Two important questions for the future in today’s Christian Post. Chuck Colson asks about the limits of obedience to the government… are State-run churches coming to America under the guise of preventing hate crimes and the like?
According to the Daily Telegraph, starting next year, the British government is going to begin forcing churches and other religious institutions to hire open, practicing homosexuals. It will happen under the provisions of the so-called Equity Bill, which forbids discrimination against homosexuals or transsexuals.
The law would “cover almost all church employees,” according to Deputy Equities Minster Maria Eagle. “The circumstances in which religious institutions can practice anything less than full equality are few and far between,” Eagle said. Church groups, she said, “cannot claim that everything they run is outside the scope of anti-discrimination law.”
A related question is what on earth are we doing to stem the loss of youth from churches in the U.S.? Aren’t all the social problems we face (such as one just referenced) due to our failure to evangelize and bring the culture of the Kingdom to the last several generations of youth in the Western world?
A new survey shows that
…95 percent of 20- to 29-year-old evangelicals attended church regularly during their elementary and middle school years. Only 55 percent went to church during high school. And by college, only 11 percent were still attending church.
If we can’t retain 90 of the kids we have, how are we going to reach the ones that aren’t even coming?
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