The background to my speech is that I am retiring from the ministry in
the summer and Ministers so doing are invited to give a farewell speech at the
Ministerial Synod of their District. This is a summary of my
speech:
Laid on my heart was a burden for the serious situation the Church is in
today in the UK. I pointed out: the closure of many Churches, and loss of
members but even more serious the loss of young people from the church at an
ever-earlier age and the advance of atheism amongst young people. The root cause
being a lack of confidence in the reliability of the Scriptures because of
compromise in the Church with the theory of evolution. I stated the foundational nature of the
first eleven chapters of Genesis and pointed out how once these are lost then
the major doctrines of the Faith are also lost.
Professor Andy McIntosh and I will be speaking at of Watchorn Methodist
Church on June 3, 2017. Find out how you can join
us.
The tragic thing is that it is not theologians or Ministers that are
opposing this pagan religion of our age, rather it is scientists like Professors
Andy McIntosh, Steve Taylor and Stuart Burgess. Professor Andy McIntosh even
gave me permission to quote from his talk on the feathers of birds showing
obvious design: “It deeply burdens me that Christians still insist on promoting
this lie which is not just bad theology but awful science.”
I had more to say, for example, quoting Richard Lewontin and Dr. William
Provine, but a Minister stood up and objected to what he called a “diatribe,”
and I was prevented from continuing on the grounds I had gone over my allocated
time. It is fair to say that they did not like what I had to
say!
This is just another example of
what happens when the church abandons the wisdom of God’s Word for the wisdom of
the age (see 1 Corinthians
1:20–25). The church today needs to
raise up more leaders like John, who are willing to stand up and proclaim the
truth of God’s Word. Sadly, too many leaders in the church have already
compromised with evolutionary ideas or are afraid to speak out because of the
attacks that may come from outside the church—or even from within. Please pray
for John and other church leaders who are willing to boldly speak the truth in
love. Creation
Research.