😳”Increasingly, this is the world that the term ‘evangelical voter’ refers to—not white-haired Southern Baptists,” but a younger more diverse world “drawn to leaders who believe they are igniting a new Great Awakening,” whose “epicenter is Texas.” 1/ washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07…
2/ “That is where the pastor wearing the bright-red T-shirt, Landon Schott, had been on the third day of a 40-day fast when he said the Lord told him something he found especially interesting.”
3/ “It was 2017, and he was walking the streets of downtown Fort Worth asking God to make him a ‘spiritual father’ of the city when he heard God say no. What he needed was ‘spiritual authority,’ he remembered God telling him, and the way to get that..
4/ … was to seek the blessing of a pastor named Robert Morris, an evangelical adviser to Trump, and the founder of one of the largest church networks in the nation, called Gateway, with nine branches and weekly attendance in the tens of thousands…
5/ … including some of the wealthiest businessmen in Texas.”
6/ “Morris blessed him. Not long after that, a bank blessed him with the funds to purchase an aging church…Soon, the old red carpet was being ripped up. The old wooden pews were being hauled out.”
“The cross on the stage was removed, and in came a huge screen, black and white paint, speakers, lights and modern chandeliers as the new church called Mercy Culture was born.” 7/
“Mercy” for undeserved grace.
“Culture” for the world they wanted to create. 8/
“Culture” for the world they wanted to create. 8/
13/ Thread w/ references to Rafael Cruz, Ted Cruz’s father, an apparent dominionist.
https://twitter.com/cjtackett/status/1233462255741800450
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