The Lie: Evolution (12 page)

This student also said that as a result of the visit, students who previously scoffed at him for being a Christian were now interested in finding out more about the Creator. I have heard this testimony many, many times during my years in the creation evangelism ministry.

If God’s people do not take up the tool of creation evangelism and use it, we will suffer the consequences of an ineffective method of proclaiming the truth. This is why creation ministries are so important today. They deal with the foundations upon which Christianity depends — the foundations that have been removed to a great extent from our society.

As this message has been preached throughout Australia, the United States, and other places around the world, we have seen people take the thoughts and publications and challenge others in the area of creation. When confronted on that issue, they have been found to be open to the gospel, whereas previously they would just scoff when the subject of Christ was raised. By the grace of God, creation evangelism works!

When new converts come into a church, they should be led in a Bible study on the Book of Genesis. They will learn exactly what Christianity is all about and will learn the basis for all Christian doctrine. Results do come from simply preaching about Christ and the Cross in our society today because there is still a remnant of the creation basis for that preaching. But this remnant is disappearing very quickly, and thus the response is far less today than in the past. It is time we woke up and used the tools that the Lord has provided to evangelize a society that has become like the ancient Greeks. It is time to restore the foundations of Christianity.

A good example of creation evangelism at work can be summarized in the letter we received from an excited young university student:

I would like to thank you for your ministry as you help people understand that Jesus actually created this world.

I want to share a testimony which I pray will encourage you in your fight against evolution.

My father, for sixty-five years had been an atheist, always had been an atheist, always quick to knock down anyone’s beliefs concerning God in general, but especially if they claimed that God had made the world. Dad thought the Bible was illogical and a book for the simple in mind. "How could it contain any truth?" he questioned. Dad assumed that evolution was the only possible scientific way to explain the formation of the earth.

Sensing this spiritual attack, my faithful mother prayed for twenty years for Dad’s mind to open to the truth and for this deception to be broken. Two years ago, when I was eighteen and had been a Christian for three years, I decided to go to a creation science seminar. I can’t tell you how impressed I was with these Bible-believing Christians presenting scientific truth about creation. It made my faith in God’s Word increasingly stronger and I was overjoyed that I could take a scientific stand to explain how God created the world.

At the bookstand at the seminar I bought several books and magazines. One in particular was
Bone of Contention
. I loved reading this magazine so much that I encouraged Dad to read it. Skeptically, he took it and started reading it. Three days after, I asked him what he thought about it. To my surprise he stated that it really made him think. At this opening, I then proceeded to give him the other books I had bought.

A few weeks later Dad was making statements like "never knew there were so many holes in the evolutionary theory. There must have been an Almighty Being who created the world." Each new day Jesus began to piece together the puzzle in Dad’s mind concerning creation and the claim of Jesus on his life. A few weeks later an evangelist came to our church. The same night Dad decided to go. The evangelist spoke on creation versus evolution. God’s timing is perfect! That night Dad accepted Jesus Christ into his heart as his personal Saviour! I praise God that He can take a lost soul off the highway to hell and set him on the path to life simply because an understanding of how God created the world was formed in his mind!

Thanks, Creation Science Foundation, for teaching people about creation. I want to encourage you in your fight against Satan. The Lord is doing wonderful things as a result of your effort.

The Lord has not just called us to tear down the barriers of evolution, but to help to restore the foundation of the gospel in our society. If churches took up the tool of creation evangelism in society we would see a stemming of the tide of humanistic philosophy, which is making our nations more pagan with each passing day.

In Australia’s Christian newspaper,
New Life
, Thursday, April 15, 1982, Josef Ton, who was a pastor of the largest Baptist church in Romania and is now living in exile in the United States, stated: "I came to the conclusion that there were two factors which destroyed Christianity in Western Europe. One was the theory of evolution, and the other, liberal theology. ... Liberal theology is just evolution applied to the Bible and our faith."

It is also worth noting the comment in the book
By Their Blood: Christian Martyrs of the 20th Century
, by James and Marti Helfley:

New philosophies and theologies from the West also helped to erode Chinese confidence in Christianity. A new wave of so-called missionaries from mainline Protestant denominations came teaching evolution and a non-supernatural view of the Bible. Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, and Northern Baptist schools were especially hard hit. Bertrand Russell came from England preaching atheism and socialism. Destructive books brought by such teachers further undermined orthodox Christianity.
The Chinese intelligentsia who had been schooled by orthodox evangelical missionaries were thus softened for the advent of Marxism
(emphasis mine). Evolution is destroying the church and society today, and Christians need to be awakened to that fact.
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Sowing and Reaping

Think about the parable of the sower of the seed (Matt. 13:3–23). When the seed fell on rocky and thorny ground, it could not grow. It only grew when it fell on prepared ground. We throw the seed out: that represents the gospel. It is falling on the thorny ground and rocky ground of evolutionary philosophy. The gospel needs prepared ground. Creation evangelism enables us to prepare the ground so the good seed can be scattered and a great harvest reaped. Imagine what would happen if our churches really stood up for creation in our society! Creation evangelism is one of the means whereby we could see revival.

