The RCC is cursed with it’s regrettable rule on compulsory celibacy for it’s priests, and its many wrong doctrines. It is true since Vatican 2, it has been completely ambivalent over the young men that it has permitted to enter its seminaries and monasteries, and the tragic scandals that have emerged there in.

However, evangelical churches are different, in that ministers from these churches are usually married (heterosexually) or expected to do so soon. Also the whole method of training for ministry are very different, and these evangelical ministerial candidates are much more “in the world, but not of it”, unlike the monastic style set up in the Catholic seminaries.

However, with the increasing doctrinal, moral and cultural pressures, more and more things like heterosexual immorality and now LGBTQ etc. immorality are coming into the evangelical church.

Also, on the EU approved map of Europe, Britain, like all the other nations of the EU is divided up into regions, and as the EU gets more federal, and the nation state is removed eventually, the 3 tiers of government will be Europe, the regions, and local district / city government.

This Andy Stanley deconstructionism is merely the old Liberalism, Modernism and Rationalism that came out of the liberal German Protestant universities and theological colleges in the 19th century, and killed the Lutheran and Reformed churches, and later the Methodists and Anglicans too, repackaged in an “evangelical” megachurch CCM and 21st century youthful guise.

Anyone who wants to have unfettered sexual relations, “without risk”, to pursue a career, who doesn’t want a girl, or perhaps doesn’t want a boy, or who doesn’t want a deformed or disabled baby that they have to look after, or maybe doesn’t even want a baby at all, because they must have a career, or go to college, and pursue their own desires in life, and if the usual chemical and mechanical methods of “birth control” don’t work or fail, these women can go and sacrifice their unwanted unborn baby at the altar of convenience.

Tragically, the main influence in the Republic of Ireland, until the 1980’s or 1990’s, the Roman Catholic Church with all it’s wrong doctrines but with a notional opposition to abortion, turned out to be totally hypocritical with paedophile scandals at both priestly and episcopal level, and the surfacing of historical revelations about the cruel “Laundry” convents for unmarried mothers, and equally cruel orphanages for their children. Now with this modern Jesuit Pope Francis, he is leading a complete liberalisation anyway.

We have a well known NHS clinic here in London, the Tavistock Clinic, which specialises in medical procedures for transgenderism, including children and young people, to which patients can be referred by their GP or doctor, and it’s case book is growing phenomenally.

Meanwhile, a number of large secondary and primary schools, not all in the state (public) system, but including some well known private schools, some even with Anglican Church affiliations, have brought in aggressive pro-transgender policies.

One school now bans girls from wearing skirts or dresses, and all pupils must wear a unisex uniform of trousers.

Yesterday in my church, in the morning service the pastor preached from Genesis, from a series of sermons, the Gospel in Genesis, and in the evening service, (John’s Gospel was preached from), Psalm 22, the great prophetic psalm of David describing our Lord’s crucifixion was read, and at the communion service the Matthews’s Gospel account of our Lord’s crucifixion includes a quote of this psalm.

At other times, in other communion services, my pastor has read Isaiah 53 in full, a superb account of the perfect Atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ. I guess Andy Stanley, is however, not too keen on the Atonement either.

He would probably much prefer environmentalism, “social justice” aka the “Social Gospel”, interfaith and liberal attitudes to LGBT, Transgenderism and the Sexual Revolution.

It is the ceremonial law that was replaced by the death and resurrection of Christ on the cross, but we still need to know about it.

As for the 10 Commandments, the moral law, they are still in force, and if someone has not put their trust in Christ as their Lord and Saviour, in which case they will obey those laws gladly, they will be judged by them when they stand before the Lord at the Great White Throne Judgment, and will be eternally condemned.

People like Andy Stanley like to get their scissors out and cut out the pieces in the Bible that they do not like. It probably is because he wants to be liberal about issues line LGBT, etc.

If such a serious, credible, and preferably not 36 year old allegation with such fuzzy details from distant high school days, had surfaced, why did Senator Feinstein sit on it for so long, and with all the delays and filibustering going on to try to derail Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation, as Supreme Court Judge, why did she wait until the last moment to reveal it. It seems that the FBI didn’t give it much credence, and there does clearly seem to be a real conflict of interests by the accuser.

To be accurate, he and his predecessors are not the devil, but they are and have been agents of the devil.

This is unlike the very first few bishops of Rome, in the very first century or so in pagan Rome under the persecuting Caesars and Roman Emperors.

These godly leaders of the Roman Church in the 1st century or so, who never called themselves or referred to themselves as Popes, but were simple humble men were usually automatically put to death, either in the arena, or crucified, or in the salt mines. In that 1st century or so, to be appointed as bishop or pastor of Rome was usually an automatic death sentence.

These zealous politically correct candidates are absolutely committed to unlimited Islamic immigration, tax payer funded abortion for all on demand, euthanasia for all who request it on demand, including involuntary euthanasia for people like dementia patients, etc., complete LGBT and Islamic rights, with all religious protections being removed for anyone who objects, compulsory LGBT, transgenderism and Islamic teaching in state funded institutions, a complete ban on any reference to God or any Biblical aspect in public society, (except of course for Islam as stated before), active persecution of any Christian in the workplace or public life, who expresses their faith or opposes these politically correct laws.

However, I believe that this liberal set up makes things a little more complicated. The Catholics that follow this are often more like a religious form of humanistic secularism, whereas the traditionalist Catholics, we all know how the Protestant Reformers reached them. However the true Gospel must be preached to all of them without exception.

I also think of a fourth group (which I was to a certain extent brought up in as a boy), which though technically not part of the Roman Catholic Church, also desperately needs the Gospel of grace, the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.