It’s Monday, September 21st, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
Chinese Communists arrest 11 from Early Rain Covenant Church
As the elders of the 500-member Early Rain Covenant Church met quietly on September 10th at a local teahouse to discuss church matters, Chinese Communist authorities were already on to them, reports International Christian Concern.
Around 3:00 p.m., police entered the teahouse, interrupted the meeting, and arrested 11 of the elders.
Early Rain has a nearly 10-year history of being harassed, monitored, and pressured by the Chinese Communist Party.
Most of the elders are in their 70s. He Futao, age 73, has notable health conditions. He recently underwent surgery to remove a lung infected by cancer.
Police told church members and relatives that they were doing “an investigation into a cult.” At midnight the following day, an ambulance arrived. They speculated that one of the elders needed emergency medical assistance.
By 10 a.m. on Saturday, police had finally released nine people. However, Elder Wu Wuqing and Shen Xiaqing are still being held and are accused of “illegally organizing proselytizing activities.” They were fined and sentenced to 10 days of detention.
The Early Rain Covenant Church members in China are boldly living out Romans 1:16 which says, “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.”
Write a polite, 4-sentence note to the Chinese Ambassador to America, Xie Feng, urging him to tell Chinese President Xi Jinping to stop harassing the Early Rain Covenant Church members. Send it to the Chinese Embassy, 3505 International Place NW, Washington, DC 20008.
Kellyanne Conway: It’s not who they will vote for but whether they will vote
In an interview with former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, Fox News host Martha MacCallum cited a New York Times story about how the November 3rd election is shaping up, reports RealClearPolitics.com.
MACCALLUM: “Let’s go to this headline from earlier today. ‘Less than seven weeks before the midterm elections, the political environment has deteriorated so badly for Republicans that the battlefield now extends deep into states and districts that Mr. Trump carried three times, often by double digits.’
“When you look at where the money’s going, where the president’s going to spend his time, what does it tell you about the challenge here?”
CONWAY: “So, there are a few challenges here. Obviously, 92% of the midterms, the party in power loses seats. A 73% loss of Senate seats. So that’s a historical trend. I think if anybody can defy political gravity in some of these places and spaces, it’s President Trump and his team. …
“The non-college educated voters right now favor Republicans over Democrats by 16 points. Why is that relevant? That’s the heart of the Trump coalition. But for them, Martha, they are feeling some economic grievance and uncertainty and pressure.
“For them, the question is not for whom to vote; it’s whether they’re going to bother at all. And that’s the big question here.
“I think if the president and his money goes to turnout mechanisms, he’s basically saying, ‘I’m the big turnout mechanism. I will go to 35 places in 30 states.’ I think sometimes it’s more important than money. …
“I was waiting for the Democrats to tell the press they were expanding the map. And that tells you that they’re not satisfied with the 21 truly toss-up seats going their way.”
Senator Hawley urges Congress to outlaw chemical abortions
Last Wednesday, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri announced that 50,000 Americans from across the country signed a new, 4-page “Declaration for Life” within hours of its public release that calls on Americans “to stand for life” and for Congress ‘”to ban the chemical abortion drug mifepristone,” reports The Washington Stand.
He added, “We think this declaration, written by pastors, is calling on spiritual leaders and everyday Christians across America to stand for life and to confront the scourge of chemical abortion. It is so critical on this the 250th anniversary of America.”
Earlier this year, Senator Hawley introduced Senate Bill 4066, the Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act that would outlaw chemical abortions.
[On the House side of the Capitol, the same legislation was introduced as House Resolution 7902 by Republican Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee. The Senate bill has seven co-sponsors, all Republicans, while the House bill has 11 co-sponsors, also all GOPers.]
Sadly, neither the Senate nor the House proposal has been advanced to committee hearings, as Republican leaders focus on other issues.
Americans fail the Constitution pop quiz
Last Thursday, September 17th, was Constitution Day, an annual federal observance. The day commemorates the September 17, 1787, signing of the U.S. Constitution by 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
According to the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, which conducted a Constitution Day Civics Survey, over 35% of U.S. adults cannot name all three branches of the U.S. government, reports The Daily Citizen. If you’re listening to the newscast with your family right now, pause it and see which of your younger children can correctly identify the three branches of government. If they said, the three branches are legislative, executive and judicial, give them a high five.
The survey also found Americans’ knowledge of their First Amendment rights is sorely lacking. The Amendment contains five enumerated rights, including:
- The right to free speech
- The right to freely exercise religion
- The right to peaceably assemble
- The right to freedom of the press
- The right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
While 73% of Americans can name freedom of speech as a right guaranteed by the First Amendment, only 43% can name freedom of religion, an embarrassing 31% can identify freedom of assembly, a paltry 29% can name freedom of the press, and a pathetic 12% can name the right to petition the government.
Worse yet, 24% of American adults cannot name one of them.
Seattle City Council voted to protect polygamy and infidelity
And finally, on September 15, the Seattle City Council, in a unanimous vote, removed the legal reality of male and female in city statute. Plus, the leaders gave legal recognition and protections to a whole host of very unhealthy sexual and gender identities, reported KUOW.
Glenn Stanton, the director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family, said, “They even backtracked on the lie that sexual orientation rests on ‘just being born that way.’ And Seattle’s City Council had to do all this because the gender and sexual revolution keeps moving its own goal posts.”
The fools who call themselves wise said this vote “updates the existing protected class of ‘sexual orientation’” by removing any “reference to the male and female gender binary.”
Stanton insists that this claim of being non-binary is a “fictitious ideological construct which does not exist in nature. Every cell in the human body is sexed. That sex is either male or female.”
Worse yet, Seattle now recognizes “‘pansexuality’ as a sexual orientation subject to civil rights protections.” Pansexuality is also a made-up term, created to cover over the embarrassment that “bisexuality” rests on the dreaded “gender binary.”
The Focus on the Family expert asserted, “The creation of pansexuality was needed because gender theory now incoherently holds that anyone can be any of the 20, 68, 72, 81, or 87 sexualities” that exist in the minds of different leftists. Being bi- is now the flat-earther of gender theory and the Seattle City Council is just trying to keep up with the moving goal posts.
In Matthew 19:4, Jesus asked, “Have you not read that God who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female’?”
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