Worldviews
The Newsletter of the Apologetics Resource Center
November - December 2006

Time to Renew
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Support?
In our last newsletter (August), we indicated we were in the midst of a terrible slump in donation assets. We let our need be known. As a result we have seen our bill deficit decrease from $50,105 to less than $10,000. But we also made you aware that a primary staff person had received his modest salary only one month out of 7 for 2006. As of today that staffer has received 2 months salary out of 10. That's an additional $30,000 in deficit.
We need Christians to prioritize the advance of His kingdom in giving. If everyone on our mailing list gave just $10.00 per month, we would be able to really have an impact in the Church and kingdom.

But if we don't we must continue to diminish. The following are things we have done this year despite our financial hamstring, and how we can advance our work if we had the resources:

ARC Ministry

• This year in addition to research and writing our journals and newsletters, we have contributed scores of entries in the upcoming Baker Dictionary of Cults and World Religions.
• Our journal is being translated for us in Macedonia, Peru, and Romania (we have a translator there on staff).
• Keith Gibson, our staffer in Kansas City and ARC director, Craig Branch are collaborating on a new book dealing with the growing errors in the Apostolic and Prophetic movement.
• We continue to conduct seminars, conferences and curricula for Sunday School quarters in local churches.
• Our plan for 2007 is to begin traveling around the U.S. (and some foreign countries) to conduct conferences in local churches and stimulate personal evangelism/apologetics. Call us to explore the possibility of coming to your church.
• Craig has been invited to participate with 200 "influential pastors and Christian leaders" to a "Think Tank" in California to "create an organic growing commitment to the task of understanding and responding to the growing threat of neopaganism in the Church and culture." Pray for Craig during this time, Feb. 19-22. Order our journals on New Age and also Alternative Medicine.
• ARC will be a strong presence at the annual EMNR conference this year in Birmingham (see ad in this Worldviews).
• Prison ministry - Due to the exposure we had through the World magazine ads, we began to get a good number of requests for help from Christians who are prisoners. See the "Letters" section of this newsletter for a sampling. Because of this need ARC is teaming up with Potter's Hand, a local prison ministry, to provide counseling, teaching, training and literature to prisoners locally and nationally. Studies show that 67% of released prisoners are rearrested and 50% return to prison within 3 years. Christ changes all of that.
• We are still praying for a building that will adequately house our ministry and provide a Christian Study Center for study, lectures, training and research for Christians to have an impact in the kingdom. We have one of the largest and best apologetics and theological libraries in the country but over one-half remains unpacked. Pray that we can raise the funds to purchase this facility.
• We continue to teach classes in bachelors and master degree programs in apologetics at Southeastern Bible College and Birmingham Theological Seminary. Also we are continuing teaching apologetics classes on Wed. nights at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, picking back up on Jan. 10.
• We are continuing our daily counseling, coaching and responding to information requests daily.
• Keith Gibson in our Kansas City office will conduct the chapel service at Calvary Bible College and Theological Seminary on Jan. 22nd.

Some Current News

1. American Buddhism is on the rise. America is no longer a melting pot with diverse cultures and beliefs melding and conforming to a Judeo-Christian based culture. It is now a tossed salad, where political correctness and "tolerance" to all is held up as a virtue.
   
   In this context, American Buddhism is emerging and has become the fourth largest religion here, behind Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Professor Bruce Seager, author of Buddhism in America states, "People are looking for experiential practices, not just a new belief system or a new set of ethical rules…It's the transformative practices like meditation which people are really attracted to."
2. Speaking of meditation's popularity, TM is making a very concerted effort to (1) infiltrate public school programming and (2) to position itself as secular science rather than spiritual/religious. Movie producer David Lynch, an avid TM follower, is giving grants to public schools to sponsor TM programs.
   
   ARC became aware of an attempt in a very liberal school district in Marvis County in California. The transcendental meditation "club," funded by Lynch for $175,000 was to have been part of the school district’s new wellness program.
   
   During the parents info meeting, a former TMer and a Christian parent protested - loudly. We sent the parent as well as an expert lawyer in cult litigation a copy of my book Public Schools: The Sorcerer's New Apprentice, which details the trends, religious aspects, as well as the legal prohibition of TM in schools. The district has now dropped the program and the grant was withdrawn.
   
   Make sure your school does not offer meditation or even yoga. Call us to help if you do.
3. Islam - It should be clear by now that the original form of Islam is now the biggest barrier to peace, freedom and Christianity in current and future history.
   
   There is both confusion and subterfuge dealt out by the many factions of Islam to the public. This is partly due to the "holy war" going on within Islam to determine which faction will ultimately speak for and represent Islam.
   
