Dear Laura,

          I appreciate very much your leaving your comment.  As I read, I felt sure your questions are rhetorical, and a call to us to think about the choices we make every day.   Much needed.

          Also, as I read your note, I began to think of verses ... so I wanted to share those with everyone.

Here goes ... Your original comments are in italics.  I hope the font will behave itself, so it will be clear.

Evil.
So do you think, we who are called by His Name, should be more "bold"?

          ABSOLUTELY.   Proverbs 28:1    Psalm 107:2  

Should we "come out, and be different" and call sin, SIN?

Should we "come out and be different" and call evil, EVIL?
          There can be only one answer to this:  II Corinthians 6:17  

         
 
We are supposed to be "light"!! If we 'blend in' with the world, how will anyone see our lights?

          Matthew 5:14

Do you think if we are bold calling sin sin, evil evil, wrong wrong.........do you think there is a chance for Revival?

          I think if we do not, there is NO chance for revival.  

Abraham interceded for Lot’s city five times, and the Lord kindly and lovingly allowed him to decrease that number until it was only ten.    Genesis 18:17 -- .  The Lord is long suffering – because He loves us.  I pray we haven’t waited too long!

I’m done preachin’ now.   But, there is one other thing that I want to mention and ask you all to pray about.  I don’t know this woman’s name – I only have heard of her through a young seminary student who reported what he had heard on the radio ... But, I believe the young man is trustworthy – and I know that the Church needs to be praying about this.

Apparently, this woman, who calls herself a “Baptist pastor” somewhere in California has declared that every person who died at Virginia Tech last Monday deserved to die and that they are all in hell.  AND, that she plans to lead a delegation of picketers to our campus to continue spreading her vile message of hate.  The “god” she serves is definitely NOT the God of the cross!  Pray that our sweet loving all-gracious Father, Who will one day become the world’s most terrifying Judge, will put a stop to this woman’s agenda.  We here, at Virginia Tech, are hurting.  Our hearts are grievously wounded; we are in pain.  We don’t need anyone else coming here to pour poison into the wounds!  But, the pain of Virginia Tech is NOT the main reason I ask you to pray, although it is definitely a need ...

The REAL reason I ask you to pray that she be stopped is because her “message” will brand every God-fearing true Christian as a hate-monger, and make matters so much worse for the Lord’s church.  HE will intervene, IF we ask Him!

I John 5:12-16    James 1:5

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