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Euthanasia Society. They are extremely well funded and are deploying their resources to target new MPs. Your financial help and gifts at this time will help us expand our work and impact in the parliaments of the UK. With greater financial resources, we can offer high quality briefings, conduct polling, produce reports and ensure our elected representatives hear the many powerful arguments against assisted suicide.
Rev Lyndon Bowring CO-FOUNDER
FINAL WORD My prayer for you at this time is that the Holy Spirit will stir within your heart an awesome, reverent, grateful, faith-filled, holy, joyful and fabulous fear of the Lord, to serve Him wherever you live, work and worship! I believe there’s no simple pathway to this prayer being answered except by increasingly spending time alone in God’s presence and in His Word and worshipping with others ‘in spirit and in truth ’. ‘Lord, grant us Your mercy and grace to pursue a “fabulous fear” of Yourself. Amen!’ Yours in His amazing mercy and grace
November 2024
Rev Lyndon Bowring CO-FOUNDER OF CARE
FABULOUS FEAR I see no reason to believe that a Christian ever needs to feel afraid of God, but you may well ask ‘but doesn’t the Bible repeatedly urge us to fear the Lord’? In this letter I want to address this apparent contradiction; how by the help of the Holy Spirit we can learn not to be afraid but to grow in the fabulous fear of the Lord. More about that later. You may remember that I only try to directly ask for your continued financial support once or, at most, twice a year and only after you’ve responded to the needs of your family, local church and other charities close to your heart. Looking ahead to 2025 it’s clear that we’ll need to increase our income in order to make a greater impact in the UK Parliaments and in wider society and we’d be so grateful for your help.
AFRAID OF GOD
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CARE (Christian Action Research & Education) | Chief Executive Ross Hendry | Co-Founder Rev Lyndon Bowring | 020 7233 0455 mail@care.org.uk | CARE is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales at 53 Romney Street, London, SW1P 3RF Company No: 3481417 | Charity No: 1066963 | Scottish Charity No: SC038911
Adam and Eve were the first humans to ‘be afraid’, in the Garden of Eden when the enemy deceived and tempted them to disobey. Their legacy has meant that every human being who has ever lived faced fears of every kind; of war, famine, disaster, sickness, physical and financial insecurity and threats to loved ones. During the 18th century Enlightenment, the idea grew that if people could break free from religion, much of their fear would be removed. This belief persists to this day: the atheist Christopher Hitchens for example considered religion to be actively harmful. For him, the very existence of God meant a ‘permanent round-the-clock divine supervision and invigilation of everything you did … like living in North Korea.’ But today’s secular society, fraught with mental health issues and dysfunction of many kinds, has proved this wrong. Satan works