I am confident there are many Christians today who are watching, seeing, hearing, and discerning well and wisely the times. Watchmen and watchwomen. Reading and studying the Word of God daily. In fervent, faithful prayer to the Lord daily, continually. Aware. Knowing. And living as disciples of our resurrected Lord Who died for our sin. And these see and understand what is unfolding daily before us.

I also realize I am thought to be some hard unyielding individual. Not possessing a whole lot of love and compassion. I am unyielding when it comes to the Word of God. I will not permit the laxity, the false teachings of the world to mingle and pollute the pure solid clear Word of God. Not to win favor. To make anyone feel good. I have much love and compassion. For fellow brothers and sisters, and especially for those still in darkness following the lies of this world and he who has dominion of this world for a season rather than them following the Lord Jesus Christ. For I was once as they are. I have compassion for such people. I also am not America above all things, this world above all things. It is the Triune God — Father, Son; the Lord Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, inerrant infallible living Word of God above all things. The eternal always trumps the temporal. The Triune God and the Holy Bible are uppermost. In all things. And this irritates many folks. Especially a lot of folks professing to be Christians in America today.

To those who are carefully and clearly watching and possessing a Biblical worldview [tragically, pitifully only at  4% of the population, according to the most recent information compiled by the most reliable Christian resource] to those true believers, devoted disciples of Jesus, abiding in the sound whole Word of God may you continue to be vigilant, blessed, strong, and increase in the faith and in spiritual discernment and wisdom. To be bold for the Lord. To fight the good fight. To the end. To not fear. But instead proclaim the Lord and His ways and what is and what is to come.

That said though, no matter the number of folks in the above number there are more, many more who profess to be Christian yet know nothing of what that means in truth, in practice. They have itching ears turned to the lies of the world, thus the lies of Satan. Who they have allowed to enter in [see Jude 1:4 which I reference frequently as well as Romans 1, as we are living in the Biblical time of Romans 1]. Were this not so churches, the state of Christianity, the state of this world would not be as it is.

I realize it is the popular and prevailing course of action to place a political label on all things occurring in the church. I read this, I hear this constantly. Whatever is taking place, wherever, among whomever — it all must be political.

Sorry, wrong. It is cited in the article below, towards the end of the article, that what has transpired in the Methodist Church is neo-Marxism. or Critical Theories. No, that is the coward’s way out in explaining what has and is occurring in so-called Christian churches in every Western nation on earth, and in churches around the world.

It is easy to pull out a political label paste it up and declare it is this or that political ideology at work. As if there is a purely political cause or a political solution.

When will people begin to wake up? I’m seriously asking this. When will people begin to wake up? If still in doubt, refusing to acknowledge what has been happening in professed Christian churches and denominations over these past many decades, and has accelerated as never imagined by most folks, that we are in the last of the last days, that Satan and his hordes of minions have entered the Chruch as so-called Christians have thrown the door open to them and invited them in. Adopting his lies. Perpetuating his lies. Supplanting the truth of Scripture — then begin to see, to understand by reading the following.

And then going into the archives here on ACP over the past 12, 13 years or so.

Along with paying attention in so many places, it does not require any degree or becoming a detective, or possessing special skills. Just pay attention! The apostasy, the Great Falling Away, the abominations that have entered more churches than not is available for anyone to see, hear, and come to know.

Why? How?

It’s all in the Holy Bible.

For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:4

Romans 1

The Great Apostasy

Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-4

[NOTE to all those convinced though there is no Scriptural evidence to uphold the belief of a rapture prior to the Great Tribulation, and ironically 2 Thessalonians 2 is used to support this claim without any Scriptural evidence — but there is Scriptural evidence that;

Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.]

Too bad more professed Christians do not utilize the Book that is supposed to be the foundational words of their faith. The inerrant infallible living Words of God, God-breathed words to us in His Word, the Holy Bible. Or utilize prayer other than to make demands upon God and ask Him for things for themselves and some people they know. How about asking the Holy Spirit for wisdom and understanding, and asking for increased faith and discernment? To know the times. Know the signs. And to be objective and honest about what is happening rather than being spiritually crippled inside unable to rightly divide the Word, discern well and wisely.

None of this is about neo-Marxism, Critical Theories, this or that political agenda or ideology.

It’s solely, only, all about spiritual warfare. And Spiritual warfare is not fought, waged, and won using political terminologies, political platforms or policies, or thinking politically — but rather thinking and living, speaking and writing Biblically, spiritually, faithfully.

