3. Beauty—Reflects God’s aesthetic laws

Douglas Jones and Douglas Wilson Angels in the Architecture, p. 18

The Cultural Trinity

• Unity and Diversity in the Godhead and in Trinitarian Culture•Truth is Good and Beautiful•Goodness is Beautiful and Truthful•Beauty is Good and Truthful