{"id":6430,"date":"2017-04-07T04:10:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/?p=6430"},"modified":"2019-03-12T05:43:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T05:43:48","slug":"moody-radio-responds-to-standerinfamilycourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/2017\/04\/moody-radio-responds-to-standerinfamilycourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Moody Radio Responds to “Standerinfamilycourt” (Sort Of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MBI.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6434\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6434\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MBI.jpg?resize=474%2C267&ssl=1\" alt=\"MBI\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MBI.jpg?w=768&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MBI.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>by Standerinfamilycourt<\/p>\n<p>On March 26, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/?p=6388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIFC sent a letter <\/a>in response to the Moody Bible Institute’s pleas to donate to meet an 8% shortfall\u00a0in their semi-annual fundraising goals.\u00a0\u00a0 SIFC pointed out that\u00a0it was unconscionable for a growing number of us to fund a considerable portion of their programming because it encourages people to remain in, rather than repent of, their sin of “marrying” someone else’s covenant spouse under the nation’s immoral divorce laws.\u00a0 The hope was that they would seriously consider the eternal consequences of this policy and practice, that the Holy Spirit would convict somehow.\u00a0\u00a0 They were kind enough to respond,\u00a0 and not to send a canned form letter, but the content of that response was better left unsaid.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I share it with our readers now:<\/p>\n<p><em>April 3, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dear [“Standerinfamilycourt”],<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you for listening to Moody Radio, for your past financial and prayer support, and for taking time to write expressing your concerns about Family Life Ministries feature FamilyLife Blended with Ron Deal.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I can understand your concern for any programming content that would “sanction legalized adultery”.\u00a0\u00a0 I will be standing right beside you on that.\u00a0 However I fail to see where the content in the programs you listed are sanctioning adultery.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>May I take your thoughts a little further on the topic, beyond the thought that divorce led to the creation of a blended family?\u00a0\u00a0 Ron Deal at FamilyLife could give you more specific information, but we are learning that many people who come to Christ later in life are from broken homes.\u00a0 We receive emails nearly every week, mainly from Christian women, that their spouse has divorced \/ left them, some recently.\u00a0\u00a0 We also know of Christians who are widows or widowers who remarry.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, several years after my grandfather died, my 82 year old grandmother remarried a wonderful widower.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Most churches do not address the unique issues that are present in these Blended Families.\u00a0 We believe that the feature and FamilyLife Ministries is helping these marriages and families not only to survive but possibly thrive by providing helpful information not available anywhere else.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[“Standerinfamilycourt”],\u00a0 I’m sorry that I don’t have the audio to send you, but here is the script of one of the first FamilyLife Blended features.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you do if your fianc\u00e9 told you she was pregnant and it wasn’t your child?\u00a0\u00a0 I heard about one man that found himself in that very situation.\u00a0\u00a0 He was distraught, he was hurt, and he chose to walk away.\u00a0\u00a0 I mean, after all, the responsibilities were not his.\u00a0 But then the Spirit of God let Joseph know that there was something bigger going on.\u00a0\u00a0 And Joseph chose love.\u00a0 This Christmas as you remember our dear Savior’s birth, let’s also remember and encourage the step-parents and adoptive parents who, like Joseph, didn’t have responsibility or obligation, but they chose to love anyway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I hope this information may shed a little more\u00a0light on the reasons that we broadcast the FamilyLife Blended feature on Moody Radio.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Again, we appreciate you listening to Moody Radio, and appreciated your financial and prayer support through the years.\u00a0\u00a0 If you feel the Lord directing you to support another ministry, we understand and pray that He will multiply the impact of your gifts to that organization.\u00a0\u00a0 We do hope you will continue to pray for us as we seek to minister to as many people as possible and help them take their next step in their relationship with Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Blessings!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dan Craig<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Manager of Programming<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>SIFC had to go back to the\u00a0original March 26 \u00a0letter \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/?p=6388\">blog<\/a> to make sure we\u00a0remembered to \u00a0mention that\u00a0Moody Radio was leading millions of\u00a0people toward hell\u00a0as adulterers with this programming, but then again, Mr. Craig admitted that he didn’t\u00a0 “see how\u00a0the\u00a0programming content was sanctioning\u00a0adultery”.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>translation<\/em>:\u00a0 we don’t consider remarriage following civil dissolution of a consummated marriage to <em>be<\/em> adultery, even though Jesus repeatedly said it was, as did Paul.\u00a0 But just in case, we’re going to obfuscate the issue by jumping topics to widowhood and betrothal].<\/p>\n<p>A zinger of a rebuttal could certainly be had, if only it were profitable to the kingdom of God to do so:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. Craig,<\/p>\n<p>A sincere thank you for responding, and doing so with your personal thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Since most churches do not address the unique issues that are present in LGBT families, would you therefore recommend that Moody\u00a0promote programming by a comparable sodomy\u00a0“pastor”?