We are pleased to promote the Day of Purity,  a Project of Liberty Counsel www.LC.org working with various supporters here in the UK. The Day of Purity on February 14th 2011 is a day when youth can make a public demonstration of their commitment to remain sexually pure, in mind and actions.

Today’s culture encourages youth to become sexually active at a young age and to experiment with sexual preferences. The Day of Purity offers those who strive for sexual purity an opportunity to stand together in opposition to a culture of moral decline. When we stand up for sexual purity we send a message to parents, churches, communities, legislators, and the media that we want a better world.

Our culture is bombarded with pressure to experiment in sex at a very young age with information provided by explicit sex education classes, graphic movies and media stereotypes. The Day of Purity is an opportunity for Christians to highlight that young people and adults do not need to conform to gain acceptance and that a promiscuous lifestyle produces negative results both emotionally and physically.

The Day of Purity encourages young people to take the purity pledge to wait until they are in a heterosexual marriage before engaging in any sexual activity. It has just been launched in the UK by veteran campaigner Steve Stevens who writes:

Some may feel uneasy about our launching this so close to the actual day and suggest we ought to delay it a year. That was exactly my reaction in 1971 after the decadent permissive 60s had made such inroads into destroying what was left of our Godly moral culture. Christian leaders asked me to launch a FESTIVAL OF LIGHT as an attempt to dispel the darkness. My immediate response was ‘It can’t be done in such a short time span’. They responded emphatically ‘It must be done NOW’. If we delay, the PERMISSIVE SOCIETY will take deep root and we will be too late’.

They convinced me and we worked day and night to bring LIGHT. Our slogan was:
IT IS BETTER TO LIGHT A CANDLE THAN TO CURSE THE DARKNESS
The Lord gave us a miracle. Tens of thousands rallied to our call for ‘LIGHT’.

Today we are in even greater danger. There is no time to lose. IT MUST BEGIN NOW.

Our children are in grave risk of being taught that RECREATION SEX IS THEIR RIGHT – ANY KIND OF SEX and ‘…just make sure children follow safe sex instructions’!.

Please draw people’s attention to the website dayofpurity.co.uk.

The Maranatha Community is pleased to support the Not Ashamed campaign

and Dennis Wrigley, our Community Leader, has issued the following statement:

I am not ashamed to honour publicly the one who is my creator – Almighty God.

I am not ashamed to honour His name, at all times and in all places.

I am not ashamed to declare that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the world and has the Name above all names.

I am not ashamed to declare that God is not absent, but present here and now.

I am not ashamed to declare that God is not silent, but is speaking here and now.

I am not ashamed to acknowledge publicly that the foundations of our nation are Christian.

I am not ashamed to proclaim that the basic freedoms we enjoy and the fundamentals of our democracy are Christian in origin.

I am not ashamed to pray with those who have requested it.

I am not ashamed to share my faith with others, always respecting their convictions

I am not ashamed to declare the good news of Jesus to the people of this nation.

I am not ashamed, in the name of Jesus to challenge those forces which are inflicting damage on our society.

I am not ashamed in the name of Jesus to defend the marriage based family from those who are seeking to destroy it.

I am not ashamed to defend children from the corrupting influences which are inflicting so much harm upon them.

I am not ashamed in the name of Christ to speak out for the poor and exploited, and against injustice from whatever source.

I am not ashamed to speak out for the millions of Christians worldwide who are being persecuted, tortured and slaughtered for their faith and robbed of their human rights.

I am not ashamed of claiming that Jesus is the hope of the world, always showing respect to those who cannot accept this.

I am ashamed of my own many weaknesses.

I am ashamed of the spiritual and moral decline of my nation.

I am ashamed of the divisions within the church.

I am not ashamed to defend those truths and values which have enriched the fabric of our society over the centuries.

I am not ashamed to resist those forces which are antagonistic to Christ and are seeking to dismiss God from the public domain in our nation.

I am not ashamed to stand with those who, in the United Kingdom, are today being victimised for their faith.

I am not ashamed to pray that God’s love and saving grace will be released upon our nation at this time of crisis.

I am not ashamed to challenge those who would deny the spiritual dimension of life.

I am not ashamed of Christ, the Son of God, who has died for all of us and who is alive in His loving, serving people.

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to declare that it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes.

Whoever is ashamed of me and my words,
the Son of Man will be ashamed of them
when he comes in his glory
and in the glory of the Father
and of the holy angels.
(Luke 9.26)

I am not ashamed to own my Lord
Or to defend His cause
Maintain the honour of His word,
The glory of His Cross.
(Isaac Watts)

Dennis Wrigley
November 2010