{"id":5024,"date":"2014-11-18T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2014\/11\/18\/what-were-supporting\/"},"modified":"2014-11-18T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T10:45:00","slug":"what-were-supporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/what-were-supporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth the Risk of Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<strong>It&#39;s Worth The Risk of Ebola<\/strong><em> &#8211; <\/em>The Desiring God website carried an in-depth interview with missionary Nancy Writebol, one of the first two Ebola survivors brought back to the U.S. for care. &quot;Popular opinion seemed to be that Ebola would not spread to a city. It had always been out in the bush, confined to small regions, so many people didn&rsquo;t worry. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/risk-is-right-says-ebola-survivor-and-missionary-nancy-writebol\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">It took two Americans contracting Ebola for the world to wake up<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Ebola, Closer to Home<\/strong> &#8211; The fianc&eacute;e of Ebola victim Eric Duncan is still struggling. &quot;I am hurt, I am displaced, I have this Ebola stigma on me and no one will take me in,&quot; she said. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianexaminer.com\/article\/church.squashes.ebola.stigma.embraces.victims.fiancee\/47617.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">the Christian Examiner reports<\/a> that &quot;Wilshire [Baptist] church members were among the few who didn&#39;t shun [Louise] Troh and her family. The congregation literally and figuratively embraced her in welcome when she attended a service after her quarantine.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Slippery Slope 1 <\/strong>&#8211; It&#39;s called &#39;post birth abortion&#39; because, well I think you can figure that out. &quot;[S]ome students even suggest children up to 4 or 5-years-old can also be killed, because they are not yet &#39;self aware.&#39;&quot; While the survey of college students notes that this viewpoint may stem from certain authors who are required campus reading, the view &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/19896\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">that life beings at conception is also growing<\/a>, and that is growing at a larger and faster rate than those who accept infanticide.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Slippery Slope 2 <\/strong>&#8211; Roger Olson notes that when people supporting gay marriage are confronted with the question, &#39;Then why not legalize polygamy?&#39; they generally respond that nobody is actually calling for that to happen. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rogereolson\/2014\/11\/why-not-polygamy-a-question-to-advocates-of-gay-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">media portrayals suggest the stage is being set<\/a> and that the incest agenda is not far behind. &quot;What ethical or legal arguments would you, who advocate and support gay marriage, give for continuing to prohibit plural marriage?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>When it Happens in Your Church Building<\/strong> &#8211; First, there was the Islamic prayer gathering that took place at the National Cathedral, that ended with a <a href=\"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/2014\/11\/14\/worship-only-jesus-christ-woman-ejected-from-muslim-prayer-gathering-at-national-cathedral\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">protester being escorted out<\/a>. Next, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/franklin.graham.condemns.washington.cathedral.for.hosting.muslim.prayer.service\/43127.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Franklin Graham condemned the Cathedral<\/a> for agreeing to host the event in the first place. Meanwhile, in Winnipeg, Canada, a Pentecostal church refused to allow a Mennonite group to hold a 50th Anniversary concert in their building upon learning it would include a smudging ceremony, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/little-affinity-between-native-spirituality-and-christianity-says-pastor-1.2837016\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">an element of native spirituality<\/a>. However, Jamie Arpin-Ricci, an IVP author who happens to live in Winnipeg thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/missional.ca\/2014\/11\/affinity-with-christianity\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">the criteria for evaluation in this case needs to be reconsidered<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Filling Pastoral Vacancies<\/strong> &#8211; Thom Rainer reports that some Millennials don&#39;t want to serve in an established church, and gives five reasons. But that creates a problem: &quot;There are about 350,000 established churches in America alone. They represent untold resources of people and time, not to mention billions of dollars in property. <a href=\"http:\/\/thomrainer.com\/2014\/11\/15\/five-reasons-millennials-want-pastors-staff-established-churches\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">It would be a shame to abandon those churches<\/a> at such a pivotal time in our world.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Worldviews in Collision<\/strong> &#8211; Opening the very same weekend as the movie <em>50 Shades of Grey<\/em>, Valentine&#39;s Day 2015, the movie <em>Old Fashioned<\/em> is a kind of anti-<em>50 Shades<\/em>. &quot;Clearly we&#39;re picking a fight with <em>50 Shades<\/em>; we&#39;re picking a fight with the schoolground bully, likely to get our nose busted in two. Why? &#8230; Honestly, because we believe it matters.&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XFO-RmMv6T8\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">The battle takes place at a multiplex near you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>What We&#39;re Supporting<\/strong> &#8211; The new report from the Evangelical Council on Financial Accountability (EFCA) shows the biggest overall turnaround in the last three years is in the &quot;Camps and Conferences&quot; category. Categories such as &quot;Short Term Missions&quot; continued to see gains, but not as significantly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecfa.org\/Content\/2014-ECFA-Annual-State-of-Giving-Report\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Overall, giving in 2013 was up 6.9%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Those <\/strong><em><strong>Special Moment<\/strong><\/em><strong> Videos<\/strong> &#8211; I had this on the list, and then deleted it, and then brought it back. It wasn&#39;t the song that Carrie Underwood sang&mdash;which I&#39;m told she also sang at her baptism&mdash;but the great opportunity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s_HLIOnfJNs\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">singing it at the Country Music Awards<\/a>, before an audience of both churched and unchurched. Two years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/carrie-underwood-using-religion-in-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">she told a Country Music website<\/a>, &quot;I&rsquo;m not the first person to sing about God, Jesus, faith (or) any of that, and I won&rsquo;t be the last. And it won&rsquo;t be the last for me, either. If you don&rsquo;t like it, change the channel.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Paul Wilkinson blogs daily at <a href=\"http:\/\/paulwilkinson.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Thinking Out Loud<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s Worth The Risk of Ebola &#8211; The Desiring God website carried an in-depth interview with missionary Nancy Writebol, one of the first two Ebola survivors brought back to the U.S. for care. &quot;Popular opinion seemed to be that Ebola would not spread to a city. 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