Ten Global Development Issues For Christian Ministry

[walla299]

12 hours ago, Michael37 said:

That's actually in the transgender category, but ironically exploits the Gender Equality campaign, which includes the following:

• Workplace: Gender equality in the workplace involves ensuring equal opportunities for men and women in terms of hiring, promotions, and pay. It also includes addressing issues like workplace harassment and creating a supportive environment for all employees.

• Education: Ensuring that both boys and girls have equal access to education is crucial for achieving gender equality. This includes addressing barriers that may prevent girls from attending school and promoting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education for girls.

• Leadership: Gender equality in leadership roles means having equal representation of men and women in decision-making positions, whether in politics, business, or other sectors. This helps ensure diverse perspectives and more balanced decision-making.

• Domestic Responsibilities: Gender equality also involves promoting shared domestic responsibilities, such as childcare and household chores. This helps to balance the workload and allows both men and women to pursue their careers and personal interests.

• Health and Reproductive Rights: Ensuring that women have access to healthcare and reproductive rights is a critical aspect of gender equality. This includes access to contraception, maternal healthcare, and the right to make decisions about their own bodies.

• Violence and Exploitation: Addressing violence and exploitation against women and girls is essential for achieving gender equality. This includes combating domestic violence, human trafficking, and other forms of exploitation.

• Cultural Norms and Stereotypes: Challenging and changing cultural norms and stereotypes that perpetuate gender inequality is crucial. This involves promoting positive role models and encouraging both men and women to pursue their interests and talents without being limited by traditional gender roles.

I ran into something related to the trans/gender equality thing in real life. I applied with a major trucking company and part of their orientation/training program is sharing the truck with a co-driver. This is a normal part of the industry for some drivers to run as a team - but here's the fun part: you get to do this with someone whose not your spouse. I was told I would need to be willing to have a female "roommate" in the truck who I'm not married to. They asked if I had a problem with that . . . and yes, I told them I had a problem with it and why.

The same thing is being tried in some homeless shelters too due to the woke agenda that's been pushed. Yeah. Coed shelters. That's going to work swimmingly! (yes, I'm being sarcastic.) Found out about that one while looking up some shelters for a guy in a recovery group. This stuff has infested the culture deeper than many think.

To quote the late R.C. Sproul on this messed up gender stuff in the culture, "What's wrong with you people?!"

On a related subject: Where are the feminists who screamed for women's rights for years when it comes to biological males in female sports? How is that fair and equal to women?

Last item: I'm not too surprised by all this stuff since a lost culture is going to act, well, lost. There was lots of perversion in ancient pagan cultures too. The lost will always act in character because they do not (yet) have Christ.

[Neighbor]

9 hours ago, Marilyn C said:

And my hubby, a farmer says Climate Change is a myth. Purely designed to make some people rich. 

Hi, I'd appreciate reading some details, from a farmer, on that topic that have led to the conclusion reached!

[Neighbor]

12 hours ago, Michael37 said:

Ten Global Development Issues for Discussion:

 

1. Food Insecurity: Millions of people worldwide face acute food insecurity due to economic shocks, weather-related disasters, and other factors.

Hi, Great opportunity to relate conditions of today to the guidance and decrees of the Bible.I'd like to expand on food insecurity some with the premise that it is fresh water, and of course air, that is key to food security. Fresh water and  the recognition  of the notice (tacked up so to speak) in Genesis

"By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

“Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.”– Genesis 9:3

From the moment man rejected God's rule he was doomed to labor amongst thistles for his nourishment. And all that lives may be food for man.

All that is food for man also has need of water just as man needs water for the organized raising of food crops. Water and a shorage of it, perhaps in some cases a shortage due to man's development of the lands that has affected his localized climate, and thus adversely affected rainfall.

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How many labor directly  in order to obtain their "daily bread"?

How many can if pressed start their own "victory garden?

How many carefully tend their own water supply and use?

