Influence and Our Youth

By: Deloris Mitchell

Influence – The power to direct the thinking or behavior of others, usually indirectly.

In American culture, many influences have garnered the attention of our youth, and the Church is not one of them. Who or what are these influences? They are educators, entertainers, politicians, social and corporate media, big businesses, and the LGBTQIA+2Spirit (LGBT). The list is endless.

This article will focus on the LGBT community and its influences because it is the number one alternative lifestyle accepted and promoted across the United States of America. This lifestyle choice is an anti-Christ agenda intended to cause confusion.

The Definition

LGBTQAI2+2SPIRIT (see definition below): Under this umbrella lies a plethora of lifestyle choices such as Homosexual/Lesbian, Gender Fluid, Pansexual, Bi-sexual, 2Spirit, and the newest one, Minor-Attracted Person (pedophiles), to name a few.

According to the Gallup Poll, the LGBT community makes up 5.6% of the population in the United States.

Even though the LGBT is a very small group, they appear to have the loudest voice. From kindergarten to the land’s highest court, this small group has made great strides religiously, politically, and socially.

Diabolical Narrative

Manipulation of the English language is important in causing the masses to accept the unacceptable. Words that were normal a few years ago are now outlawed in many public schools, colleges, businesses and even on the floors of Congress. Words like woman, man, male, female, boy, girl, etc. are banned and now preferred pronouns are now required such as they, them, their, theirs, themselves, perself, hirself, etc. If the LGBT agenda is to remain supreme in the public square, we must disavow normalcy.

To move this narrative forward in our society, words like diversity, inclusion, equity, intersectionality and tolerance are all used to manipulate the minds of the masses. This manipulation does not exclude the Christian church. A certain level of guilt and virtue signaling to the unaccepting is attached to each one of these terms. There are also words to intimidate anyone who is not willing to accept this narrative as normal and shut down any opposition. Such words are homophobic, trans-phobic, racist, far-right, bigot, hater or H8, Christian Nationalist, and religious zealot.

What’s Happening to Our Children and Who Suffers the Most?

The Covid-19 pandemic shutdown forced parents to see what their children were learning in both public and private schools. Even some Christians schools have capitulated to these influences, which was quite a shocker. Teaching has morphed into indoctrination. Parents being shocked by what their children are learning in public schools is its own sad commentary; however, many are now engaged in protecting the education of their children.

There is a heated battle between parents, teachers, and school boards because school curricula and libraries are inundated with the LGBT agenda. Children are taught that they have a choice whether they want to be male or female. In fact, they don’t have to be either; they can be gender-fluid, pansexual, androgynous, or an inanimate object.

It is the youth who has suffered the most. Many teens identifying as LGBT and transgender suffer from anxiety, loneliness, and suicidal thoughts.

The Trevor report states that at least one LGBTQ youth between the ages of 13–24 attempts suicide in the U.S. every 45 seconds. According to Pink News (an LGBT reporting site), a survey found that 50.3 percent of transgender teens have attempted suicide, compared to just 23.4 percent of heterosexual teens. Transgender teens are also more than four times as likely to have made a suicide attempt requiring medical attention. Also, 84.8 percent of transgender teens self-reported suicidal ideation while 72.5 percent reported having planned for a suicide attempt. (See Table 1)

The Perils of the LGBTQ Agenda

This society, from the White House to the schoolhouse, is influencing our youth to accept so-called drag queens and transsexualism as normal. There was a time in the United States when taking a child into a transvestite strip club would be a crime. Nowadays, it is an everyday occurrence with police protection.

Hospitals, with the backing of the AMA, politicians, the NEA, ivy league colleges, corporate media and even the president and vice

president of the USA are outright advocating for the surgical transformation of a child from male to female or vice versa, paid in full by taxpayers. Transgender Health Care is the term used to justify this horrific action. Hospitals are doing Frankenstein-like surgeries on children as young as eight years old to transform them to the opposite sex. They claim the child has realized he or she was born in the wrong body. These surgeries consist of performing mastectomies and hysterectomies on underage girls. A surgery called breast mammoplasty (breast augmentation) is performed on young boys. Bottom surgery is performed on boys and girls. How is this legal?

