1989 issue 1 - "the unhidden agenda" - counsel of chalcedon
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by Larry E. Ball
A popular word today
used
to des-
he pronounces
the intended effect
of this
cribe activist groups
is
the word agenda when
he
instructs his disciples
"agenda."
An
agenda is the goal
or
pur- "to teach them to observe all things
pose of an organization usually as it whatsoever I have commanded you."
s e e ~
to shape the political and social Christ is able
to
guarantee the
s u e ~
forces
of
its culture. Communism, for cess of his agenda because all authority
example, has an agenda of redistributing "has been given" unto Him. The tense
the wealth of nations through revolu- of the verb form here tells us that
tion. The Gay Rights movement has Christ had
all
authority as he spoke to
the agenda ofchanging attitudes towards
His
disciples.
It is
not something yet to
sodomy so that it will become accepted be given
to
Him.
It
"has been given."
as
an alternate and normal lifestyle by ;Paul conflrms this in Ephesians 1:20-
the America people. 21 where he says, "when He raised Him
Sometimes groups which claim one from the dead, and seated Him at His
goal acwally have another one which is right hand in the heavenly places, far
called a "hidden agenda." The National above all rule, authority, power and do-
Education Association (NEA), which . minion, and every name that is named,
claims to be interested only
in
the educa-
not
only
in
.
this
age,
but
in the age to
'tion of
our children, actually has a hid- come." Notice that his authority is
den agenda
of
promoting the religion of. simply more than a "heavenly"
or
. Humanism and putting all education un- "spiritual" authority, but, as he says, it
der
he the control
of
the state. is a power over all that is "on the
, The word "agenda"
is not
a bad word
earth.
. n itself
as
long
as it
merely describes Christ now sits
at
the right hand
of
.
. the goal
of
a group or organization.
In
God the Father, and all rule, authority,
light of this definition, one agen
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the Trinitarian God, "the Father, the
Son,
an(l the
Holy
.Spirit" that we be
come Christians. Thus the agenda of
the Great Commission
is
founded upon
the gospel as
it
is preached unto the con
version
of
sinners.
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