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Greetings Friend, welcome to our Web Site, Chamblissburg Baptist Church! A church you can call home. . . . . . . Patriotism Independence Freedom Memorial Day Fourth of July Flag Day As citizens of the United States of America, we owe much gratitude, thankfulness, and praise to God. Because in England in the late 1500’s and early 1600’s, He put a desire into the heart of the “Puritans” to seek religious freedom. The “Puritans,” as they were called, wanted to purify the church from within. They wanted to expel from the church what they saw as heresy and corruption in the church’s doctrine and worship practices. They would become known as the "Pilgrims." The ‘Puritans and Pilgrims’ Bible-based view of God’s sovereignty affected their political as well as religious views. It affected their organization of church and civil government. It also set an important precedent for the direction of the Puritan colonies in New England and, ultimately, for the founding of the new nation. They risked their very lives by coming to an unknown land (America) to experience religious freedom. God then continued to work through the political leaders, through the Revolutionary War with England, through the setting up of the thirteen colonies, and then through the lives of numerous writers of our Constitution, which was based of Scriptural principles. Many of these writers/leaders (politicians) were believers in the Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Here are a few quotations from those leaders. John Adams – “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”Alexander Hamilton – “For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.” James Madison – “Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.” Benjamin Franklin – "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." George Washington – “It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.” “It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.” Samuel Adams – “The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty...the rights of the colonists as Christians...may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutions of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.” Noah Webster – "The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence, which acknowledges in every person, a brother or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free constitutions of government." Pray to the Lord for our nation which has strayed far from the Spiritual/Biblical foundation on which it was created, that it would confess its sinfulness and turn back to its Spiritual/Biblical roots! The pictures are circa 1776. |