How Europe's going to fall . . .

Studies in the business and economic world bear out a basic sociological truth that says that within any group of people—a local church, a Boy Scout troop, a university, etc., etc.--10 percent of the people of the organization, thoroughly committed to one idea, can control the whole organization and carry it in the direction of that ideal.

“In the business world you hear about the 80-20 rule (80 percent of your business comes from 20 percent of the activity), but the rule of social movement is all you have to have is 10 percent committed to something to control it,” explains Jordan.
 

“I say that because if you have 10 percent of the populace that is committed to the truth, you can influence it. By the way, when 10 percent of the populace becomes Muslim, are they not thoroughly committed to what they do?

“You watch what’s happening in Egypt today; that’s what’s going to happen in Europe. That’s how Europe’s going to fall, just that way. And as you watch those events, you’re just seeing the foretaste of all that.

“Eventually that stuff will come here; it will come here in a different form, because when it hops the pond it has to get over here where we are and all of the Americas have been different.

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“The things that hold a culture together have long been dissolved here in the United States and now you have a generation of people with no understanding of what our culture is about.

“Right now, for example, there’s a fight about what Thanksgiving is about and when you present information out of the journals of Bradford and so forth--those who were there telling you what they did and why they did it--people say, ‘No, that’s not what it’s about.’

“It’s a revisionist kind of idea and even the simple cultural foundations, and the understanding that carries your culture along, is gone and you’ve had people come along who’ve had that educated out of them. Those people are now beginning to take the control reins of culture.

“People in the 40-60 age group are the people who control the power stroke in a culture. You’ve got these folks who in their 30s now who’ve been completely educated out of any understanding of what made America or Western culture the way it is.

“I’ve told you before about meeting the attorney in Chicago, a graduate of a big law school who practices in a big law firm, and we were talking about the Good Samaritan Law and I asked him if he had any idea where that name came from. He said no and when I told him it came out of the Bible he said, ‘No, that’s not possible. That’s not right. Separation of church and state; you can’t do that.’

“Here’s a young guy, thoroughly educated, who didn’t know what the Parable of the Good Samaritan was. I mean, you don’t have to be a Believer; you just understand there’s certain things like David and Goliath and Noah and the Ark that are metaphors a culture uses to pass on its values and the things that underpin its thinking.

“You ever hear people say, ‘We just study the Bible as literature; not as a religious thing’? That’s what they’re talking about. There was a time in the not too distant past where you were considered not to be properly educated if you didn’t have a working knowledge of the King James Bible.

“In fact, I was fascinated back at the 400^th anniversary of the King James Bible, a number of professors at universities, including literature experts, wrote books about the social-cultural impact of it. They understand that our language, many of the phrases you and I use just naturally, come right out of your Bible.

“That’s because it’s been a cultural underpinning, but that’s being done away with and you have generations of young people now who’ve been educated without any of that attachment. So as they begin to take control what takes the place of the Scripture is paganism.

“Paganism is a religious philosophy all the religions of the world focus in. The Bible says there’s God and there’s man but paganism says, ‘No, there’s only one bucket; it’s all just the same.’ When you have God and man, you have the master-servant, Lord and man, absolutes that mean there’s a right and wrong. There’s someone to define what a marriage is, define what life is, define what good is, define what evil is and so forth.

“We use all these fancy terms like ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘relativism’ and all that, but all that is in its ultimate form is just an expression of paganism.

“The thing you have to understand is the course of a nation in the dispensation of grace is determined by the amount of sound doctrine resident in the populace; that’s going to determine the strength of the true church; not the institutional, civil religion, but the true church and our impact.

“We don’t have to be the majority, we never have been, but the spiritual impact of truth is so powerful. Paul says, ‘As unknown and yet well-known,’ and that’s the way we are, but when that is so diminished it comes to the place where there’s no ability to affect the culture.”