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Our organization is approved as an official non-profit tax-deductible 501 (c) (3) ministry by the IRS, so you may deduct your donation when filing your taxes next year. We want to assure you that your donation will be used wisely, which means that we are diligently endeavoring to glorify God through it.
If you are not familiar with our organization, it is important to know that we exist to defend and promote the Christian worldview in an effort to educate and encourage the body of Christ to reform the prevailing American culture through intercessory prayer, evangelism, apologetics and an accurate knowledge of history to guarantee our biblical liberties and to share the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. As a product of this process we glorify God and lead the lost to Christ. It is vital to understand that our agenda is not fundamentally political or cultural, but evangelistic, with profound political and cultural implications.
You can download a donation form here, and checks should be made out to:
The Cultural Commission
P.O. Box 1864
Garner, NC 27529
The Cultural Commission is a (501)(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax deductible. Our IRS Tax Exempt number is 31-1739905.
What Donors Should Remember About Cultural Commission Education Programs
On June 21, 2004, Alan Schaeffer of the Alliance for the Separation of School & State, pointed out that “studies by George Barna, the Nehemiah Institute, and the Southern Baptist Convention show that 70 percent to 88 percent of children from Christian families will leave the faith after graduation.”
We at The Cultural Commission believe that this horrifying retention rate is a direct product of the modern church’s decision to entertain the youth instead of educating and edifying them. This is a church that would rather promote frivolous trivial pursuits instead of rich intellectually satisfying spiritual pursuits. We at The Cultural Commission are endeavoring to change this troubling reality. In fact, aside from our desire to please God, it is what drives us.
Further, it is our assessment that this is ultimately a worldview issue. In other words, it is all about the ideas that are competing for the devotion of our young people. Whether in school, on the job, in the university or amongst new “friends,” our children will encounter these ideas. Ideas with consequences. Ideas that will compete for their loyalty. Ideas that are seductive and could erase the many years of nurture and admonition that you have invested into your children. Ideas that have the very real ability to turn them away from the Lord.
The modern church’s response to this has been to hide from or ignore these ideas. Beloved, this is unacceptable and has gone on unabated for too long. The Cultural Commission’s response is to encounter the ideas, to study them and then refute them. To carefully weigh and consider these lines of thought and then disprove them. To pit them against the matchless body of Christian knowledge that can be studied and learned from the annals of history and our irreducibly complex universe. Our response is and will be the church’s historical response, which is to apologetically engage the “spirit of the age” and then “contend for the faith.”
Further, and by way of encouragement, Christians have nothing to fear from any of these false worldviews. The truthfulness of the Christian worldview is rationally sustainable by the standards of logic, biblical truth, the findings of science and the experience of God-fearers throughout history. Yes, ours is a rational faith. Conversely, all non-Christian worldviews are logically unsustainable and fall easily to those who are steeped in the Christian worldview and apologetics.
Flannery O'Connor once wrote that "You have to push as hard as the age that pushes against you" and you as a parent know that the weight of the culture is pushing hard against you and your family. I want you to know that we at The Cultural Commission are your allies in this battle. A battle of ideas that our children will soon be immersed in full-time and away from familiar support. In other words, they will be relying on what they have already been taught…and the age will be pushing against them. The only question will be; do they have the intellectual muscle to push back?
We push back through our educational program that includes a variety of classes, lectures, seminars and youth camps that are affordable, reliable and practical. Our subjects that we specialize in include Christian and opposing worldview studies, apologetics, speech, debate, logic, philosophy, great books of western history tutorials, journalism, Constitutional studies and America's Christian Heritage.
Our introductory level is where the young adults become steeped in the Christian worldview. We accomplish this by educating the students to be fluent in the ideas of the great titans of the Christian faith. Saints from Paul to Pascal to Chuck Colson and Norman Geisler. Great Christian thinkers that have done invaluable “ground-work” for the modern Christian. Unfortunately, most modern Christians are never taught that historic Christianity is a lens for viewing all of ultimate reality. A lens that helps us make right decisions about all things from art to ethics to political. We close this gap.
Our advanced level focuses in on the false worldviews that dominate the market-place of ideas and is only for students already practiced in the Christian worldview. In a comprehensive manner, we teach these students who are about to enter college (including the “Christian” variety) how to refute the opposing worldviews that they will soon be surrounded by. In an effort to combat and refute these false ideas, we expose the students to the proponents of the false worldview systems from Plato to Jean-Paul Sarte and beyond.
The target audiences for all of our educational offerings are the young adults who are age 12-18 and will soon be facing these false ideas on their own. This is crunch time for parents to do something about the statistics that show the majority of young people leave the faith once they are out on their own. On their own in an education system, workplace and some churches whose basic worldview is naturalistic and based upon atheistic assumptions. On their own with people who question, cast doubt on and are openly hostile to God, the Christian worldview and the Lord’s people.
University of Southern California philosophy professor Dallas Willard portrays it like this; "it is the academic that today governs the idea systems of our world and opposes traditional views of human nature—specifically, the Judeo-Christian or biblical understanding of human life." These academics and others like them will oppose our young people’s faith.
It is our firm belief that when we educate our children, we must go deeper, and provide a broader and richer content than those that oppose us. By way of numerous testimonies and endorsements, The Cultural Commission accomplishes this vital task.
I pray that you the potential donor will begin to think about the profound eternal impact that you can have via the educational enterprise that we call The Cultural Commission. Please consider investing in our valuable program which builds up our students' faith with the true knowledge of the Christian worldview and also exposes the falsities in the opposing worldviews. Know that your investment will go directly into underwriting these precious and essential programs we offer.