What is the greatest challenge in telling Americans about Jesus ?

Failure to explain that following Jesus will be hard.

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Most other places in the world, suffering for Jesus is understood.

This is a given, often from the day you become a Christian.

The price quickly goes off the charts for many.

What does it cost to be a Christian in America ?

Check our history—

• Was it a challenge to Build America on the Bible-Yes (B A B-Y) ?
• Was it a challenge to Make America Great with God (M A G G) ?
• Was it hard work ?
• Was there opposition ?
• Was there spiritual perseverance ?
• Did it all pay off ?
  +Y E S !
• Results—Blessings—Prosperity ! ! !
• Unintended Consequences—
  Curses—Comfortable Christianity X X X

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Others paid a high price to gain our freedom.
Others still pay a high price to keep our freedom.
What price do we pay to keep our freedom ?

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What about our spiritual freedom ?

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We have lived with religious freedom
— treasured priority from the start
— paid with high price from the start

What about our spiritual freedom ?
— Without spiritual freedom, we would never have religious freedom.
— treasured priority from the start
— paid with high price from the start

What is the price, the cost, of our spiritual freedom ?
Who pays for it ?

NO ONE ELSE CAN PAY THE PRICE FOR OUR FREEDOM IN CHRIST.

What does it cost to be a Christian in America ?
— Not enough now.
— Not as much as it will soon.

Jesus said,
“If anyone decides to come after Me, he must, he will
[ONE]—deny himself
[TWO]—take up his cross
And,
[THREE]—follow Me.”

Just what does it mean to follow Jesus ?
It’s not complicated to answer the question.
It’s another thing altogether to do it.
Not many get it.
Not many live it.
Jesus said so.

“Strait (limited access) is the gate (to enter life), and narrow the way (to live it), . . .”
And then Jesus added this ‘disclaimer’ to the challenging life He offers and calls us to follow,
” . . . and there are few that find it.”

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So, what are the challenges that make following Jesus hard ?

Jesus said,
“I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation (that is, serious, heavy trouble). But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

“You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.”

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before you.”

“Woe (beware) to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers treated the false prophets in the same way.”

“Strengthen the souls of the believers, and encourage them to continue in the faith—remember,
We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”

Again,
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.”

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Americans, welcome to real Christianity—real following Jesus.

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NOBODY ELSE CAN PAY THE PRICE FOR YOUR FREEDOM IN CHRIST.

I listened to the entire program (2-8-26), with this response:

Can we have any influence whatsoever on hell
— by thinking and considering another view (other than what is clear in the Bible)
— by meeting with a few intellectual theologians
— by listening to debate with courtesy and respect
— as though we might settle on new doctrine that the Bible settled when God wrote it ?

The Bible ends up on a par with theologians (past or present) and church ‘fathers’ and revered leaders through church history.
‘We’ think we can get together and discuss any subject with openness to assorted ideas, with respect to those who disagree.

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“I’m not convinced . . .”—–Kirk Cameron

“. . . It seems to me . . .”—–Kirk Cameron

[summarizing] “I think . . .”—–Kirk Cameron

Some of the most dangerous things Kirk Cameron said—with the most dangerous impact on anyone not well-grounded in the Bible.

“I can’t wrap my mind around a loving God Who . . .”—–Kirk Cameron empathizing, identifying with what college kids say.

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We see a tsunami upon us of rampant, raging caving to any ‘new’ ways of looking at God’s clear Word.

If we don’t let the Bible speak clearly and settle issues for ourselves, then anyone can come along and sway us from the narrow way with ideas from hell, not from the Bible.

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“Points on the board”—–Kirk Cameron, responding to a telling point on the other side of the debate.

Friendly conversation, debate, contest to get a winner ???
What ?
What a joke, what a mockery you have made of the Word of God—subservient to your ‘discussion’ with what some people had to say.

“Robust arguments on both sides”—–Kirk Cameron

We can never settle this (and a host of other debates) by “robust arguments”.
It is very dangerous to raise issues, and then debate, and in so doing create doubt about black and white basics in the Bible.

Your panel obviously did not decide or settle this question.
Only the Bible can do that.

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-X- So, what good did your civil panel discussion accomplish?
-X- So, what good did the civil conversation between Frank Turek and Kirk Cameron accomplish ?

Answer to both questions:
Accomplished nothing good.
Caused extensive damage.
Both give many people the belief that we can invent all kinds of spiritual ideas not in the Bible—and talking about them gives validity and credence.

And,
Manipulating anything in the Bible,
And,
Manufacturing anything not in the Bible,
Can send you to hell (regardless of how long ‘you think’ hell is).

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Does it matter how long ‘you think’ hell is ?
Yes, Yes !
It matters !
It is foolish !
It is ridiculous !
It is dangerous !
It is evil, damning !
It is so misleading !
It is a waste of time !
It is a waste of air time !
It is a waste of our thinking !
It elevates intellect to idolatry ! ! !
It is damning, distracting, detracting
to attempt to tamper with the Word of God with our puny minds !

“PREACH THE WORD !”

Many things repeated relentlessly, gain disproportionate credence.

Evolution
Nazism
Trinity
Near death stories
Objects/Locations with ‘power’
Separation of church and state

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