* How Christians Can Minimize School Shootings: Today's program is part 1 of a 3-part series on the list of ways in which the church can actively work toward ending America's crime epidemic. See the list below! * Billy Graham's vs Joel Osteen's Houses: See photos, right. * Minor YouTube Threshold: Perhaps you can be our 1400th subscriber! If you haven't subscribed to our channel, please consider clicking on over to youtu.be/user/BobEnyartLive and clicking on Subscribe. * Tools for Understanding the Bible: Bob Enyart talks hermeneutics and basic principles necessary for a Christian to be a helpful influence in their world. BEL Annual Telethon: Bob also discusses the $50,000 goal of BEL's annual winter telethon and asks you, if you possibly can, to please subscribe, contribute, or purchase BEL materials by calling 1-800-8Enyart (836-9278) or clicking atop this page on the "KGOV Store" icon. Pt 1 How the Church Should Respond to the Crime Epidemic Pt 2 How the Church Should Respond to the Crime Epidemic Pt 3 How the Church Should Respond to the Crime Epidemic * List of Ways: How should the Church respond to a crime epidemic? We could positively affect the culture, including by lowering crime and reducing school shootings, if only our leaders would aggressively teach a Christian worldview that properly addresses the following: - Don’t judge: Stop repeating this false teaching that warps and even silences the influence of millions of Christians. - Forgive everyone: Stop repeating this false teaching that makes repentance superfluous and leads to corruption, crime, and murder in society, and makes much of the Bible irrelevant including Jesus’ teaching in Luke 17:3. - Governmental vengeance: Vengeance belongs to the Lord and so God He has delegated vengeance and wrath to governing officials (Romans 13:1-4) to bring against criminals yet the church undermines God’s purpose. - Personal vengeance: Filling the vengeance vacuum, as the church has undermined God’s purpose for the government to exact vengeance, there is an explosion of personal vengeance, ubiquitous in films, television, video games, and novels, so that from mean girls in high school, to road rage and rottenness online, to all-out murderous violence and school shootings, personal revenge could be its own genre. - Can’t vs. Won’t: Liberals have long tried to make it so that men can’t commit crime, instead of that they won’t commit crime. So as conservatives become ever more liberal-like, in 2018 rather than focus on the actual underlying problems, their putting a band-aid on a symptom with their focus on armed teachers and security guards. There’s nothing wrong with effective security, but that’s something you do on your day off, when you’re not actually working on resolving the underlying issues that lead to society’s dysfunction. - Capital punishment: The death penalty is at the heart of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and capital punishment is supported throughout the New Testament. When Christian leaders join liberals in opposing the death penalty, they undermine both the Gospel and America’s criminal justice. - Swift execution: The Bible is a criminal justice textbook. Through God's Criminal Justice System, He promises that swift justice will end a crime epidemic when the sentence against a criminal is executed speedily. (A tenner, that is, a ten-year prison term, cannot be executed speedily as can flogging and execution, which should be swift and painful.) - Government schools: If the Israelites would have sent their children off to be educated by the godless Philistines, God would have killed the parents. Today, He’s operating differently (thankfully), but it is reckless nonetheless to send a child to our officially godless public schools. - Godless schools: Even if we put prayer and Bible study back into public schools, they would still be immoral, because God never authorized the government to educate children, and when bureaucrats usurp that authority, parents relinqui
