It's Wednesday, October 5th, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

How long will it be before they come for your job?

How long will it be before they come for your church?

These questions have come very much to the fore

with headline news coming to us from the

nation of Australia and it has to do with a sports franchise there and with the fact

that that franchise had announced just a matter of Monday of this week

had announced a new executive, but that executive is now out

and out because of a scandal, out because of a controversy.

What was the scandal?

Well, it turns out that he was not only a member of an

evangelical church there in the Melbourne, Australia area, but he also was chairman of its board.

Now, that becomes a complicated issue, but it's an uncomplicated challenge. The challenge is this.

In a rapidly secularizing society in which so many of the most important

institutional levers are now in the control of those who either are a part of or serving the

LGBT-Q-plus revolution and with other issues out there ranging from abortion to an entire range of other moral and political issues,

the fact is that membership in an evangelical church can get you into big trouble

and can indeed cost you a job or a job opportunity.

Now we've seen that already in the United States, just think of Kelvin Cochran, who had

been the fire chief of Atlanta, and he was basically forced out over Sunday school

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