🧵My heart is truly heavy right now in regards to a large swath of the Church in this nation. You may not like hearing me talk about it so much, but it is the greatest crisis of the faith I've seen in my lifetime. We have always fallen short in areas, no doubt. But what...
we're seeing now goes far beyond falling short and having human failings. This is a willful, determined grasp at power and control in the name of God. Out of fear or anger or selfishness-or maybe even good intentions to uphold God's honor that have morphed into something else...
many have chosen to turn a blind eye to immorality, oppression, cruelty, violence, rage, hatred, racism, greed, idolatry, and pride. Worse yet, some have chosen to do more than ignore those things, they have embraced them. They have lowered the name of Christ to subhuman...
levels by signing His approval on anti-Christ behavior. They have, in effect, remade Him in their image. The Church has had nearly a decade to rethink this direction, to read the warning signs, to repent and return to their First Love. Instead, most have doubled down and...
returned power to a man wholly unfit, wholly indecent, wholly deceitful, and wholly without conscience; a man who has vowed to use that power for retribution, greed, and chaos; a man who has proven he cares for no one beyond himself. Christians who are called to love their...
neighbor have willingly placed their neighbors' wellbeing into the hands of that man and the many unscrupulous allies he seeks to bring into power alongside him. Christians who should have been good stewards of the land exercising God-give wisdom have instead given our land...
over to fools and charlatans, thereby subjecting the country and the world to the whims of an aspiring tyrant and his cadre of sycophants. I continue to pray for eyes to be opened, hearts to be broken, and repentance to be embraced. In the meantime, I will continue to call on...
my spiritual family to take responsibility for the inevitable effects of these choices and humbly seek to learn, change, and aspire to what we are called to: to live justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.
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