   But apart from the jihads on one end of the spectrum, and the PR campaign on the other side, there are 2 other factors to be considered. One is take over by population growth. Muslims, in addition to jihad, have a strategy to gain the majority of votes in free countries by birthrate. The West - Great Britain and the U.S. are averaging 1.3 children per family cf. a 3.5 rate of Muslims.
   
   Already England's Muslim population has reached 14%, equivalent to the percentage of blacks in the U.S. In America Islam has reached at least 6 million making it the second largest religion in the U.S.
   
   The second factor is the lack of commitment of the American Church to evangelize Muslims. During the 20th century, the global population of Muslims grew to 21% from 12.3% in 1900. Yet only 5-6% of all Christian foreign missionaries are working among Muslims. The ratio of missions to Muslims compared to other groups is abysmal. For example, there are 100 Protestant mission groups composed of 1488 workers in Brazil, with 170 million people. Compare that with 24 agencies and 111 workers in Pakistan, with 150 million people. Part of the reason is that most countries are closed and violent to Christians and Christian mission groups.
   
   But also, as the 1978 Lusanne and the Frontiers mission agency declared, the lack of progress is due to the fact that "We Christians have loved so little and have put forth such little effort to regard Muslims as people like ourselves…We must set out an agenda of prayer, compassion, and interaction with Muslims." As Paul said, to the Jew I became a Jew, to win the Jews…as a Gentile to win Gentiles…I have become all things to all men that I may somehow win some" (1 Cor. 9:16-24).
   
   Will you intentionally learn about Islam compared to Christianity and pray, and intentionally reach out to Muslims in our community? Order our journal on Islam.

Evangelical Disasters?
As I began to write this newsletter at the beginning of the month, very important/relevant events were unfolding that merited our attention. So I waited until now to write (Nov. 9th).
What events? The national elections, the fall of Ted Haggard and Kent Hovind, all occurred this past week. What significance do these events have for the Apologetics Resource Center?

Our raison d'être, our purpose is to awaken the Church and equip the Church with a personally and culturally relevant apologetic to enable believers to have their hearts and minds in tune with God's callings in order to be fulfilled and be salt and light in the world.
These events and several others have everything to do with that purpose. For example:

Elections
Most Christians are frustrated, worried, or depressed because the Democrats won both the House and the Senate. There is a pervasive feeling of helplessness and hopelessness among even Christians.

After all God's inspired proverb states, "Trust in the government with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding but in all your ways ac-knowledge the government and they will direct your path."

What are we to learn from the disappointment and consequences of the election results?

1. That God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat.
2. Our ultimate hope is not in political parties but in the advance of God's kingdom.
3. That the United States is not the only place where God resides or that Americans are His only ambassadors.
4. That too many Christians do not understand the Church's role and responsibilities in the public square. Some Christians go too far in equating government with the kingdom of God. But also too many have instead separated themselves from governmental involvement, issues, and leadership.

The answer is to prioritize evangelism and discipleship and then to more aggressively engage people, ideas, and institutions with the gospel and Biblical wisdom and truths. We are definitely called to pray for and influence our government to reflect Biblical values, as well as to seek God to raise up Christian leaders (mature Christian leaders) 1 Tim. 2:1-3. But the next verse reminds us, directs us, to the first priority - evangelism, "God who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."

Some evidence of this kind of success is found in the results of several state referendums this election. But a closer look reveals the need to still prioritize evangelism and discipleship.

For example a "domestic partnership" bill was defeated in Colorado. In the three states (CO, SC, NV) where legalizing marijuana was a referendum, all three defeated it. That was encouraging. But in South Dakota a referendum to ban abortion was defeated and a parental notification before abortions on minors proposition was defeated in California and Oregon. Allowing embryonic stem cell research was passed in Missouri.

Christians are excited that seven out of eight states voted to ban same-sex marriages. They have joined 19 other states making it constitutionally banned in the majority of states. But the actual votes counted in those eight states were 6,598,502 for the ban, and 3,944,217 against. That means that over 40% of the voters approved allowing same sex marriage!

That reveals the growing hardening of conscience and decline of true moral values in our culture. Twenty years ago, that number was a fraction of that 40%. Ignorance versus knowledge and discernment, apathy versus conviction and passion for Christ and His kingdom are targets of the Apologetics Resource Center.

Hearts of Iron, Feet of Clay
Ken Hovind is the founder of Creation Science Evangelism and Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, and frequent church speaker against the theory of evolution.

