[Biblemat] Uninhabited Desert Island

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Brethren,

I think it was in the 1970s that a Japanese soldier was discovered on an 
uninhabited Pacific island still defending the island against the USA. 
He did not know that WWII had ended.

Spiritually speaking, it is very easy for us to get stuck on deserted 
islands because the vast majority of the religious world are abandoning 
their traditional dogmas. There are still conservatives in almost every 
branch of protestantism but the majority are forsaking the older creedal 
statements. There have been several splits and new denominations formed 
among religious groups in the last ten years. One of the latest took 
place this year among the "Brethren" denominations.

Three things that I would recommend keeping an eye on and researching are:

1. The Destiny movement and the Harvest movement.

2. The "Emerging Church" and missional living.

3. It turns out that Harry Potter is a religious series ( see "Harry 
Potter and the Deathly Hallows ) the problem is: "What is the religious 
message that the author is sending?"

These may very well turn out to be tomorrow's battlefields.

James