U.N. Chief Says Evangelicals, MDGs a Natural Fit

[Sing4Him]

U.N. Chief Says Evangelicals, MDGs a Natural Fit

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon highlighted the common social concerns of the United Nations and the evangelical community as he informed leaders Thursday of the progress toward the Millennium Development Goals.

Fri, Oct. 12, 2007 Posted: 08:27:46 AM EST


ARLINGTON, Va. – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon highlighted the common social concerns of the United Nations and the evangelical community as he informed leaders Thursday of the progress toward the Millennium Development Goals.

Like “[y]ou who contribute so much to causes close to our hearts – peace, good works and prosperity for all – … I believe in moral passion grounded in concrete action” he said in the opening of his much-anticipated address.

Ban was the first U.N. secretary general to speak at a National Association of Evangelicals summit.

Yet NAE’s president,*** Leith Anderson, was quick to emphasize that the focus of the two-day gathering, which ends Friday, is not on the high-profile U.N. speaker but rather on the teaching of the Gospel.

“We are not here for the secretary-general,” stated Anderson ahead of the dinner speech. “We are here for the people who are poor, hurting and marginalize. He (Ban) is here to give us insight so we can help those people......



http://www.christianpost.com/article/20071012/29673_U.N._Chief_Says_Evangelicals%2C_MDGs_a_Natur al_Fit.htm

***EMERGENT promotor

[Christy]

Since 1995, Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong have co-chaired a global process with the purpose of implementing the Earth Charter on a global scale and ushering in the one world religion. The Earth Charter Commission approved the final text of the Earth Charter in 2000, and it has since been embraced by the United Nations, many religious leaders around the world, the majority of world governments and countless Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) and activist groups. A little research into the principles and text of the TEarth Charter document sheds new light on current political speeches, media reports, and news headlines of the day. Environmental Groups and NGO's who participate in the Earth Charter Dialogues are succeeding in their demand for more airtime of ecological disasters, environmental devastation and other sustainable development obstacles. Under the cloak of an environmental crisis and impending doom, they hope to gain wide acceptance of the Earth Charter, which contains much more than a new environmental policy. How many times lately have you heard the terms "global community", "globalization", "world economy", "sustainable development" or "interdependent world"? These are all phrases that appear throughout the Earth Charter along with other New Age terms such as "circles of compassion", "triangles of meditation", "reverence for Earth and Cosmos", and "Mother Earth".

With the completion of the Earth Charter and its establishment as part of the United Nations agenda for strengthening globalization, the Earth Charter Commission felt that a forum of world leaders, NGO's and members of civil society was needed to mobilize the rapid implementation of this planet-saving document and to discuss other globalization agenda items. To meet this need, the Earth Dialogues were formed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong, bringing together representatives of civil society, as well as government leaders, international organizations, and leaders in finance, business, religion, media, and academia, to plan the dawning of the New Age.

Reinvigorated by the terrorist attacks on 9/11, The Earth Dialogs timed their most recent forum in Lyon to precede the International Conference on Financing and Development to be held in March 2002, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development to be held in September 2002.

Several roundtable forums were held covering such Earth Charter topics as "Ethical and Spiritual Challenges", "Ethics related Obstacles", and "Media and Communications Challenges". Perhaps most revealing was the roundtable for Inter-Religious Groups and Spiritual Leaders. As stated in the forums official meeting minutes, this roundtable was held to deal with "the ethics of intolerant righteousness and of greed of short term gain, as these cannot lead us to sustainable development despite enduring beliefs in the one right religion or the invisible hand." In section B of the minutes, all participants agreed that "religion has its dark side and the religions of the world tend to be exclusivist in their relations to one another." They go on to say, "It is clear that our religious institutions have barely begun to articulate the core values for a sustainable development. In their fundamentalist - fanatical forms, religions throughout history have justified terrorism, jihads and crusades against people who hold different beliefs and against the Earth itself."

While supporters of the Earth Charter lump all religions together and portray them as the main obstacle to peaceful coexistence and sustainable life on Earth, they do not propose doing away with spirituality. The Earth Charter goes into detail about the need for faith and spirituality in human life. The preamble of the charter states "the spirit of human solidarity and kinship with all life is strengthened when we live with reverence for the mystery of being, gratitude for the gift of life, and humility regarding the human place in nature." Section 14 d. says that we must "recognize the importance of moral and spiritual education for sustainable living."

