Episode 201

This is the twelfth installation in the series titled “This World Has Gone Bonkers.” You will enjoy this series if you’ve ever read a news article and thought, “man, that is just crazy!” We know and see it increasingly everyday: happenings that show the powers and principalities at play behind the craziness, and we can’t help but wonder just what is this world coming to. At the same time, we know the scriptures tell us these times are both here and coming, so we trust God, suit up for spiritual battle, and engage lost souls for Christ. In today’s episode, we cover articles about high courts having to spell out the definition of gender, climate activists tearing down huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest to build roads for an upcoming climate change conference, clergy reducing Christ from Savior of the world to a mere guide, and women aborting their children in response to faulty and shady testing. If you have ever thought that you shouldn’t annoy the stranger with your gospel presentation or that you shouldn’t inconvenience your neighbor with witnessing efforts, throw timidity out the window, take one listen to this podcast, and realize that everywhere all around us, people are absolutely lost in spiritual darkness, desperately in need of the Way, the Truth, and the Life, Whom you know! Take heart, be bold, and reach out and engage them for Christ, because this world has gone Bonkers.

[MCG]

If Christ is that savior, you’re robbing him of his position. If he’s not savior, you’re calling him a liar. If he’s that savior and just guide, we are yet in our sins.

[Jay]

Thank you for tuning in to the Removing Barriers podcast. I’m Jay and I’m MCG. And we’re attempting to remove barriers so we can all have a clear view of the cross.

[MCG]

This is episode 201 of the Removing Barriers Podcast, and this is the 12th in the series of this world has gone bonkers. And in this episode we have lined up a number of news articles. That we think will show that this world is bonkers.

[Jay]

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[MCG]

All right, Jay, let’s start with your first article that you think is bonkers.

[Jay]

This article comes from the BBC’s on 12th of March 2025 titled the Amazon Rainforest, felled to Build Rd. for climate summit, written by Ione Wells. New 4 lane highway cutting through 10s of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP 30 climate sum. In the Brazilian city of Belem, it aims to ease traffic into the city, which will host more than 50,000 people, including world leaders, at the conference in November, the state government touts the highways sustainable credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental. Back the Amazon plays a vital role in absorbing carbon for the world and providing biodiversity, and many say this deforestation contradicts the very purpose of a climate summit. Understatement of the century along the partially built Rd. lush rainforest towers on either side, a reminder of what was once. There logs are piled high and the cleared land, which stretches more than 8 miles through the rainforest into Belem, diggers and machines, carved through the forest floor, paving over wetland to surface. The road which will cut through a protected area and it goes on to explain how. Locals living in the area. Are in dismay and they are talking about how everything was destroyed. One man named Claudio Vedic Quette, gesturing toward the clearing. He said everything was destroyed. Our harvest had already been cut down. We no longer have that income to support our family. He says that he has received no compensation from the state. Government and is steadily relying on his savings and he worries that the construction of the road will lead to more deforestation in the. Future, now that the area is more accessible for businesses, he says, our fear is that one day someone will come here and say, here’s the money. We need this area to build a gas station or to build a warehouse, and then they’ll have to leave, he says. We were born and raised here in the community. Where are we going to go? And so? The summit has responded, saying that they have no connection to the road. They have nothing to do with it. They didn’t propose that the road is built, they’re not in any way involved, but no one is buying it. Not the locals, not the writer of the article. And there’s back and forth between the President of that country and the governing body or the. The body that’s going to put on the. Summit. But these conversations will apparently happen at a very high level among the business people and the government officials. And because it’s happening at that high level, people on the ground and people who are actually living near the land, the conservationists, the people on the lower rung of importance. They’re not going to be heard. At least that’s the complaint. And so it’s just. I’m flabbergasted that the people who put on the summit can’t see how much of A dichotomy this is to be destroying rainforest in order to build a road to have a COP summit to have a climate conservationist love the earth. Let’s reduce our impact type. Summit.

[MCG]

Yeah, climate activists and those that proclaim to be the righteous proclaimer of it. I’ve always been hypocritical. Anyway, look at Bernie Sanders and AOC flying around on jets around the place and the other one who promoting it. Look at what his name, Carrie, what his name first. Team John Kerry joined the Biden administration. He was the climate czar and zipping around the world in private jets to talk about climate change. You know, look at the ones that push it the most. They don’t want to live in the biggest house and have the biggest carbon footprint. Look at Bill Gates. Look at the size of the house you live in. I’m sure he has multiple of them as well, so I’m not surprised here that they’ll be hypocritical even though they claim there’s no connection to them. Obviously if you’re bringing a big summit to a country that may not or area of a country that may not have the infrastructure to accommodate you, they’re going to have to do something to accommodate you, just like if their Olympics should happen.

[Jay]

They would.

[MCG]

In certain parts of the world that they’re going to have to be building and doing and other stuff to accommodate the Olympics. So they should have known, even if they said it in a sanction, it they should have known that if we could have it in this, assuming it’s a remote area in Brazil that they’re going to be building infrastructure to accommodate them, other people they’re bringing in, it’s just being hypocritical and there’s nothing new about that when they come to the climate, SARS.

[Jay]

The full title of the conference, according to Wikipedia, the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference. And so this is being put on by the United Nations. It’s being held from 10 to 21 November of this year, which is 2025, the city that it’s being held and put in the candidacy for the summit to be held in that particular location. And I suppose from a governing perspective, he wants to bring the business. And bring the connections and bring the networking and bring the infrastructure to an area that perhaps wouldn’t have gotten it otherwise. And so they vehemently both the COP 30 organizers as well as the governing body of the city, vehemently deny that they have anything to do with that new highway being cut through the rainforest. But considering the backlash that they’re getting, it only makes sense that they would deny it. And everyone coming into the summit will be coming in through their private jets. I’m pretty sure no one’s going to be driving their electric car from wherever they are all the way down into Brazil. They’re going to be staying. And I’m pretty sure going to be very nice hotels and eating very nice food, all of which. We could say it would have a questionable carbon footprint and they can do those things while they point their fingers lecture at us about how we’re supposed to live, how we’re supposed to modify and cut back our lives so that we can save the planet. And I think I said this before probably behooves the the people to be a little bit more ornery because more and more. As the years go on, they’re becoming so much more brazen with their hypocrisy, with their rules for thee and not for me attitude with the classism and all of the different attitudes that go into pulling off a ridiculous something like this. But here we are.

