Thread: Stay Awake! Evangelicals Must Not Hit Snooze Button for Next Four Years

Stay Awake! Evangelicals Must Not Hit Snooze Button for Next Four Years
Moral and cultural changes will not come from the top down but from the grassroots up, and that means starting with you and with me.
By Michael Brown Published on November 18, 2016
https://stream.org/stay-awake-evange...xt-four-years/

At best, the election of Donald Trump has temporarily stopped the rising tide of anti-Christian hostility in the courts, but his election will not turn the hearts of Americans to God, nor will it slow the moral deterioration in our country. Spiritual renewal and cultural reformation are the job of the church, and if we don’t take advantage of this window of opportunity, we will have only ourselves to blame.

Imagine for a moment what our attitude would have been had Hillary Clinton been elected.

We would have been bemoaning the outcome, sounding the alarm and calling for prayer and fasting. We would have been shouting from the rooftops, “We must have revival in America! We need a great awakening! We are under the judgment of God! Wake up!”

But shouldn’t our words and deeds be just as urgent and passionate today? We make a fatal error if we take our foot off the gas now that Mrs. Clinton is not our president.

Our nation is ripping apart at the seams, there is an ever-widening gap between the values of the older generation and the younger generation, pro-abortion activists and LGBT activists and anti-Christian activists are not going away, our university campuses are breeding grounds for all kinds of unbiblical thinking, and our airwaves are flooded with bloody gore and sexual trash....


...Why in the world would we let up on praying or contending for revival or reaching out to the lost now that Donald Trump is president? It makes no sense at all. President Trump is not going to evangelize our neighborhoods or disciple our young people or bring a God-consciousness to the nation (although he could help with the latter if he had a life-changing encounter with the living God)....


...Of course, there are many believers who are distressed by the thought of President Trump, and he would be the last one they would equate with a national spiritual awakening. Yet we evangelicals (especially white evangelicals) have had a dangerous habit of hitching our fate to the Republican Party, which, in practice, means praying like crazy while the “evil” Democrat is in office, only to fall asleep at the wheel when the “good” Republican wins the day...

So far Michael Browne seems to be the only high profile Christian leader that is not "letting his guard down" over Trump's election. Glad to read some voice of reason in all this.