So, what spiritual beliefs do support sustainable development? In Session II of the roundtable for Religious and Spiritual leaders, we are called to "move from an exclusive preoccupation with Divine-human relations and human-human relations to renew human - Earth relations." In other words, Earth worship should replace any belief in a divine being. A requirement for achieving this goal, according to these "religious leaders", is "the voices of spiritual traditions along with secular humanism". They envision for the religions of the world "a major transformation from their theological and anthropological phase to their ecological and cosmological phase." Following one of the major themes of the New Age Movement, humanity is spiritually evolving from being worshipers of God to being gods ourselves. As they put it, "the human person is becoming de-centered and re-centered amidst the great concentric circles of life." If you've spent much time around members of the New Age Movement, you know that becoming "centered" is a major part of ones spirituality.

The forum of religious leaders concluded by agreeing on 5 shared principles, deeply embedded in the Earth Charter that they feel must be addressed. These 5 principles are as follows:

* Reverence for Earth and the Cosmos
* Respect for myriad species
* Restraint in the use of natural resources
* Redistribution of wealth and resources
* Responsibility for future generations and for the community of life.

So how do they plan to bring about this spiritual evolution, globalization, and reverence for Earth and Cosmos? The roundtable participants put it this way:

"Education for sustainable development on all levels should include the history of the world's religions, historical and contemporary inter-religious dialogue and cooperation, and the creative engagement of the world's religions with peace, justice, and sustainability in a modern world. Furthermore, the world's media need to be more aware and supportive of these ethical concerns and of initiatives to address them."

One significant suggestion was made at the forum involving the creation of a world television channel devoted to issues of planetary concern. It was also suggested that they bolster support for their new spiritual awakening at the Forum for Religion and Ecology, The Council for a Parliament of the world Religions, the World Faiths Development Dialogue among other forums, organizations and global conferences. Through these channels, they hope to "clarify common values that most of the world's religions have in relation to the natural world". Those who are willing to quietly accept the humanist, New Age agenda will be welcomed with open arms, while those who contend for their faith in the one true God and our savior Jesus Christ will be labeled intolerant and demonized as standing in the way of peace, global centeredness and faith in Mother Earth.

While the Earth Charter lays out much of the framework for a new global spirituality, many other forces are at work in our world to slowly lull us into believing in and accepting the global community -- A global community where our spiritual lives and our economic, legal, and governmental systems will be dictated to us all in the name of the greater good. All of these forces, in the form of NGO's, business, non-profit organizations, media, academia, and New Age cults are working closely with the United Nations to usher in the New Age.

The Earth Charter Dialogues, through their roundtable forums, are working to establish a World Environmental Organization under the U.N., a World Tax to fund sustainable development, and, using the European Union as an example, they hope to regionalize the global community, thus creating a more efficient and manageable global system. They are frustrated by the lack of a supremely powerful body to help implement their new world order and are working hard to strengthen global governance and eliminate nationalism. Achieving these goals would, very smoothly, pave the way for such organizations as the Aquarian Age Community, who is working now to create a permanent spiritual forum within the U.N., and the Lucis Trust which views Mikhail Gorbachev as a premier world Leader and boasts members at the highest levels of the United Nations bureaucracy. The Aquarian Age Community and the Lucis Trust (formerly Lucifer Trust) Foundation will be covered in a future article, but suffice it to say there is no shortage of New Age and Occult influence at the United Nations.

Right under our noses the way is being paved for the prophesied one world religion and huge armies of volunteers are being amassed to usher it in. Are we as Christians mobilizing our armies? Are we reaching those who are most vulnerable to a promise of peace and love of Earth and Cosmos? As Christians in the Lord's army, it is our duty to save as many as we can for Him. Keep our nation and our world in your prayers, and remember that there is a lot of work to do in what might be a very short time. While we don't know when our savior will return, we certainly don't want to be caught napping. At least I hope we don't.

Referenced to:
http://www.contenderministries.org/articles/earthcharter.php
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Personally, this was the goofiest part of all, as the scriptural references are clear:

"The Earth Charter and the Ark of the Gaia Covenant"

For those who may have dismissed the notion of a UN Agenda for a New World Religion used to usher in sweeping anti-constitutional environmental agreements, I offer the following.