[MCG]

All the good news is they’re going to be exposed because there’s enough social media and all these things out there to expose them. But yeah, as I said, there’s nothing new. John Kerry did it for years on the Biden administration and is not going to stop there. They claim to want to reduce their carbon footprint. But as you said, yeah, they just want to reduce it. For Ross, not for them. So yeah. Alright, well I have one and this one is out of the UK and is on the New York Post. The title of it is UK Supreme Court rules transgender women did not fit legal term woman in landmark decision. And it reads the United Kingdom Supreme Court unanimously ruled Wednesday. And this is some time in April 2025 that change gender women do not fit the legal definition of women, which is reserved for those born biologically female. The court 5 judges agreed in the landmark ruling that the terms woman and sex under the countries 2010 Equality Act refers to a biological woman and biological sex justice, Patrick Hodge said. The ruling does not remove protection from trans people who are protected from discrimination underground of gender reassignment, the court confirm. But a transgender person with documentation recognizing them as female, should not be considered a woman for equality purposes. The definition was challenged in 2018 after the Scottish Parliament passed a law stating that women should make up 50% of representative on Scottish public boards. Scottish official ladies at FEMA representation include trans woman with a gender recognition certificate, which offers legal recognition of someone female sex honor the Equality Act to meet the quota. Women, Scotland, SWS, the women’s rights group that brought the legal challenge, argued that Scottish officials redefinition of women went beyond Parliament powers, not tying the definition of sex to its original meaning means that public boards could conceivably comprise 50% men and 50%. Men with.

[Jay]

It’s.

[MCG]

Yet still lawful meeting the targets for FEMA representation, the group’s director, Trina Budge, had previously said the landmark decision could impact set based rights and single set facilities across the UK. The group, which counted Harry Potter author JK Rowlins among its biggest supporters. He said FWS argued that under the Equality Act, sex should refer to biological sex as it is understood in ordinary, everyday language. Our position is your sex, whether you are man or woman. Or girl or boy is determined from conception in utero even before 1’s birth by one’s body, SWS attorney Adrian O’Neill said. It is an expression of 1’s bodily reality. It is an immutable biological state. Legal challenge was initially rejected in 2022, but the FWS was permitted to take its case to the country’s top court last year, which will be 2024. You know, there’s a lot of things you can say about this, but. I heard this statement referring to Pop star and they said in order to realize how far he has fallen, he first has to realize how high he had risen and compared that to this just to realize how. Far common sense has fallen. We have to realize how far we have to take things to get a common sense. This is the UK Supreme Court. This is not some Magistrate Court someplace. This is the Supreme Court. Of the United Kingdom and they have to go to five justices. I don’t know what their salaries are and argue a case before them that someone who was born. XY male biologically male cannot be biologically a woman. That’s basically what the argument something that kids learn by time they’re too. Some things that you learn in basic biology, we have 5 UK supreme justices ruling and saying, hey, yes, a man is a man and A and a woman is a woman they can’t change. I don’t know. Common sense has fallen way down.

[Jay]

Well, I suppose one thing that we can be happy about is that the UK Supreme Court hasn’t yet lost its sense, although there are many other rulings that people would fight back with me on that, but at least they ruled in the right on this particular issue. That’s one thing to be grateful for. But yes, the fact that we’re having to pose this question. To. The nations was the kingdom’s highest court is quite telling in terms of how far we’ve fallen. The country that gave us the foundation of the rule of law that we enjoy in our country, the country that gave us greats like William Tyndale and. Them Shakespeare and I mean, we could go down the list of phenomenal people in the Western tradition. Great men and women that have come from the United Kingdom, from England, from that region of the world, and we’ve been reduced to trying to figure out male and female.

[MCG]

Well, you know what, this is more in Scotland and I guess I give them a pass because the Scottish men over they wear skirt anyway so.

[Jay]

All my words. You will not be able to live that down.

[MCG]

I’m just joking, my Scottish friends.

[Jay]

Well, good. On the UK Supreme Court for ruling in favor of common sense and common sense is not so common any longer.

[MCG]

Yep, what else do you have for us?

[Jay]

The second not article, but subject that I would like to bring up. It’s a disturbing trend that seems to be gaining steam on social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube shorts. Is the trend of people recording themselves dancing vulgarly? At their jobs while they’re on the clock, the word to describe that as twerking. So it’s a very suggestive. Form of dancing where you’re bouncing your ear and up and down and you’re just being completely unprofessional behavior. Both that and people recording themselves being completely unprofessional in the workplace. Posting it on these social media platforms for everyone to see and then being completely surprised when they are. Reprimanded. Let go. Ohh shelved whatever you want to call it, open and go fund me for support after they engage in such ridiculous behavior. I think in many ways social media has melted our collective brain. If I could say it in that particular way, the most recent issue of this or the most recent occurrence of this. Was a flight attendant who recorded herself twerk. Being on the plane right before passengers boarded, hiking up the skirt, flip on the chair, just all kinds of nonsense. Completely unprofessional, completely vulgar. The type of dance that you would see women of the night do at their respective areas of work she’s doing on the plane during work hours on the chair. Or people are going to sit with the caption or with the setting or the label if you will. Well, I don’t know what TikTok calls it that you know, she may as well get a torque in before the passengers board. I can’t wrap my brain around that level of unprofessionalism. I’m not the most professional 10 in the box, but it seems obvious to. To me, as dull as I am, that that’s not something that you do at work and this is something that people are posting online and they are unashamed, unabashed, just.

[MCG]

I bet these are Gen. Z and millennials doing that.

[Jay]

You know, that’s a really good question. Let me pull that up to see how she she’s in her. 20s. For sure, she’s Gen. ZI don’t think you’ll catch Jen also doing anything that ridiculous.

[MCG]

OK, let’s choose Genevieve. Journal voice not in the workplace. So.

[Jay]

Right. What I mean is that they seem at least it seems that Genova is leaving a lot more conservative in their disposition than millennials or Gen. alpha are or I’m sorry or Gen. Z are. But the idea that she didn’t think that there would be repercussions for this completely baffles me. In fact, let me type in her information and see if I could pull up. What age she actually?

[MCG]

Whatever the case may be, you know if they get fired and go to go fund me and give them go these platforms where people apparently are becoming millionaires overnight because people are donating money to them for their. Because I assuming some twisted weight is a good payday if they’re getting, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars because people will say, OK, poor thing, you were fired or whatever the case may be, or you got yourself in trouble here. Some money, I don’t know. But of course, I haven’t been into the office since the dinosaur room, the earth. So I would guess it’s probably boredom that’s leading to some of these things.

[Jay]

I think it’s. I think it’s more attention seeking.

[MCG]

But. Yeah, you might be right. That’s.

