(How the Church is losing the Culture)
Until the Pastor speaks out from the pulpit on the Biblical principles on the events and issues of the day we will lose our country and our children to those that do not fear God.
- The War of Independence would not have happened without the First Great Awakening. [1]
- The British targeted the Black Regiment preachers (Called that because of their black robes.) as a danger to the tyranny of British rule because they were preaching, based on Biblical principles, on the events and issues of the time, taxes, education, laws, public policy, good government and the military.[2] (Please go to these sites in the footnote and listen to the short video and read the information provided.)
If those preachers in the 1700s had not preached, from the Bible, from the pulpit, the Biblical principles relating to the issues of the day we would still be under tyranny. Without preachers preaching doing the same today we will soon be under tyranny.
[This article is not supporting Dominion Theology but merely that we need to be Salt and Light. Politics and current issues and candidates should not dominate the pulpit but should certainly not be avoided.]
Evangelical Christians have a huge problem they pay 30% to 40% of their income in taxes to others that undermine their own values and beliefs. 75% do not vote or vote against Christian principles and as a result billions of their tax dollars are directed by politicians into many programs but especially education programs that indoctrinate their children against their own values.[3] And the pastors are silent. Billions of tax dollars also go into public subsidies for Hollywood for TV and Movies in the form of tax incentives to promote promiscuity and homosexuality as normal lifestyle choices. Between just these two of many areas, count up the number of hours your children spend in school and watching TV and movies. And the pastors are silent. Your children go to church for 1 to 3 hours a week yet they attend school, TV and movies on average 70 hours a week. If you Tithe you give 10% to church and if you pay taxes you can be paying up to 40% in taxes to a government that you did not vote for. And without your participation in the political process that money is spent to undermine your values rather than reinforce them. And the people and the Pastors are silent. "My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray.." Jer_50:6 (NKJV)
Who are the rulers and Kings of America?
“We the people” are the kings (the authority - I Tim 2:2) and rulers of the United States of America according to the Constitution. The power of America comes from our Creator, to the people, to the Constitution, to the elected officials. This is unique in human history. The pastor is the spiritual leader of “We the People” and it is time “We the evangelical people” raised our voices. There has been a misconception by many that our President is like the King in the Bible but that is not true. We do not have a Caesar “We the People” are the Caesar. And of course we should obey all lawful commands of those that we put in authority, and be good citizens.
The Bible says, 13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” Matt 5:13 Being “Salt and Light”, means involvement in the community, not just preaching to the community but being part of it, voting in it, contributing something back to it and certainly having some small say in how all your tax dollars are spent. Also in the Bible, Jesus says, “I am the way and the truth and the life…” John 14:6 The pastor must speak the whole truth to the people.
Union Halls vs. the Churches
The liberals gather in the Union Halls of America, the conservatives gather in the churches. The Unions give hundreds of millions of dollars to liberal, socialist, and progressive Democrat candidates[4], the churches give nothing to either side. In fact most pastors are even afraid to speak out about the “truth and life” on many of the issues of the day. The reasons are many: lack of conviction, fear of losing the democrat members of their congregation, not wanting to be involved in the dirty business of politics, believing that being involved in politics is somehow not part of a pastors responsibility, fear of the IRS, confusion on who the King is, or fear of something else. Most do not talk about abortion because a third to half of their members have now participated in some way or another in abortion[5] and it is a hard topic to breach. Most do not talk about divorce because again a third to half of their people are now divorced and it is also a difficult subject to address. Many don’t talk about the sin of homosexuality (the church loves homosexuals, adulterers, liars, and sinners, just not their actions.) because they are afraid of the press, the negative publicity, the PC crowd, the thinking we have already lost this issue, and it is a difficult, unsavory subject. Another major reason is that for the young people of the church homosexuality is the new civil rights movement (thanks to their brain washing by their schools and TV shows) and they take offense at any lack of acceptance of it[6]. Another barrier affecting those 35 and under is the, “dictum that an opinion can only be tolerated if it does not "oppress" (read: offend) anybody, pretty soon this dictum will be the only opinion allowed to exist.”[7] This is the result of most church young people spending 6 to 7 hours a day under the control of a liberal, socialist, progressive, democrat controlled school system (Please read these footnotes if this seems like too strong a statement.[8]), funded by church members dollars, that is indoctrinating young people in to a new worldview that is diametrically opposed to the teachings of the Bible.
The public school systems promote a non-Christian world view that promotes evolution, socialism, abortion, promiscuity, and homosexuality and thus, undermines the family. (As a Christian this author loves everyone, but I do not accept everyone’s moral choices. Like adultery, homosexuality is a bad moral choice according to the Bible, but we love the Homosexual.) We are talking about billions and billions of conservative dollars funding an educational system that is diametrically opposed to a Christian World View. If you the conservative reader is not convinced of these facts then this author would say open your eyes and take the initiative to google, and do some basic research. (Just click on the references in the footnotes to start.)
Christians are funding their own destruction, and the pastors are silent!
“When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar.” [9] Most citizens cannot make a clear argument for why a pre-born child is a child, and whether or not homosexuality is genetic (it is not) or a moral decision they have no facts just propaganda.
Without knowledge a people perish.
