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Friday Church News Notes U.S VOLUME 22, ISSUE 22 Way of Life Literature MAY 28, 2021 FRIDAY CHURCH NEWS NOTES U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM Te following is excerpted from “U.S. State Department,” CBN News, May 12, 2021: “International Religious Freedom took center stage at the State Department Wednesday as Secretary of State Anthony Blinken released his department’s 2020 report on the matter. Blinken addressed reporters in the department’s press briefng room. ‘Religious freedom ... goes to the heart of what it means to be human--to think freely, to follow our conscience, to change our beliefs if our hearts and minds lead us to do so, to express those beliefs in public and in Secretary Antony J. Blinken speaks on Release of the 2020 continued on NEXT page International Religious Freedom Report U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT WARNS OF CHINA’S RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AND OPPRESSION Te following is excerpted from “Crimes against religious believers, including Christians, Muslims and humanity,” Te Washington Times, May 12, 2021: Buddhists. ... Te State Department has said crimes “Te State Department on Wednesday declared that carried out in China’s western Xinjiang province the Chinese government continues to engage in include mass imprisonment, forced sterilizations, genocide and crimes against humanity through the torture, forced labor and draconian restrictions on repression of predominantly Muslim religious freedom and freedom of Uyghurs and other minorities in western movement. Te U.S. government estimates China. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Chinese authorities since April 2017 made the assertion while introducing the have detained more than 1 million department’s annual assessment of global Uyghurs, along with ethnic Kazakhs, Hui religious freedom. ‘China broadly and members of other Muslim groups, and criminalizes religious expression and continues to some Christians, in internment camps and converted commit crimes against humanity and genocide detention facilities. Te repression has been carried against Muslim Uyghurs and other religious and out by Chinese authorities under the guise of a ethnic minority groups,’ he said. Te annual report national counterterrorism law and a regional outlined widespread abuses by the Chinese counterextremism policy, according to Wednesday’s government against the estimated 200 million report.” PAGE 1 VOLUME 22, ISSUE 21 Way of Life Literature MAY 28, 2021 TWITTER SUSPENDS SPANISH POLITICIAN’S ACCOUNT FOR SAYING MEN CAN’T GET PREGNANT The following is excerpted from “Twitter speech. ... He said, ‘You can see this is already Suspends,” SkyNews.com.au, May 17, 2021: fascist biology. Next time I’ll try 2 + 2 = 4.’ A “Twitter has suspended a Spanish politician’s spokesperson for Twitter has declined to account after he tweeted a man cannot get comment on the suspension.” pregnant. Deputy of Spain’s Vox Party Francisco José Contreras was locked out of his Twitter account for 12 hours, with the social media platform informing him he had violated its policies on ‘hate speech.’ His comments were shared with an article about a transgender male who announced they were a father after giving birth to a baby girl. The politician took to Facebook to explain to his followers why his account had suddenly disappeared on the platform. In a Facebook post on May 11 he said he had received a message from Twitter which said he Deputy of Spain’s Vox Party Francisco José Contreras had violated its policies on hate U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM continued from FRONT page private,’ he said. ‘Tis freedom is enshrined in the right. Indeed, they’re all interdependent,’ the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It’s also part secretary continued. ‘Religious freedom can’t be fully of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. realized unless other human rights are respected, and Our country’s commitment to defending freedom of when governments violate their people’s right to religion and belief goes back centuries. It continues believe and worship freely, it jeopardizes all the today. Religious freedom, like every human right, is others. And religious freedom is a key element of an universal. All people, everywhere, are entitled to it no open and stable society. Without it, people aren’t able matter where they live, what they believe, or what to make their fullest contribution to their country’s they don't believe. Religious freedom is co-equal with success. And whenever human rights are denied, it other human rights because human rights are ignites tension, it breeds division,’ Blinken said. Te indivisible. Religious freedom is not more or less secretary also noted the Pew Research Center’s important than the freedom to speak and assemble, fnding that 56 countries encompassing a signifcant to participate in the political