Right From Wrong Campaign Jacksonville Florida Ministries T olerance Speaking to over 400 Jacksonville pastors and church staff at a January 14 breakfast preparing for his Right from Wrong Campaign , Josh McDowell issued a wake-up call to alert Jacksonville pastors and lay leaders to the biggest threat of the millennia. But the definition of tolerance being taught as the main virtue in our high schools and colleges is not at all what we as Christians would have taught. We live in a window in history of dual, almost opposite definitions of tolerance. Traditional tolerance meant permission. A bigot therefore is one who believes in hierarchy or differentiation in respect to these things, McDowell summarized on the new thinking, making a Christian a bigot.
Positive tolerance is the antithesis of Christian teaching of absolute truth.
Within positive tolerance, there is no intelligent way to discern between right from wrong. Wrong becomes equally legitimate. Thus Josh pointed out there is now a loss of the ability to discern right from wrong among our youth, even Christian youth. Josh's next visit will tell us how to equip our children to deal with this issue. Youth Rallies will follow on April 24- 25 at Westside Baptist Church and New Life Fellowship.