What must the Church do?

This is a cosmic battle for the hearts and minds of the American people, especially the children. This is a hostile takeover of our society and evidence of spiritual wickedness in high places.

We cannot only blame secular society for the power of wicked influences on our children. Parents place a behemoth of evil in the hands of their children when they give them unsupervised access to cellphones, tablets, smart TVs, and leave them for eight hours at the mercy of teachers with a Cultural Marxist agenda in the schools. It has been stated that the moral rot of a society is the report card of the Church. It is the Church that should set the moral standards of a nation. For many years that was so, but now, not so much. Secular society has influenced the Christian church much more than the Christian Church has influenced secular society because the love of the world is mesmerizing.

The Church has no choice but to stand. God placed the Church on the earth to be salt (a preservative) and light (to show the way). The salt has lost its savor if there is major rot in society. If darkness is hovering over the nation, there is no light.

This is not the time to be ”woke” Christians. It is time to awaken out of sleep and be about our Father’s business. It is the job of the church to build a biblical worldview in our children. To teach them the principles of the bible and send them out into the world with a solid foundation so they can influence the world. Deuteronomy 6:6-8 (KJV), 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

Hosea 4:6 (KJV) 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Trading Traditions for Truth

By: Tiara Holland

What is one of your most memorable traditions and how has it influenced your life? One of Merriam-Webster definitions of traditions is “an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior (such as a religious practice or social custom).” From family celebrations, beliefs, customs, to the process of completing specific activities in a certain way, we are constantly creating new traditions.

One of my most memorable and influential traditions is rooted in my beliefs. My beliefs changed my life for the best. This change did not happen overnight. It was through my grandmother’s life that I was shown the truth of how I should live. Her daily routine, beliefs, morals, and character helped establish me into the person I am today. I lived a life addicted to sin. There were things that I have done in secret because I knew it was sin. It seemed impossible to get rid of, and I thought it was just the normal way of life. This all changed when God made me aware of my sins by placing my grandmother in my life. to put God first. She was the first person to explain to me what a Bible was. She encouraged me to read my Bible to learn about God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost.

I knew something was different about my grandmother. She seemed to always have peace no matter what was going on in her life.I witnessed her go through difficult times that seemed impossible to come out of, but because of her faith in God, she persevered through those moments. It was her prayers that turned those difficult times into blessings. There were times in my life I knew my grandmother prayed for me. Things I knew weren’t supposed to happen came to pass in my life, and this became my first experience witnessing God’s power. Before I knew what I know today, There were times that I wanted to do better. Throughout my childhood, I did everything that I thought I should do to avoid sin. I made sure to pray and repent for all things that might disappoint God. That even included the time that I forgot to do my homework. I wanted to live a life pleasing to God and did everything I thought I should do. Still, something was missing, and I kept finding myself in sin. I knew what I was doing displeased God and that this was not how I was supposed to live. It was through my maternal grandmother’s life that I found the truth. Her life was the testimony I needed and the influence that brought about my new beliefs. My grandmother taught me how to live a life pleasing to God, such as fasting, praying, tithing, seeking God, and going to church. Her daily routine always involved God, from watching Christian television to running errands. She made sure

When I was discouraged, she explained how God is a life changer and that He knows everything about me. When she explained this to me, it brought back all the memories I had of Him. The life I thought was impossible to live, became possible with God. I later found myself creating new traditions passed down from my grandmother. Through my grandmother’s tradition of putting God first, I’ve seen what God can do. The changes that were made, the answered prayers, and the testimony of her life, influenced my life with God. My grandmother’s tradition started when she was young. I remember her telling me that my mom was still a baby when My grandmother taught me how to live a life pleasing to God, such she gave her life to God; from that moment, my grandmother has placed as fasting, praying, tithing, seeking God first. This was the start God, and going to church. of her beliefs that trickled down to the next generation. Now I find myself living the same experiences as my grandmother. In difficult moments, I knew that it was only God that brought me through. I believe in putting God first in everything I do.I understand that this was God’s plan, and it all started because of my grandmother.