Forgetting the Prize<\/b><\/p>\n
It is a most lamentable thing to see how most people spend their time and their energy for trifles, while God is cast aside. He who is all seems to them as nothing, and that which is nothing seems to them as good as all. It is lamentable indeed, knowing that God has set mankind in such a race where heaven or hell is their certain end, that they should sit down and loiter, or run after the childish toys of the world, forgetting the prize they should run for. Were it but possible for one of us to see this business as the all-seeing God does, and see what most men and women in the world are interested in and what they are doing every day, it would be the saddest sight imaginable. Oh, how we should marvel at their madness and lament their self-delusion! If God had never told them what they were sent into the world to do, or what was before them in another world, then there would have been some excuse. But it is His sealed word, and they profess to believe it.<\/p>\n
Richard Baxter<\/p>\n
Racism<\/b><\/p>\n
In the 1960\u2019s the church deacon board mobilized lookout squads, and on Sundays these took turns patrolling the entrances lest any black \u201ctroublemakers\u201d try to integrate us. I still have one of the cards the deacons printed up to give to any civil rights demonstrators who might appear:<\/p>\n
Believing the motives of your group to be ulterior and foreign to the teaching of God\u2019s word, we cannot extend a welcome to you<\/b> and respectfully request you to leave the premises quietly. Scripture does NOT teach \u201cthe brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.\u201d He is the Creator of all, but only the Father of those who have been regenerated. If any one of you is here with a sincere desire to know Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord, we shall be glad to deal individually with you from the Word of God. (Unanimous Statement of Pastor and Deacons, August 1960)<\/p>\n
When Congress passed the Civil Rights Acts, our church founded a private school as a haven for whites, expressly barring all black students. A few \u201cliberal\u201d members left the church in protest when the kindergarten turned down the daughter of a black Bible professor, but most of us approved of the decision. A year later the church board rejected a Carver Bible Institute student for membership (his name was Tony Evans).<\/p>\n
Phillip Yancey, What\u2019s So Amazing About Grace, Zondervan, 1977, p. 131<\/p>\n
Negro Project<\/b><\/p>\n
If you\u2019re looking for the racist in the abortion debate, start with Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and its hateful \u201cNegro Project.\u201d Sanger called African Americans \u201chuman weeds\u201d and said \u201cmore children from the fit, less from the unfit.\u201d Yet when she was the subject of a recent cable TV tribute, liberals offered not a whisper of protest.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Planned Parenthood seems just as racist as its founder. International Planned Parenthood officials eagerly promoted condoms and abortions\u2014but not medicines or clean water\u2014for Third-World delegates attending the recent United Nations women\u2019s conference in China (see \u201cPostcard from Beijing,\u201d pp. 1-3).<\/p>\n
Another liberal icon, evolution theorist Charles Darwin, provided the intellectual underpinnings for 20th-century genocides of every kind when he wrote that \u201cthe civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races.\u201d That would seem to warrant calls for Darwin\u2019s expulsion from diversity-minded public school classrooms, yet he remains a noncontroversial figure among liberals.<\/p>\n
Focus on the Family Citizen, November 20, 1995, p. 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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