{"id":1218853,"date":"2022-01-16T10:34:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T15:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1218853"},"modified":"2022-01-16T10:34:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T15:34:20","slug":"revival-and-reformation-is-needed-canadian-pastors-sound-off-on-new-law-that-threatens-to-criminalize-evangelism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/revival-and-reformation-is-needed-canadian-pastors-sound-off-on-new-law-that-threatens-to-criminalize-evangelism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Revival and Reformation Is Needed\u2019: Canadian Pastors Sound Off On New Law That Threatens To Criminalize Evangelism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frevival-and-reformation-is-needed-canadian-pastors-sound-off-on-new-law-that-threatens-to-criminalize-evangelism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1218853&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Days ago, Canada approved a \u201cconversion therapy\u201d ban that condemns Christian doctrine on the sinfulness of homosexuality and transgenderism as \u201cmyth.\u201d Indeed, bill C-4 \u2014 passed unanimously by both the Senate and the House of Commons \u2014 threatens pastors with up to five years of prison time if they remain faithful to the gospel of Jesus Christ.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As thousands of American ministers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/john-macarthur-calls-on-u-s-pastors-to-preach-on-biblical-sexuality-on-jan-16-in-response-to-new-canadian-law\">stand<\/a> in solidarity with Canadian believers by preaching about biblical sexual ethics on Sunday, January 16, two Canadian pastors \u2014 Jacob Reaume of <a href=\"https:\/\/trinitybiblechapel.ca\/\">Trinity Bible Chapel<\/a> and Tim Stephens of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairviewbaptistchurch.ca\/\">Fairview Baptist Church<\/a> \u2014 told The Daily Wire about the implications of C-4 and how Canadian Christians plan to respond.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Church must be a prophetic witness\u2019<\/p>\n<p>While describing C-4, Reaume \u2014 whose church incurred over $100,000 in fines last year for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-christian-convert-ex-drug-user-goes-viral-for-thanking-her-church-for-staying-open-through-covid-19-leading-to-her-salvation\">refusing<\/a> to shut its doors in defiance of Canada\u2019s COVID-19 lockdowns \u2014 noted that the edict will \u201cmake the preaching of the biblical gospel a criminal act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biblical gospel is a message of conversion, whereby Christ causes sinners to be born-again, thus converting them from sinful propensities to godliness,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe bill\u2019s language is vague enough that many think it might criminalize a biblical call to forsake sodomitic propensities to embrace righteousness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephens \u2014 who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-jailed-canadian-pastor-tim-stephens-released-after-international-attention\">jailed<\/a> in a maximum-security facility last summer for refusing to close his church \u2014 added that \u201cthe law is overly broad in defining conversion therapy,\u201d thereby enshrining \u201cprogressive gender ideology and queer theory as normative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll societies that live according to the biblical ethic\u201d \u2014 in other words, creational norms \u2014 \u201chave flourished,\u201d he continued. \u201cThis is now called harmful. Ironically, this law promotes a truly harmful type of \u2018conversion\u2019 using puberty blocking chemicals, surgeries to remove functioning breasts and sexual organs, regular hormone treatments, and truly harmful counseling that has led to exorbitant suicide rates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephens said that the extent to which authorities will enforce the law remains in question. In any case: \u201cMany churches in Canada avoid this subject already to avoid the ire of the culture. When preaching is outlawed, the faithful will be the outlaws who preach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As ministers of the gospel, neither Reaume nor Stephens plan to amend their preaching in response to C-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a message from God, and He has called me to herald it,\u201d Reaume said. \u201cI am not my own, but He bought me with the blood of His Son. I am beholden to Him alone. By His grace, I will not stop speaking about God\u2019s demands for holiness and His free offer of pardon. If anything, the legislation will motivate me to speak with more force and clarity against the evils of homosexuality and transgenderism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t pick our battles, but we do pick how we fight them. May the Master find me faithful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will preach the whole counsel of God in season and out of season. I will continue to speak on the issues that face our culture with clarity,\u201d Stephens likewise affirmed. \u201cThese cultural flashpoints are where the battle rages hottest and it is precisely here that faithfulness is tested. The Church must be a prophetic witness rather than gag God and be ashamed of His truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBroadly, Christians in Canada remain concerned about losing freedom of religion but fearful of using those freedoms to protect their \u2018witness.\u2019 But witness is not reputation in the eyes of the world, it\u2019s faithfulness before God,\u201d Stephens added.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Revival and reformation is needed\u2019<\/p>\n<p>How should Christians in the West \u2014 especially in the United States \u2014 be warned from Canada\u2019s passage of C-4? According to both Reaume and Stephens, LGBTQ doctrine will continue to gain new footholds apart from Christians taking back ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ideologies of queer theory, progressive gender ideology, and critical theory have taken over education, corporations, entertainment, and the media,\u201d Stephens explained. \u201cPolitics is simply the face of the heart of a nation. The United States is lagging Canada, but the ideas are there and will bear fruit unless the roots are pulled up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristians must realize that we are in a spiritual battle where we are called to destroy strongholds, these opinions and philosophies that are raised against the knowledge of God,\u201d Stephens continued, warning that the United States Constitution will sooner or later \u201cprove ineffective to stop the advance of these godless ideologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRevival and reformation is needed. The Church must lead. Sadly, American evangelicalism looks a lot like Canada with only a few voices sounding the alarm and speaking truth to culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reaume noted that believers in the West can no longer ignore pervasive sexual sin in their cultures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristian have erred in thinking that we can carry on in our churches and lives just fine while the state and the media have done all they can to normalize sodomy,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can\u2019t carry on. Sodomy is selfish and destructive toward all it touches. The more it is permitted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days ago, Canada approved a \u201cconversion therapy\u201d ban that condemns Christian doctrine on the sinfulness of homosexuality and transgenderism as \u201cmyth.\u201d Indeed, bill C-4 \u2014 passed unanimously by both the Senate and the House of Commons \u2014 threatens pastors with up to five years of prison time if they remain faithful to the gospel of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}