Hovind and his wife were just convicted (Nov. 2) on 58 counts of tax evasion. They could face a maximum of 288 years in prison. The Hovinds refused to pay $845,000 in employee taxes stating that his employees are "workers of God and therefore exempt from paying taxes."

The Hovinds also refused to respond to IRS agents inquiries forcing them to raid the Hovinds and seize the records. Included in the convictions was a charge of "threats made against investigators and those cooperating with the investigation."

Did Hovind really not understand the theological issues on the church-state relationship? Will this bring about a setback for the cause of Creation Science? How will this not promote the cynicism of the unregenerate toward Christians and Christianity?

But the latter issue is significantly magnified by the fall of Ted Haggard, pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and president of the National Association of Evangelicals.

As most Christians (and non-Christians) are by now aware, Haggard was exposed by a homosexual professional male "escort" for sexual sin as well as buying a drug (methamphetamine) for himself. The "escort" claims Haggard had sex "no emotions" with him about once a month for 3 years, using a pseudonym, "Art."

Haggard, at first, denied everything, even knowing the "escort." Within a day though he then said some of it was true but some wasn't. He claimed to have only received a massage by him and did buy the drugs once but never used them.

But then more of the truth came out later in the day. Haggard resigned his presidency of the NAE and stepped down from the pastorate at his church, as his overseers counseled and investigated. Two days later the overseers announced they determined "without a doubt" that Haggard had "committed sexually immoral conduct" and that Haggard's resignation was permanent.

On Sunday, Haggard's letter to the congregation (and nation) was read in which he said, "I alone am responsible for the confusion caused by my inconsistent statements. The fact is, I am guilty of sexual immorality, and I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar."

Haggard also asked, "Please forgive me. I am so embarrassed and ashamed. I caused this and I have no excuse. I am a sinner. I have fallen. I desperately need to be forgiven and healed."

Significantly, Haggard also said, "There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I've been warring against it all of my adult life. For extended periods of time, I would enjoy victory and rejoice in freedom. Then, from time to time, the dirt that I thought was gone would resurface and I would find myself thinking thoughts and experiencing the desires that were contrary to everything I believe and teach."

Haggard also said that, "The accusations leveled against me are not all true, but enough of them are true…” This may explain why a lie detector test on Haggard's accuser did register "some deception" on the accuser's part.

It is significant to note that the media has had a field day with this as well as reporting a number of mixed responses from Christians. In addition, the pro-homosexual community and clergy have understandably weighed in (the accuser claims he spoke out because of Haggard's perceived public hypocritical and political stand against homosexuality and same-sex marriage issue).

Repercussions and Reflections
What can we learn from this about ourselves, about the faith, about the Church? Many Christians, (not just liberals and homosexuals) had a reaction of disappointment, anger, or even (as myself) an "I told you so." In a moment I want to address the wrong and unhelpful arrogance and self-righteousness that is inside most of us. There can be a redeeming affect for us in all of this.

Ted Haggard's failure is one of a recent (and ancient) disturbing lineage of immoral failures of Christian leaders. There is the recent history of Swaggart's involvement with prostitutes. Then came Jim Bakker's adulterous fall with Jessica Hahn and imprisonment for financial scams, and his wife Tammy's slide into drugs and divorce.

Then came the exposure of "Bishop" Earl Paulk's manipulative coercion in sexual affairs with members at Chapel Hill Harvester Church in Atlanta. Then we had the exposure of Trinity Broadcasting Network's leader Paul Crouch's homosexual affair with a staffer and how TBN paid a $425,000 hush settlement.

On top of all that came the revelations of numerous Roman Catholic clergy's acts of pedophilia. At least Ted Haggard finally acknowledged at least some guilt and his church took action. Paulk and Crouch have not, and their organizations have not.

So what are we to learn from this? God says that He "works all things together for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose" (Rom. 8:28).

1. Christians need to beware of elevating and looking to "celebrity" leaders, especially in today's cultural scene.
2. Leadership accountability is so important. Haggard's adopted system is a "free market" ministry model where little, if any, spiritual maturity or accountability can be expected. Haggard had no personal on sight accountability. His "overseers" were in other churches, in other cities. This is not good nor biblical.
3. Haggard was president of the National Association of Evangelicals, which according to the liberal press and people's perception, speaks for "30 million Christians" in the U.S. Haggard doesn't always speak for me. His alliance with Peter Wagner and the "5-fold ministry" doctrine, and his free-market approach is fraught with long term problems. But more complex is the issue of how the Church gets involved in politics, especially with a particular political party.
4. Christians need to become more knowledgeable and conversant on the issue of homosexuality. We tend to treat it as the unpardonable sin and usually demonstrate little compassion for those caught in it.
   
