The American Evangelical Hypocrisy

Many American Christians (usually in leadership or related roles) love to call foreign theological researchers to go back to their home countries (the reason given being to build their own countries), I think this is due to distrust or jealousy.

Distrust because they were afraid that the foreigners would want to "steal" their jobs in America. Jealousy because the reason for their distrust.

Nonetheless, I agree with the notion of taking what you've learned back home. However, the problem is identifying those foreigners who sincerely intend to do just that. If it is so, I don't think I need to call them out or remind them of their goals. Otherwise, unlike the Americans, I wouldn't even bother whether they stay or leave.

The reason I call these Americans hypocrites, is because they do not ask their missionaries to stay in other countries for good as much as they want the foreigners to leave theirs for good. Missionaries should live their calling, not treating it as a temporal phase of their lives. That would be vacation, showing off, risk toying, bride seeking, etc.

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Who is Easier to Preach to

Preaching to Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, and preaching to Osama Bin Laden, which one is harder?

So, when I said I don't want to do my ministry in the States, I am merely picking the easier way.

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The acceptance of Divorce involving God

When churches cannot tell right from wrong (that everything that happens is God's plan), making God the author of evil, this is what happens.

It is good for divorced parents to cope with each others' latter lives. It is not right to call the divorce according to God's plan. Nonetheless, the whole thing is rightly God's plan - for His own glory (not men's).

No doubt those hoping to legalize polygamous marriage cherish this story.

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Dialogue On Presuppositional Preaching/Teaching

Fictional dialogue.

A: Some preachers are only capable and insist only of preaching presuppositional sermons geared towards believers and not non-believers. But the audience of presuppositional apologetics is universal.

B: But I am preaching to a church congregation. They are all believers.

A: Then you do not know your congregation well and therefore your sermon is not gospel centered.

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On Ethics: Disproving Gay Marriage

This will be an ongoing work. Perhaps I need to take the Ethics course in philosophy.

The basis of my thesis is this:

A (male-only?) gay marriage family world inevitably expects some mothers to give up their babies.

A heterosexual marriage family world accepts but do not requires any mothers to give up their babies.

Any ethical system that cannot balance the utility of the society is worse than the systems that can balance such common utility better.

Therefore, a gay marriage worldview is worse than a heterosexual marriage worldview.

Apparently, a futuristic technology will be used by proponent of gay marriage to argue against this thesis in order to make a male-only gay marriage family be of no distinction from a female-only marriage family. Nonetheless, much could be argue from a maternal love perspective on labor, etc. This will go hand in hand with a paternal involvement as well. Debunking the use of futuristic technology, which is not even fully realized today.

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Requirement for a Teacher

If a teacher's answer to a relevant question is: "Don't bother with that, it will not be on the test", then the teacher is not qualified to teach.

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Improvement is not Redemption

Common Evangelicals problem:

“Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people” -C.S. Lewis

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Kirk Cameron's Movie - Saving Christmas

I haven't watched it but it has incredibly bad reviews already.

By experience, I could only comment that a film is an art that involves more than just talk. A mistake many evangelicals commit.

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The Importance of WHY

Someone once said "Why do you like to ask why?" as if it is virtually a taboo.

Here's the importance of it: "It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it." ~ A.W. Tozer

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The Chief Consequence of the Lack of Sleep

I postulate that it can cause attention deficit. The lack of sleep reduces the number of dreams. In this case, I call it required dreams.

I believe that dreams are required to help filter and adjust our thought processes so that we do not wonder about irrelevant matters while acknowledging them.

If we skip necessary dreams, we end up with lots of garbage thoughts that have no way out of our mind and thus, distracting us from concentration.

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