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Sleeper cells and Australian election victory

By Spencer Gear - posted Tuesday, 21 May 2019


SBS reported on the alarm by Christian schools last year of proposed change 'to the Sex Discrimination Act to prevent religious schools being able to expel students or sack staff on the basis of their sexuality'.

If 'millions of Australians' were concerned about this, the ALP and the Greens should have seen it coming and so deserve to lose because of policies that discriminated against religious values.

Who brings a government to power?

In the New Testament, Romans 13:1 states 'Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God'.

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It is God who raises governments and tears others down. If the values of governments clash with God's law, Christians need to pursue what Peter and the apostles did: 'We must obey God rather than any human authority' (Acts 5:29).

These could be some of the sleeper cell issues that led to defeat in Labor's unlosable election.

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Spencer Gear PhD (University of Pretoria, South Africa) is a retired counselling manager, independent researcher, retired minister of the The Christian & Missionary Alliance of Australia, and freelance writer living in Brisbane Qld, Australia.

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