Rafael Cruz

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TED CRUZ'S DAD HAS URGENT MESSAGE FOR CHRISTIANS

Rafael Cruz: 'It's about time we become biblically correct instead of politically correct!'

Going to church is the quintessential experience for many Christians in America. On Sunday mornings they gather inside a familiar building to sing, pray, commune, and hear a portion of the Word of God.

But being a Christian is about far more than going to church once a week, according to ordained minister Rafael Cruz. In fact, it’s really about what a Christian does outside the walls of the church.

“Jesus said, ‘You’re the light of the world,’” Cruz said during a recent Pastors and Pews event in northern Virginia. “Let me tell you what many Christians do. They come to church with their little flashlights, pointing the light on one another. Boy, are we great at criticizing one another, at gossiping about one another.

“But light is worthless unless you point it at darkness. That’s out there in the marketplace. We’re going to have to stop just playing church inside the four walls and take the church out there.”

True wickedness is found outside the church, according to Cruz, and it is there that Christians must exert their influence. But the veteran preacher, who is the father of GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, lamented that Christians too often come up with excuses for why they won’t confront societal problems.

One excuse, he said, is that politics is too “dirty.”

Christians tell him they are fed up with the whole political process and refuse to either run for office or vote.

But that’s the wrong way to look at politics, according to Cruz. He responds by quoting Proverbs 29:2: “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.”

“If the righteous are not running for office, if the righteous are not even voting, what is left?” Cruz asked. “The wicked electing the wicked, and it becomes our fault.”

Cruz believes the political realm is far too important for Christians to concede to the wicked. He pointed out the Supreme Court banned prayer in public schools in 1962, and a year later all Bible reading in public schools was banned. The latter was ironic, Cruz revealed, because one of the first Bibles in the U.S. was printed under the auspices of Congress to become the main textbook in schools all around the country.

The saddest part, Cruz said, was that the church remained silent about those two court decisions, saying they were political issues.

“How can you call prayer a political issue?” Cruz wondered. “How can you call Bible study a political issue? But that’s exactly what the church did.”

The consequence of that silence, in Cruz’s estimation, was that teen pregnancy rates and violent crime soared after 1963 in the absence of the church’s moral leadership.

Even worse, he said, the church remained silent after the Supreme Court declared in Roe v. Wade that unborn babies did not have a right to life. Once again, the church claimed abortion was a political issue. As a result, 58 million unborn babies have been slaughtered.

“We as the church of the living Christ need to fall on our faces in corporate repentance for the sin of abortion!” Cruz exclaimed.

Then, last June, five Supreme Court justices voted to overturn several millennia of practice on marriage. Cruz senses that this time the church is finally stirring from its slumber and speaking out against the federal government’s attack on God’s law.

“The Devil always overplays his hand,” Cruz asserted. “And I believe I’m seeing that this decision is serving as a catalyst to awaken the sleeping church. The question is how long are we going to remain silent?”

Some preachers still insist God called them only to preach the Gospel. Cruz tells them the Gospel is far more than John 3:16 – it is the entire Bible, from Genesis through Revelation.

“Let me tell you what we do in many churches: we read the Bible with a pair of scissors,” Cruz admonished. “‘Well, this particular passage does not go in accordance with my denominational doctrine. Let’s cut it out.’ And different denominations cut out different passages.”

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Sen. Ted Cruz and his family

Too many churches, rather than preaching the true and complete Gospel, preach the Social Gospel, according to Cruz. The Social Gospel is based on the concept of social justice, which is one of the goals modern secular progressives work toward. Therefore, churches that emphasize the Social Gospel resemble secular society. Cruz warns that is the wrong path for churches to follow if they wish to make a difference in the world.

“They’re trying to look more like the world with the excuse of attracting the world,” he said. “And when people come [to church], they don’t see anything different, because they talk and act just like the world, and those churches lose their impact upon society.”

Some churches, in Cruz’s view, are scared of preaching the complete Word of God because they don’t want to offend congregants, thus driving people and income away from the church. Such preachers have their priorities in the wrong place, he said.

“If you’re more concerned about the income of the church than about preaching the Word of God, you become a hireling, and you’re not following God’s call,” Cruz thundered.

As Cruz details in his new book “A Time for Action: Empowering the Faithful to Reclaim America,” pastors played a pivotal role in the American Revolution. It was they who called out the abuses of King George and Parliament from their pulpits. It was they who stoked the fires of rebellion in the hearts of the colonists.

But modern pastors, according to Cruz, are much more cowardly than their forebears when it comes to addressing political issues because they fear losing their church’s tax-exempt status. However, Cruz noted no American church has ever lost its tax-exempt status for speaking out on politics. Yet pastors still strive to keep their sermons politically correct. Again, Cruz believes their priorities are in the wrong place.

“It is about time we become biblically correct instead of politically correct!” Cruz said.

The Cuban-born minister left his Christian audience with some advice on how to reclaim America. He said Christians must view voting as their sacred responsibility. He advised people to look at a candidate’s record, not their rhetoric, and vote for those who have upheld God’s principles. He said people of faith must run for public office. Finally, he said Christian preachers must preach the entire message of God, not just the politically correct parts.

Cruz noted the world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place for Christians, particularly in light of the rise of ISIS and other terrorist groups.

“Our faith is going to be tested,” he said. “May we be found worthy of that test.”

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My comments: Amen, Rafael Cruz. The Church has become Comfortable with the Wicked World that we live in and that will have a Catastrophic Ending for the Church. The World and godless America are the Enemies of God and Friendship with the World and godless America is HATRED toward God! (James 4:4)