Episode 356
ERLC calls for action on border crisis; Point of Grace on new album and Church’s significance; Common pitfalls of church outreach programs.
Transcript
The Southern Baptist Convention’s ethics entity has urged Congress to find a solution for the “ongoing humanitarian emergency” at the United States’ southern border.
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) sent letters to members of Congress Friday (May 12) asking for long-delayed action to reform the immigration system after the federal government’s pandemic-era Title 42 order expired Thursday night. Under the Title 42 policy the last three years, the United States has quickly blocked people seeking to enter the country for the stated cause of protecting public health during the COVID-19 pandemic. A reported 2.8 million expulsions occurred under the order since it took effect in March 2020.
A wave of immigrants seeking to enter the United States at its border with Mexico preceded the transition from Title 42 to a new Biden administration policy. More than 10,000 people a day were apprehended seeking to cross the border during the week leading to Title 42’s expiration, and detention facilities had reached their capacities, Reuters news service reported.
The new Biden administration rule presumes those entering the United States illegally are ineligible for asylum, “unless they can demonstrate an exception to the rule or rebut the presumption,” according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Under U.S. law, individuals seeking to enter the country may be eligible for asylum if they have a “credible fear of persecution or torture” in their homeland, according to USCIS.
Award-winning CCM trio Point of Grace hopes their first full-length album in five years will remind hurting people of Gospel truth and the importance of church.
The record titled “Turn Your Eyes (Songs We Love, Songs You Know) Volume II,” is an “eclectic” collection of modern worship songs and classic Christian hymns.
Released on April 28, the record debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top Christian/Gospel Albums chart.
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Is your church struggling to get members to share their faith? In the Baptist Press Toolbox, Thom Rainer offers a number of suggestions. Here’s a few…
- Outreach can be seen as an end instead of a means. As a consequence, some will be a part of an outreach ministry as a sense of legalistic obligation. Most church members, especially Millennials, refuse to participate in something unless they know the “why” behind it.
- Most outreach programs are not addressed in front-end membership classes. The best time to help shape expectations and responsibilities of members is when they first become a part of the church. Rarely is the issue of becoming outwardly focused addressed.
- Many outreach programs do not feel natural. Though it is cliché, the best way to share the love of Christ is in the natural overflow of our love for Him. The best outreach ministries should teach us how to channel that overflow.
Pro-life advocates and others are awaiting a Texas judge’s ruling on whether an abortion pill approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000 should be prescribed to women. The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has called on nine federal agencies to revoke a proposed rule it says would unduly burden the rights of faith-based organizations that take part in government programs. And, a Lifeway Bible study on Baptist Press speaks to the final moments before Jesus’ arrest and subsequent crucifixion. Jesus seeks to encourage his disciples as he knows heavy sorrow is just around the corner.
Pro-life advocates and others are awaiting a Texas judge’s ruling on whether an abortion pill approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000 should be prescribed to women. The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has called on nine federal agencies to revoke a proposed rule it says would unduly burden the rights of faith-based organizations that take part in government programs. And, a Lifeway Bible study on Baptist Press speaks to the final moments before Jesus’ arrest and subsequent crucifixion. Jesus seeks to encourage his disciples as he knows heavy sorrow is just around the corner.
Pro-life advocates and others are awaiting a Texas judge’s ruling on whether an abortion pill approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000 should be prescribed to women. The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has called on nine federal agencies to revoke a proposed rule it says would unduly burden the rights of faith-based organizations that take part in government programs. And, a Lifeway Bible study on Baptist Press speaks to the final moments before Jesus’ arrest and subsequent crucifixion. Jesus seeks to encourage his disciples as he knows heavy sorrow is just around the corner.
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