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MICHAELSEN MINISTRIES MONITOR
VOL. 2 ~ February 2016 YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED
“Caryl and Friends”
ISRAEL TOUR November 10–20, 2016
ISRAEL TOUR UPDATE – EXCITING NEWS ON COST!
Randolph and I invite you to join us! The trip details are now posted below:
MESSAGE FROM: Caryl Matrisciana·Monday, February 1, 2016
THANKS to those of you who have shown interest in visiting Israel this November
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. (Matthew 24:4-5)
On November 12, 2015, Religion News Service posted an article titled “Jesus Calling and the Policing of Theology.”1 It was a quick response to an article that reformed pastor and popular blogger Tim Challies had posted just the day before.2 The author of the RNS article, Laura Turner (a regular contributor for Christianity Today’s “Her.meneutics” blog), used her superficial criticism of Sarah Young’s best-selling book, Jesus Calling, as a smokescreen to actually express her disapproval of people who were issuing serious warnings about Young’s book. In a strange stab at free speech, Turner stated that “theology policing is a job best left to the Holy Spirit, and then to people who we know.” But in her effort to undermine Young’s critics by redefining spiritual discernment as “theology policing,” she does the very thing she accuses others of doing. Her entire article is a thinly disguised attempt to “police” those who don’t agree with her own take on Jesus Calling. After minimizing and marginalizing most of the issues that have been raised about Jesus Calling, Turner concludes that Young’s book is “a net positive” and “has been a tool through which many people have gotten closer to God.”
The Pope Video is a global initiative developed by the Pope World Prayer Network (Apostleship of
Prayer) to assist in the dissemination of monthly intentions...
youtube.com
Pastor Chris Quintana
January 15 at 10:29am ·
There is video circulating with a call to prayer from the Vatican that has created quite a stir, perhaps you have seen it. If not, I linked it directly from the Vatican Youtube. It raises an enormously important question, though I don't believe they would see it as I do, or more importantly, as The Bible does.
The difficulty with the video is complex because of the authority many invest in the Vatican's position, but the theological error in it is actually quite simple to see.
Even people who do not believe in the accuracy and authority of The Bible, as I do, would have to conclude that the writings found in The Bible are at odds with the Pope's words. He says, "Most of the planet's inhabitants declare themselves believers." This is true, but believers in what? Or better said, in whom do they believe?
Following these remarks there are other faith traditions represented. Buddhism, Islam and Judaism. The God represented in The Bible is the same to
the Jew and to the Christian. The difference between us is regarding the person of Jesus and who He is, essentially. We believe Him to be God in human skin. He hold to the same view as they do regarding the Old Testament. We disagree on the continuation of the covenant of The Law as it has been made perfect in Jesus, but He is the same God in both Testaments.
The difficulty is taking the Pope's words, as they relate to all other religions because all other religions do not follow God on His terms, but theirs. The god of Buddhism is not a god in the personal sense, but a consciousness. The god of Islam, according to their writings, is not deeply personal nor is he presented as loving his creation. let alone directly engaging it, as The God of The Bible did and still does. By contrast, The God of The Bible is deeply personal and loving, in His Own words.
Islam rejects the deity of Jesus, as does Buddhism and all other religions for that matter. This is why the Pope's appeal to other religions cannot and would not be honored by the Biblical God.
Now, this is why the video is so deeply troubling. The implication is that since we all believe in "God," we should all pray for peace and justice, whatever that means. But does God hear the prayers not directed to Him?
God does not recognize these other god's, nor does Scripture teach that God grades on a curve, based on sincerity. Quite the contrary. Here is what He says of other god's. These are just a couple of the myriad examples which could be offered:
Exodus 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before Me." OR Isaiah 45:5-7 "I am the Lord, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting That there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other; I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things."
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So, the Pope's call to prayer is a call for people to pray to god's with no power to answer, instead of calling them to the one true God who can. He, of all people, should know better if we are to believe, as his church holds, that he is God's representative on earth.
This may seem trivial to some, but it has the effect of not simply blurring lines, but erasing the distinction that God stands alone, and there is none beside Him, and none who can answer such prayers. This is dangerous and a gross misrepresentation of what someone speaking in God's name should propose.
Be careful, be Berean. (Acts 17:11)
Pro-Life Leaders Claim Planned Parenthood
Videographer Politically Targeted
In response to the indictment by a Harris County, Texas Grand Jury of
pro-life journalists for actions they took in exposing Planned
Parenthood’s apparent practice of selling the body parts of aborted
babies, national pro-life leaders are coming to the defense of the
journalists and citing the political motivation of the indictment.
Pope Francis at an ecumenical Vespers at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, with Orthodox Metropolitan Gennadios and David Moxon, an Anglican bishop, Jan. 25, 2016.
Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA.
January 25 - Christians are united by mission and conversion, Pope Francis reflects
Article: Ecumenical Movement - Misc.
Pope Francis on Monday marked the conclusion of the Week for Christian
Unity, saying all Christians are united by the call to conversion and the
mission to proclaim the Gospel. “Beyond the differences that still
separate us, we joyfully recognize that, at the origin of the Christian life
there is always a call whose author is God,” the Pope during his Jan. 25
homily at Vespers for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.
“Conversion means let the Lord live and work in us,” the Roman Pontiff
said. “For this reason, when Christians of different churches together to
the Word of God listen and try to put it into practice, they accomplish