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Please share of projects that have been, and perhaps still are, helpful to you personally in  obtaining and utilizing your own food supply.  What Bible principles  do you think you have benefitted from in your own endeavors to supply food stufffs? Thanks.

[Dennis1209]

Ten Global Development Issues for Discussion

A.K.A. UN Agenda 2030

21252030 Agenda for Sustainable Development web.pdf

 

I want to comment on all ten bullet points Michael listed, but it would turn into War and Peace. Yes, you are welcome.

Lately, much banter and action has been on the so-called "deep state" or "shadow government." Of which a particular president is trying to expose and eradicate. As a veteran, patriot, and American, that sounds great, and he earned my vote versus the alternative. However, I do not rest my faith and trust in someone trying to do good in his power and taking sole credit for it. It is Jesus Christ alone.

Daniel 2:21 (KJV) And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

I have no doubt the Lord appointed this president (and all leaders) to perform His will, plans, and purposes; I can only guess whether the president is aware of it. His new spiritual officer and advisor, Paula White, gives me great pause. Are his unlikely against-the-odds presidential victories coincidental, his brushes with mortality chance, or possibly divine intervention?

In his recent address to Congress, the president invoked the name of God three times, as I counted them. I would have much preferred he had said, "Lord willing," and invoked prayer for our nation.

2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

I am not disparaging what our president is trying to accomplish, exposing the deep state and eliminating it; a part of me is routing him on. However, his definition of the shadow government is entrenched liberal career civil servants (globalists) subverting the Constitution of the United States.

The deep state, the shadow government in Washington D.C. (and globally), is not who we are fighting against.

Ephesians 6:12 (KJV) For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

We are in a spiritual battle, and our nation desperately needs a revival. For inclusion and so much other decadence, when Congress opens a session with a guest chaplain praying to a false god, Brahma, and concluding the prayer with “amen, and a women,” not much was said. Houston, we have a problem.

When Pastor Jack Hibbs was invited to open a session of Congress with prayer, he prayed to and invoked the precious Name of Jesus Christ our Lord. He was shunned by members of Congress and the liberal news media.

Only a one-page response, which is unusual for me; again, you are welcome. :-) 

[D. Adrien]

1 hour ago, Neighbor said:

Please share of projects that have been, and perhaps still are, helpful to you personally in  obtaining and utilizing your own food supply.  What Bible principles  do you think you have benefitted from in your own endeavors to supply food stufffs? Thanks.

Supermarket.

 

I know Neighbor you were serious and please accept my apology. I couldn't help myself here. First thing that popped into my mind....

[In the Clouds]

Thanks for posting the link on Agenda 30, Dennis.  It looks a lot like 21.  The fact that not all signers have benevolent intentions makes globalism a pipe dream.  And the needs of one country isn't one size fits all.  I have always thought that each country should be the best it can with their resources and seek help where needed.      

[Marilyn C]

7 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Hi, I'd appreciate reading some details, from a farmer, on that topic that have led to the conclusion reached!

Here`s one example - Water. According to the Climate Change theory water will be scare so they are taking it from the land and putting it on the open market. This caused speculators to step in and the price of water skyrocketed. 

Governments and those with the most money bought it. Governments used it for example to turn a saltwater estuary at the mouth of the Murray into fresh water. (go figure).

Then when those who can buy the water at exorbitant prices hold it for a while then sell it when the price is higher. (stealing) 

Now the humble farmer trying to grow crops for food for people and animals does not have that amount of money to buy the water. Originally the water was linked to the land and each farmer had a water right which he paid for each year. It was not exorbitant but realistically related to food production. 

[Dennis1209]

3 hours ago, In the Clouds said:

Thanks for posting the link on Agenda 30, Dennis.  It looks a lot like 21.  The fact that not all signers have benevolent intentions makes globalism a pipe dream.  And the needs of one country isn't one size fits all.  I have always thought that each country should be the best it can with their resources and seek help where needed.      

Yes, it does. UN Agendas 2021 and 2030 are in progressive lockstep. When you think about global government, what are the first organizations and alphabet agencies that come to mind? By far, Israel is the most sanctioned nation-state in the world. Why is that?

