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Stand Up for Truth
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| You don't write puff pieces unless you're doing something that you think they should be puffed, I think. | |
| But it's amazing. | |
| I remember William Randhoff first said to Puff Graham. | |
| That's right. | |
| And that made Billy Graham. | |
| It really did. | |
| But of course, in journalism circles, you don't want to do puffery because it's more like public relations or something. | |
| But we have to tell the facts, but we also have to speak the truth. | |
| The thing is, a lot of the secular journalists think they're speaking the truth, but they're doing it from an anti-God worldview. | |
| So they would speak the truth and talk about these awful people that are protesting in front of abortion clinics, for example. | |
| And these poor women are being denied their rights and their pregnancy. | |
| And they think they're telling the truth. | |
| But of course, we have a very different worldview. | |
| We have a worldview that's based on the Bible. | |
| And so that's the place that of what we try to do at Charisma. | |
| There are very few Christian media, although now with the internet, there are some different websites that are coming along. | |
| And of course, there's organizations like Christianity Today, which have been around a long, long time. | |
| But Charisma has mainly focused on the charismatic Pentecostal community, which is fast growing and continues to grow. | |
| And we have just kind of, the way I say it is that we try to report on what the Holy Spirit is doing today. | |
| And it's not all good. | |
| I mean, there are church splits, you know, people fall, you know, but also a lot of people are getting saved. | |
| And, but, you know, in the last couple of decades, we've reported on how much persecution there is of Christians. | |
| Who would have thought that Christians would actually be persecuted? | |
| But there's a lot of examples. | |
| Thankfully, they're still fairly rare in just the total number in the country. | |
| But the thing is, they're increasing. | |
| And if we don't stand up to it, they're going to come, it's going to be more and more and more. | |
| And so it's very important that we stand up to people who really oppose the gospel. | |
| And I'm not wanting to criticize anybody specifically, but there are people like that. | |