“The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.” — Maurice Strong

“Do not do unto the environment of others what you do not want done to your own environment....My hope is that this charter will be a kind of Ten Commandments, a 'Sermon on the Mount', that provides a guide for human behavior toward the environment in the next century.”
— Mikhail Gorbachev, The Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1997

[Christy]

The UN already has it’s own “emergent church”, it’s called the “Temple of Understanding”, and it’s a place where people of ALL religions are permitted to worship, i.e., it’s interfaith – and this is the exact path the emergents are on.

See:
http://www.templeofunderstanding.org/newSite/whatWeDo/unitedNations.php

Some hindu temples go by the same name (Temple of Understanding). Coincidence?

The emergents are on the road to interfaith worship as they have incorporated Hinduism, and particularly Buddhism into their religious worship.

Now look at the similarities to the altars of the Roman Catholic Church, Masonic Temples and the UN Temple of Understanding.

http://www.realnews247.com/altar_comparison_pictorial.htm

[Sing4Him]

Christy :hug.. thank you for this information. Unreal, huh?!

“Temple of Understanding” 'see what man understands.. just like the Tower of Babel.:ohno

[Lexie]

Leith Anderson the head of the NEA is Emergent, his Church carries books by C peter Wagner, Alan Briskin, ect.

The Stirring of Soul
in the Workplace
by Alan Briskin, quotes favorably Matthew Fox, Carl Jung, and Buddha


http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/wooddale.htm


doesn't get more emerging then this, sounds more like a Tony Robbins life coaching seminar

We’re ready with a revolutionary concept in program design:
Five different cohort groups led by master practitioners and scholars
Reduced course time: just two years to complete course work
Limit of 20 carefully selected students per cohort We’re ready with an innovative delivery system:
Online interactivity via Blackboard Internet technology
Residential intensives in St. Paul, San Diego, and church sites
In-depth assessment process to help you understand your personal and leadership strengths and challenges
Regular interaction with a personal mentor/coach throughout the entire program We’re ready with a unique publishing opportunity:
Each cohort will write a leadership volume as part of a five-book leadership series.
You will have an opportunity to contribute to your cohort’s book.
Writing provides your chance to make a significant and lasting contribution to the theory and practice of leadership in the emerging church, and gives you entry into professional book publishing.

http://seminary.bethel.edu/virtual/dmin/emerging-leaders/index.html


Alan Briskin is connected to these cosmic christ, Gaia, integral groups

Collective Wisdom Initiative
http://www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/files_doorways/research_door.htm

How does univeral spirituality -- "The Holy Spirit" -- "The Cosmic Christ" (other similar terms from other traditions) -- emerge from group spirituality -- particularly in "Circle" processes?

Integral Vision* The Realization of The One*


"Everything came out of the One


Everything must be placed into the context of the One" A Collaborative Project of The Global Resonance Network
A response to the world
We are proposing to "build an integral world" -- because we are convinced it is necessary and essential -- and probably the only way that life and civilization can continue in a healthy and happy way on this one small planet.
Create peace
Build a global culture based on wisdom
Empower and unfold the "collective genius" of humanity
Learn the lesson of history and build on them Bringing the pieces together
Here in this emerging new online context, we are gathering our ideas, building relationships, proposing models, and beginning to combine all essential and critical elemenets into a single framework. Vision
The first step in this process is "vision" -- design, conceptualization, a blueprint. From this blueprint, we can then begin to act, drawing others from everywhere into our collective vortex, and learning from all others as we do so. Issues, concerns
What is "Integral Vision"?
Why do we need integral vision?
What should it include? The "Big Bowl" approach -- adding in elements and factors that we feel are important Big Themes:
The Realization of The One -- in the Individual and in Society



http://globalresonance.net/integral/home.cfm


http://www.globalresonance.net/passage.cfm?psg=100131#verification

[Sing4Him]

Leith Anderson the head of the NEA is Emergent, his Church carries books by C peter Wagner, Alan Briskin, ect.

