{"id":5207,"date":"2022-12-31T14:28:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T20:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5207"},"modified":"2022-12-31T14:28:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T20:28:32","slug":"globalism-and-the-church-or-globalism-vs-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5207","title":{"rendered":"GLOBALISM AND THE CHURCH &#8211; or &#8211; GLOBALISM VS THE CHURCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rick Warren (labeled &#8216;America&#8217;s Pastor&#8217;) took the American church by storm with his runaway bestseller, THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very few criticisms, if any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And his church is the biggest in the Southern Baptist denomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had reservations then, but he did include a lot of Bible verses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, sadly, truth comes out, and reality crashes in all over the American church, including Rick Warren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So many churches, leaders, &#8216;Christians&#8217; are wavering and compromising with the culture in the country and the &#8220;reset&#8221; goal around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five minutes ago I heard a quote on American Family Radio (afr.net) on the program &#8220;Understanding The Times.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Globalism will only be possible if the American church goes along with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rick Warren said that at a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum&#8212;a speaker by invitation&#8212;a group organizing one-world government&#8212;a goal with one obstacle in their path, the Christian church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All I have to offer in return is this Bible verse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Warren (labeled &#8216;America&#8217;s Pastor&#8217;) took the American church by storm with his runaway bestseller, THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE. Very few criticisms, if any. And his church is the biggest in the Southern Baptist denomination. I had reservations then, but he did include a lot of Bible verses. Now, sadly, truth comes out, and reality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5208,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions\/5208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}