Interview Guest available: Dr. Erwin Lutzer by phone or Zoom (Central Time)
Intro: The mainstream media is bending backwards to depict the Atlanta mass shooting in a sexual massage parlor as a racially motivated crime. But they ignored completely suspect Robert Aaron Long’s own admission to the Cherokee Country Sheriff’s office that he was driven by sexual addiction and he and sought to “eliminate the temptation” by committing acts of violence against the ‘massage parlor’ workers, some Asian, others white.
Here to help us make sense of the nonsensical, is Dr. Erwin Lutzer, pastor of Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years.
- How do you explain such a terrible act?
Solzhenitsyn was right, “The line between good and evil does not pass-through races or countries but goes right through ever human heart. The doctrine of original sin is proved everyday form the news…
And you never know what evil people are plotting to do.
- Is the cause always bad parenting? Can it be traced to the home?
Often, but human nature is unpredictable. And parents do not know who they are raising or what their child might end up doing.
Let me tell you about two mothers, one, whose name was Morrow, did not know that she was raising a boy who would become the world’s most famous evangelist. As you might have guessed, her last name was Graham.
Another mother, born in Austria, was named Klara. She had six children but only two lived to be adults, a son and a daughter. Her husband was abusive but she was a very good mother to her children. As a devout Catholic, when told that she had breast cancer, accepted her fate. He son loved her and cared for her. When she died, this 13-year-old boy threw himself beside her grave and wept uncontrollably. He loved his mother and now she was gone, and he felt on his own.
Well, Klara’s last name was Hitler.
She died without knowing that her son would become known as the personification of evil.
- So, what do we make of this?
I tell parents, please give your children attention, teach them what you know to be the truth. Model for them a life lived with a purpose and a knowledge of God. We can’t predict who our children will eventually become, but we can set them in the right direction.
Robert Long, the suspect in the Atlanta Spa murderers said he was a sex addict who wanted to eliminate the temptation of the spas. I don’t know anything about his parents, but perhaps if they had shielded him from pornography, and helped him see that there was hope and forgiveness for his lifestyle, this horror might not have happened.
- The bottom line?
Look into the face of a child. Pray for them, let them know that they are loved, valuable and God wants their hearts. Help them to see that there are two paths, and the choices they make will have repercussions for tomorrow.
5. Tell us about your newest book about the current wave of censorship titled, “We Will Not Be Silenced,” and where we may pick up a copy?
Bookstores everywhere and on Amazon.com.
Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church where he served as the Senior Pastor for 36 years. He is author of many books including his latest, “We Will Not Be Silenced: Responding Courageously to Our Culture’s Assault on Christianity.”
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