Pick a god — any god will do (Guest Post)

The following is a post written by a powerful woman of God who is the founder of Kids In Ministry International. Many of you may know her from the documentary “Jesus Camp” of which was released a few years ago. If you have a negative taste of this documentary in your mouth you really need to read what really happened by clicking here.

Anyways, she wrote this post about a week ago and I keep thinking back to it. I asked her last night if I could repost it here on my blog so that more people could read it and she said that would be fine so … without any further jabber … here is “Pick a god — any god will do“.

I was shocked to recently discover that according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life 52% of all Christians and 47% of all Evangelical Christians believe that some non-Christian faiths can lead to eternal life. I expect those kinds of statistics in the population in general, but NOT Evangelical Christians.

The very definition of evangelical Christianity is believing the essence of the Gospel lies in the doctrine of salvation by faith in the death of Christ, which atoned for man’s sins, and his resurrection from the dead. Evangelicalism insists on the importance of the individual’s personal relationship with Jesus Christ. They denounce that neither good works or the sacraments can bring these same results, but put particular emphasis that it is faith in Christ alone that secures our salvation.

So what in the world is being preached in our evangelical churches today? I just don’t get it. If there are many roads to heaven, then everything we do as Christians is a farce, Jesus is a lie and a joke, and as the Apostle Paul says, “we are the most miserable people in the world” (1 Corinthians 15:19).This departure from truth can only happen as #1) the doctrinal truths are not being adequately preached from our pulpits, and #2 that Christians are sitting home drinking in the Doctrine of Oprah and placing it above what the Bible says.

So what does this mean to us as children’s ministers and parents? Well, if we don’t want to see our kids worshipping before a statue of Buddah someday, we need to take the time to deliberately explain the gospel thoroughly. By that I don’t just mean teaching them to ask Jesus to forgive their sins so they can go to heaven when they die. They actually need to know why Jesus is the only way to heaven. It’s not a matter of cramming it into them by saying, “Because that’s just the way we believe it and you have to believe it too!” But we must actually explain the amazing, intricate, marvelous understanding of God’s enormous and beautiful plan of salvation.

Do you yourself understand why it is important to believe that Jesus was equally God and man? Do you yourself understand why it was necessary for Jesus as God to come to the earth in the form of a human being? Do you yourself understand why it is critical to believe that Jesus lived a totally sinless life on earth? Do you yourself understand the signficance of the sinless blood of Christ in regards to the salvation to man? Do you yourself understand why Jesus Christ is the one and only way, the truth, and the life?

If you cannot adequately answer all of these questions, then you cannot explain it to the children you minister to. If you cannot explain this to the children you minister then they are sitting ducks to buy into any feel-good belief system that comes along and are helpless to stand up against those who demand equal rights in the salvation category.

This is the reason we write the curriculums we do. One children’s minister told us, “You have taken theology for kids to a new level.” Others have said our curriculums are like “apologetics for kids.” If you cannot answer the above questions or have never taught them to your kids, then I highly recommend you purchase two of our best selling curriculums—”Our Amazing God” which pits our God against all other gods in the world explaining in detail why our God is the greatest, and the Blood of Jesus. If you don’t understand the significance of the Blood of Jesus, then you don’t understand your own salvation. I’m firmly conviced you need to repeat these curriculums every 2 or 3 years to your kids. Once is not enough in todays religious climate.

More than ever before the lines are being drawn in the sand between the truths of the Bible and all other religions. Let’s make sure we know the Truth.

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