[Jay]

A good point, because she’s now threatening to sue Alaska Airlines, this particular flight attendant that I’m talking about, and it’s not just flight. These are professionals. We’re talking flight attendants. We’re talking about a clinical psychologist that got on to TikTok not only bashing men, but also twerking. While she did it and she was surprised that she was let go and her license or whatever it is like psychologists get, was revoked and that she had to resort to only fans in order to support. Herself.

[MCG]

Well, she chose to go. To olepa.

[Jay]

She chose to go to only fans to support herself, and so I don’t understand why there’s a gap in understanding the standard for professional behavior. I got an article open here. This is as of March 6th of 2025. She was let go. This flight attendant was let go from Alaska Airlines 2. Months ago, and she had only been there for about she had been there for six months and she managed to find a way to get fired. It was during her probationary period, so the airline was completely within all legal parameters to let her go. The fact that she was being so unprofessional right before passengers came on board, we’ll put that aside. They were within their legal window. If you would the probationary period to let her go, but anyway the video carried the caption quote ghetto till I die. Don’t let the uniform fool you. So this was deliberate and it wasn’t something that she just. It wasn’t impulsive. It was something that she thought about. She did it. She took the time to put the label on it. She took the time to post it, and now she’s trying to sue over it. So this is not some impulsive mistake that she’s made. This was deliberate. And now, as the article says, she’s considering suing. She said her dance was, quote, geared towards the urban community. So now I’m sure that she’s going to bring some sort of race card in here. Saying that you can’t terminate her because this is how ghetto or urban people behave. This is her culture. It’s because she’s black and and thus the termination was ohh. Here it is. It says right here. Thus the termination was racially motivated. So she’s gonna play the race card even though she was being completely. Professional violated their policy and she’s saying that it was discriminatory, that they had no right to do it. And there you go, she said she was choosing to undertake the prohibited behavior. Well, OK. The argument is that. I’m sorry I can’t read this and not laugh, she said that choosing to undertake the prohibited behavior doesn’t get a free pass because the intended audience consists of members of a protected. Class, or at least that’s what the airline is saying. You don’t get a pass just because you were engaging with a particular group of people, and she fights back and says that she was twerking for herself. Yeah, sure, she said. She was twerking for herself because she wanted to celebrate the end of her training period. The end of her probationary period, and she was bored during a delay. Well, if you’re doing it for yourself, you wouldn’t have posted it on TikTok. And if you were doing it for yourself, you wouldn’t have published it for the entire world to see. You weren’t doing it for yourself. You were doing it so that you could glorify yourself in the eyes of the world. You were doing it so that people can look at you and praise you and be enamored by the body that you think you have. And it wasn’t for you. So I’m not an attorney. I don’t know what the legal, what legal point she has there, but from what I understand, and from what I’m seeing in the world today, I don’t think the race card is going to be much of use to her. In this particular front.

[MCG]

Well, based on how much they have to pay an attorney to get let it go away, they might give her some money to let her.

[Jay]

Go away. You know, maybe it’ll just be easier to pay her to shut her up and get her out of there.

[MCG]

Yeah. More expensive to take something to court than to just give her $20,000 to go away or something, but. You know, it’s the culture they were raising, the culture they’re raising. Tell them that they’re the most important people to them is all about them. They’re raising their. Social media world where likes and clicks on everything are important. So yeah, she’s right. She was doing it for her, but she was also doing it so she can get the likes and the clicks and the the followers and everything that hit that they get from posting stuff on social. Media so I’m not surprised she’s Buffalo. She doesn’t know what she did wrong because everybody in her age group and everybody she know does these things that that’s what she knows that what she was raising. That’s the cause she was raising and even generation said they’re having a hard time finding jobs because one employees are rejecting them. Not all of them. But some of them probably have poor work. Ethics and millennials are no better. Except, you know, millennials at least have years experience. Now in the workforce. And many generations that are just coming in, graduating from college and stuff like that, or in the workforce a couple of years. So, you know. Yeah. But again, it’s sad that she will pull the race card because then I don’t know, I can’t even say that’s African American culture because, you know, it’s funny. Put it this way, when former president. Joseph Robinette Biden junior said that black culture is a monolith. There was Elizabeth outro and a backlash. But do you know who present black culture as a monolith more than anybody else? Black people, let me rephrase that. African Americans, they make it seem like African Americans are. If you want to make it broader blacks, that all of us have the same culture. So when they get in trouble, they want to pull. OK, well, I’m turking up word because I’m black. Give me a break.

[Jay]

If they want to present the black, the so-called African American or black culture as a monolith, couldn’t they do it with something a little bit more classy, a little bit more professional, a little bit more to demonstrate your capabilities, your? Strengths your decency, your professionalism, your education. It has to be with the twerking and the gang signs and the trap music and the gang violence and the nonsense. That’s what we’re going to say is the best part of so-called Black culture, which isn’t even a thing because it’s not a monolith. I’d hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist. But it just seems too convenient and it seems to me that there must be. Some evil mustache twirling person in the background just manipulating all of these particular public perceptions about how black people are because I grew up in a family where our culture was completely different from that. I don’t even identify with that at all. And I hate the feeling that I get when I look at the news or when I’m walking in a public space and I just have to. Kind of hang my head and hope that the person that’s making the fool of those cells aren’t black. Because apparently that demonstrates how the rest of us live, when in reality I couldn’t tell you who the most famous black singer or rapper is at this particular moment, I couldn’t tell you what’s the black show or the latest dance or whatever they’re promoting as black culture. I wouldn’t be able to tell you any of that. And yet, because you have a few squeaky wheels and they’re the loudest they’re supposed to. Represent all of what Black America is, so much so that the Democrat Party thrown their tail in the last decade, probably even 2 decades, pandering according to what they think the public perception of black people are. And I am just tired. Tired of it.

[MCG]

