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Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 1 April 1, 2007

HE IS RISEN!
Have a joyous Easter

Greetings Christian Soldiers!

Welcome to the first edition of the Christian Soldiers Newsletter.

Our mission is to encourage Christians to stand firm in their faith and in their convictions.

Some of the issues that are on our hearts are:

Complacency

Bible Illiteracy

Abortion

Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Don’t be a “pew potato”!

It’s time for a bit of introspection. I challenge you to look deep within yourself and take an inventory.

Are you a CINO (Christian In Name Only)?

Sure, you go to Church every Sunday (or often, or occasionally) and listen to a sermon. At some point in time you prayed the “Sinners Prayer” and received the Gift of Salvation. Congratulations! You are a Christian, your soul is secure and life is good.

BUT – how much thought do you give to Biblical principles Monday – Saturday?

When was the last time you inquired about the salvation of an acquaintance? Are you putting it off for just the right moment?

Consider this:

James 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

CRISIS IN AMERICA

by Dr. Woodrow Kroll, President

Back to the Bible International

After analyzing more than 10,000 personal interviews conducted during 2003, researcher George Barna maintains that while three-fifths of Americans say they believe the Bible is totally accurate in all that it teaches, they both appear to know little of what’s in the Bible nor does what’s in the Bible appear to have little impact on their lives. As a result, the moral foundations of the nation continue to crumble more rapidly each year. The crisis in American morality is a crisis in Bible illiteracy.

This year saw increases in the proportions of people who believe that cohabitation (60%), adultery (42%), sexual relations between homosexuals (30%), abortion (45%), pornography (38%), the use of profanity (36%) and gambling (61%) are “morally acceptable” behaviors.

George Gallup Jr. is right: “Biblical illiteracy presents not only a spiritual or religious problem in this nation, but a cultural one as well.” We cannot inhibit the great American slide into a moral vacuum until someone seriously addresses the problem of Bible illiteracy both in the world and in the church.

How Bad is the Problem of Bible Illiteracy?

A few years ago the Gallup Organization devised The Gallup Biblical Knowledge Quiz to test the Bible knowledge of the American public. When asked: “What is first book of Bible?”, 49% answered correctly. When asked: “Can you name one of the prophets in the Old Testament?”, 21% could. And 35% of the American population could name the four Gospels. This means, of course, that 51% could not name the first book of the Bible, 79% could not name a single prophet of the Old Testament, and 65% of Americans could not name Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Abortion is murder!

If you are a Christian, then you are most certainly, Pro – Life, right? After all, it stands to reason it just goes with the territory.

Sadly, this just does not seem to be the case. This fact was driven home to me just recently, when I received a terse reply from the recipient of an email I recently sent encouraging folks in my REI database to sign some online petitions:

Well, since I SUPPORT stem cell research, based on those in my family who

could really use the technology being developed to assist their illnesses,

then YES, the Govt needs to write a BIG FAT CHECK for researching this.

As for abortion, should be legal, always will be if I can help it.

Not my place to tell a woman what to do with her body.

Up to folks local to this doctor whether or not he gets

prosecuted,,,,,,,,,,and they decided not to.........get caught up on events,

this is an old story.

Last I checked, we do support Isreal.

So, what a waste of email bandwidth, etc.

Remove me.

and, as a side note, this stuff is why your forum had no

visitors.............its either christian bible thumping, or, real estate,

the two do not mix......at least, not to this extreme.

and, I am a devout Christian, who just do happens to think the issues you

sent out links to, have nothing to do with my faith.

Unsubscribe me, and don't sent me this garbage again............

While I appreciated the honesty, beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, that message breaks my heart, because for every one person who takes the time to fire off a dart like that, there are countless others who share the sentiment without bothering to respond. Here we have a classic CINO, and I implore you all to evaluate your own hearts, shake off your complacency and STAND UP and STAND FIRM!

FYI – the aforementioned online petitions are:

Petition to Protect Human Life (stop tax funding of embryonic stem cell

research) https://www.aclj.org/Petition/Default.aspx?sc=3261&ac=1

Petition to prosecute partial birth abortion practitioner, George Tiller

http://www.chargetiller.com/petition.html

Petition to President Bush and world leaders declaring support for Israel

http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageServer?pagename=swarmingbees

Proverbs 1

1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.