I do believe that the main problem with many of them is that as has been stated by others that there is often too much dependence on the pastor, (this can also happen with some small Reformed congregations as well).

It is most vital that a church had a plural eldership not just the pastor and a board of deacons.

Deacons are not elders, though no doubt some of them can be Elders in waiting.

A good solid bible believing evangelical church should always have a good number of elders, as well as the pastor, good local men of solid reputation, to whom the pastor and each other are accountable to, and anyone else who is a church worker, as well as a good body of practically minded deacons.

The elders deal with discipline and the direction of the church, the deacons with the practical issues and the building, etc.

If the Brexit vote collapses for PM Teresa May in Parliament next week, and her government falls, we could even end up with a horrendous Jeremy Corbyn Socialist / Scottish Nationalist coalition government, that could extend this awful madness from Scotland to England and Wales as well.

I have heard a couple of wonderful testimonies of “transgenders”, who have renounced and abandoned that lifestyle, and submitted themselves to the Lord Jesus Christ, like Walter Hayer, (I think I got his name right), and nothing is impossible with God, but I know it doesn’t lessen the pain.

I am horrified that there are medical doctors who actually will prostitute their profession by agreeing to perform these barbarous and unnecessary surgeries.

The only difference between the Nazi eugenics programme and the modern leftist eugenics programmes, is that the latter are a little more clinical, whereas the Nazi ones were more than a little bit rough and ready.

The churches rose up in Houston in the same state of Texas, when the then lesbian Mayor of the city got a court order out demanding access to the pastors’ sermons, over her Transgender ordinance, praise God, I understand she was defeated in the courts over this, and I hope in the elections later on.

Only the social engineers and perverse crowd of educators are now allowed to influence children and young people, and basically once a child or young person had been suggested to or “persuaded” or even in some cases bullied into saying that they are “gay”, or that they “are trapped in the wrong body”, there is to be no way out of their perversion.

Anyone who suggests to them or tells them of an alternative is to be criminalised and if a professional, expelled from their profession in disgrace, or if in training, forbidden to qualify. Sometimes parents are even completely side stepped, and even under threat of sanctions and losing their children themselves.

Other clear religious activities such as yoga, meditation and dare I say, Halloween also do not bother these atheist types.

For at least 180 or so years no one was bothered in the slightest about prayers on high school football fields or at graduation ceremonies, prayers before council meetings, chaplains in the military, manger scenes in town halls or central squares, or crosses on military cemeteries.

It was only since the 1960’s, when activists like Madelyn Murray O’Hare got busy, and decided that they would illegally enforce atheistic secular humanism as the new state religion of the USA, and to ban all expressions of Judeo-Christianity from public life.

Dorothy Stringer School has 40 pupils from 11 to 16 yrs old, who do not identify with their biological sex, and a further 36 pupils in the same school identify as “gender fluid”.

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG in English or IURD in Portuguese), is typical of these, a hyper-prosperity church, that has huge churches, with many daily services, all geared to prosperity, healing, business success, good marriages, and spiritual deliverance and “empowerment”. It owns newspapers, a bank, the second largest tv station in Brazil, and by the way has countless numbers of churches here in my country in Britain, generally called “Helpcentres”, with services in English, but also in Spanish and Portuguese as well.

This combined with a very large Catholic Charismatic Movement shows the absolutely chaotic spiritual scenario that is in Brazil.

The Assemblies of God are the largest group, and some of their churches are fairly doctrinal and balanced, though many would disagree with their views on spiritual gifts.

However, many others are into all sorts of things, and there are actually some breakaway “Assembly of God” movements, generally referred to as AOG “ministerios”, that have their own emphases, and are separate from the main Assemblies of God group.

Many of the top students at Yale, who became politicians, industrialists, economists and others have joined this society.

However, the ill fated Western interference in these regimes after 9/11, and secretive support of “opposition” groups in these countries, that turned out to be jihadist and far worse than the despots that they opposed, ensured that the Christians that ended up in their areas were persecuted, killed, and the women and children enslaved, raped and forcibly converted to Islam and forcibly married or prostituted to lustful and brutal jihadist fighters.

Though temporarily defeated by first Emperor Napoleon, and then the European powers on Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, even leading to the temporary reestablishment of the Bourbon monarchy, the secular mindset and atheistical militant spirit never left France after that.

The secularist Republic was later reestablished and France has since with its old enemy Germany become the heart of the globalist leftist EU and it is at the centre of the economic eurozone.

However, other things are not essential and can be dispensed with, or you can by the products of a competitor that as far as you know does not provide funds to murderous outfits like PP, or openly support “Gay Marriage”, or “Transgender Rights”.

One did question all this trend, and stated that parents should be consulted, and that scientific evidence was not clear on this issue.

However, the other “expert”, obviously a complete liberal, said that transgenderism should be fully recognised, bullying opposed, and even that parents should not be told of their children’s transgenderism, that full confidentiality had to be observed, and obviously supported the secretive beginning of non-medical and medical procedures on the child, if the child identified as the opposite gender.