Yeah, well, here’s my second article. New York woman had abortion at 20 weeks after paternity tests, only to find out lab was wrong. A younger woman made their hellish decision to abort her baby after getting the results of a paternity test. Only the final months later. The results were wrong. She said in a lawsuit. Now, instead of planning a baby shower and getting ready for her daughter’s impending birth, the woman is dealing with the emotional wreckage of using her child and her long term relationship because of the alleged error by Winn Health Labs in the Bronx and Ohio based DNA Diagnostic center. According to court papers, my daughter would have been born on the 17th of April, she told the Post 2 tears. I’m grieving. I just have a lot of emotions. These results were the reason why I decided to do what I did, the administrative assistant. 28 on her Den, fiance had been struggling to get pregnant when they broke up for three weeks last summer, in part because of the stress and aggregation from the inability to conceive, she said. In Manhattan federal court lawsuit during their hiatus, she had sex with someone else but used a condom during the encounter. Claimed the woman, who asked to remain anonymous. Of course she wants to remain. And none of us, she and the feelings that got back together. And by August she was pregnant for the first time and confident her long time love was the dad I was tracking my ovulation, she said, but wanting to be completely sure and not wanting to alert her fiancee to the sex she had with another man during Daybreak, the woman sought the paternity test. With the other man, the first two tests caused a total of more than 1000 and results were inconclusive. So the PFOA DNA diagnostic center. Online, a company which both having done more than 20 million tests which can be used in court and told itself as world leaders in DNA testing in October, the two traveled to Wynn Health Labs facility on Randall Ave. in the Bronx, which is at the rear of a hair salon, to provide samples for the testing to be done. DNA diagnostics, according to Manhattan federal court paper. Now, why would you trust a help line that is located at the back of a? Here’s alone, it sounds like it should be a tattoo parlor than a health lab. Whatever. Anyways, so confident that the pendant test will show the temporary level was not the father. She even hosted a gender reveal party with her fiancee while waiting for the. Thoughts. But a call from the lab on Halloween left her in utter surprise, disappointment, and frustration. When she was told her fleeing was the baby daddy with 99.99% certainty, according to court papers first reported by NBC News, by then she was nearly 20 weeks pregnant and staring. Found in New York’s 24 week deadline for legal abortion, she was forced to reveal the mother of all drummers to her fiance. He just cried, she recalled. He asked why. Why would you go through a gender reveal? I told him. Because I was positive it was yours during the growing 2 day pregnancy termination procedure, she had a change of heart, but it was too late and doctors could not save the baby. I wish I could reverse this, she said. Reelin, the woman and her friends stay together until Valentine’s, when DNA diagnostics suddenly. All with unthinkable news. The results you’ve been given were due to an IT error, the lab told a woman, according to the lawsuit. The result? She had given were due to an IT error. The lab told a woman, according to the lawsuit, the man she had sex with only once was not the father of the child. She aborted, devastated the woman and her fiance ended the relationship last month, which will be in March of 2025, I assume, for 30 years. DC has provided reliable and accurate testing to millions of customers, the company said in a statement. If any concern is raised, we take immediate action to validate the results and rapidly notify customers of any issues we understand. In and appreciate the incredible amount of trust fever placing us to get this right and we expend every effort to meet that high standard. When health labs in the respond to messages seeking comment, the woman still doesn’t know how the error was made, her lawyer, Craig Simister, said. When you know, people are relied immediately on paternity tests to make life decision. Why did it take four months for them to call? It just doesn’t make sense, he said. Now she’s in Turkey and wants the lab involved, held accountable. How many other people did it happen to? She said. Now there’s many ways you can go on that. Firstly, the Bible says, be sure your sin will find you out. So I guess you can go that direction and it I guess I don’t really get this thing that OK we are not hiatus, so I’m going to go and get hanky panky with another person and then all of a sudden we’re back together and. Ohh, I’m pregnant. Well, I’m not quite sure whose it is. Yeah, there’s so much way to go. It is. But the most important thing is. Is that an innocent life was taken because of her action and she has no accountability for her action. It’s all about what the lab did because you wanted to make a test that is highly invasive and quite honestly, I don’t even know how accurate these tests are. You know, what? If you had just had the baby and the the paternity test afterwards? You would have your baby and you would realise, hey, it’s my long-term fiance, but all this come to this point. If things were being done the biblical way, none of this would have happened. Yet she’s suing. There’s this. There’s that. But I don’t see any personal accountability here anyways.

[Jay]

So I just want to make sure I get this straight. She was in a long term committed relationship with someone she was going to marry. She chose to walk out on that particular relationship by.

[MCG]

Well, they take a three-week ahead of us.

[Jay]

And chose to engage in fornication with someone else.

[MCG]

Well, she was already fungating with her fiancee.

[Jay]

So she’s fornicating 2 times over and then in order to erase her particular. Stake. She kills the child. There’s really no other way to describe what happened there. She killed her child. She killed her child. It turns out to be wrong. And now she wants to sue everyone else. She wants to sue the lab for the compilation of her sin. The stack of her sins stinks to high heaven, but she wants to point the finger at someone else. I made this decision, she said. Because of this particular. Best. She’s completely, as you said already, there’s no need to beat a dead horse. Completely absolving herself of all responsibility. And yet every single decision that she made was volitionally. It was her own. No one held a gun to her head. She decided to do all of those things. And so now. A little baby girl is dead, murdered, ripped from what should be the safest place in the world. Inside a mother’s womb. Because of her actions, she decided to go to a diagnostic lab that was being run on the rear side of a hair salon. She didn’t see any. She chose to do that. This follows the logic of people opening Planned Parenthood and all of these different so-called reproductive services and low income neighborhoods. And they’ll say it so that people can have easy access to care what they ostensibly call care. But if a doctor came and said, hey, we’re gonna perform an operation on you and you’re in a strip mall, you know, there’s just some things that give it away that you perhaps don’t want that person cutting into and rearranging the organs in your body. There’s just little red flags like that. It’s in the back of a hair salon. But you didn’t think anything of it to sound so judgmental. I feel disgusted with this particular person, but I know that I’m also not. I. Better because all of us have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But I hope that this highlights to the Church, to the people of God, how dark and lost and confused and backward people in our society are. So if you ever feel like. You’re out and about and you’re hesitating. If you should talk to this person or that person, don’t hesitate. I promise you, they need the gospel. I promise you nothing that you tell them can be so off. Sensitive that they wouldn’t need to hear it and they want to hear it, but need to hear it because we got people out here making life and death decisions based on results that they got from the back of a hair salon and we think that’s OK we’ve got Supreme Court justices that have to look at. Whether or not male is male and female is female. We’ve got children and adults mutilating their bodies and trying to become something that they’re not. We’ve got women that don’t see anything wrong with walking away from their marriages and their kids and their husbands because they think that they can do better, only to return to social media crying about how things are so hard. Out here in these streets. People need the gospel, man.

[MCG]

Yep. All right. You’ll listen to the Roving Virus podcast. We in the middle of another bonkers episode. We’ll be right back.

[Jay]

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[MCG]

Sure.

Where do you what do you have for us?

[Jay]

The next article I have is very disappointing, but I suppose. That it needs to be discussed anyway. This is about Josh Bice of G3 Ministries and the.

[MCG]

The I’ve never heard of him.

[Jay]

Josh Bice is the president of G3 Ministries, which is a parachurch sort of evangelical conference.