Correct! :nod That is why in the OP I highlighted his name and red-starred him! :nod:lol2

Thanks for the great info Christy and Lexie! :thumb

[Lexie]

Correct! :nod That is why in the OP I highlighted his name and red-starred him! :nod:lol2

Thanks for the great info Christy and Lexie! :thumb

Sing,

There are many names, for the same teachings, New thought,*A Course in Miracles, The Secret, Contemplative Spirituality, Collective Wisdom, Creation Spirituality, Mysticism, Cosmic Christ, which are now evolving into Ken Wilbers Intregal Spirituality .If you go to global resonance's "Many/One" Many Voices - One Truth" webite, scroll to the very bottom, there is a drop down menu, which lists all the articles and people uniting together.. Alice Bailey and Madam Blavatsky wrote blue prints, imo concerning the building of emergent spirituality church.

http://globalresonance.net/manyone/pagegroup.cfm?pgp=111042

Marianne Williamson, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Dennis Kucinich, Department of Peace*
http://www.lightconnection.us/Archive/sep05_article1.htm



The United Nation's Masahisa Goi Church of World Messianity

Mr. Goi was also the founder of The Byakko Shinko Kai, an association based on his spiritual teachings for the development of mind, body, and spirit. He wrote more than 50 books on spiritual development and is respected in Japan as a great master in his field

Takahashi Sensei: In historical terms, it can be said that “Seicho no Ie” was born from the Omoto religion and that the Byakko Shinko Kai was born from the Seicho no Ie. After the war, at the beginning of 1945, Goi Sensei got to know about the Seicho no Ie and involved himself in its many activities, eventually becoming a local instructor. Then, in 1949 he started a spiritual ascetic practice in order to achieve kuu (stillness). Goi Sensei said: “Kuu is not a nihilistic or negative condition. It contains nothing, yet everything. It is the life of God living vibrantly.” Goi sensei called it “the practice of freeing your mind of all thoughts,” and he practiced it without eating for three months in the middle of the town. Finally, he succeeded in no longer having any human thoughts and attained Oneness with God—one’s own true nature.
http://www.worldpeace.org/sanct.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_World_Messianity


Dr. Masaru Emoto is interesting, I heard about him, in my old word of faith church, he talks to water, and it changes form.
http://www.allonenow.org/hostsandguests.html



Michael Beckwith's site

The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ within You: A Revelatory Commentary on the Original Teachings of Jesus

One of the most eagerly awaited books in the history of Self-Realization Fellowship is Paramahansa Yogananda's revelatory interpretation of the teachings of Jesus Christ.
In this unprecedented masterwork of inspiration, Paramahansa Yogananda takes the reader on a profoundly enriching journey through the four Gospels, verse by verse, and illumines the universal path to oneness with God taught by Jesus to his immediate disciples but obscured through centuries of misinterpretation: "how to become like Christ, how to resurrect the Eternal Christ within one's Self."

Never before available in its entirety, this landmark work by one of the most revered spiritual teachers of our time transcends divisive sectarianism to reveal a unifying harmony underlying all true religions. A groundbreaking synthesis of East and West, it imparts the life-transforming realization that each of us can experience for ourselves the promised Second Coming—awakening of the all-fulfilling Divine Consciousness latent within our souls.

The text is accompanied by more than 30 full-color and sepia reproductions of paintings and rare drawings of the life of Jesus, as well as a comprehensive glossary, index, and subject annotations.

Nine Faces of Christ: A Narrative of Nine Great Mystic Initiations of Joseph-Bar-Joseph in the Eternal Religion Eugene E. Whitworth

This book deals with the inspired and relentless search for the True Religion, telling the story of Joseph-bar-Joseph, a Messiah, crucified in 57 B.C., and showing the methods and techniques of developing the inner initiate Godself.
*
http://www.agapelive.com/bookstore/second-coming-christ-resurrection-christ-within-revelatory-commentary-original-teachings-jesus-p-153.html




The Great Story can enrich the EASTERN SPIRITUAL QUEST for enlightenment: "The big picture is the evolutionary context, which I am convinced is the most important factor in awakening to a new moral framework for our own time. When we discover this evolutionary context and recognize what a big part our individual and collective transformation could play in the larger scheme of things, a higher conscience awakens in our own consciousness. . . When one authentically awakens to the evolutionary context, one discovers a sense of urgency — a passion that just screams: We've got to wake up!" — Andrew Cohen, What Is Enlightenment? Magazine, 2004
http://thegreatstory.org/what_is.html

Have you read this ebook? It discusses how the new age/new thought made inroads into the church

