Re: [TruthTalk] The Mind of Christ

[Knpraise]

My Son and I (Russ) talked last week about doing what we can to generate a second offensive wave in this battle of minds and hearts for Christ.  

This is what, in part, we have in mind.   Maybe you have an idea or two or maybe, it will be something that we can network.   Maybe you have a concern.  Share it.

I won't argue the case for these efforts  --  I will just lay them out there. 

As I see it, people of Faith are in a battle with a very well defined intellectual majority.   Fortunately, the intellectual majority is something around 20% of the population.    Unfortunately, that majority are the very people who own many of the newspapers, most of the professorships in our universities,  and are driving those issues that compromise the Faith (as it presently does business)  and increasingly limit free _expression_.   

This is not a political war.   It is one of faith against faith.    Here are some things I have personally been involved with or have a personal knowledge of  --    that work against the secular and athietistic influences that seek to destroy our influence.  I hasten to add that not all secularists or athietists are our enemy.   


Anyway:

We had a debate at the local J.C.   in Fresno.   Standing room only.   A debate between an evolutionist and design by creation (Christian) scientist.    18,000 students attend our J.C.   The accepted result of the debate   ---    the evolutionist may have scored a draw !!
The students were very surprised to see this debate and record the result.   They were shocked that the evolutionist did not do better that he did. 

Myself and one other Christian, in Madera, spent a considerable amount of time, year before last, writing editorial letters to the local paper.   I got into the column 10 different times  (`12 per year is the limit) and the other nearly that same number.   I received appreciative phone calls and a coouple of very angry ones, as well.  We beleive some good was accomplished.  

One family, living directly across from one of the cities high schools,  has opened their doors to a noon meeting for the kids on the campus across the street.   The meetings stress making Christ and the biblical message  work for them in their own way. 
It stresses doing benevolent things for poorer kids on campus and working against abortion.  

Two retired high school teachers, Christians both,   have taken up attending Fresno State Unitveristy  (22,000 young people).   They are professional students, attending philosophy, psychology, science and social science classes  --   and their job, to comfront teaching that is harmful to the faith of those who attend those classes  --   to insure that those professors are not allowed to conduct their assults unchallenged.  

The "movement" needs teachers who fight within the system for whatever is possible and legal in the pursuit of religious _expression_ and on-campus freedoms.  


We need lawyers who will fight to defeat those who use the legal system against us. 

We need professional folk to express their support and ideas for the bibilical message on health and wealth and morality.

We are talking about how to put this effort to coordinate all of this into a single effort.  

Part of what we would be invovled in would find us under constant pressure from those who claim the name of the Lord.    Why?    Because this effort would NOT entertain a conservative theological agenda (unless opposition to abortion is that which make the effort "conservative.)   We would hope to gather as many who claim the name of Christ as possible  --  whether Methodist, Messianic, Pentecostal,  Catholic or whatever.   Actually, maybe the abortion issue would not be a focal point  --   but right now,  I am there.  

Anyway  --   a big undertaking.   We would be fighting those on both sides of the equation,  but that is the way it goes.   It was a 'Christian" who did in Paul  (Alexander the copper smith    IMO).  

John