I don’t know if I should call it a business or organization that’s headquartered in Atlanta, GA and so many big name pastors have preached their John MacArthur, John Piper Vody Bochum. The list goes on and on of different people, men of how do you say this, men of renown? I suppose in Christian circles. That have preached there but. Josh Boyce is a Christian preacher and author, and he was the founder of G3 and again G3, one of the largest evangelical conferences in the US. He’s been removed from his leadership role both at the church where he was pastoring and at G3 because he used. Fake social media accounts that he used to slander other ministers online, so apparently he had four other anonymous accounts where he would log in under a different name, a pseudonym, or some other handle, and publicly bash well known preacher.

[MCG]

There’s.

[Jay]

As well as some of the ministers that he was serving with, all in an effort to tear them down or to promote his ministry or his conference, set up there. And so he’s had to resign. And he’s also been made to step down at his leadership role at his church in George. I think his church and George was called Pray Mill. Oh, here it is. Praise Mill Baptist Church and Douglasville. And so it says here in the article. This is USA TODAY by Natalie Nessia Alland and this only happened in May of 2025. It says Doctor Josh Bice. He was placed on indefinite leave at Pray Mills Baptist. He also stepped down as G3. President, that happened on May 12th. The church is located on Atlanta’s West side, about 30 miles from downtown, and an online statement released by G3, its board members wrote that Vice admitted to concealing his identity by operating at least four anonymous social media accounts. 2 Anonymous e-mail addresses and two sub stack platforms. Over the past three years, in order to defame other ministers, now there’s some argument about whether or not he’s actually slandering ministers, or if he’s just providing criticism that he felt like he couldn’t make. And his role as G3 founder and pastor at Praise Mill. But I have the statement regarding Doctor Josh Bice here as well, but the article goes on to say that the board didn’t elaborate on the nature of the slander, but they just said that it was completely sinful and that they reached out to vice as well as G3, but haven’t gotten a response. And so. This has made national news. If USA TODAY is reporting on it and it’s just one more thing that happens to a celebrity pastor, that would. Give critics of Christianity feathers in their cap about one more reason why Christianity is fill in the blank, what they like to say about Christianity. I have the statement here regarding Doctor Josh Vice. It says here the Lord calls his church to walk in the light to speak in truth and love and to uphold the integrity, especially among those entrusted with leadership. It is in that spirit of sober transparency and humble accountability that we, the board of G3 ministries, share the following statement regarding Doctor Josh, Vice President of. 33 and elder at Praise Mill Baptist. Church, which is hereafter referred to as P NBC, had recent weeks. The elders of PMBC uncovered irrefutable evidence that Doctor Vice has for the past three years operated at least four anonymous social media accounts. 2 Anonymous e-mail addresses and two sub stack platforms. These accounts were used to publicly and anonymously. Slander numerous Christian leaders, including faithful pastors, some of whom which have spoken at G3 conferences. Several PMBC elders and others. The actions were not only sinful in nature, but deeply divisive, causing unnecessary suspicion and strife within the body of Christ, and particularly within the eldership of PMBC. Dr. Boyce had been asked on multiple occasions over the past two years whether he had any connection to these anonymous accounts. In each case, he denied any knowledge of them on Sunday evening, May 4, 2025, after clear and comprehensive evidence emerged linking the accounts directly to him, the elders of PMBC confronted Josh. For some time, he continued to deny his involvement. Only after further evidence was presented and much pleading with him to walk in the light that Josh fully confessed to his actions. Since then, Josh has acknowledged his sin, expressed sorrow and asked for forgiveness. His desire is to personally ask forgiveness of every person he has slandered. For. Side too, while Josh has acknowledged with the elders that he is presently disqualified from serving as an elder, we do not believe at this time that his sin is necessarily permanently disqualifying. Accordingly, his content will remain accessible via the G3 website and G3 plus. To be clear, no other employee or board member of G. Three knew Josh was engaged in this activity. He acted. Alone on May 8th, after some of the members of the board privately encouraged Josh Vice to resign, the board received and unanimously accepted Josh Bicep’s resignation as president of G3. In light of these events, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the upcoming national G3 conference in all 2025 workshops, all registrants. Exhibitors and publishers will receive a full refund of registration fees. G3 plans to continue G3 plus G3 press and the G3 student retreat, and other media content as we look into ministry in the future. Sure. We will prioritize the publication of helpful biblical content that strengthens the church and avoids the dangerous celebrity culture that has unfortunately come to characterize so much of modern evangelicalism. We grieve for the harm caused to the body of Christ and to those faithful ministers who were targeted. We likewise reaffirm our commitment to walk in the light. To speak the truth and love and labour together for the building up of Christ’s Church and holiness and unity, we also ask for your continued prayers and support for G3 as we work towards fulfilling our mission to educate, encourage and equip local churches with sound biblical theology for the glory of God. That and what surprises me about this is that maybe I shouldn’t say surprised. But what’s saddening about this madding and sad about this is that he had conducted this behavior for three years that they know of and they were calling him to Matt for two years and he consistently and repeatedly denied and lied to them. Only when there was irrefutable evidence did he. Finally, confess and say yes, I did this and I want to repent and I want to make things right. But this wasn’t some one time post that he put online. This was a pattern of behavior over several years. And then when caught in it, he refused to accept responsibility, refused to confess until he was pinned to the wall. And could no longer deny that it was indeed him, and so the posts that he wrote. Down they did cause a lot of headache and many people have been able to go back and see some of the really nasty things he wrote about other pastors and other speakers at these different conferences. And this comes on the heel of the scandals that G3 had to endure because they were charging something in the neighborhood of $1000 per conference ticket. And this $1000 would allow you to sit with the speakers, engage with them on a more personal level than you would have been able to engage if you were just simply attending the conference. And so it’s more like a pay to sit with your celebrity pastor type thing. And so in addition to that, now you have the whole situation with Josh. I send, I suppose the silver lining in this particular statement from G3 was that they’re going to finally do something that I think all of Christendom should do or Christendom should do is step back from this whole celebrity Pastor thing that we’ve got going on, on YouTube, on social media now, where pastors, I’ll put them in quotation marks. That these men are feeling the pressure to do something more and more. Intense in order to increase their following in order to build their name, build their platform, build their ministries so that they can be successful. I suppose in the realm of ministry. And so they’re treating ministry like a business and there seem to be so far no limits to what some will do in order to further their. Platforms and this is so sad, demonstration or example of that.

