Only 10% needed for U.S. demise

A basic sociological truth says that within any group of people, large or small, 10% of the people of the organization (institution, movement, religion, cult, body, etc.) 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% of your business comes from 20% of the activity), but the rule of social movement is all you have to have is 10% committed to something to control it,” explains Richard Jordan (shorewoodbiblechurch.org). “I say that because if you have 10% of the populace that is committed to the truth, you can influence it. By the way, when 10% of the populace becomes Muslim, are they not thoroughly committed to what they do?

“You watch what’s happening in Europe today and you’re just seeing a foretaste. Eventually that stuff's coming here; it will just come 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.

“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.

“There’s a revisionist kind of idea and even the simple cultural foundations, and the understanding that carries our culture along, is gone and generations have come along who’ve had that educated out of them. Those people are now taking 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.

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“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’s so diminished it comes to the place where there’s no ability to affect the culture.”

(new article tomorrow)