   Haggard's fall was not a brief temptation or momentary lapse, but an ongoing series of acts and deception. This has opened the door for homosexual activists to broadcast their message. They point to "scientific evidence" that homosexuality is biological in nature and thus not perverse. They ridicule the nurture not nature argument by many evangelicals and blame the shame, humiliation and depression of homosexuals within the Christian sphere, on this "wrong message." This incident has enhanced their spin.
   
   In 1997 a Gallup poll demonstrated that only 13% of people believed one was "born" or innately homosexual; while 56% attributed it to "upbringing." But those percentages have shifted in 2006 research as now 42% believe one is born that way compared to 37% who believe it is learned.
   
   Now we are again hearing from homosexual clergy urging Haggard to come join them and be happy as he really is without having to endure the condemnation and false shame.
   
   In response, first we must say that even if there is a biological component (and there is no conclusive science to prove that), this does not contradict Scripture. The effects of the Fall bring genetic abnormalities. It gets back to the basis on how one arrives at what is normal and what is not, what is determinative and what is not. The world has psychologists and medicines to correct or treat innate abnormalities.
   
   But we also know that choices, our own sins and the effects of the sins of others upon us, also have a very real and substantial impact. Regarding genetic dispositions, twin studies certainly point away "scientifically" from the genetic normalcy argument. Order our "Abandoning Nature" and "Calling Evil Good" Areopagus Journals for a thorough apologetic on these issues (along with same-sex marriage).
5. I believe that the biggest lesson for us is the reality of God's revelation to all of us in Romans 7-8:17. Rather than climb up on our Pharisaical thrones and look down our self-righteous noses at Ted Haggard, we should recognize and be strongly reminded of the fact that all of us are big sinners needing grace.
   
   All of us have secrets, or a secret life that we keep hidden, that we will do anything to cover up. This is especially true of our thought lives.
   
   As one pastor interviewed for the story on Haggard said, "I realize that I'm just one decision away from doing something that could wreck a church and wreck my life." Gordon Mac-Donald, a Christian leader and pastor who committed adultery 20 years ago, was restored and provides important insights for us.
   
   He writes, "I have come to believe that there is a deeper person in many of us who is not unlike an assassin. This deeper person can be the source of attitudes and behaviors we normally stand against in our conscience being. But it seeks to destroy us and masses energies that, unrestrained, tempt us to do the very things we 'believe against.'"
   
   As Paul says, "I do not understand my own actions, for I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate…for I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out…For I delight in the law of God in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
   
   " Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!...There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus for the law of the Spirit has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death."
   
   So let's pray for Ted and his wife, 5 children and for ourselves. We are all fakers and hypocrites compared to true righteousness. Let us all not gloss over or rationalize the temptations in our thought life. Let us instead trust in the love, mercy and power in Christ, through the Spirit.
   
   Let us pursue accountability with others in the body - intentionally and with transparency and vulnerability. This is God's normal prescription for life - "confess your sins to one another, exhort, encourage, forgive, admonish, pray for, and love one another."

A Mormon President?
Mitt Romney is a Mormon. The current governor of Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts, was a two year missionary, a temple Mormon, attended BYU, and served as president of the Boston area congregations for 9 years. He also finished second to Bill Frist in the straw poll of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SPLC) as a choice to run for President of the U.S. (March, 2006). The SPLC consists of 26 Southern and Midwestern states where Christians and the political right have a stronghold.

So why, being a Mormon, is Romney so popular among conservatives and Christians? Even for political conservatives Romney has a very problematic history of being a pragmatist (liar) on issues rather than on spiritual/moral motives.

Should one's religion be a litmus test for political office? Joe Lieberman is a conservative Jew. Orrin Hatch is a Mormon. Harry Reid is a Mormon. George Bush claims Christianity. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry are Roman Catholic.

But this is not the same or real issue. Regarding Romney, we are talking about the powerful office of President of the United States of America. And we must ask, "which religion" and what are the beliefs of that religion, and does he believe in actually adhering to those precepts and edicts? Would you vote for a conservative radical Muslim?

Romney appears to be a political and ethical chameleon, while running for senate and then governor in Massachusetts he positioned himself as a moderate, speaking out of both sides of his mouth on issues like abortion, homosexuality and embryonic stem cell research. If he is truly a committed Mormon as he indicates, he would be firmly against those practices.

Yet during the campaign, Romney was asked given that he said he "personally opposes abortion," how can he in good conscience support a law that enables women to have an abortion, and even let the government pay for it?