[MCG]

Yeah, you know, go back to this verse. Men of like passion. Think that just like anyone else that you know, have social media and want to have a following to crave the likings they crave. The following they crave the attention and that dopamine hit when someone like what you oppose or comment or what you pose and engage with it and somehow passes us subject to that too. And you know, you mentioned for the bacon and the bacon said something once. See if I can remember the story clearly someone said to vote back him that voted back him. He was his favorite pastor and voted back. Him said no, no no no, no. I can’t be your favorite pastor because. Well, firstly, I’m not even your pastor. And secondly, I don’t know you the way your pastor should know you and maybe we start a campaign to make local pastors great again because, you know, I’m glad that my pastor is not famous. I wouldn’t want a John MacArthur to be my pastor, not saying anything negative about John MacArthur. Because I’ve not heard him being caught up in anything for that. You know, he had faithfully served the Lord for many years, but I wouldn’t want that John MacArthur. Or what’s the guy? Did I told the grandmother to go to the transgender wedding? Alistair Begg. Alistair Begg. I wouldn’t want voting back, even though I guess, you know, I wouldn’t want those guys to be my past. I want my pastor to be someone who is not all that well known on Internet and social media and all that stuff. Not saying that you can’t have a present on the Internet that can’t have a presence on social media. It’s just that this famous pastor thing that we have to promote everything and cameras always in your face and. Always have to put a clip here and a clip there. Leave that for the podcasters and their Youtubers and stuff like that. I don’t think the pastor should necessarily be caught up in it, but at the same time I can’t see it. Necessary thing wrong with it. Of course you want to get the gospel out as much as possible. And there’s other things that will draw people besides the old, traditional way of doing stuff. But I’ve seen pastors. Out there that they just give you a bad taste in my mouth when I see their present on social media, whether they promoting their sex. Home that they go to in the woods to get away couple of weekends per year or whatever the case may be. Or to me, those things shouldn’t be on social media. If you’re pastor and you still happen to be one of those pastors that are paid well enough that you can have a second home someplace else where you can reach it to for a couple of days, why do the rest of the world need to know that? You’re just opening doors for people to say ill stuff because you know the past that people want to know how in the world did you make so much money to have that, you know, especially when solid pastors are doing it, it gives me their jewel esteem, the TD Jakes, Joyce, Meyer or whatever her name is kind of feel, you know. I don’t care for it, and maybe this is what happened to this guy. I’ve never heard of him, but maybe this is what happened to him that caught up in the fame under followers under everything, you know, paying $1000 for All Access Pass. That’s what the world does. You know, when you have a business and you want to get up and close and personal with a speaker, you’re doing that with a pastor. Well, I’m a kind of guy that I don’t really care for. Celebrities that much anyway, so you know, I wouldn’t tip over to and stuff like that. I remember I was working in a particular location when about most president and he was going to come to the location. And I remember this. Out Flyers and memos and all kind of stuff you have to be in the parking area by 9:00 because you’re not gonna get in because they gonna start blocking off the streets. And I remember when he was giving this speech, the office was empty. Everybody left the walk down to listen to Obama’s speech. I’m like, I don’t care. It’s not because he’s Democrat or what. Even with a Republican, even though I’m not Republican, I don’t care who he was. I wasn’t going to go down to give up my time to for what? I’m just not interested. Ability. So maybe just me. But that to me is just an issue and and the sad part about it is that it’s not just the TJ. Of the world, the solid churches are going that.

[Jay]

Way too the solid churches, the solid preachers are going that way as well. I think that when I think of the scripture, Paul has a more charitable reaction to this than I do. Philippians one, verse 12 through 17. But I would, you should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather. And to the servants of the gospel so that my bonds in Christ were manifest in all the palace and in all other places. And many of the brethren and the Lord waxing confident in my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. So here you have Paul. Being faithful to the gospel, faithful to preaching, and then verse 15 describes some of these Josh vices that are running around seeking to add to his affliction. Verse 15 says some indeed preach Christ, even of envy and strife, and some also of goodwill. The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely supposing to add affliction. To my bonds, but the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel. What then? Notwithstanding every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ’s preach, and I therein do rejoice. Yeah, and will rejoice. And so I suppose so. Perhaps we can look at it that way. From what we understand, this is a brother in Christ, although. I’m wondering, how do you go three years deliberately and willfully sowing discord among the brethren in that particular way? Man, there’s so many questions there. The state of mind that you have to be in the spiritual state that you have to be in to be doing something like that. Yes. Paul is quite charitable in the Scriptures. When he talks about that because we know that if. He’s doing that behind the scenes, this Josh vice guy. If he’s doing that behind the scenes, then when he’s preaching, there’s no way. That it’s it’s out of a sincere and pure desire for the furtherance of the gospel. There’s envy there. There’s a desire to build oneself up. There’s a desire to promote yourself. There’s a desire to promote your ministry. And so I don’t see how G3 can say that this is not a permanently disqualifying sin. Granted, it’s not on the level of adultery. Fornication or a murder, or any things that we call quote big sins. But he’s been sowing discord in the body of Christ for three years, deceptively so, and in many different ways, and denied it when he was called on the carpet for it. And only and I read an article today. Where he misrepresented how he went about apologizing to Vody Bakum for this particular debacle. And so it doesn’t seem to me that he’s genuine. It doesn’t seem to me, according to that article about how it went down and about how he misrepresented how he apologized to what he bought. It doesn’t seem to me that he’s genuinely sorry for the discord that he’s sewed. It just seems to me that he’s sorry he got caught and he’s doing all the necessary timeout things that people do when they’re caught. It seems like he’s completely intent on jumping back into ministry as soon as he can. I.

[MCG]

Well, ministry, since bread and butter, I guess that’s why we get paid, but I don’t know. I’ll leave it to his local congregation to decide how long of a disciplinary time he has on whether or not he can be reinstated. I don’t necessarily think that he’s disqualify himself for life from ministry, but I could be wrong. But at the same time, you know, again men of, like, passionate. Yeah, sometimes. Goes to us that we’re the one who uphold these men as beyond the sins of the everyday man. When they’re not man of like passion. Just as I said, you know what you know, hopefully the Lord will work in. Him and he’ll learn from it, so I assume he might be a younger man, but so.

[Jay]

And I hope that Christians can appreciate their local down in the trenches. Nobody knows his name, pastor that weekend and week out every Sunday, every Wednesday, laboring to rightly divide the word, to preach the word, to minister, to share the gospel, to pray for their local. Flock because they’re the MVPS. They’re the ones that like Woody Buckham said. They’re the ones washing you with the water of the word every week and laboring that you may be presentable to God. I’m misquoting that verse, but when they have to give an answer. For you, they’re the ones doing the daily work. The daily grind in order to bless people where they are, reach out and minister to people where they are. And for all of these preachers, the overwhelming majority of them, no one will ever know their name beyond their local congregations. And they’re the real MVP’s.

[MCG]

And that’s the way. It should be.

[Jay]

That’s the way it should be.

