It’s Thursday, September 21st, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Jonathan Clark
Christians are fleeing Darfur, Sudan
Sudan entered its sixth month of civil war last week.
The African nation’s forces are fighting a paramilitary rebel group for control of the country. Thousands of people have been killed and millions have been displaced.
Christians are a minority in the Muslim country and face even more hardship during the unrest.
Many Christians have fled, but Mike Congrove with Empower One told CBN News that some have stayed to continue ministering.
CONGROVE: “I just was on a call over the weekend with a key leader in Darfur, [Sudan] for and he said I want to keep reaching people for Christ and he’s someone who hasn’t left and a lot of people have he’s intentionally staying in and surrounded by fighting and he’s asking for prayer.”
Conservative parties gaining traction in Europe
Right-leaning parties are gaining traction in Europe.
Bloomberg reports nearly half of European Union countries have such a party as one of its three most popular political groups.
The Brothers of Italy is a leading example. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni heads up the party which holds the most parliamentary seats. The party opposes abortion and faux homosexual marriage.
Such parties are also growing in Finland, Greece, Germany, and Slovakia.
America’s skyrocketing $33 trillion debt
In the United States, the national debt surpassed $33 trillion for the first time this week. (Look at the U.S. debt clock.)
Between fiscal years 2009 and 2021, federal spending was up 50%, thanks to pandemic-era stimulus programs.
Republicans are calling for less spending while Democrats are blaming the deficit on tax cuts. Both parties must come to an agreement on a funding bill to avert a government shutdown in less than two weeks.
The national debt has doubled over the past decade under both Republican and Democrat administrations.
Proverbs 22:7 says, “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”
Best Buy fired employee for his Biblical views
A Florida Christian is suing Best Buy after being fired over his views on marriage and sexuality, reports CBN News. He took issue with a mandatory training video about perverted homosexual history.
Enis Sujak is a Serbian immigrant and worked for the Geek Squad at a Best Buy in Jacksonville.
In undercover audio with his manager, Michael Hirsch, you can hear the conflict over their diametrically opposed worldviews.
SUJAK: “If we’re doing all that gay pride flags and all that transgender stuff, why don’t we have Christian stuff all over?”
HIRSCH: “They’re not the same.”
SUJAK: “How’s that not the same?”
HIRSCH: “You can 1,000% choose religion. It’s a belief. That’s a cultural thing.”
SUJAK: “Listen, but me, as a cultural entity, having beliefs that I have. So, why can’t I put my stuff all over the wall?”
HIRSCH: “Because you are choosing to believe in Christianity or Muslim or whatever. You choose that.”
SUJAK: “Okay. Someone is choosing to be gay or lesbian.”
HIRSCH: “They don’t choose to be gay.”
SUJAK: “Hey, they’re choosing that.”
In a subsequent interview with James O’Keefe, Sujak described the audio this way.
SUJAK: “He and I had a very long conversation. It was like an hour and thirty minutes, telling me that it was work appropriate to have all this LGBTQ stuff that’s going on in the office, but it’s not okay for me to be a Christian myself and have a Bible, right there at the office, or have a cross. That’s not work appropriate.”
On his GiveSendGo campaign, Sujak wrote, “My family fled religious persecution in Serbia so I could live my life as a Christian without being persecuted for my beliefs—yet that is exactly what is happening. … As a Christian, I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. Yet for some reason, Best Buy insisted that I submit to a lesson series on ‘The History of the LGBTQ Movement.’ … It’s time we fight back, take a stand, and defend our rights. I will not back down, and every contribution, no matter how great or small, helps us in this fight.”
You can give to his campaign through a link in our transcript today at theworldview.com.
Plus, send a letter of objection to Mrs. Corie Barry, the CEO of Best Buy, 7601 Penn Ave South, Richfield, MN 55423. Ask Mrs. Barry to stop promoting sexual perversion while discriminating against Christians. These 100,000 employees should not be treated this way, many of whom are Christians.
Episcopal Church loses more members over unbiblical doctrines
A new report found that the Episcopal Church declined by over 90,000 members last year.
The mainline Protestant denomination had 1.58 million members in 2022, down from 1.67 million in 2021. Its membership was as high as 2 million back in 2006, dipped below 2 million in 2010, and has declined since then.
Average Sunday attendance has rebounded slightly since the pandemic but is still down compared to 2019.
For years, the Episcopal Church has been abandoning Biblical values. It’s General Convention authorized faux homosexual weddings in 2015 after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision. The denomination also lamented the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year.
Martin Luther’s first Bible translation anniversary
And finally, Martin Luther had his first German translation of the New Testament printed on this day in 1522.
The work came to be identified as the SeptemberTestament.
Historian Philip Schaff wrote, “The most important and useful work of [Luther’s] whole life, is the translation of the New Testament, by which he brought the teaching and example of Christ and the Apostles to the mind and heart of the Germans in life-like reproduction. It was a republication of the Gospel. He made the Bible the people’s book in church, school, and house.”
Jeremiah 31:33-34 says, “This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts . . . for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.”
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And that’s The Worldview in 5 Minutes on this Thursday, September 21st in the year of our Lord 2023. Subscribe by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I’m Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.