Let me ask you this and then ponder it — will Marxism, Critical Theories, Socialism, leftist politics, or any world government structure or agenda be part of eternity? Then why address eternal spiritual matters in such a manner? Why allow the Enemy, Satan, and his minions to distract and take us away from the point, the heart of the matter, the truth?

They have entered in. Believe the whole Holy Bible? Then refer back to Jude 1:4. To Romans 1. How about throughout the whole Bible? This is nothing new. It is just now in these last of the last days we have reached the point we have. The door has been thrown open to Satan and his minions. And the people professing to be disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ are bowing to him and his minions while using the Lord’s name in vain on top of things!

Unless it’s Scriptural it’s a distraction. Can’t be found in the Holy Bible? It’s a distraction. Of the world. To add to the confusion. To keep people wound up and kept from seeing clearly, hearing clearly, and engaging in the escalating spiritual war as they ought to be doing.

Ken Pullen, Friday, January 5th, 2024

Methodist Church issues guidance discouraging use of terms ‘husband’ and ‘wife’

02 January 2024

By Jon Brown

Reprinted from Christian Today [in the U.K.]

The Methodist Church in Great Britain released an “Inclusive Language Guide” this month advising Methodists to avoid using gendered terms such as “husband” and “wife” because such allegedly assumes what is not “the reality for many people.”

“As Christians, we need to have the courage for conversations that can sometimes be difficult, to recognize that we sometimes exclude people, to listen with humility, to repent of any hurtful language and to take care with how we listen and what we say or write, in the Spirit of Christ,” says the guidance, which will be updated every six months.

The guidance offered as a general principle the idea that there is “infinite variety in the way that God’s creation is expressed in human life,” and offered “husband” and “wife” as examples of terminology that “may sound inoffensive but it makes assumptions about a family or personal life that is not the reality for many people.”

The guidance offered the words “parent,” “partner,” “child,” and “carer” as suitable alternatives.

The guide goes on to list extensive categories of people with whom Methodists are advised to use “sensitive and inclusive” language when addressing minorities that have been “marginalized and/or demonized by common culture.”

The guide urges steering clear of “ageism” by avoiding terms like “old people,” to embrace “anti-racist language” by encouraging use of “ethnicity” instead of “race,” and to avoid language that negatively emphasizes a person’s immigration status or English skills.

Antisemitic and Islamophobic rhetoric are also discouraged, and the guidance also encourages Methodists to tread carefully with their terminology when addressing “disabled and neurodiverse people” and those with mental illness.

The guide suggested it was important that the Methodist Church “uses language that is inclusive of sexually perverted, immoral, and deviant people [the guide refused to use accurate, true language in their concern for using the right words so as the administrator of ACP, I removed the mind-numbing acronym the world uses to mask the truth and included accurate language],” and advised using the language an individual prefers, including the pronouns by which they choose to identify.

The denomination passed resolutions in 2021 to approve the blessing of same-sex unions and recognize cohabitating couples.

“Using the language that individuals use for themselves shows that we care as a Church and that we affirm them as a child of God,” the guidance says.

The guidance concludes by pointing readers to nonprofits that include the left-wing homosexual & lesbian alliance against defamation (GLAAD) and Stonewall, a charity of the sexually perverted, immoral, and deviant in the U.K. whose guidance found its way into schools throughout the country. [And the use of the truth and accurate language is not defaming a person. When it comes to following and obeying God or man I will always obey and follow God].

“We are proud of our Inclusive Language Guide,” a spokesperson for the denomination told The Christian Post. “It helps the Church hold conversations without making assumptions or inadvertently causing upset. Some find this especially useful when talking with those who may have had a different life experience to their own.”

Regarding whether gendered language would still be used in Methodist marriage ceremonies, the spokesperson said: “Couples getting married in a Methodist Church will discuss with the minister how they wish to be referred to during their service. This ensures that the ceremony reflects who they are.”

Father Calvin Robinson, who has been outspoken in fighting progressivism in the Church of England, blasted the U.K.-based Methodist Church for its guidance and suggested it’s symptomatic of a neo-Marxist attempt to effectively destroy it.

“This is not Christianity,” Robinson wrote on X. “It is Critical Theories: ‘smash heteronormativity.’ It is no longer enough to acknowledge disordered lifestyles. Everything normative and ordered must be demolished for fear of causing offense.”

“Critical Theories is neo-Marxism. It is a communist ideology, antithetical to the Christian faith. It is not possible to be a communist *and* a Christian. One must make a choice. Embrace the ways of this trendy yet toxic ideology, or embrace God’s order,” he continued, and urged the Methodist Church to “pick one.”