Fighting Words
Why Government and Culture Should Fear the Church
Louis Day, PhD
Copyright 2020 by Louis Day, PhD
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Table of Contents
Introduction
A Belief Worth Fighting For
W ho through faith conquered Kingdoms, enforced Justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight (Heb. 11:3334, RSV)
Fighting Words: Are You One of the Brave?
Are you awed, or even shocked, as you look at our culture and wonder how we got here? You completely distrust most the media; you are disgusted at what our government does and condones. Sure, you are a realist and know that there are no perfect governments nor flawless people in government, but you also know that they have weighed anchor and are floating aimlessly at sea with her citizens aboard. The symptomatic result is a culture gone wild with smatterings of violent anarchy, sexual-identity confusion, mass shootings for fame, and political figures successfully arguing for irresponsibility, entitlement, and downright unconstitutional agendas bent on destroying the Country we know, or knew.
What has happened? How did we get here? What I am about to say will probably shock you, because I doubt you have ever heard this before. What has happened? The Church. More to the point, the Church has not happened. The Church who was called to be a force to be reckoned with has undergone an identity crisis that has led to its emasculation. She has lost both her historical and theological moorings and has forgotten who she is and what her Kings grand purpose is for her while she is in this world. She has also pulled up anchor and abandoned her responsibility to her government and has betrayed the lost masses on shore.
The resulting catastrophic devastation upon culture and nations are a symptom of her dysfunctional life style of irresponsibility. Once she saw herself, quite accurately as a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a Holy Nation (1 Pet. 2:9) that was called to herald Gods Kingdom into the affairs of humankind. She now seems to perceive herself as a mere Bible study book club, and is content to be a mere hearer of the Word rather than a doer of transforming culture by the Word. Where she once was a force to be reckoned with that could topple Rome from the inside out, or bring the British Empire to her knees on moral issues such as slavery, she now acts more like a beaten-down slave on her governments plantation.
Once, a victorious Church could herald her champions with songs like, Rise up O men of God, Have done with lesser things, Give heart and soul and mind and strength, to serve the King of Kings. Rise up O men of God, His Kingdom tarries long, Bring in the day of brotherhood, and end the night of wrong. If you listen to contemporary Christian music on the media or music in Church worship, you might generally get the idea that the Church is a Christian version of Woodstock rather than an army rallying its troops into action for their King. However, before you point a finger, remember, you are the Church!
Have you had enough? Are you now fighting mad? Apparently, enough of us are sufficient to elect a president of the United States who at least tips his hat to the Judeo-Christian God, and then some. How do we know that? The demographics of who it was that actually got Donald Trump, the forty-fifth president of the United States, into office are largely the educated, evangelical Christian. Segments of America have rediscovered their bravery. Others, who had at least a moral compass to their thinking and ethics, were also largely responsible to enable a leader to begin a shocking revolution in the United States; they joined the ranks of the land of the free, and the home of the brave. How about you? Are you one of the brave? Do you want to be?
If you are aware of the contextual background (made more and more evident in current events), President Trump had (and still has) everything going against him: the major news media, the Deep State powers embedded into many powerful branches of government, and the large numbers of the socialist-minded culture. Still, perhaps, you put your foot down and stood your ground with your voice and vote. Like my childhood hero, Popeye the Sailor Man, you rolled up your sleeves for a fight and said, Thats all I can stands, cuz I cant stands nmore!
Is this how you are thinking and feeling? No matter whether you are young, old, retired or working, woman or man, no matter your racial background or party affiliation or Church denominational background, you are sick of this grotesque version of America you live in. Not only are you sick of this zombie version of America trying to take over, you are mad enough to rise upto have done with lesser things, you are ready to give heart and soul and mind and strength, to serve the King of Kings. Rise up O people of God, bring in the day of brotherhood, and end the night of wrong. Yes? Then welcome to the heart of God, welcome to the honorable brotherhood and sisterhood of fellow warriors who are called by God to fulfill a mission long abandoned by Churchianity!
How dare I passionately proclaim such a call to arms? By what authority do I, or do you, take this disposition toward our culture and government? This author is known to be a conservative Christian theologian and a postgraduate Biblical exegete with credentials in the Biblical languages. My conviction and passion were set on fire by being a student of the Scriptures, Church history, American history, and the Constitution of the United States, all of which culminated into my PhD dissertation. The above mentioned are not meant to be braggadocios. It is intended to let the reader know that my discovery of the passion and heart of God in these realms come from a thorough examination into the Scriptures with judicious application into our contemporary situation. The Bible has informed my politics, not the other way around!
You will see that we are not alone in our passion to see our culture and Country transformed back to its sane heritage. You will find that you are in camaraderie of fellow citizens who are a force to be reckoned with. You will discover, as I did, there are leaders out there who share our informed passion. Even a Baptist theologian and national leader will call you to join the fight by declaring, The Kingdom of God is a declaration of war!
Quotations from the Scriptures are from the New American Standard Bible (NASB), unless stated otherwise.
