But it’s not
true that this is a majoritarian movement. It’s not true that America
fundamentally changed overnight. The hordes of protesters, impressive as them
seem, don’t represent the country at large.”
Leftists
infiltrated many of our American universities decades ago, systematically indoctrinating our culture with deadly ideologies:
(2) The “don’t offend anyone” narrative
(3) The “every idea is equally valid” falsity.
(4) The “America is fundamentally flawed” rhetoric.
Lawyer and
talk show host Dennis Prager calls our modern battle America’s Second Civil War. He writes that in the Second Civil
war, “one side has been doing nearly all the fighting. That is how it has been
able to take over schools — from elementary schools, to high schools, to
universities — and indoctrinate America’s young people; how it has taken over
nearly all the news media; and how it has taken over entertainment media.
The
conservative side has lost on every one of these fronts because it has rarely
fought back with anything near the ferocity with which the left fights.”
Taking Right Ground
Lawyer turned evangelist Charles
Finney wrote in
the 1800’s, “The Church must take right ground in regards to politics . . . The
time has come for Christians to vote for honest men, and take consistent ground
in politics or the Lord will curse them . . . .
God cannot
sustain this free and blessed country, which we love and pray for, unless the
Church will take right ground. Politics are a part of a religion in such a
country as this, and Christians must do their duty to their country as a part
of their duty to God . . .
God will
bless or curse this nation according to the course Christians take in
politics.”
Respect for
law and order, for policemen, for the Constitution, for God, for the
Bible, for people of different races, for the sanctity of human life,
and for the people of America is constantly challenged.
Davidson writes, “It’s long past time to fight
back. That won’t be easy, in part because the radicals are largely in control
of messaging. They have the sympathies—if not the outright allegiance—of the
mainstream media, big tech, and corporate America. They also more or less
control the Democratic Party and much of the petty bureaucracy, including
public schools.”
The Redemption of Culture
Twenty-five
years ago, many churches across the nation embraced Rick Warren’s The
Purpose-Driven Church concepts, promoting that there are five purposes to
the church: worship, discipleship, fellowship, ministry, and missions. Charles
Colson of Prison Fellowship and The Colson Center for Christian Worldview said
at the time he always wanted to tell pastors to add another biblical purpose:
the redemption of culture.
Colson wrote
in his excellent book, How Now Shall We Live?, “The only task of the
church, many fundamentalists and evangelicals have believed, is to save as many
lost souls as possible from a world literally going to hell. But this implicit
denial of a Christian worldview is unbiblical and is the reason we have lost so
much of our influence in the world. Salvation does not consist simply of
freedom from sin; salvation also means being restored to the task we were given
in the beginning – the job of creating culture.”
The Lord’s
Great Commission is linked with His cultural commission!
Colson goes on, “The same command is still binding on us today. Though the fall introduced sin and evil into human history, it did not erase the cultural mandate. . . . When we are redeemed, we are restored to our original purpose, empowered to do what we were created to do: build societies and create culture – and in doing so, to restore the created order.”
It's past
time for people with a biblical worldview of reality to engage the public
square and make our voices heard.
Believers must not be silent. We must speak.
Pray. Love
your neighbor. Speak Up. Speak Out.
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