The Bible predicts a future world where one individual controls all buying and selling (commerce). You must have the mark of the Beast to participate in this system. The only possible way is a cashless, barterless banking system, which has never been possible until today and is being implemented.

All the prep work has manifested: computerization, a constellation of satellites, artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, all the terms of service (TOS) changes everyone is bombarded with, from your bank to Amazon, Google, Microsoft Edge, all of them. We now serve them, not them serve us (oligarchies).  

Digital experimentation and working out the kinks between the global banking systems are over. China and other nations are almost cashless, with China making up 86% of the digital yuan. Europe and Western governments are following. Globalization is no pipedream; it is here and being implemented right now.

Watching the recent address to Congress should have made it obvious what the liberal democrats' agenda is. I envision Trump as the last obstacle to overcome for the one-world agenda to succeed. It is all in God’s plan and timing. Perhaps this could be the last wake-up call for America.

Even the leader of the largest religion, sitting on many waters, Pope Francis is a hypocrite, a socialistic globalist mother earth worshipper, by his mouth and actions, easily proven.

 

 

[Dennis1209]

49 minutes ago, Marilyn C said:

Here`s one example - Water. According to the Climate Change theory water will be scare so they are taking it from the land and putting it on the open market. This caused speculators to step in and the price of water skyrocketed. 

Governments and those with the most money bought it. Governments used it for example to turn a saltwater estuary at the mouth of the Murray into fresh water. (go figure).

Then when those who can buy the water at exorbitant prices hold it for a while then sell it when the price is higher. (stealing) 

Now the humble farmer trying to grow crops for food for people and animals does not have that amount of money to buy the water. Originally the water was linked to the land and each farmer had a water right which he paid for each year. It was not exorbitant but realistically related to food production. 

Good afternoon, Marilyn, it is nice to chat with you again.

I would be interested to know how many property owners think they have water and mineral rights to the property they think they own.

Have you ever heard of property owners who are nowhere near or associated with any water treatment facilities, with wells and septic systems, having to pay taxes on rain water flowing off their properties?

Are there any restrictions on collecting and using falling rainwater coming? If we think these ideas are preposterous, we need to think again.

 

[Marilyn C]

40 minutes ago, Marilyn C said:

Here`s one example - Water. According to the Climate Change theory water will be scare so they are taking it from the land and putting it on the open market. This caused speculators to step in and the price of water skyrocketed. 

Governments and those with the most money bought it. Governments used it for example to turn a saltwater estuary at the mouth of the Murray into fresh water. (go figure).

Then when those who can buy the water at exorbitant prices hold it for a while then sell it when the price is higher. (stealing) 

Now the humble farmer trying to grow crops for food for people and animals does not have that amount of money to buy the water. Originally the water was linked to the land and each farmer had a water right which he paid for each year. It was not exorbitant but realistically related to food production. 

The consequences are not seen immediately but over a few decades. As the price of water becomes too much for some small local farmers they sell to big consortiums or to other farmers trying to get bigger. Whereas the small farmers were self-reliant, the farmers trying to get bigger have to borrow for larger machinery to produce crops/animals to pay for the water and other rising prices (eg fuel).

The general public still buying `cheap` food in the supermarket do not realize the shifting of power. Instead of locally produced food to go to the local market (butcher, grocer etc) the large corporations are getting the food etc and selling it world-wide. Thus, only large companies can compete in that environment.

It is all part of the UN & elite`s plan to get the food, water, land, etc in a few hands. The EU`s `Free Trade` agreements sound good but eventually everyone will be beholden to buy from the large corporations and the general public will no longer be self-sufficient but relying on the government.

Universal Basic Income is coming in and will make most people servants of the State. Those with some finance will still have to use their pension etc in that month as they are controlled by the CBDC. (Central Bank Digital Currency). Finally, all nation`s CBDC`s will be connected to the IMF and that is the trap shut - we are all in one economic basket.