life of one’s country, to majority of the world’s people have high or severe live free from torture or slavery, or any other human restrictions on religious freedom.” PAGE 2 VOLUME 22, ISSUE 21 Way of Life Literature MAY 28, 2021 CHRISTIAN ROCKER FORMER ATTORNEY KEVIN MAX SAYS HE GENERAL SPEAKS IS “EXVANGELICAL” OUT BOLDLY Kevin Max, formerly of the popular Christian rock AGAINST MARXIST band DC Talk, illustrates the spiritual and doctrinal INDOCTRINATION IN danger of the “broader church” to which contemporary Christian music is the bridge. He calls himself an PUBLIC EDUCATION “exvangelical.” Te Liberty University graduate tweeted Te following is excerpted from “Former AG on May 15, “I’ve been deconstructing/Reconstructing/ Barr,” Association of Mature American Citizens, progressing/whatever you wish to call it for decades, May 21, 2021: “Few speeches delivered by an I’ve been in the outsider/misft/seeker club for a long American leader in the modern era have time now.” He says he believes in a “universal Christ.” addressed the cultural crisis facing this country He says that he hasn’t given up “the faith,” but it is a with such clarity, vision, and moral courage as faith flled with doubts, a faith in his own thinking former Attorney General Bill Barr’s remarks Friday to Alliance Defending Freedom. Accepting rather than the infallible Scripture. Following are the ADF’s Edwin Meese Award for ‘Originalism and lyrics to one of the songs for Religious Liberty,’ Barr argued that ‘the greatest M a x ’ s n e w b a n d S a d threat to religious liberty in America today’ is ‘the Astronauts: “It’s OK to be increasingly militant and extreme secular- estranged / from everything progressive climate of our state-run educational that you were taught /and it’s system.’ ... Te lef-wing curriculum being taught OK / to unpack all the in government-run schools, Barr argued, is so hopeless baggage that you aggressively anti-Christian--and indeed anti- bought / I know the sun it religious--that it represents a violation of the never shines / in the same constitutional rights of Americans of faith. Barr Kevin Max place twice / and I know that began his remarks with a brief history of life is better / with a trusted America’s approach to public schooling, dividing it into three distinct phases. During the frst vice / but you will change / when you cave / to the phase--which encompassed most of American universal Christ.” On May 17, 2021, Max tweeted that history up until the 1970s--the instruction he is “pro-LGBTQIA, pro-BLM, pro-open mindedness, students received in the public school system was anti-narrow mindedness...” In 2003, Max divorced his ‘committed to Judeo-Christian values in the frst wife, Alayna, and two years later married Amanda general sense.’ During the second phase which MacDonald. Te emerging church is a magnet for ‘came in the latter part of the 20th century,’ Barr rebels who want “Christ” and the world, too. It is a notes, ‘the lef embarked on a relentless campaign fulfllment of the prophecy of 2 Timothy 4:2-4, “Preach of secularization intent on driving every vestige of the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, religion from the public square.’ God was driven rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For out of the curriculum based on the idea that the time will come when they will not endure sound public schools should be entirely neutral toward doctrine; but afer their own lusts shall they heap to religion. But now, Barr said, we are witnessing a third phase. Instead of merely purging schools of themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall religion, ‘[w]e’re now seeing an affirmative turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned indoctrination with a secular belief system and unto fables.” (For more on this see What Is the worldview that is a substitute for religion and is E m e r g i n g C hu rc h ? w h i c h i s av a i l a b l e at www.wayofife.org.) continued on NEXT page PAGE 3 VOLUME 22, ISSUE 21 Way of Life Literature MAY 28, 2021 EVANGELICALISM’S NEGLECT OF CHURCH DISCIPLINE Neglect of discipline has spread throughout the entire VIRTUALLY WITHOUT EXPERIENCE OF realm of “evangelicalism.” In “Church Discipline: Te BIBLICAL DISCIPLINE. ... By the 1960s, only a Missing Mark,” R. Albert Mohler, Jr., observed: “Te minority of churches even pretended to practice decline of church discipline is perhaps the most regulative church discipline. ... Consumed with visible failure of the contemporary church. No longer pragmatic methods of church growth and concerned with maintaining purity of confession or congregational engineering, most churches leave lifestyle, the contemporary church sees itself as a moral matters to the domain of the individual voluntary association of autonomous members, with conscience” (from chapter 8 of Te Compromised minimal moral accountability to God, must less to Church, edited by John H.
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