I found the results of this Barna survey very, very interesting. As if we don’t have enough cojoining labels already, here’s another one to deal with. From Ministry Today:

Nearly two-thirds of all unchurched adults—people who have not attended a church activity in the last six months—identified themselves as “Christians,” according to a recent study by the Barna Group.

The survey revealed that 28 percent of the population—some 65 million adults—have not participated in any church activities or services in the past six months. As many churches try to attract this group to worship on Sunday, the study showed that the makeup of unchurched Americans may be surprising.

For example, 18 percent of unchurched Americans say they are born again, that they have “made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today” and that they will go to heaven only because they have accepted Him as their Savior. Two-thirds (68 percent) say God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the universe. However, slightly more than one-third (35 percent) agree that the Bible is totally accurate in all its principles, and only 15 percent say their religious faith is very important in their life.

Demographically, among the unchurched, women outnumber men, baby boomers and older generations outnumber younger generations, and conservatives outnumber liberals.

Why does such a large group of people who believe in God avoid church? The Barna Group claims that a previous study may shed some light on the question. The study showed that 37 percent of non-churchgoing Americans avoid churches because of negative past experiences in churches or with church people.

The first question I have is can a person be an “unchurched” Christian? Its not clear who defined unchurched as “no church attendance in a continuous six month period”. But maybe redefinition is part of the problem. I’d always thought unchurched meant a person didnt “grow up” in the church and/or were never confessing believers in Christ. This six month deal is a bit shallow if you ask me, but nevertheless it is the basis of the survey’s results.

We had an eye opening discussion that touched on this last year if you want to refresh, but let’s nail it down. You can hit on all or some of the questions if you like.  (1)Is church attendance mandatory for the maintenance of one’s salvation? (2) Is church attendance a prerequisite for salvation? (3) Do you think most church pastors are teaching mandatory church attendance because it is biblical or because they need the revenue of church attendees or both? (4) Is church attendance (to a designated building) the same as “assembling” indentified in Hebrews 10:25?

Other Barna survey stories at GCM Watch:
54% of “Christian” blacks in Barna survey believed Jesus sinned

Christian pollster Barna surveys gay christians

By Shofarsound

Although the people of California voted yes on Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriages, the battle still rages on in the homosexual community to make it legal.  But the battle involves more than just gays and lesbians fighting for and gaining the right to marry both in California and elsewhere. Believe it or not, economics is now playing strong role in the same-sex marriage.  How, you ask?  Through the wedding industry!  If same-sex marriages were legalized everywhere the wedding industry would experience an economic increase through the onslaught of new homosexual clients.  Let me explain…

Forbes Magazine’s online article on June 16th, 2009, estimated that the financial impact gay weddings would have if legalized nationally, would add up to a whooping $9.5 billion if you added engagement rings, banquet halls, wedding dresses, and honeymoons. This would most definitely have a financial impact in our country.  But is it really worth the cost of selling our morality for the almighty dollar?

In the June 15th, 2008 online article, “California Boosted by Gay Mar­riage Bonanza,” the University of California at Los Angeles did a study stating that the same-sex marriage industry would create 2,100 new jobs.  In addition, the spending of same-sex residences would boost the economy by $683.6 million dollars.  Analysts also feel that California would have a monopoly on the same-sex marriage industry and would cause a boom in tour­ism business.

When gay activists believed that Proposition 8 would be defeated cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Palm Springs were ready to mar­ket themselves as gay-friendly wedding destinations.  Jack Kyser, the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, said that same-sex marriages would lift local tourist sectors as fears of recession gripped the tourist industry.

First Timothy 6:10 says, “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through many sorrows.” Many lobbyist and poli­ticians are influenced by money these homosexual groups pump into their pockets.  In return these wayward politicians come up with gay-friendly laws and get bills passed through the state and federal governments. It’s all about the Benjamin’s!  The love of money has made these judges, lobbyist, politicians; businesses sell out their morals to the “dolla’ dolla’” bill. The fact is this: behind the wicked collaboration of homosexuals, attorneys, lobbyist, judges, and politicians there is the love of the money same-sex marriages can introduce into the national economy.

Today, Hollywood does an excellent job promoting homosexual lifestyle through movies and television. Let’s remember that Sodom and Gomorrah were prosperous cities in their time.  But despite their prosperity, God still judged them for their unrighteousness.  In the days of the Prophet Jeremiah, Judah was prosperous nation but backslidden from God.  Jeremiah tried to tell the nation to repent and return back to God. However his words fell on deaf ears.  Judah trusted more in their riches and they were eventually judged and taken into Babylonian captivity. 

In discussing a new study confirming that polygamy is a staple within gay “marriages,” a New York Times article has suggested that doing away with the concept of spousal fidelity in marriage represents an “evolution” that “might point the way for the survival of the institution.”

NYT columnist Scott James reported January 28 on a project by San Francisco State University’s Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality examining various aspects of homosexual relationships.  James says the study, which is scheduled for release this month, “reveals that monogamy is not a central feature for many.”

“Some gay men and lesbians argue that, as a result, they have stronger, longer-lasting and more honest relationships,” the article continues.  “And while that may sound counterintuitive, some experts say boundary-challenging gay relationships represent an evolution in marriage — one that might point the way for the survival of the institution.”

Colleen Hoff, one of the study’s researchers, remarked: “With straight people, it’s called affairs or cheating, but with gay people it does not have such negative connotations.”

Steve Weinstein, the editor-in-chief of the gay news service EDGE Boston, said that the research could be placed into “the category of ’studies that confirm the painfully obvious.’”

James also admits that “none of this is news in the gay community, but few will speak publicly about it,” with many expressing fear that “discussing the subject could undermine the legal fight for same-sex marriage.”

