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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

George F. Will dares once in a while to tell some unsavory truths. In Newsweek’s first issue of 2000 he pleaded for some new John Wesley to go to sub-Saharan Africa and save the continent from ruin, as the Reformer saved England from the ruin of the French Revolution. The AIDS curse feeds on widespread sexual promiscuity in professedly Christian Africa.

 

Now Will has put a disturbing finger on the real problem that Katrina has revealed about New Orleans’s poverty stricken masses. It’s the same thing. He speaks of “three not-at-all recondite rules for avoiding poverty: graduate from high school, don’t have a baby until you are married, don’t marry while you are a teenager. Among people who obey these rules,” he says, “poverty is minimal.” Uncomfortably true. Very many of Katrina’s victims “were women with children but not husbands,” says Will. And raising male children without fathers is “a constantly renewed cohort of lightly parented adolescent males,.... translat[ing] into chaos.” “In 2003, 34.6 percent of all American births were to unmarried women,” says the National Center for Health Statistics; “the percentage among African-American women was 68.2.” Are we a national machine that produces poverty?

 

The world’s heavenly Father sent “His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh” in order to save the world. “The righteousness of the law [is] fulfilled in [those] who walk not after the flesh, but after the [Holy] Spirit” (Rom. 8:3, 4, KJV). But the greatest “Christian” church in the world has nixed this truth that Jesus Christ saves from sin and teaches that He saves in sin. Is there one Protestant church anywhere that proclaims boldly and unitedly that Romans 8 Bible truth about Jesus? George F. Will may not be conscious of all that is involved, but he is pleading for some church somewhere to send the world a new John Wesley with a message to save it.

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