We are not suggesting that a true revival can be engineered by simply adopting certain clever human strategies. Revival is essentially the sovereign work of God pouring out His Spirit. But the history of the Church suggests that God’s movement in this area is related to the faithful prayer of His people and to the faithful preaching of the gospel, giving due honor to God and His Word. Note the nature of the "everlasting gospel" preached by the angel in Revelation 14:7: "Fear God, and give glory to Him for the hour of His judgment: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." Can the body of Christ really expect a great outpouring of God’s Spirit in revival while we tolerate and compromise with a religious system (evolution) that was set up primarily to deny God the glory and worship due to Him as the great Creator, Judge and Redeemer?

As a result of the creation science ministry, many people who previously would not listen to the gospel have realized that evolution is not proven scientific fact. They have heard the message of creation and redemption, and they have committed their lives to our Lord Jesus Christ. Large numbers of Christians have testified that their faith in the Scriptures has been restored. Instead of coming to the Bible with doubts, they know that it really is the Word of God. They can share the facts of Christianity with their neighbors and friends without wondering whether the Bible can be trusted. Christians have also had their eyes opened to the truth that to comprehend Christianity they have to understand the foundational Book of Genesis.

After hearing me preach on this particular topic, a minister at one church informed his congregation that he had not realized before what he had been doing in his ministry in attempting to combat humanistic philosophy. He was, as it were, "cutting the tops off the weeds." The weeds kept growing back bigger and better than before. After listening to the message on creation evangelism, he realized this was simply not good enough. He had to remove the pestilence, roots and all. The creation ministry is a plowing ministry: plowing up the ground, getting rid of the barrier of evolution (getting rid of the weeds), and preparing the ground for the seed to be planted.

The following are excerpts from a few of the many thousands of letters that have come across my desk during my involvement with creation ministries. As you read these, notice the way in which people’s lives have been affected by the message that this book details. The letters speak for themselves.

"I would like to simply say keep up the good work. I will never be able to thank you enough for bringing the seminar to me. Since that day, I feel like you pulled a huge blind from in front of me."
Mr. G
.

"Thanks for your sound advice in encouraging a brother who I mentioned had made a stand after me as a result of the creation science seminar. I am now very pleased to say that I enjoy fellowship with another brother in the Lord as I have watched, in amazement, the consistent accelerating growth he has experienced over the months that have passed since your last visit. Seldom these days do we hear a message of such significance and relevance to the 20th century, where we are confronted with a society where most people haven’t a clue as to where society came from and, as a result, haven’t a clue where society is going. The modern philosophy appears to be ‘let’s live for today.’ The whole problem being we don’t want to learn from the past, the way men have lived and the results of their lifestyle because when we look at the past we see how fragile the whole life is, showing the dependency on a God this generation appears to exclude."
Mr. P
.

"I would like you to know how exciting and beneficial it has been to read your material and listen to the tapes. It has so increased my faith in my God, through the understanding of His Bible, especially in the Book of Genesis. I have just led a group of women in my church through a study of creation versus evolution, and have been really encouraged by the interest and response. I must confess I find it hard to be diplomatic, and not shout my new-found knowledge from the rooftops!"
Mrs. L
.

You may be encouraged to know that following the Creation Science Men’s Breakfast held at the local church, my elderly neighbor became very interested in Christianity and after a few long chats, church services, and discussions, he became a Christian. He was baptized last year and is now an active, seeking member of the church. His thirst to read the Scriptures puts me to shame, his face seems to glow now. He has been transformed totally!"
Mr. P
.

"I wish to share with you as part of my testimony. Almost a year ago I trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour, partly as a result of the creation science ministry. As a consequence, the Lord had led me from the secular, evolutionary, humanistic state education system to a Christian school. My personal thanks to your ministry."
Mr. H
.

"As a former theistic evolutionist I now realize, thanks to the witness of creation science materials supporting the literal, historical accuracy of the Genesis record of creation, that the evolution theory of origins is a false teaching."
Mr. D
.

"My son Brendan (eight years old) has made a commitment of his life to our Saviour, Jesus. I realize that he does not fully understand the depth of what he has done, but the experience was very emotional for him, and he was sincere. May God guide me in training him further. I give thanks to your organization for the literature I have been able to purchase. This material from you increased my faith and I am sure it has been the inducement for my son’s spiritual growth. I just can’t thank you people enough."
Mr. N
.

"Thank you for sending me your publications. I described many of the discoveries in them and lent the material to my friend who is an electrical engineering student whom I tutor in mathematics. He, too, has found them very fascinating. This made him open to the gospel, and he told me that he desired to read the Bible and other literature. I was only too happy to help. He intends to make his commitment to the Lord Jesus. All this happened through your publications."
Mr. J
.

"The time you spoke at the Baptist church on the relevance of creation — the message directed at Christians — there was a hardened atheist in the audience who had been prayed for and witnessed to for years. He came to the Lord that night after you left. God is really using this ministry."
Mr. W
.