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There are no easy answers for turning a nation back to God. I would say restoring laws based on his word would be a great start though.

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Considering the point that we’re at, we may have to rewind even more than that.

One big problem that I’m seeing from my POV is that not only are people not in the churches, Jesus isn’t in the churches either.

Oh sure, the NAME of Jesus is all over the place, but the Jesus of Scripture and the Jesus of popular American religion are very different things. We already know about liberal Jesus and so I won’t go too far into that, but in evangelical circles, the emphasis is very, very rarely on Jesus. The emphasis is on ME.

Example: The question, “How am I going to give my heart to God?” It raises the implication that your heart is yours to give, when it’s not. It’s lost to sin and death until Jesus takes it for his own.

“What am I doing? How am I feeling? What do I have to do?” It’s just me, me, me, me me me. A huge swath of American cultural Christianity can be summed up in this direct quote from an aggrieved congregant to her pastor. “MY Jesus wouldn’t call people names!”

If this nation is going to be revived at all, it needs to start in the churches, and it needs to start by turning the picture to Christ instead of ourselves.