Romney answered, "One of the great things about our nation is that we are entitled to have strong personal beliefs and we encourage others to do the same. But as a nation we recognize the right of all people to believe as they want and not to impose our beliefs on other people. I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country."

That response is imbecilic! To believe what you want is one thing but beliefs that manifest in actions that affect, harm, or kill others being made into law is entirely different. So Romney would allow his and abortion rights activists to "impose" their beliefs on the rest of us?!

Romney gave the same response regarding the government requiring Boy Scouts to allow homosexual scout leaders to serve or lose their tax-exempt status. The Mormon Church which sponsors many scout troops said they would pull out if that happened and Romney himself was then serving on the National Board of Directors for the Scouts. Yet when asked his position Romney gave his classic two-faced answer, "I believe the Boy Scouts of America does a wonderful service to this country. I support the right of the Boy Scouts to decide what it wants to do on that issue. I feel that all people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their orientation." What?!

Romney then proceeded to alter a long standing tradition during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Utah as he was appointed leader of those games. Romney eliminated the traditional very visible presence of scout volunteers and instead went out of his way to invite and include the homosexual community to serve as volunteers.

So then Romney was elected governor of Massachusetts. So now he is positioning himself for the Republican nomination for President and he is attempting to lean over to the other side of the road on moral issues.

But one perspective given by some Christian leaders, on Romney's acceptability, I believe is wrong. Chuck Colson told the Weekly Standard last year, that he "could support Romney in good conscience as a fellow social conservative on most issues." Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention stated that even though Mormonism is not Christian, if it comes to a choice between a Mormon social conservative and someone like the more liberal Rudy Giuliani, he thinks most evangelicals could vote for Romney. He stated, "We are not electing a theologian-in-chief. We are electing a commander-in-chief."

I disagree. Everyone is a theologian. Legislation and leadership are inevitably based on someone's concept of morality. Questions need to be asked and answered. Is Mitt Romney truly a Mormon? A temple Mormon? Or is he only nominal like the Kennedy's are nominal Catholics? How can he hold two contradictory positions at the same time and not signify pragmatism over ethics?

But there are even two more embedded issues. If Romney is a sincere and committed Mormon, then does he not believe that God himself appears and counsels the LDS prophet regularly and guides "His Church?" Must not Romney submit to that leadership? This is a big gap between the acceptance of a Jewish or Catholic conservative politician. But wait, there's more.

The Mormon church, prophets, teach that all temple Mormons take an oath under penalty of death not to reveal the temple doctrine secrets. In those oaths there is a commitment to "consecrate your time, talents, and everything to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints." Mormon scripture and doctrine states that all other churches (specifically Protestants) are the "church of the devil, the whore of the earth."

And then there is the "White Horse Prophesy" claimed to be given by God to the LDS prophet Joseph Smith (when he was running for President), in 1843. This "prophesy" stated that a day was coming when "a terrible revolution will take place in the land of America," and we "will be left without a Supreme Government" and the U.S. Constitution will "hang by a thread." Then the Mormon church leaders would ride in on a white horse and take over, saving the Republic.

Romney must be asked if he, as a true Mormon, believes these things (and others). Why or why not? Actually we can get a glimpse on how he would answer. When asked by a reporter for the Atlantic Monthly, "How Mormon are you?" Romney gave his blurry non-committal answer, "the principles and values I aspire to live by - family, beliefs in Jesus Christ, and serving one's neighbor and community."

But the reporter pressed the question asking about some of the particulars of Mormon belief and practice to which Romney replied, "I'll just say those sorts of things I'll keep private."

Not when you want to be President of the United States Mr. Romney.

It’s time to order our journal on Mormonism, “The Cult Next Door” to learn how to share effectively with your Mormon friend, missionary at your door, and how to inform people intelligently about Mormons running for high office.

Letters
Hi, I recently was given a copy of your Worldviews newsletter and decided to write for more information. I’m interested in apologetics and seeking to focus my attention on this area of study. Hopefully ARC can point me in the right direction. Any response is appreciated. Thank you...prisoner, Corcoran, CA.

I am a first time inmate. When I got here an inmate let me read your booklet and I found it very interesting. I was hoping you would be able to send me this booklet to keep it for myself. I would really love to have this booklet along with 2 others I have read about in the back of that one. One was called The Trinity and the other Homosexuality. Taylorville Correction Center, Taylorville, IL

We are missionaries overseas in a hard to reach area. We appreciate what you are able to send us. Thank you for your work, these tools and your encouragement. Many blessings. Hilltop Lakes, TX

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