The battle is for the minds of America and the World. Conservative pastors have been preaching “the way” but have stopped short of preaching all “the truth and the life”. Yes Jesus might come back today, but he may wait another thousand years. What are we to do in the meantime… we must be salt and light in our communities and that means some involvement in politics because politics is simply people organizing themselves. This author has attended faithfully a church for 16 years yet never heard the topic of abortion addressed from the pulpit. The author has attended a second church where like the first church nothing was done on Sanctity of Human Life Sunday and in a year there has been no preaching on abortion. The Pastors are silent about the American Holocaust like they were during the German Holocaust.
How effective is this indoctrination?
One of the most amazing examples of indoctrination is that people in the United States have been indoctrinated to the point where they are willing to kill their own flesh and blood. No, they do not have to be forced, threatened, or tortured into killing their own family. They do it willingly. The World War II (1939 -1945) German Holocaust was carried out by the world’s most powerful army. People were rounded up by force, put on trains, put in prison camps, and murdered in mass, by an overwhelming evil military force. The American Holocaust has been carried out by brain washing Americans into killing their own children before they are born and spreading a culture of death. People, both men and women, are literally convinced that they are just stopping an inconvenience, a mistake, until after they actually have the abortion, and then many know the truth. If they still have a conscience they know that they have killed their own flesh and blood, because there is no doubt that the life inside the mother is now dead, and if they had not killed the pre-born baby they would have had a living breathing baby. Some survivors of abortion come to God in true deep contrite repentance accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and God certainly forgives them and they truly have the guilt, burden and sin washed clean away from their lives. Others commit suicide, others carry a deep guilt to their grave, and others have their consciences seared and feel nothing. Abortion has even become easier, and more available with the free abortion and morning after pills that are available in Obamacare. How long will the pastors keep silent? The battle for the heart and soul of America is in the hands of today’s pastors except many have taken themselves out of action and are unwilling to speak from the pulpit for pro-life candidates.
Until the Pastor from the pulpit speaks out on these issues and for Godly candidates we will lose our country to those that do not fear God. Unless the Head Pastor, not a guest pastor, says it from the pulpit, few in the congregation will hear it. This must be from the pulpit and from the pastor to be truly effective.
How can Pastors change the political spectrum and stop the funding of their own destruction?
Pastors will only have to preach and teach the truth on the Life of a Child from conception and marriage between one woman and one man. That is it. They can do this legally, openly, powerfully and with the funds of the church for now. In Canada, and England it is illegal to speak against homosexuality as a sin. It is only a matter of time before this happens here in America. [10]
Today Pastors can still point out the differences between the party platforms of the Democrats and the Republicans.[11] They can clearly state that the church is neither Republican nor Democrat but that the platforms as they stand, stand in stark contrast to each other. This is education. There are many social liberal Republicans, country club Republicans, RINO Republicans, but the Republican platform today still speaks for itself and unless it changes, represents a stark contrast to the Democrat platform. The Johnson Amendment in 1954 to the 501c(3) tax code, illegally and in violation of the first Amendment, tried to stop pastors from preaching about the morality of candidates from the pulpit. Pulpit Freedom Sunday[12] and the Alliance Defending Freedom[13] organization are all about the true freedom of the first Amendment and it is time that pastors stopped being afraid, especially mega church pastors that are afraid of losing the half of their congregation which votes Democrat. Our church members must be lovingly, gently and persuasively be taught the “truth and the life”.
Below are excerpts from both of the 2012 party platforms, you can click on the pdfs to read them in detail. If this comparison is not night and day, good and evil, choosing life or death then we are all blind. [14]
The political platforms speak for themselves and are a stark contrast to each other.
So is the Bible: 18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Deuteronomy 30:18-20 New International Version (NIV)
The California Republican Party is the party that protects innocent life because we believe life begins at conception and ends at natural death. We support laws that protect unborn children from partial birth, sex selection, and tax-payer funded abortions, and abortions performed as a form of birth control or on minor girls without their parent's notification and consent.
We believe that the question of abortion is a matter that should be left to the people through their elected representatives, not usurped by the United States Supreme Court, and believe that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be reversed.
We support adoption as an alternative to abortion and call on lawmakers to reduce the bureaucratic burden placed on adoptive couples.
As a part of respecting the sanctity of life for disabled persons, we oppose efforts to legalize assisted suicide or euthanasia.
We support a comprehensive ban on all human cloning.
The California Republican Party supports ethical stem cell research that focuses on cures not destroying innocent human Life.
The California Republican Party affirms the family as the natural and indispensable institution for human development. A strong and healthy family unit is the heart of the home – a safe surrounding where family decisions are made, children are raised, and morality is taught. The family is a foundation upon which American society has grown and prospered for over 200 years. We support the twoparent family as the best environment for raising children, and therefore believe that it is important to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. We believe public policy and education should not be exploited to present or teach homosexuality as an acceptable "alternative" lifestyle. We oppose same-sex partner benefits, child custody, and adoption.
Preserve confidential, unrestricted access to affordable, high quality, culturally sensitive health care services, including the full range of reproductive services, contraception and abortion, without requiring guardian, judicial, parental, or spousal consent or notification;
Support nondiscrimination and equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people in all aspects of their lives; and, We support the LGBT community in its quest for the right to legal marriage as well as the respective clergy religious freedom to solemnize marriages in accordance with their beliefs.[15]
