Posted on 02/18/2024 3:18:04 AM PST by MtnClimber
For too long, serious churches have ceded ground to the left on cultural issues that the left integrated into politics, and they’re running out of time to act.
I was fortunate enough to see an early screening of a brand-new film based on Eric Metaxas’ best-selling book, Letter to the American Church. The hour-long film, which shares the book’s name, vividly lays out the case that it is high time Christians in this country got seriously involved in the cultural and political arena.
The author’s narration is accompanied by rapid-fire images that help convey the urgency of the days in which we live. They force us to acknowledge things that, a mere dozen or so years ago, were unthinkable: Kindergarten children at drag queen shows; males competing in girls’ sports because they are convinced they are females; free speech being silenced; getting fired for “misgendering” a coworker; and the government shutting down churches and keeping strip clubs open in the name of “science” and a mysterious virus to name just a few profound changes in America that are now the norm. Even “business as usual” is more “business as unusual” in a corporate world that mirrors the culture, hoping in that way to achieve the largest profit margins.
And what has the Church these past many years been doing to slow the roll of this Looney Tunes juggernaut? Unfortunately, in many cases, the Church has jumped right on the merry-go-round, displaying rainbow and BLM flags and welcoming gay pageantry right into the sanctuary.
For those churches at the forefront of welcoming the left, it is a pretty sure bet that they are not really “Christian” in any true sense (“By their fruit you will know them”).
Image: A church’s pride message in Sioux Falls. YouTube screen grab.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Movie to be labeled “Christian Nationalism” in 3, 2, 1....
“Many churches spread the gospel of passivity. Passive people don’t challenge anything.
“Turning the other cheek doesn’t mean ‘roll over and play dead.
“This is nothing like what the Apostles did.”
Weak accommodationists have used this to excuse cowardice in all things. It may, I emphasize may, be an appropriate response to a physical threat. But it is in no way an appropriate response to sin and violation of God’s laws.
One citation settles that:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2010%3A34-36&version=ESV
34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.
Then David cut off Goliath’s head and took it to Jerusalem.
It’s kind of pointless to tell Christians to “pick up a stone” when many of them can’t even get their kids out of government-run schools.
But that's not heroic enough for us. Many here want to talk about our 80 billion bullets and CWII, but how are we going to fight a civil war when we can't even break free of the leftist propaganda posing as entertainment that we keep paying for?
So we wait for the next George Washington or whomever we think will lead us in our war for freedom. That is exactly what the left is counting on, because every day we wait for them to "try that in a small town" is another day they get more control over this country. When they are ready to "try that in a small town", it will be too late to stop them.
It's that serious.
You are SO RIGHT.....
Speaking the truth and challenging wrong was exactly what the Apostles did.
That is why they were put to death, many of them... for the gospel sake!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlYWPtSTLo
This is going on live right now.. Calvary Chapel Chino Hills...Pastor Jack Hibbs. A GREAT message. CCCH is the real DEAL!!!
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