Evolution and Playschool

I am starting a campaign here in Australia to get the ABC (our public broadcaster) to stop playing their week of Playschool episodes themed around dinsoaurs. It presents evolution as fact to preschool children, when they are at their must vulnerable and will believe ANYTHING that a Playschool presenter tells them is true, particularly when it is presented in an easy-to-remember song form.

These episodes seem to be broadcast far more frequently than other episodes. I believe that this should stop. They are not presenting any other religious material, and if they think that evolution is not a religious view they are mistaken. It takes a great deal of faith to believe in the dodgy pseudo-science of evolution.

If you agree with me, please email a complaint to the ABC at www.abc.net.au/contact

The specific episodes in question are the dinosaur episodes. Have at them people! This should not be allowed to go on unchallenged, it is teaching misinformation to tiny tots ARG!!!!!!

Read on for a copy of the text I emailed to the complaints department…

Witnesses of the Resurrection

OK - still looking for more of Easter? I don’t think u can get a much finer Easter Sunday message than this one on Luke 23:50 - 24:12.

• Why is it so hard for people to believe Jesus is risen from the dead?
• Why were the first witnesses a group of women?
• Why did Jesus have to die and be risen again?
• Are we foolishly seeking the living among the dead?    
   

These questions an more are answered in Fred Van Hulst’s Easter Sunday message.

Soteriology - Wikipedia

How do you get saved? Each religion has a way. Can you spot a running theme in this list: Soteriology - Wikipedia Also, can you find the one that is uniquely different in quite a significant way?

Fabulous Fantastic Friday

Here is a quick Easter message from Alistair Bain that I heard this morning at The Branch. 

It’s entiled Why do we call it Good Friday?
Either play it in snap preview or right click, save as (win).

crazy Christian evangelism - Google Search

Ok - i though this was funny. I just installed live writer so I can blog from the net. The first search I made was:

crazy christian evangelism - Google Search

and guess what was at the top of the Google search list?

Be blessed and prosper

It is a hard thing to shift from enjoying the prosperity gospel, living it out and feeling that it works because you are well off - to changing your mind about it and discovering what the gospel is truly about. Why is it so difficult to see? Because its connected to a unique world view and an approach to understanding scripture that blocks the prosperity gospel adherent from seeing error.

Perhaps a starting point if you think you might be into prosperity is for you to listen to your favorite preacher and ask yourself the question: “Is this message fundamentally about me or is it about God?” Prosperity teaching will be man centred but biblically faithful preaching will be about God. The bible is God’s revelation about himself to us. Good teaching nd preaching will extend this and help us access biblical truth about God. Sure we learn stuff about ourselves along the way (eg, that we are wretched sinners) or how to walk the Christian walk, but at its essence - what is the preacher about?

NEW Tract delivery system!!! for sookielala’s

I am still a big time sookielala (wimp) when it comes to the one on one, street evangelicalism so I am sticking with the tract depositing by stealth.

However even depositing tracts by stealth still comes with its pit falls, challenges, fears, worries and problems!!!

Question the question

I heard this from a pastor in my local town earlier this year and thought I’d pass it on. 

Sometimes when discussing Christianity with someone you will find they have many unfounded “questions” or not very well thought through convictions about God and stuff.  For example, “hasn’t science disproved the existence of God?”. 

Here is a simple but very helpful three step guide to (gently and respectfully - 1 Peter 3:15) expose the presumptuous nature of many of the common convictions that people think they believe:

 1. Ask, What do you mean? This forces the person to clarify what they may not really know or understand about their objection.  If they begin to answer this question…

2. Ask, How did you come to that conclusion? This basically asks for some evidence for their assumption.  If they have some “evidence”…

3. Challenge the evidence.  I’ve found that if the conversation gets to this point, they usually have fairly lousy evidence for their claims.  If necessary (and if you’re able) continue to refute their “evidence”.  However, it’s now time to tell them the bad news about their sin, God’s judgement and eternal hellfire, and then the good news about Jesus’ death on the cross, sin being justly dealt with and Jesus’ resurrection guaranteeing eternal life.