<\/p>\n<p><em>….Most churches do not address the unique issues that are present in these <strong>Gay<\/strong> Families.\u00a0 We believe that the feature and <strong>Gay<\/strong>FamilyLife Ministries is helping these\u00a0<strong>homosexual<\/strong> marriages and LGBT\u00a0families not only to survive but possibly thrive by providing helpful information not available anywhere else.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (<\/em>Right!)<\/p>\n<p>And then there’s the emotional bit about Mary’s Joseph….with the acute dissimilarities swept conveniently under the rug.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Taking the analogy a bit\u00a0further, had Joseph indeed <em>put Mary away\u00a0privily<\/em>,\u00a0being a just man, would it have been adultery for another man, for whom the\u00a0“responsibilities were not his”,\u00a0 who (correctly) perceived from<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the Spirit of God that “there was something bigger going on” to have come along and married this forsaken unwed mother?\u00a0 Or\u00a0 would that have been holy matrimony in God’s eyes?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Yes<\/em>, but not for the reasons fancied by Mr. Craig.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mary was not yet made irrevocably one-flesh with Joseph, <em>unlike the sort of “bride” that Ron Deal has the unbiblical audacity compare her to.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taking Ron\u00a0 Deal’s analogy even further, Mary would be “divorced” (that is she would have been given a Hebrew <strong><em>get<\/em><\/strong>, a bill of divorcement), but that’s not the kind of “divorce” Jesus was referring to on all three instances \/ occasions where Matthew (in Hebrew text) , then Luke (in Greek text) quoted Him as saying,<\/p>\n<p><em>“whosoever marries one who has been put away from a husband commits <\/em>[enters into the ongoing state of]\u00a0<em> adultery.\u00a0“<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Had another man married\u00a0Mary and raised Jesus, it would not have been adultery according to the laws of the kingdom of God, because she would not have been impeded by an unsevered, undissolved one-flesh bond with Joseph whether or not there was any of man’s paper involved.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jesus was referring to exactly the sort of otherwise-godly, unsullied and innocent third party man (and <em>still<\/em> calling him an adulterer)\u00a0that Mr. Deal would like us to\u00a0believe is exempt from the clear, repetitive commandment of Christ, so long as he’s doing it out of apparent compassion.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0But let’s not forget the\u00a0 five-ton elephant in the room — that it’s not strictly necessary for a man to <em>marry<\/em> an unwed mother (even if the one Mr. Deal has in mind isn’t exactly unwed) to show her the love of Christ or meet her essential life needs for a season.\u00a0\u00a0 Boaz, after all, married a <strong><em>widow<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 <em>True<\/em> love always considers its impact on everyone’s eternal destination who is involved in the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Yours truly,<\/p>\n<p>“Standerinfamilycourt”<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/FB-profile-7xtjw.png?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-502\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-502\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/FB-profile-7xtjw.png?resize=18%2C21&ssl=1\" alt=\"FB profile 7xtjw\" width=\"18\" height=\"21\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 SIFC<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is pondering at this moment whether another attempt to enlighten Mr. Craig by return response\u00a0is likely to be fruitful or merely be casting pearls before swine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Who knows whether he is\u00a0among the 40-50% of the contemporary evangelical church who is living\u00a0in this sin himself, or among\u00a0the even larger percentage who has a loved one who is\u00a0perishing in this immoral state.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It seems likely to further offend him personally\u00a0to tell him that adulterous homes are not supposed to “survive and (possibly) thrive”,\u00a0 but are\u00a0to instead repent the same way one repents of<em> any<\/em> hellbound sin, by severance and forsaking and (possibly) reconciliation with the covenant spouse(s).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After all, he saw fit to ignore the most forceful\u00a0points in the first letter and pretend that he didn’t see them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He never responded at all to\u00a0our serious\u00a0inquiry about why Moody is not at least covering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/?p=6092\">unilateral divorce repeal efforts in Texas and Oklahoma<\/a>. \u00a0 Lastly, longtime listeners to Moody know that the MBI of today is steeped in Calvinism, where you hear\u00a0<em>at least implied\u00a0<\/em>umpteen times a day that Jesus died for regenerated persons’\u00a0\u00a0past,<em> present and future sins<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0corrosive,\u00a0lethal\u00a0mix of Calvinism and legalized adultery have stripped the church of nearly all of\u00a0its supernatural power in the last five decades.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Between\u00a0 the days of Luther \/ Calvin and the stroke of Ronald Reagan’s pen in 1969, most of the Spirit-led Protestant \u00a0church didn’t succumb to it, even though it’s been out there since the 16th century Reformation.<\/p>\n<p>It would be good to at least\u00a0let him know that those of us in the biblical marriage permanence movement are indeed praying for Moody Bible Institute and Moody Radio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>www.standerinfamilycourt.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7 Times Around the Jericho Wall\u00a0 |\u00a0 Let’s Repeal Unilateral Divorce!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Standerinfamilycourt On March 26, SIFC sent a letter in response to the Moody Bible Institute’s pleas to donate to meet an 8% shortfall\u00a0in their semi-annual fundraising goals.\u00a0\u00a0 SIFC pointed out that\u00a0it was unconscionable for a growing number of us to fund a considerable portion of their programming because it encourages people to remain in, … <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/2017\/04\/moody-radio-responds-to-standerinfamilycourt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moody Radio Responds to “Standerinfamilycourt” (Sort Of)<\/span> <span 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