Source: Townhall Media/Leah Barkoukis
Posted on 09/28/2020 7:55:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Source: Townhall Media/Leah Barkoukis
Did you hear about the large Christian gatherings in Washington, DC this weekend? Did you see the news reports about the mayhem? The looting? The vandalism? The calls to “Burn it down!”? Did you hear the speakers calling for acts of violence and destruction? Oh, you didn’t? That’s because tens of thousands of Christians did gather in DC this weekend, but they came to pray for the nation and repent for their sins.
The two main events were The Return, which began Friday night and ended Saturday night, and Franklin Graham’s prayer march, which was held from noon to 2:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
Both events attracted tens of thousands, and The Return was watched by a reported global audience of tens of millions. But there were no angry voices. No calls for violence. No fistfights. Or brawls. Or looting. Or shooting at police.
In fact, at The Return, where I participated on Saturday, there was hardly any police presence at all. It was not needed. I didn’t even see any counter-protesters.
Worship prevailed. Prayer prevailed. Humility prevailed. Repentance prevailed.
And while a constant theme of the event was the broken condition of America and the urgent need for repentance, that repentance started with the participants, with each of us. We, the followers of Jesus, have sinned and fallen short. We who are called to be light of the world and the salt of the earth have not lived up to our high and lofty calling.
That’s why The Return began its Saturday morning program with pastors and leaders asking for God’s mercy and confessing their sin. Repentance starts with us.
Significantly, Saturday was also the day when President Trump announced his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Who could have foreseen this? These events were planned months in advance, at which time no one had any idea that Justice Ginsburg would pass away, let alone pass away during this sacred season on the biblical calendar.
Even the timing of Trump’s announcement seemed propitious. As I tweeted, “So, Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes away at the beginning of the Jewish New Year, as the shofar blast is heard, & Amy Coney Barrett is announced as her replacement as shofars were being blasted at The Return event in DC, watched by 10s of millions globally. Coincidence?”
On this same day, Saturday, September 26, 2020, major prayer gatherings were held in the Philippines and other nations as well. (An Asian leader told me at The Return that three million Indonesian Christians participated in a prayer event just hours earlier).
Yet even with the very best quality of deeds, and even when we work our hardest, there is no way America could survive a test like this, weighing our good deeds against our bad deeds. How much weight does a single abortion carry, let alone tens of millions? How much weight does a single act of sex trafficking carry, let alone tens of thousands?
That’s why we plead for mercy. That’s why we repent so deeply. That’s why, in the synagogues, beginning Sunday night, Jewish prayers will focus on pleas for mercy and lengthy confessions of sin. There is no boasting of our own righteousness in the sight of a holy God.
That’s why these gatherings in DC, with minimal press coverage and without the drama of the protests and the riots, could well be the thing that saves the nation. And while the media may not have paid sufficient attention, we trust that God Himself did. That is what really matters.
They certanly left behind last trash than the people who attended those “Erf Day” celebrations.
s/b They certanly left behind less trash
Why does this title say they trashed the city?
I know it’s meant to be ironic but they do not specify anywhere that they actually left it cleaner than when they arrived
So the Christians didn’t start a riot? The Christians didn’t deface national monuments with Christian graffiti?
Did they leave behind a ton of trash, as the acolytes of Obama did at his inauguration?
Did they get a photo op of a young man grinning as someone banged a drum and chanted in his face? What’s the real story here?
Was there any serious news coverage of this event?
Strange. No mention of trash in the article. If the title was supposed to be sarcasm, Micheal Brown needs to learn sarcasm.
Good point and true.
Also, a more accurate title would say HUNDREDS of thousands.
People who write Headlines should be fired.
Headlines are very important and manipulative at the same time.
Sorry, I don’t appreciate ironic or sarcastic Headlines.
“Stand in the Gap” attendees left it cleaner than it was going in.
If the MSM had covered it, they probably would have complained that not everyone was wearing their little masks...
We went to the Prayer rally. As typical with conservative and Christian events, it was beyond peaceful.
A friend of mine owns a company (coinsforkindness.com) that makes small “challenge coins” to give to people to thank them.
I had about 20 coins to give to the police who would be at the event. I only passed four officers to give them coins.
Three were Capitol Police who were together. An officer told me that they were not allowed to accept anything while on duty.
I said, “well, you can pick up litter on duty right?” I dropped them on the ground, said thanks and walked away as they laughed.
“I know it’s meant to be ironic but they do not specify anywhere that they actually left it cleaner than when they arrived.”
Indeed, a stupid title.
Good point, I watched the entire 8 hour event, I noticed huge belief in the Lord ( very few masks to be see- Amen), worship, and praise. NO coverage by even Fox News, last straw, they and their sinful bunch are sleeping with the Libs....sin has only two groupings- sin of commision and sin of omission...ALL the MSM outlets are knowingly committing BOTH, I as of now direct my prayer to God almighty to apply his special form of justice to our corrupted Fox, NBC, MSN, CBC, ABC and every crooked news agency.
My only observation is that it is more typical of the Bee rather than Townhall.
Did his train of thought jump the track?
I am sure no Christian who attended even suggested such a thing. The concept of "weighing of our deeds" is a pagan concept. Christianity is "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is none righteous. No, not one."
“Odd, I had no difficulty in detecting that the title was sarcastic.”
I did not have “any difficulty detecting it was sarcastic”
I did find it curious that nothing in the article referenced the the supposition stated in the title and gave supporting facts to back it up even though much likely existed.
I would have thought my comment would have be easily understood to have conveyed that.
It did.
I just thought that it was a nit that didn’t need to be picked.
I was there with my daughter and her fiancé. A whole lot of shofars and a whole lot of diversity. Blacks from southern Baptist churches, Koreans from New York, and a whole host of everything you can imagine. Far more diverse than the latest group of leaders in the Democrat party.
And not one piece of trash on the ground.
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