America is a Christian nation? The amount of evidence to the contrary (human trafficking, abortion) is STAGGERING

Incredibly, there are people in America who stubbornly hold on to the idea that America is a Christian nation.  The evidence against such a claim is staggering, ranging from the pages of the New Testament to the everyday pages of our newspapers, magazines, and websites.

One example is our nation’s tolerance of human trafficking, and the encouragement of the greed and lust that fuels that vile trade.  Another example, and the focus of this short post, is our tolerance of abortion, and the quiet acceptance of the murder and destruction of more than 45 million babies since abortion was legalized in January 1973.  And what fuels this vile trade?  Again, greed, lust, and let’s add racism to the mix.

My point, then, is how can anyone who lives in such a country and is a denying, passive participant in these horrors think that a country that legalizes and encourages the ripping, slicing, and suctioning of babies from their mothers’ wombs — more than 3,000 times every day — continue to think that America is a Christian nation?  It isn’t.

To learn more about the truth of abortion and how it was legalized, watch this short video and then go to Abort73.com.

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Until we acknowledge that we do not live in a Christian nation, it’s my opinion that the Gospel will not have much of an effect in America.  Why?  Because those who deny they are sick will not go to a doctor.  Once, when Jesus was hanging out with a group of “sinners,” the Pharisees questioned his choice of company, and Jesus said to them,

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick [do].  Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Time to wake up, American Christians

Some things need to be repeated often until Jesus returns and this world as we know it comes to an end and evil is no more.  Until then, the incredible need for ministries like Make Way Partners is one of those things.  Click on the newsletter image to go to the full PDF version, read it, and then decide to make a difference before it’s too late for you and for those you could have helped.

And you know, you may not fully agree with some of the theology of the people behind Make Way Partners or other similar ministries — I don’t, and I tend to be a “truth” guy.  But the 9-year-old orphan that we’ve “adopted” and are supporting monthly isn’t very concerned about our theology.  What’s important to her at this point is that she has food to eat, a bed to sleep in, she’s no longer in danger of being killed by wild dogs while she’s sleeping on the ground or in a tree, and the likelihood of her being captured and forced into the horrors of slavery is almost gone.  Do I care about her spiritual life?  Definitely, and our family prays regularly that she will come to believe the gospel and know Jesus Christ as he is revealed in the truth of Scripture.

Jesus, who refers to himself as “the way, the truth and the life” in John 14:6, said in Matthew 25 that “he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.  For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’. . . ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’

Yeah, time to wake up.

July 2009 Make Way Partners newsletter

Not For Sale – the book

The introduction of Not for Sale opens with these words:

Twenty-seven million slaves exist in our world today.  Girls and boys, women and men of all ages are forced to toil in the rug loom sheds of Nepal, sell their bodies in the brothels of Rome, break rocks in the quarries of Pakistan, and fight wars in the jungles of Africa.

Go behind the facade in any major town or city in the world today and you are likely to find a thriving commerce in human beings.  You may even find slavery in your own backyard.

Should you read this book?

“We traded our three-year-old son for this color television.”

We didn’t, but a family in Albania did.  Consider the following paragraph:

Abolitionists fighting sex trafficking in both Southeast Asia and Latin America report that parents commonly sell their kids so that they can make an improvement on their home or purchase a vehicle or other consumer item.  These stories align with a report in the New York Times that parents in Albania sold their children to traffickers so that they could buy a color television.

That paragraph is from the book Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade — and How We Can Fight It, written by David Batstone.  The New York Times article that is referenced in that paragraph can be found here.