Posted on 08/15/2019 6:30:29 AM PDT by C19fan
When my airplane dipped beneath the clouds, I could finally see the earth: interminable horizon, crisscrossing bands of interstate, the cities of the plains, home to more than 7 million souls. Landing in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex feels like drifting down to reality; if everything is bigger in Texas, it’s also more intense — the light brighter, the shadows deeper. I was particularly grateful for all that harsh relief in April, because I had come to take stock of a spiritual situation tailor-made to emphasize every challenge in the contest of conscience between heaven and earth. How are evangelical Christians faring in the age of Trump, and will they elect him anew in 2020?
Evangelicals — typically activist, biblically focused Protestants with an emphasis on conversion, or being born again in Christ, as it’s often put — span several denominations, all races and plenty of American territory. In 2014, the Pew Research Center found that 31 percent of Texans consider themselves evangelical, forming the largest bloc of religious voters in the state of more than 28 million. A full 65 percent of those voters are white, 22 percent are Latino, and 8 percent are black.
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Jeffress didn’t think so, but not for the reasons I would have guessed. “As a Christian, I believe that regardless of what happens in Washington, D.C., that the general trajectory of evangelicalism is going to be downward until Christ returns,” he explained. “If you read the scripture, it’s not: Things get better and better and more evangelical-friendly or Christian-friendly; it is, they get worse and more hostile as the culture does. … I think most Christians I know see the election of Donald Trump as maybe a respite, a pause in that. Perhaps to give Christians the ability and freedom more to share the gospel of Christ with people before the ultimate end occurs and the Lord returns.”
My thinking of Trump is summed up by the famous saying from the Sun King Louis XIV "Après moi, le déluge"
Only hope is Trump is able to stack the Federal court with conservative judges to serve as a check on the rabid Left. But there is nothing, Trump or judges can do against the Work Corporate world.
Of course Evangelicals will vote for Trump.
As with Reagan, Trump will help positively mold a generation.
He’s the bodyguard for anti-socialism seculars too!
No they won’t. They will turn their backs on a man who unabashedly and clearly loves them, and vote for one of the marxist baby killing dope-smoking perverts in the democrat party.
So this reporter had nothing but her own preconceived prejudice to go on when interviewing Evangelicals. What did she expect…the Prosperity Gospel scam? Today’s Evangelicals know that persecution and tribulation lie ahead of the followers of Jesus.
God has given us this time to “watch and pray,” to strengthen our faith for the rough road ahead. Jesus tells us that things will be so bad for Christians in the end times that God will shorten the days of persecution or no one would be left (Matthew 24:21,22)…and then the End of our suffering shall come with the blessed return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. He has already given the victory to all those who remain steadfast in the faith.
Elizabeth Bruenig a 20 something DC denizen described as a leftist Catholic, is telling us how evangelical Christians are less than pleased with Trump.
Post turtle. Helpless, and you wonder what idiot put her up there.
She writes opinion columns at the WaPo. Obama’s second election was likely her first vote.
Laughable.
Christians who don’t give in to the Devil will will stand by President Trump.
Exactly right. While she simplistically navel gazes at how Trump is not a Pence type guy and is therefore so wrong for evangelicals, she somehow misses the bacchanal of marxist pervert pizzagate Epstein friends on he other side determined to grab our guns, and open the floodgates holding the third world back.
And she somehow misses the genuine affection Trump shows traditional Christians. We’d rather not go back to the days of Mao and Condoms as Christmas tree decorations.
Sleeping guards. No Video. No cell mate. Broken neck and wounds consistent with strangulation. No materials in cell that could hold up to hanging. Thousands of high powered people in high positions who needed him dead.
Verdict:
Suicide.
Voting for a Marxist is out.
That leaves the options of staying home or voting Trump. Just like 2016.
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Unless he tries to grab (red flag) or register (intergalactic background check on private sales) our guns, YES I will support him. I am a Christian, what the media calls an “evangelical.”
The 2020 election is as simple as the 2016 election
If you think any of the 2020 Democrat candidates are safer then Hillary Clinton you have not been paying attention.
You are exactly right!
The 2020 election is as simple as the 2016 election..
Only Donald J. Trump can defeat the Deep State.
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