The Bulletin (November 2006)
Welcome to the third issue of The Bulletin, through which Affinity provides its churches with news, reports and analysis of a wide range of social issues which have implications for churches and individual Christians.
In the climate of our times, the law is becoming increasingly intrusive, impinging upon the ordinary life and freedoms which had previously been unregulated, and which had always been assumed to be characteristic and inherent freedoms of a democratic society.
The change from the “shared values” culture of the 1950s, to the “individual rights” culture of the 1990s, is just about complete. In the new society, without shared values, the only way a government can establish individual rights is by social engineering, two instruments of which are legislation and public policy. The contemporary generation also has to wrestle with the diverse implications of multi-culturalism and multi-faith society, one of the effects of which has been the marginalisation of Christianity and its specific values and traditions.
All of these underlying challenges of the new society create a growing number of conflicts between established biblical principles which evangelicals have believed and lived by for centuries, and the modern approach to government, which is based on pragmatic reaction to political and social difficulties and dilemmas.
In this latest issue of The Bulletin, there is a review of 37 years of abortion statistics, amounting to a destruction of more than six million lives; the call for the concept of “right and wrong” to be removed from our schools is also considered; and there is an in-depth analysis of the assumption that same-sex sexual orientation is an innate tendency. The Bulletin also reports on the latest repercussions of the Gay Police Association’s campaign against Bible-believing Christians in its advertisement in The Independent in June, and on the way in which evangelical students in three British Universities are coping with the attacks on their Christian Unions by the student bodies on their campuses.
In addition to the material in The Bulletin, there is a further file of news and information entitled “additional news and reports (November 2006)” available on the web site.
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