Joe Quirk, author of the sex-themed bestseller “It’s Not You, It’s Biology,” argued that “the combination of freedom and mutual understanding can foster a unique level of trust.”

“If innovation in marriage is going to occur, it will be spearheaded by homosexual marriages,” said Quirk.

Scott James, the writer of the NYT article suggests that destroying the concept of spousal fidelity is an “evolution”. James is the same gay writer who launched the so-called homphobia attack on Vallejo, CA mayor Osby Davis.

So let’s understand where approving homosexual marriage is leading us. Countless people have warned already homosexual marriage is at best a parody and at worst a leading indicator of the disintegration of our society. Whether delayed or immediate, direct or indirect,  we and our children will suffer the consequences for such a foolish and emotional decision. Even with divorce and other negative factors affecting male-female marriage, there exists no common acceptance among male-female marriage to allow one’s spouse sexual relationships outside the marriage. Yet now the homosexual media itself acknowledges what the gay rights agenda wants to equalize is based on a  destructive view of relationships.

For your deceptive pleasure, its being repackaged as “equality”, equal rights”, “civil rights” and “marriage equality”.  All of the fake media-driven photos of happyfied homosexual couples mean nothing. Behind the propaganda photos, these people reject the very basis of what God-ordained, God-created and God-approved marriage constitutes. Covenant with one person of the opposite gender. The people of God should in no way approve, sanction or be complicit in helping to destroy God’s foundations for the family.

When God blessed the union of man and woman in Genesis it formed an everlasting standard for what is acceptable to Him, the creator.

How you can help cripple the homosexual marriage machine:

1. Stop voting for or supporting any political candidate —whether local or national— who favors legalizing homosexual marriage in any context. 1b. Be vocal in demanding they go on record with their beliefs.

2. Demand that church leaders stop supporting and/or allowing prohomosexual political candidates access to Sunday morning pulpits in exchange for backroom favors.

3. Stop promoting or purchasing merchandise produced by any Christian artist who aligns themselves with homosexual marriage or behavior as acceptable to God.

4. As followers of Jesus Christ, make sure you  always uphold God’s standard for marriage. 1 [biological]man with 1 [biological] woman for life.

5. If you are single  Christian and committing sexual fornication, stop now and learn to possess your body in sanctification and honor. This is the will of God. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8

6. Pray. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous availeth much.

A study led by Susan Cochran and her team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, published in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry, reports that homosexuals seek treatment for mental health issues or substance abuse at a rate over two times higher than heterosexuals.

The study of 2074 people interviewed in the California Health Interview Survey found that 48.5% of homosexual and bisexual individuals reported receiving psychiatric or drug abuse treatment in the past year as compared to 22.5% of heterosexuals.

When the research results were broken down by gender, the report states that lesbians and bisexual women received the most medical treatment and heterosexual men received the least.

The business of sin depends heavily on certain industries keeping up the charade that its dangerous to change one’s so-called sexual orientation. Their solution: bring your credit card and come see them. The mental health industry has led the way in perpetuating this lie so that homosexuals continue to run to them for gay affirmative counseling. That translates to big bucks and fat wallets. In turn, homosexuals look to the mental health industry as a god who protects and affirms them.

Susan Cochran, the lead researcher from the University of California said, “The pervasive and historically rooted societal pathologizing of homosexuality may contribute to this propensity for treatment by construing homosexuality and issues associated with it as mental health problems.”

In other words, Cochran believes this to be a matter of correcting cause and effect. She may have done the study to prove one theory, but unwittingly proved that God’s word does not lie.

Like her, other critics of this evidence attribute it all to homophobia and discrimination. They believe that if the world would just accept homosexuality as normal, then the myriad of mental, social, relational, sexual, medical and spiritual problems of homosexuals would fade away like a mist in the sunlight.

But its not so. Sin is encoded by God with death and no amount of affirmation can change its destructive effects…and eventual consequences (Gen 2:15-17).

Some gays tell the truth about homosexuality.

A documentary film  [The Trouble with gay men] produced by British homosexual journalist Simon Fanshawe late last year stated that the “gay” lifestyle is a “sewer” of casual degrading sex, drug abuse and misery. In the film Fanshawe castigated what he views as a prevalent gay subculture that is focused on vanity, puerile superficiality, and transient pleasure, at the expense of lasting values and meaningful relationships.

That coincides with what the bible says. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. Romans 1:27

Not to mention that I and other former homosexuals are eyewitnesses to the degradation sexual bondage offers. That’s why we tell the truth to save others from this “lifestyle” that leads to death.

In fact, sin pays its employees with death. The wages of sin is death… Romans 6:23. Would you want a job where the boss tells you during the interview that your first paycheck would be death? Sin and disobedience breed death. Its just that simple. The only hope of escaping it is to repent and fully believe that Jesus Christ gave his life in exchange for your freedom.

The business of sin operates about the same in the church or the religious industry I should say. Some pastors  protect and cover for their homosexual members because it pays off big time for them. Its no different from the white slavemasters who got rich off blacks that picked their cotton and tended their children. They would never tell their slaves they could be free! Likewise, these “pastors” won’t preach deliverance and freedom because having a captive slave population able to play, sing, dance and entertain at their churches and conferences is a cash bonanza to them. Preaching the pure gospel would stop the cash flow and they know it.  Many sit for years and years in churches never hearing anything other than when they die they go to hell. Others never hear that there are others like them who have been delivered and are living free from sexual slavery.

Why? Because the love of money is the root of all evil.

The homosexual comunity (political and religious) are getting no favors from the APA and the false church. This is slow execution, but not before they get all the cash.