The Nation has voted for change. . .

Saltshakers Media Release

24 November 2007

It may well be change for change’s sake but the majority of people have spoken and we will only see if it was change for the better as this new Labor government puts its’ hand to the wheel and starts to implement its’ policies.

Our concerns, as expressed by all the red crosses on the Christian Values Checklist, by our many emails over recent weeks and by the insightful article by Richard Eason in our November Journal, will be confirmed, or allayed, by what the Rudd government now does.
The social engineering promised by Labor in the election campaign and in Labor policy documents threatens to undermine the very foundation of our nation, the family. Labor’s commitment to endorse Relationship Registers for same-sex and other couples and grant them many other ‘rights’ - previously held uniquely for heterosexual couples - will undermine both marriage and family and we will continue to vigorously oppose such undesirable social engineering.

The future of this great nation is in new hands, ‘new leadership’, that we believe could well move this nation even further away from its Christian heritage and from God.

God allowed nations that turned their back on him to be run by those who did not honour him, those who put power ahead of authority, in the hope that the nation would see the error of their ways and return to him.

The fact that some Christian groups, as shown by our emails last week, scored Labor the Democrats and Greens ahead of other, simply because they profess to be more ‘social justice’ and/or ‘climate’ minded, beggars belief.

These church groups totally ignored the fact that those very parties are the ones trying the hardest to erase our Christian heritage, remove 'religion' from politics, and destroy the values of family and freedom that are the true strength of our nation.

The first and foremost role of the church in Australia, in fact across the world, is to bring people back to God - to offer spiritual hope to the hopeless and the lost. When it ‘elevates’ issues such as ‘social justice’ and ‘climate change’ ahead of preaching the Gospel, ahead of calling people to repent and turn their lives back to God, ahead of denouncing sin, it does all people a disservice.

Clearly, helping the poor, the widows and orphans (representing those who cannot help themselves), is important – it is a personal responsibility of loving our neighbour.

Clearly, we have been given responsibility to care for the earth, but we are called to subdue it, not worship it.

The church must repent for turning its back on more than 90,000 babies who die in this nation each year, for sitting back and allowing our culture to be soaked with sexual permissiveness and so-called ‘sexual diversity’, for allowing God’s design for gender, marriage and the family to become distorted and dramatically undermined, and for soaking up the materialism of this age.

There is no doubt that we now have an even greater challenge before us – now is not the time to throw our hands into the air in defeat but to throw them into the air and plead with our God, the one true God, to hear our cries and empower us to be the people HE wants us to be. To be the SALT and Light that this nation now needs more than ever.