Evolve or Perish

On the first anniversary of September 11, 2001, Barbara Marx Hubbard surfaced as a speaker at the “Quasquicentennial Lecture Series on the Future of Higher Education” at Texas A&M University. The college newspaper The Aggie Daily quoted Hubbard as stating that the world was at an “evolutionary crossroads” and that “we have equal power to destroy ourselves or create and transform ourselves into something greater.” The title of her lecture was “A New Evolution for the Future of Humanity: 9/11 a Wake-up Call for the Next Step in Human Development.” Hubbard was also quoted as saying, “This generation in the next 20 years will be a deciding factor in human evolution…. None of us know how to guide a planet through this; there are no experts.” She warned that “Humanity must realize that we are on the threshold of fulfilling our greatest aspirations but we must consciously take hold of that evolution or perish…. Higher Education may be the first step toward that next state on the path toward evolution rather than destruction.”1

Barbara Marx Hubbard, however, did have a plan on “how to guide a planet through this.” Even as she spoke to this Texas audience she was being promoted as one of the featured “prophets” at an upcoming New Age “Prophets Conference” in Palm Springs, California.2 The website describing the conference stated that Hubbard was a modern-day “prophet” who had a spiritual “blueprint” that could help guide the planet through its present crises. The “blueprint” was what she had channeled from her “Christ” and recorded in her book The Revelation: A Message of Hope for the New Millennium. So, while she was telling the Texas A&M group that “none of us know how to guide a planet through this,” she had already written a book on the subject and was about to give a scheduled talk at an upcoming “Prophet’s Conference” entitled “THE PLANETARY AWAKENING: How our generation can transform the world.” By presenting herself to the Texas A&M audience as a futurist and an educator—not as a New Age leader channeling “Christ”—Hubbard was being less than straightforward about her spiritual agenda. She was telling her Texas audience that humanity must “consciously take hold of its evolution or perish,” but she wasn’t disclosing what that really meant—spiritually evolve according to the dictates of her New Age “Christ ”or be killed! Accept the New Age/New Gospel teachings of the New Spirituality or be handed over to the “selection process.” She didn’t tell them what she had received from her “Christ” and written down over twenty years ago: how the “defective,” “self-centered” part of humanity that refuses to evolve by recognizing that God is “in” everyone, will have to be sacrificially killed for the higher purpose of world peace:


No worldly peace can prevail until the self-centered members of the planetary body either change, or die. That is the choice. The red horse is the destruction during the birth process of those who refuse to be born into God-centered, universal life. They cannot go backward to the womb; they cannot go forward to the new heavens and new earth. They must surely die, or change.

It is a free choice. Evolution is good but it is not nice. Only the good can evolve. Only the God-centered will survive to inherit the powers of a universal species. Evolution empowers the horseman upon the red horse to kill that which cannot love God above all else and his neighbor as himself and himself as the son of God.

This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it; be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning.3 [bold added]

We have no choice, dearly beloveds. It is a case of the destruction of the whole planet, or the elimination of the ego-driven, godless one-fourth who, at this time of planetary birth, can, if allowed to live on to reproduce their defective disconnection, destroy forever the opportunity of Homo sapiens to become Homo universalis, heirs of God.4



Hubbard the Peace Builder?


Meanwhile, Barbara Marx Hubbard continues to gain credibility in today’s unsuspecting and undiscerning world. In the spring of 2003 she appeared on a PBS television series entitled Closer to Truth: Science, Meaning and the Future. Introduced as a “world renowned futurist,” “citizen diplomat,” “social architect,” and “global politician,” Hubbard participated in panel discussions with an astrophysicist, a public policy expert and other “renowned specialists.”5 As she took part in the discussions concerning “ethics and civility” and “community in the New Millennium,” a copy of her book describing the selection process—The Revelation—lay on the table in front of her.
In 2005 on the fourth anniversary of September 11th, Hubbard was presented with a prestigious “Peace Builders Award” in Washington, D.C. Featured speakers at the conference included Marianne Williamson, former news anchor Walter Cronkite and Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Hubbard’s acceptance speech was entitled “Peace Through Co-Creation.”6 This woman, who described death by the “selection process,” was now being hailed as a Peace Builder in our nation’s capital. The prophet Isaiah warned that the day would come when evil was called good and good evil.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. (Isaiah 5:20)

http://www.reinventingjesuschrist.com/updates/8.html

[Christy]

Sing4Him wrote:
Christy .. thank you for this information. Unreal, huh?!

It's totally amazing - The devil has all "bases covered" so to speak.