Truly need a revival
Dear Editor: I was very pleased with Sid Waterman’s “The times they area changin’” letter (Daily Courier, May 4).
He is so truthful about God’s word and love. So many people, including many Christians, are falling away and not standing for the word of God’s truth. The bible is the one book that has lasted thousands of years despite antiChristians and terrorists trying to burn and abolish it.
If we truly love God and know Jesus as our lord and saviour, we will desire to obey the word of God and live the truth boldly with love — and love all peoples of the earth — and not necessarily agreeing with what all people do, but showing them the love of Jesus and letting them know what the bible says.
One day we will all stand before Jesus, the king of kings and lord of lords. Those who have been anti-Christian and anti-God’s word will have to answer for what they’ve done.
If it hadn’t been for Christians throughout history there would be no hospitals or schools. We, who profess to be Christians, truly need the power of the Holy Spirit to fall on us and we need to have a strong, intimate relationship with God and believe that his word is truth. The bible is our guide for life and we have to obey Jesus if we say we are followers of Christ. We truly need a massive revival.
Please dear believers, confess your sin to the lord and return to him in 100 per cent obedience. There is no untruth in God and there is only one way to receive abundant eternal life and that is by confessing our sins, repenting and calling on the name of Jesus to be our Lord and Saviour. Lydia Saunders
West Kelowna own small single-interest parties to sit and vote in the legislature; fragmenting government even more, (B.C. already has four major parties), thereby guaranteeing at best, a long string of minority governments and at worst ineffective government.
Advocates tell us not to worry about PR’s long post-election gestation period required to finalize the power-sharing agreement, before any government can start. Advocates say, though elected members develop policy, it is our civil service bureaucracy that runs day to day business of government.
So the long delays in forming a new working government, which critics point to as PR’s inherent weakness, does not rob us of operating government. But, government must also offer stability to the marketplace and we know coalition partners bicker and a negotiated power-sharing agreements work until they don’t.
It took five months of negotiating to settle the makeup of the new government led by Germany’s Angela Merkel. But, this is just for starters; preparing the necessary budget needed to operate government, with each coalition partners having their own priorities; negotiating becomes a mine field of personal IOUs and political agendas; so in the end nobody is happy.
Germany was better than Spain’s 2015 election that took 10 months to set up its coalition and in Belgium’s 2010 election it took 18 months. Can you imagine? Canadian voters would not be pleased with such uncertainty.
It is also important to remember that PR does make it much easier for fringe parties to enter government and create trouble. Last year’s Germany election saw the neo-fascist party (AfD) elected representatives to the German legislature for the first time in 50 years. Germany’s five per cent threshold to enter parliament was breached with 13 percent of the vote cast in the election for AfD, earning them 16 percent of the seats. AfD will be the official opposition to Merkel.
What will the B.C. legislature look like in our future? Jon Peter Christoff
West Kelowna