INDIANAPOLIS  Voddie Baucham spoke at last month's Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis and told Christians they must be educated and equipped to stand against the prevailing philosophical language of the secular world, Agape Press reported.
The Texas-based evangelist said believers in America need to have the same attitude as first-century Christians. Baucham said the climate in today's culture is much like the climate described in the Bible's fourth chapter of Acts, when Peter and John were put into custody because they preached the exclusivity of Jesus. Christians today, he asserts, need to stand for that exclusivity  regardless of the cost.
The apostles' stance was, "Do whatever you must to us, but we cannot stop speaking about what we've seen and about what we've heard. We will not shut up; you cannot stop us," the evangelist said.
But he questioned whether Christians today have that kind of commitment to the gospel of Christ. "I wonder, is that our attitude?" he asked, "or does our attitude say, 'Let's do whatever we have to in order to survive and make it just a little bit longer'?"
Baucham warned the Southern Baptist messengers that, unless a true spiritual awakening takes place soon, believers in America need to be prepared to face real persecution for their faith.
The young evangelist founded Voddie Baucham Ministries in 1993, and has become one of the most sought-after Bible teachers in America. The Texas-based Bible teacher insists that religions that make mutually exclusive truth claims and the religious relativism that is increasingly common in contemporary culture cannot be logically reconciled.
