First, a quote from the prayer breakfast:
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How does judgment come to a nation? After defying all of God’s calls and warnings, the nation of Israel would experience something unprecedented. It was the opening stage of judgment. God removed one of Israel’s blessings. Years before the nation’s destruction, He allowed its hedge of protection to be lifted. He allowed an enemy to make a strike into the land. It was a wake-up call to avert national destruction. Nothing else would reach them. The strike was limited and temporary. The nation was now given a period of time to turn back to God or enter into judgment.
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When was the first attack from the outside? In the book of Judges? Is that what he is talking about? I wonder.
But the real question that remains is how is the nation to return to God? If the society as a whole has become more secular and less Christian, how can the efforts of the Christians change the state of the nation? Unlike Israel, there is no law that would require the life of an abortion clinic doctor. Or that of an active homosexual. So we are completely unable to make the problems go away.
Maybe if we influence the legislative system enough that abortions are once again outlawed. And homosexual activities are once again outlawed, and those who practice them are not a protected group in other laws.
And how do we do that? By simply praying? And if we cannot pray enough to move God’s hand to cause the legislators to pass the laws and the president and governors to sign those laws into being, then what?
Do we start to have loud protest rallies in Washington in opposition to all these moral evils?
All while trying to convince the world around us (us Christians, not us Americans) that we really love everyone as we do ourselves?
Someone, with a straight face, come up with a way that everything that would be required for this so-called blessing to return (under the premise that it was ever there and was the result of the speech of GW upon his inauguration and bound us to a Israel-like covenant). How does simply having the Christians pay accomplish this? By causing God to make the heathen do better so that the blessing will return? Or are we suggesting that a minority Christian population can save the blessing of the nation by being more righteous tomorrow than they were today or yesterday (no matter how little the overall complexion of the nation actually changes)?
Only in that last scenario is the call by Cahn even remotely sane. But since I am pretty sure that it is not about that, then it must be about getting all of us stirred up to demand, as a “Christian block” (moral majority or whatever the flavor of the month name is) that the government quit being immoral and forcing immorality on us.
And that is the scenario in which the whole thing is extremely political.
And extremely prejudicial to the testimony of the church as the body of Christ, the hands and feet of God on earth living among the world shining into the lives of people who realize that he (through us) loves them.
Meanwhile, it seems that people trying to get the so-called blessing back are just in it for themselves. It sure isn't for the glory of God. And Cahn doesn't care as long as he sells enough books. So much so that he is suing those who disagree. Who try to expose his nonsense.