Pastor friends on election week,
We have too long been confused by (accidentally) misleading statements like "We don't follow a red elephant or a blue donkey, but a slain lamb" and "prophetic, not partisan."
While such statements carry a grain of truth, they (incorrectly and damagingly) make the two parties sound like "equal and opposite errors." As uncomfortable as it is, it's increasingly our job to disciple our people to understand that is not the case, so they can be "salt in the earth."
While there are immoral leaders and flaws in both parties (and certainly both candidates), only one party is advocating for catastrophic national sin in its publicly-stated policies. This is not an opinion, it is a fact based on both of their online policy platforms.
- One party wants to pass what has been called the greatest threat to religious liberty in a lifetime (The Equality Act), and has hinted they are willing to end the Senate filibuster and restructure the Supreme Court, which would help them to do it
- One party wants to establish a National Faith Advisory Board in which evangelical pastors advise the WH and create a 'Pastors' Bill of Rights' to cement religious liberty for a generation
- One party is running campaign ads of men watching p*rnography as a public good
- One party wants p*rnographic books removed from public schools (and is shockingly opposed by the other party for it)
- One party has built their entire campaign on the maximization of legalized infant murder
- One party is responsible for the overturning of Roe v Wade
- One party is advocating for legalized "gender reassignment surgeries", doing things to children we were prosecuting as war crimes a century ago (and wants that ideology taught to children in public schools)
- One party is willing to oppose mental-health-and-family-destroying transgender queer theory
- If one party is elected, an aggressive commitment to secularism (the removal of notions of God from the public square) will reign
- If one party is elected, the White House will be crawling with Bible-believing pastors
Etc.
People and personalities come and go, but *policies* last lifetimes and will be the cultural inheritance we hand to our children's children.
In the name of evangelism (the "Progressives buy sneakers too" strategy) or "diversity", we must not fail to pastor our people and abdicate our role in society as "the salt of the earth" whose purpose is to slow societal decay.
We aren't cultural commentators who should get distracted into talking about every cultural issue, but elections are a moment our people are taking consequential action and need some shepherding.
Church history demonstrates the church that's unwilling to influence the government will soon find that government is happy to interfere with the church. And if godly people will not influence the nation, godless people will.
At the very least, in the way that you can wisely as a shepherd of your flock, encourage your people to vote to "slow societal decay" this week.
And then sleep like a Calvinist, refuse to "trust in princes", and preach and pray that God might pour out reformation and revival on our nation for a RESURGENCE of his purposes in our generation.
Remember when no one in the Democratic party could stand Kamala Harris and many of them were openly calling for her to be replaced as VP in the upcoming election?
It was 60 days ago.
That's 1,440 hours ago.
Pray for President Donald Trump!
Pray for the Trump family!
Pray for the attendees at the rally!
And please…Pray for America!
God’s protection and grace, along with the vigilance of patriots, is the only shield against evil.
I am sorry but I am appalled at everyone acting like Biden’s dementia has been collectively realized by the American people based on a mass epiphany due to his debate performance. Like many other normal people, I’ve known it since the 2020 campaign. Why do you think he didn’t campaign? Stayed in the basement? Hasn’t made himself available to the press his entire term? Constantly says he’ll be in trouble if he answers another question?
This is ridiculous. Please quit insulting my intelligence and playing into this horrendous gaslighting. Even people on our side are going along with this ludicrous narrative. Can we just take a moment to extricate ourselves from this unreality imposed on us the last four years? And while we’re at it could we quit giving the press a pass by going along with this fiction that they’ve been duped by Biden’s handlers. I give them more credit than to be that stupid, but not that corrupt. They weren’t fooled. They were popularizing the lie.
Why do we let Orwellian illusions dominate us? We should use this as a learning moment— as an illustration of how society can live in an alternate reality— and come to our senses.
Let’s use this Biden dementia concealment hoax as a learning moment. A good start would be for all of to get off our pathetic, cowardly rear ends and put a decisive stop to this devious conspiracy that we are in the clutches of some catastrophic climate crisis. It is foolish and stupid and incalculably reckless. We are trying to commit national economic suicide pretending to combat this non-existent problem that wouldn’t be alleviated by our assault on energy production even if the theory were true because all of our global adversaries are ignoring the stupidity and using our stupidity to get ahead of us, as they are unrestrained by this stupidity. (I’m rather proud of that run-on sentence FWIW).
Could we please quit playing games? If we are behaving this way as adults and stewards of the only nation, with God’s help, that has a chance to lead this world out of its satanic clutches, what will become of our kids? Our liberty?
This is a wake-up call. Let’s not squander the opportunity. I don’t want to close this on a negative note. There are signs we are awakening and willing to recapture our unique constitutional heritage, not least of which is the long overdue smack down of Chevron and the unelectable, unaccountable administrative state. Wow that’s big, but just a start. The left is relentless, tireless and committed. May we be as well!
There is absolutely no way the DNC will continue with Joe Biden as their candidate after tonight unless they've already been assured the November election will be 100% rigged.
Every single person reading this right now knows it's true whether they publicly admit it or not.
@MBrianHaynes @pastorteddy I agree with that because it is outlined in scripture.The language throughout this debate seems to reach beyond that and the portion of the article stating that denominations ordaining women move to ordaining homosexuals as if that’s a given seemed presumptive.The Word is clear
@pastorteddy @MBrianHaynes After reading the information I am trying to understand how having a children’s minister or a women’s minister will automatically result in allowing homosexual pastors. Maybe I’m reading it wrong?
Hollywood actor and star of "Reacher" publicly comes out against Trump.
How incredibly brave...a Hollywood actor publicly saying exactly what every other Hollywood actor, writer, producer, director, and executive says nonstop.
You barely ever see courage like this.
So brave.
If you know any of my story you know that a year ago I stepped away from my ministry position in a local church. The very next week I went to Bay Area Church and have been there since that time. One thing I can say with certainty is that Pastor Brian is FAR from lukewarm!
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