There is a false narrative sweeping this country, destroying the privacy and safety of women and girls in the name of “equality.” President Obama has issued a directive for all public school districts in the nation, and now we have to figure out what to do with it, especially if you have kids in public school. So what should we do? Would God have us sacrifice the safety of our children in the name of compassion? I don’t think so. This so-called movement is not asking for equal rights—they are asking for special rights that violate the privacy of women and simple common sense.
Scriptures
Jeremiah 17:9
Romans 1
We, the undersigned, recognize that the dignity, safety, and privacy of women and girls must be respected and should not be compromised for the sake of a radical minority agenda. We encourage all states and municipalities to pass laws protecting women and girls and to stand strong against political bullying that falsely claims that allowing grown men into women’s bathrooms is an issue of equality.
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And so, we find ourselves in a full-blown spiritual crisis. So where do we go from here? What do we do?
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Resources
Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, by David Platt – What is Jesus worth to you? It’s easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their crosses daily…
But who do you know who lives like that? Do you?
In Radical, David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple–then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard. And he tells the dramatic story of what is happening as a “successful” suburban church decides to get serious about the gospel according to Jesus.
The Cost of Discipleship, by Deitrich Bonhoeffer – One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus.
What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between “cheap grace” and “costly grace.” “Cheap grace,” Bonhoeffer wrote, “is the grace we bestow on ourselves…grace without discipleship….Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know….It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.”
The Cost of Discipleship is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty.
