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Peter Pan is a kid, Peter Pan has an imagination, He Wonders if he could fly, he flies. Peter pan grows up, and forgets what happened when he was younger, he never flew again.

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ORIGINAL: RJR_fan

A new reformation is underway, BTW.

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Could you please explain this statement further? Thanks.

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ORIGINAL: RJR_fan

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Could you please explain this statement further? Thanks.

Well, the Protestant Reformation that Martin Luther catalyzed reclaimed Biblical Christianity from "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers." The faith had been severely diluted by infiltration. Plato and Aristotle infiltrated the intellectual elite, and pre-existing pagan deities infiltrated the common folks. A skeptical rationalism clashed with the credulous cults of the saints and the mother goddess.

Today's evangelicalism has been nearly fatally undermined by the willingness of otherwise Biblical Christians to embrace unitarian socialism in one area of life. People who would scream bloody murder if the government forced them to spend one hour a week listening to government-approved sermons think nothing of sending their children off for 30+ hours a week to soak up government-approved perspectives on "life, law, the universe, and everything."

For a bit over a century, however, clear-thinking and articulate Christians have pointed out how every form of education is religious education, that communicates specific dogmas about the God of the Bible. Most (90% or so of us) were raised in the dogma that the Person, Son, Word, and Work of God were irrelevant, dispensible, unnecessary. We were taught that the sure path to true knowledge was to first of all set aside God and His Word. We were taught that the ultimate power was some form of human government, the bigger the better.

In 1928, J. Gresham Machen said in several important venues, "If we give to the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else." His testimony before the US congress delayed the federal department of education for nearly have a century.

Today, though, there are millions of families who understand that it is a sin to render unto Caesar that which belongs to God. A quiet, under-the-radar reformation is raising up a minority, but a powerful one, of children who are trained to think Biblically -- who at least know that the Bible is true, and that it should direct their thinking.

God is at work. We don't need to waste our lives on fool's errands, like trying to impose generic prayers to imaginary generic deities inside the temples of socialist humanism. We are not called to function as Sampson in reverse, pouring our energies into artificially propping up systems that have rejected God, and are under His judgment.

"Let the dead bury the dead. The living have work to do!"

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ORIGINAL: SpencerHayes

Everyone Knows the Story of Peter Pan, it goes something like this.

Peter Pan is a kid, Peter Pan has an imagination, He Wonders if he could fly, he flies. Peter pan grows up, and forgets what happened when he was younger, he never flew again.

Jesus pushed away all the religeous folk, and said "wheres the kids? He said I want you to have faith like children, ask things children would ask believe things children would believe, He said God will do much more than we could hope or even think of. So have imaginations, Wonder what can God do? We are constantely trying to live up to our parents, teachers, coaches, etc. standards, and doing what they think is going to be best for us. They do want what they think is best for us, but God is the author of our destiny. I dont want to see anyone "grow up". I dont want to see anyone get "old", Thats freaking lame, God wants us to dream, he wants us to imagine, he wants us to wonder what he can do? God doesnt want us to pray small prayers, God doesnt want us to limit him in our minds by what the "older folk" tell us can happen. He wants us to dream big. he wants us to believe impossible is nothing.

I wrote that because God wants the young people in this generation to start the Revival we've all been diligintely waiting for. God uses the young people to do crazy things for him, Like Kill giants, like lead countries, and be the ones leading the church. God has already started a movement, and we need to be on his tail, chasing for him, ready to see him mess us up.

Heres my Wonder.

God can you save The Quad Cities?

Can you Save all the Schools in the Quad Cities?

Can you break the chains in EVERY YOUNG PERSON in the Quad Cities?

Can you do something so big no man can take credit for it?

Can you turn our ENTIRE NATION BACK TO YOU?

Can you use the Young people to ignite it?

This is my WONDERWALL what is yours?

BIG PRAYERS ONLY.

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

Quad Cities!?

As in Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island and Moline?

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ORIGINAL: SpencerHayes

Im just saying when we were kids, we believed we could do anything, it didnt matter how big it was, but when we got older everyone told us to be "realistic" we lost our faith. Jesus said if any of you want to come to me we must become like children. And we are told to have child like faith. I want to get back to that point, and really believe the words of Jesus, that we will accomplish greater things than he did. I want God to do abundantely more then we can ask, or even hope for. I know Jesus didnt die on the cross to give me a boring life, he didnt endure everything he did so i could live up to my parents expectations, he died to give me life and life more abundantely.