[MCG]

Anyways, I have another one. Here is Jesus, savior or guide? Well, according to Academian reverent and LGBT. Activist Brent Harts said Kristen, referring to Jesus as savior, is offensive to other religions. Here is reverent activist Brent Hawks.

[Brent Hawkes]

Now when they came out very quickly, there was one word in those bedrock beliefs that began for me to be uncomfortable. Problematic. When people now come to our church, many of them will first. Check the website. To see what this church is about, what they believe, and many of the folks who did that would tell me out in the community, Brent, I looked up your church and it sounded reasonable, but when I got to that word, savior, it was a problem. And it was a problem because I’m from another faith tradition or it’s a problem because I don’t believe that everyone has to accept Jesus as personal Lord and savior like the fundamentalists say. Or that everyone has to define savior in the way that the fundamentalists define it.

[MCG]

You know the problem, even after bat, he’s making fundamentalist a dirty word and savior dirty word. It’s not the fundamentalists who said it. Whatever you want to mean by fundamentalist Brent reverent. Hawks. Is the Bible that says it. Act 412 neither is there salvation in any other, but there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby one must be saved talking about Jesus. Whether you’re fundamentalist or not, that’s what the Bible says anyway.

[Brent Hawkes]

And it soon became that I kept having to explain that word, and I knew many people would never give me the opportunity to explain that word. And in membership classes, when we go through the vision, mission values and bedrock beliefs, that was almost always the point that was raised by somebody. That they had a problem with. And so twice in my 40 years here, I tried to get the word changed. And because I quickly realized that one crucifixion was enough. I backed off and thought, OK, this is not the right time to do that because it it upsets some folks. Then I had to figure out my own definition of the word, and so today I want to talk about my definition, how I approach that word. I believe that in scripture the phrase salvation. Means healing our relationship with God, God, and for me savior means the person or persons or situation that helped me to heal my relationship with God, who points me in the right direction in healing that relationship with God. And so for me, being born in Canada. Being born in New Brunswick, in the Bible Belt, being raised a strict fundamentalist Baptist, I have no problem saying that Jesus is my personal Lord and savior. That’s where I come from. In the Gospels we have the example of Jesus life. So teacher example are there. But it also has saviors and I would hope that someday this church would see. The possibility of changing that word because it is a stumbling block for so many who want to be here. It is a stumbling block for people who do interfaith work. How do we explain that phrase to Muslims and to Jews and to Hindus? I think the word guide just as effectively describes the meaning that Jesus is the one who guides us back into a healing relationship with God. Doesn’t say he’s the only guide. If you want to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior, join me. It’s OK. But if you want to redefine that word for you, that’s OK too.

[MCG]

Well, well, well, well, firstly, it’s not the word savior that’s a stumbling block to your Muslim and Hindu friends. Reverent, clearly this guy is not safe because he has no spiritual discernment, none whatsoever, because it’s not the word savior that. Problem is, who the word savior is referring to is the problem. You know, the Bible says in first Corinthians, one verse 20 to 23. Where is the wise where the scribe? Where is the dispute of this world? Had not God made foolishness of wisdom of this world for after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God? It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe, for the Jews require the sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom. But we preach Christ crucify unto the Jews as stumbling block and unto the Greek. Foolishness, but unto them, which are called both Jews and Greek Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God again going back to Vodacom, it’s that name. Jesus. That’s the problem, because they know when they see the term savior, they’re referring to Jesus, and they’re saying, hey, you’re telling me that Jesus is my savior. And I believe differently. This guy has no spiritual discernment. Whatsoever. So now you can have many guides or all roads leads to salvation, now realizing that he’s calling Jesus Christ a liar. He’s basically on the mind. In the Bible, he’s basically Christianity doesn’t exist. What’s the most famous verse? One of the most famous verse we quote during Christmas time for unto you born this day in the City of David A what, a savior, which is Christ the Lord. It’s not me calling him a savior. It’s the Bible calling him a savior. John. Four first 42 and said unto the woman, this is talking about the woman. The well, I fell on the woman. No, we believe not because of thy thing, for we have heard him ourselves and know that this is indeed the Christ, the savior of the world. Acts 13, verse 23 of this man’s seed had God according to his promise raised unto Israel as Savior, Jesus. If Christ is that savior. You’re robbing him of his position if he’s not saviour. You’re calling him a liar. If he’s not savior and just God. Right. We are yet in our sins at 5:30 and 31, the God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom he flew and hang on the tree. Him had God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a savior for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. 1John 4:14.

And we have seen and do testify that the fathers and the son to be the savior of the world over and over again, the Bible refers to. To Jesus as savior, and yet we have a clue called reverent saying that he’s not savior or don’t call him savior. Call him a guide.

[Jay]

What a demotion? What blasphemy that is to refer to Jesus as merely a guide? If Jesus is merely a guide, then he’s no different than the Buddha. He’s no different from the next imam. He’s no different from any other cult leader that’s out there. He’s no different from the Dao. Llama, whoever you want to call your so-called Guide Jesus is the same as all of those things, and the Bible is infinitely clear that he is not just a guide. He’s not just someone that’s supposed to help you give you a little bit of a nudge because you’ve got this salvation thing. You just need a little bit of Jesus in your life. And that’ll help you get over the line because you had the salvation. Thing in the bag and you just needed a little bit of a push there. Acts Chapter 4 where Peter is speaking to the Jews and in verse 10 he says be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him? Doth this man stand here before you whole? He had just healed the lame man. I believe it is here and he. Says whom he crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him. Doth this man stand here before you whole? This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which has become the head of the corner. Verse 12 is the one I want to highlight here. Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is none other name. Then under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved. Now granted the word savior is not in this passage, but the words. Salvation and saved are, and he’s the only way to be saved. He’s the way. He’s a truth. He’s a life. And 1st John. 2 Verse 2 says and he. Is the propitiation for our sins. And not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. That’s not just a guide, he is the propitiation for our sin. Salvation is impossible apart from him. He is the savior to refer to him as anything else, to refer to him as merely a guide. Is simply blasphemous, and I for one am getting quite sick of these so-called LGBTQ reverends and the denominations and the synods and whatever it is the group of people that affirm them, allowing them to spew this nonsense. And I think that there’s a time and a place for imprecatory prayers, and I think that this is one of them that God would silence their mouths because they are misleading people, particularly people who have bought into the LGBTQIA mafia, theology, whatever they want to call it, misleading them, deceiving them, leading them further and further down the path of darkness. That they’re already on and then presenting such a false view of Christ to the. World. Maybe I’m wrong. I’m no theologian, but I think that this is the perfect situation where an imprecatory prayer would be quite appropriate.

[MCG]

I don’t know. I wanna take it that far more prefer this man’s salvation then to pray to take him out. But.