12 Days of Christmas 1: Hasn’t science debunked the bible? It’s just a book made up by people, it’s flawed and it contradicts itself…

Now isn’t that a very common topic now days!
Lets open it up and see how that type of argument stands after some scrutiny.

• Hasn’t science debunked the bible?
• Isn’t it flawed?
• Written my man?
• Contradictory?

It may surprise you but YES. Science has debunked the bible many times over the years!
Only to have their “findings” changed by other people who have either more or better information or maybe less bias. Just as today we have an evolutionary world view that clashes with almost all the bible, from its account of creation to the point of existence itself.

People keep bringing up the points that always get brought up, eg: “The water turning to blood in Exodus was just an algae!
Earth being made in 6 days. You shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. Yet they did not die that same day! How can Jesus walk on the water?” On and on it can go.
So instead of getting bogged down in 10000 points of the Bible that non-believing people don’t want to understand. I would rather be offensive as opposed to defensive by letting what the Bible says very clearly speak for itself! The lovely gems as I call them, that the attackers have to explain away! So lets look at some bible Gems and let them shine this Christmas.
Ask yourself “If the bible is man made, how can the writers know something that no man could know by normal physical non-modern scientific means?”

Lets go to the oldest book in the bible Job. With a little Proverbs. Floating and rotating spherical earth… Job 26:7 He… hangs the earth upon nothing. Job 38:14 It [earth] is turned like clay under a seal… Pro 8:27 When He prepared the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle upon the face of the deep; How can a man, regardless how smart Job could have been, 3500+ years ago, know that the earth was a sphere and spin while hanging in nothing? We only worked that out 200 years ago, but even then, we only REALLY knew it once we went up in to space and looked back at the earth. Only two words are needed: divine revelation

Eve. Gen 3:20 The man Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all who live. The bible is very clear about all humans having 1 original birth mother: Eve. Today science has clearly discovered that there is mitochondrial DNA that only comes from the mother, passed on to the next generation, you me and the woman next door all have the same mitochondrial DNA that could only come from the previous woman, going all the way back to the First woman. EVE…
Pleiades and Orion.

Job 38:31 Can you bind the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion? Can a man 3500+ years ago be expected just by looking up at the stars to know that Pleiades and Orion are constellations of stars that are different from all other stars around them, but also have intricate knowledge about them without even a telescope? We have only just discovered via our high technology that in ever so minuscule amounts all stars in the constellations that we see in the sky are spreading apart bit by bit. Yet out of all known constellations Pleiades is not moving apart at all [bound] and Orion is moving apart very fast [loosed], so much more than all other constellations that it will soon fall apart and no longer be a constellation in the future. Yet it cannot be detected by the human eye or normal observations. I have two words once again “divine revelation”! Anyway, why would 40+ men over a period of 1500 years on three different continents, in three different languages often never knowing each other, “make up” something that is so out of this world, over and over and end up getting it right every time?

There is not single fact in the bible that is incorrect, not one part can be proved to be wrong. Yes people have thought that parts were wrong, yet once “real” science caught up and used unbiased observations and thinking, the bible stands strong time and again. Think about it, if there were any “real” discrepancies in the bible, we would never hear the end of the detractors. The only reason why people today do not want to except the bible as TRUTH is because they don’t want it to be TRUTH. They are willingly blind to it. I think that there is a good verse covering that! If they can just push the bible to a small corner and reduce it to a “fable” then they can continue to justify their sinful lifestyles and will never bend the knee to God. So blessings this Christmas and all the best with reaching your family’s over this festive season!
From Scott.

And remember ”Human knowledge is ultimately man boasting about himself.” That is a hollow boast isn’t it!

The Twelve Days of Christmas

Hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas! To celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas this year, the EA team will be attempting to bring you some evangelism support and training in the form of twelve common objections you might encounter while witnessing to someone and a possible answer you could give. They won’t be perfect, they might not even be great, but we’ll do our best. Hopefully by January 5th you’ll be feeling so much more confident that you can counter some objections that you’ll get out there and faithfully share the gospel throughout 2008!

Okay, so we’ve missed the first day, I know. We’ll catch up if you bear with us!