As I reviewed certain things, I found in my papers this presentation of an introduction to Christian care. It refers to all those who are in need of care both older and young people as well to all who need to practice mercy and grace

 

INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN CARE

What do I understand is the controversy against Christ in my generation?

1. My age is against Christ in His capacity and authority as the only mediator between God and man.

2. My age is against the Bible as God's infallible word, thinking to have proven in its rational criticism that the Bible is insufficient to guide man in a scientific and highly complex generation.

3. Some in my age hold that God has left man to superintend life according to man's best rational understanding without God's interference.

4. Purity is impossible in this life even with Christ.

5. My age believes in cheap grace and in forgiveness, but it has little depth of awareness of the debt incurred and how we are to participate in its payment.

  6. My age has forsaken Christ as the creator of the cosmos.
  7. My age has denied Christ as the Son of God.

What are the things that I must therefore live with and do something about in
my generation?  

      1. Human and religious authorities vying for preeminence in the void.

      2. The use of deceptive-psychological methods to lure men to participate in the age,   methods which claim to understand and manipulate human nature toward certain objectives.  

3. The falsification of man in Psychological and Physical descriptions of his nature and purpose, and in his care and maintenance.

      4. Rational processes are applied to life which claims that understanding is the best goal of human care. But rational processes can only take apart and cannot build up or solve man's problems.

5. A natural morality and ethic has taken over life which prevents true sympathy for life, "working uncleanness with greediness."

6. An independent and   self-sufficient (so-called) social and psychological science seeks to become the mediatorial authority for knowledge about human life among the sciences.

7. The denial of any absolute authority.

8. An increasing world-wide economic motive arising to guide life. Will my decisions and activities enhance me financially?

9. Two motives are vying for preeminence presently: a. is my decision eco­nomically good?   b. will my decision increase my self-esteem and subsequently   further me in becoming all that I can be?

10. A generation of people with low self-esteem whose enemy is anything that has led to this condition.

11. Increasing lawlessness, crime, and the weakening of society's resistance to crime.

12. The legalization of crimes to enhance one's ease of life and self-esteem

13. Increasing hatred for the weak, and worship of the fittest.

14. Rational and utilitarian approaches to explaining life are casting significant doubt on the ability of sympathy, faith, wisdom, and love.

15.              An unbiblical view of human life as "normal" and "abnormal" and the resultant power of the categories derived from this viewpoint.

16.              Human authority that does not encourage obedience to the law of God (see Ezra 7:26).   Rather human authority encourages a neutral territory to life, that being science and specifically medicine and medical procedures.   The Physician is viewed as a magician who exists for man's betterment and can do no wrong except hinder a person's self-esteem or ease of life.

17.              Secularism perpetrated—a belief that God should not enter the affairs and functions of the state.