Not a call for violence, but a call for leadership to every Christian living in the United States
Turning a political decision into your spiritual mandate
Doug Hagmann – Wednesday,November 7, 2012
It
is unlikely that the majority of Americans are familiar with the name
Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
I had forgotten the account of Mr. Bonhoeffer until a valued listener
of our nightly radio program sent me Bonhoeffer:
Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy,
a gripping book written
by Eric Metaxas.
I devoured the 592 page book in three days, reading the final
page only yesterday. I find it anything but coincidental that I
completed this gripping account on the very day that the 2012 U.S.
presidential election was decided in favor of Barack Hussein Obama.
While
reading the account of Mr. Bonhoeffer, a German pastor, theologian
and spy who was involved in the plot to kill Hitler, I became
awestruck by the obvious and stunning parallels between 1930’s
Germany and present day America, specifically in terms of the
Christian church.
Yesterday,
for the second time in four years, the majority of Americans decided
in favor of Obama despite the vocal and visible moral objections made
by many Christians of all denominations. I have no doubt that
many people who profess to be Christians cast their vote to reelect
Barack Hussein Obama, somehow justifying their vote over any moral or
ethical concerns residing in their spirit. How is this possible?
It
is here that I cite the foreword written by Timothy J. Keller, friend
of the author and author of the New York Times bestselling book The
Reason for God. Keller writes:
“It
is impossible to understand Bonhoeffer’s Nachfolge without becoming
acquainted with the shocking capitulation of the German Church to
Hitler in the 1930s. How could the ‘church of Luther,’ the great
teacher of the gospel, have ever come to such a place?
The
answer is that the true gospel, summed up by Bonhoeffer as costly
grace, had been lost.
On
one hand, the church had become marked by formalism. That meant going
to church and hearing that God just loves and forgives everyone, so
it doesn’t really matter much how you live.
Bonhoeffer
called this cheap grace. On the other hand, there was
legalism, or salvation by law and good works.
Legalism
meant that God loves you because you have pulled yourself
together and are trying to live a good, disciplined life. Both of
these impulses made it possible for Hitler to come to power.”
Does
that sound, or ‘feel” familiar? Thanks to the laborious
research by author Eric Metaxas that is articulately detailed in his
book, which also corrects over a half-century of the hijacked legacy
of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by the Progressive left, Christians
in America should now fully understand exactly what is taking place
within our country.
We
have allowed the word of God to be diluted, perverted and turned into
a convoluted platform for social justice by elected leaders whose
tyranny has extended into and ripped into our spiritual fabric.
Many
Christians have collectively embraced cheap grace and legalism
promoted by leaders across the political spectrum as spiritual
equivalents to the true gospel, thereby
reconciling their faith with the perversity that exists in America
today.
After
all, it is both politically correct and socially acceptable to
tolerate perversity in all forms, rather than risk being labeled
as intolerant, bigoted, Islamophobic, homophobic or the mother of all
derisive brandings, racist. It is precisely here, however, that
tolerance of evil becomes evil itself.
This
is the exact moment in time for all Christians in America to live in
the spirit of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by uniting and practicing “costly
grace.”
As
a Christian, I believe we were born for this exact moment in time,
and have been selected to engage in this spiritual battle for not
only our salvation, but the salvation of others. Like
it or not, we have been selected as being warriors on the front lines
of an epic spiritual battle.
Some
might look at the reelection of Barack Hussein Obama and other
leaders with similar agendas as a death knell for the Judeo-Christian
spirit in America. I chose to view it as a real-world test of my
Christian faith personally and our Christian faith collectively.
It
is clear that the spiritual battle lines have been distinctly drawn.
We are now called to emulate the spiritual strength of Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, so that we may change the course of Christianity in
America. Unified in the spirit of costly grace, we can do it.
We
must engage the battle and not abandon the fight at this historic
moment in time.
Traditional
marriage between a man and a woman as defined by the Holy Bible must
be reinforced, not redefined.
The
wholesale slaughter of our nation’s unborn under the demonic
perversity of women’s rights must not be accepted or further
tolerated.
We
must not submit to a system
that requires us to forsake our beliefs under the color of law.
Acting in the spirit of costly grace, we must summon the spiritual
courage of Dietrich Bonhoeffer to change the course of our
nation.
As my friend Steve Quayle has often said, there are no political solutions to our spiritual problems.
As my friend Steve Quayle has often said, there are no political solutions to our spiritual problems.
Never
in the course of American history has this proven to be so true.
Therefore,
it is up to us, the “Bible holding bitter clingers,” to rise
to the level of true Christians and engage the forces of evil that
have overtaken our great nation.
Make
no mistake - this is obviously not a call for violence, but a
call for leadership to every Christian living in the United States.
We have been given a most important task, which is to be leaders
among men. Believers of the true gospel can no longer be silent.
Together, we can make a difference. Our souls depend on it.
My comments: Think how far America has come in the four years since this article was written, down the Road to the Submission to Evil. We now have Same-Sex Marriage as Law. We now have boys in the girls shower and locker rooms. American Government now Persecutes Christians for their Faith and Conscience. The Public Education System is the Indoctrination Center for the Religion of godless, Socialist, Secular Humanism; The Religion of STATE! America continues to Abort more than 3,000 of the Unborn every day.
Every Christian should understand that such a Nation is Not Sustainable before the Living God. Yet, few Christian Leaders are speaking this Truth. This is a Parallel to the "Church" in Germany in the time of Hitler.
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