by Kjos Ministries
“The whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one,” we are told in 1 John 5:19. And the leaders of today’s world are just as determined to undermine God’s Word as those who despised Christianity two millennia ago. The fact that their tools and tactics are more sophisticated these days gives us plenty of reasons to heed God’s repeated warnings: Be watchful! Pray! Don’t be deceived!
The guiding vision of contemporary world leaders was summarized by Professor Raymond Houghton back in 1970. As you ponder his words, remember that the key strategies used in secular schools are now embraced by market-driven churches around the world:
“…absolute behavior control is imminent…. The critical point of behavior control, in effect, is sneaking up on mankind without his self-conscious realization that a crisis is at hand. Man will… never self-consciously know that it has happened.”
The main targets of these change agents have been our children, our youth, and our Biblical faith. Have these revolutionaries succeeded? Yes, they have! We are now immersed in the fruit of their labor: a postmodern world that rejects both absolute truth and the moral foundations of the Christian family.
Like our secular guides, today’s postmodern, purpose-driven church guides keep sounding the call for continual change. And their restless audience — dulled by decades of “progressive education” and corrupt entertainment — are fast falling in line behind the most popular pied pipers.
There’s little to hold them back from the tempting snares that tug at their hearts these days. The greatest obstacle to deception has always been God’s unchanging Word. But that wall of resistance is crumbling fast. Today’s transformational leaders know that their pleasure-loving followers would rather dialogue about “biblical principles” in popular movies than study or memorize Scriptures.
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