[Jay]

Naturally, you’re much sweeter, much nicer, and much more merciful than I am.

[MCG]

But anyways, alright, so this honorable mention. And I have a couple here, New Jersey teacher charged with having 13 year old students baby and threw herself a baby shower and she tell her friends that hey, the father is out of the picture. So I think what happened here, she was their teacher of their 13 year old boy. For some reason the boy. And his sister would have sleepover at her. And that’s when that Bruce happen and she end up and got pregnant from this 30 little boy and she herself a baby shower. Tell her friends, hey, five days out of the picture. I think it was after the baby was born and someone said that baby looks so much like the boys. Father didn’t that the baby looked like the father of the baby but the grandfather that’s when. I guess for the investigation was happening and I think their daughter even confess of seeing them in bed together and stuff like that. So definitely bonkers Maga, head of the JFK files Task Force, claims that they were two shooters and pledged to uncover more secrets. So Trump is apparently releasing their JFK files, and apparently the two shooters are not one. Well, we’ll see. I don’t know about that yet, but and also. This one have been widely reported on. Biden used auto pen on many official White House documents, raising concern over his awareness. I guess I’m not gonna get further into that, but those are my dishonorable mentions.

[Jay]

I have one here that you know it’s a dishonorable mention, but I wonder if we should dedicate a particular episode to it because it brings up a lot of questions about death and preparation, how we conduct funerals and wakes and things of that nature. But there’s a very popular trend happening where it’s called an extreme embalming, where the deceased. 1st. And is embalmed and positioned in such a way that they are participating in their own wake and their own funeral. It began in port well. Extreme embalming is not new. There are people that have been involved that are on display for decades and decades on end, but this is different in that the bodies are manipulated and. Positioned to be doing tasks and the activities that they enjoy. Doing when they were alive, it first started in Puerto Rico with a boxer named Christopher Rivera and 2014, and there is a very famous, I guess. Morgue. Would you even call it a morgue? But anyway, Funeral Home. Let’s just call it that. That does this extreme and bombing and what they did is that they embalmed him and dressed him and propped him and positioned him to be standing up. In a sort of pugilistic stance, as though he were preparing for one last round, and so the family had a boxing ring and all of these things kind of set up in the house so that when you came in, you were expecting to see a body in the casket. But what you saw was the corpse propped up in the corner. Of course, everything that’s being used to hold the body up and position the body is a camouflage. Sending. The corner, ready to do his last boxing match and so this has caught fire and it’s become more popular. It’s happening in more places and it’s become even more extreme. First instance of it was in Puerto Rico. Now we see it in New Orleans and now it’s moved. Just recently there was a rapper in the Washington DC area that. Had the same thing done to him where he was positioned standing on a stage and his funeral or his wake was in the club with loud club music, smoke machines and everything and he’s on the. Stage in his full gear, sunglasses on everything Mike and everything, as were his last concert. People paid to go to this thing as well. It gets more and more extreme. Initially you’d have someone either seated or standing. Just. Doing something that none of this is normal, but doing something that appears to be quite tame just either standing or sitting. Doing their favorite activity, whether it’s smoking the last thing or drinking or playing poker or playing video games seated. But the positions become more and more extreme. You’ve got one guy riding a motorcycle, one guy driving a taxi, the other guy, like I mentioned the rapper standing on stage. There was even one where the corpse was made to sit on the chair with his leg crossed. A joint in his hand and his eyes were. Opened, they left his eyes open and people come in and it’s almost like this sort of morbid curiosity thing where people file in and they want to remember their loved ones in some particular way. Anyway, it’s a long thing. I wonder if we should probably get into it, because what does that say about what we understand death to be and what we understand eternity to be? It seems like they’re trying to extend this person’s. Life and memory as though there’s nothing else afterward that this is all they have, and so they have to do something extreme in order for that memory to continue. It just seems it’s completely bonkers. There’s so much to it, but I’m going to go ahead and list that as a dishonorable mention, and perhaps we can talk more about it.

[MCG]

Yeah, we’ll see. I don’t even know how I feel about that, but yeah.

[Jay]

Yeah, it definitely makes you ask questions about death and funerals and wakes. And why do we do the things that we do? And what do these things mean? What meaning do they have? Etcetera. So anyway, that’s my dishonorable mention.

[MCG]

Alright, so I’ll end with the article from Banner. This is actually from the Christian Post and the famous pollster bar. America needs spiritual renewal as fewer than half of Americans believe God exists. So I’m not gonna read the entirety just because we have been going for a while here. But basically, I think it’s like 60% of Americans believe that God doesn’t exist, or that even if he exists, he doesn’t play a part in their life. Song in any major way. And that’s 60% and that’s sad. And you go on to give a lot of stats about even professing Christians, people that profess to be Christian, how important is God in their life as some of them say, he’s not import. Then at all the statistics. Very disappointed if you read this article from Christian Post, we’re bound to report this and I guess it just for the highlight, the need to going out there and preaching the gospel really does, because even people who claim to be Christian are just cultural Christians. They claim to be Christians, but they want to have nothing to do with Christ. It’s funny enough that it was like 19% that in the article says that of people that profess to be Christian actually found the identity in Christ. 14% find it as it is in Christ and only 19% believe their faith that what they profess to be have any control over their decisions on their life choices they make. Think about that. So about 20% if you want to run it up to 20% of people that claim to be Christian found their identity in Christ and.

[Jay]

Hmm.

[MCG]

Balls. So use their believes the Bible, the teaching of Scripture to guide their decision in life. So it meaning there’s people out there that claim they’re Christian, they don’t find that, then the Christ and they live ever know they feel. Yeah. And you know, the one that these people are Christian. But the question always back every time we do this article, you know, do you agree with us, do you agree? That this world is bonkers. If the answer to that question is yes, I do believe the water is bonkers. If you’re listening and you say yes, I believe that my question to you is what are you doing about it? Again, if you’re saved, you’re born again. Let me encourage you saturate your Jerusalem with the Gospel of Christ. Do your part in spreading the gospel so we can draw more people onto this narrow way that leads to Christ. You know, one person says that sharing the gospel is just one beggar telling another beggar we’re to find the bread. So I guess my question to you again is. You are the former. Beggar. Will you go and tell another beggar? Where the bread is where you found the bread. Don’t spread the gospel. Mark 16 verse 15. And he said unto them, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. And that’s my encouragement to hear some of the articles you might find to be entertaining, you might smack your forehead and wonder how in the world can anyone believe that the dude for certain. But at the end of the day, what are you doing about it? Are you sharing the gospel? Are you telling others how they can be safe?

[Jay]

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[MCG]

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