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So then we agree: religion can be an obstacle. They have the "word," they now need the school.
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On Apr 5, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Vera Crowell wrote:
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> John, darlin'
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> "God helps those who help themselves" is not biblical, is not in scripture, and is not what He said nor what He continues to say to those listening.
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> When you see people doing nothing, waiting for divine intervention, they aren't doing what He said to do. There are many, many, many things you have to do when you are counting on deliverance from God. 'Doing nothing' will not get you delivered...which is why so many people do not get their deliverance. God always does His part...people do not want to do their part, so guess what happens?? No deliverance.
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> We have a deliverance ministry, John, and guess what? People want deliverance, but they want to be able to do what they want or not do anything and they want God to do it all. It doesn't work that way. Don't get me wrong. God and Jesus will meet you where you are. You don't even have to take a step. You can just fall in their direction and they will be right there, letting you know they are ready, willing, and more than able to help get you out of what you got yourself into, what someone else may have gotten you into, or something that just happened through no fault of your own. But, there are steps, baby steps at first, but still steps that have to be taken before deliverance can happen.
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> People who believe they can just sit back and do nothing and get delivered are generally untaught and unskilled in the Word. Undelivered, too.
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> Hosea 4:6a: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."
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> It was true then and is still true today.
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>> Vera, I truly appreciate you caring!
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>> But you might want to re-watch the film, because you actually hit the nail directly on the head. Where is the deliverance, or more importantly, from what are the students I am talking about waiting to be delivered? What about God helping those who help themselves? Waiting for divine intervention becomes one more reason for being inactive, inactivity creates apathy, and apathy self-perpetuates.
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>>> I care about you wayyy too much to let you continue to wallow in your bliss. We need to make a time to meet so that I can explain deliverance to you. No one who truly understands God's deliverance and how it happens could possibly use 'deliverance' and 'apathy' in the same sentence.
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>>>> Quite powerful. Thank you for this. I will definitely be showing it to students later in the week.
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>>>> Although, one could also question the religiosity advocated in the film as also being a contributor to this societal breakdown. I believe that one can easily argue that generations of waiting on God for deliverance from every situation has led to apathy. Surely such total reliance had its place as a comfort when African slaves had absolutely no tools of empowerment other than their bodies, but now, however, far too often I hear on a daily basis from the most at risk of students of how Jesus will take care of every situation. So, say in the case of not passing a test, the excuse is that failure was what Jesus intended. Therefore, ultimately, religion becomes another crutch; another of the myriad means of shifting personal responsibility.
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>>>> Still, this is a great effort at activism. Some of the images in the film provide a great historical references to the current situation with the semi-literate members of the Tea Party. Then, like now, the same ilk were convoluting blackness with communism, and as anti-American.
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