"Within an hour of the reversal, the call volume dropped. The angry calls stopped and dropped to a much lower level. Some of the sponsors called back to reinstate their sponsorships."
The above is a quote from the Rich Stearns interview with Religious News Service on March 27th after the reversal of World Vision's decision to allow employees to be in same-sex marriages. I highlighted that particular quote because it reveals that a great many (if not most) of the sponsors of World Vision are conservative evangelicals; if that was not so the "angry" call volume would have increased after the reversal; the criticism from the pro-gay media will increase.
That gives me two things to rejoice about: 1. It destroys the modern myth and lie that conservative evangelicals do not care for the poor and needy. That blatant lie is put forth despite seeing that many of the biggest hospitals, orphanages, missions, food pantries, homeless shelters and other charities are all run and sponsored by conservative religious institutions; one can add in the many community churches also. 2. The other reason for rejoicing is this shows that there is a rather large silent remnant who still hold to the clear teachings of the Word of God and true testimony of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
President Richard Stearns, Jim Bere and other U.S. board members who voted for the inclusion should resign to lend more credence to the reversal. This would reassure supporters and contributors that the Biblical principles that World Vision claims for guidance will not be compromised in the future by these same people.
I usually think of the "faithful" as the one who stays and not the one who leaves: The faithful wife who stays with the unfaithful husband for the sake of the children; the faithful employee who remains with the company through tough economic times; the faithful player who does not quit the team during a long losing streak; and so on.
On the contrary, in the church it is the faithful that remain and the apostates that leave. Someone said that "if they were indeed of us then they would have remained with us".
The writer refuses to acknowledge that it is the new tolerant and liberal churches today that has opened the door for many of today's heresies. I am by no means defending the Catholic nor LDS churches concerning their doctrines but there are many protestant churches that have determined to keep proper order in their services concerning gender roles and (yes) have paid the price of the defection of some members; but I wouldn't call those who left "the faithful".
Finally, the writer could easily have written this article anew with the same title by changing a few words such as "women's equality" to "homosexual equality".
Strat wrote: Just not something that fine upstanding church folk do.
Point taken; but I'm an optimist. The healing of our land must begin with us humbling ourselves and turning from our own wicked ways. Daunting but not impossible.
I supported a young teen Kenyan through World Vision in the mid 90's. If this announcement happened back then I would have found another charity/foundation to channel money for her support; or else done it directly.
World Vision will be surprised to see how rapidly its contributions dwindle from the saints because of that compromise. Unfortunately it will lead to more compromises that may include (may God forbid) funding of family planning (contraception/abortion) and AIDS prevention (homosexual affirmation).
That is the path that World Vision has now embarked upon once it lost its vision of God's Kingdom vision. The Great Commission is to first teach and then feed. Jesus fed the 5000 AFTER he taught them.
This was an interview published on a CBS website!!! Cardinal Burke is spot on!!! If only "heavy weights" in the Protestant churches would stand up and give similar public responses as Cardinal Burke then maybe their congregations would speak out and have their voices heard and votes counted. Praise God that public opinion is turning in favor of life but it is the churches that are still hiding behind clothes doors in much the same way the disciples/apostles hid after Jesus was crucified thinking their precious cause was a lost one. But as the angel told the women to tell them after His resurrection to come out from hiding we must remind those of us who are pro-life that there is new life in this issue also. Rise and tell your neighbor that we can resist the principality/power that the President is over and get our representatives to overturn laws that rattle our moral conscious and replace them with righteous ones. Our votes and the votes of our representatives are constitutional; the president's pen is not.
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