Leaders Needed
Pastor, you must take the initiative in leading your church members to register to vote, help them register their friends, and vote their values. Otherwise it won’t happen—not on a large scale anyway.
There are people in your church right now who want to make an impact, who are willing to make an impact, who are waiting to make an impact. They are looking to you for leadership. Will you take a stand?
“If I profess with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God, except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.” – Martin Luther
Take a Stand
Pastor, think about it. Your biblical job description is to lead and feed, to guide and guard your flock, your church, as Paul taught the Ephesian leaders in Acts 20, “I have not shunned to declare unto you the whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27 KJV). Pastor, have you declared to your congregation the whole counsel of God? Not just how to be saved, but how to be Salt! Not just how to live, but how to be Light!
The future of the church, and therefore the means to transform our culture and our nation, hangs in the balance. The stakes are high. Very high indeed. Unfortunately, the times are desperate, but many pastors are not. Consider the following:
Today, nearly 4,000 precious and innocent unborn babies will be murdered in America by abortion…
And 300,000 pulpits are mostly silent…
Every day in America over 3,000 couples divorce and sign what amounts to a death warrant for their families, leaving behind broken-hearted and hurting children in the wake of their destructive decision…
And 300,000 pulpits are mostly silent…
Homosexual sodomy in America has gone from a sin, to a sickness, to a socially accepted lifestyle, to being sanctioned by the courts. The number of same-sex households has risen 400 percent in the last decade alone. Gay-marriage is being forced on citizens all across this nation by renegade officials and activist courts. In 40 years, homosexuals have gone from the closet, to the classroom, to the comedies, to the cabinet, and now to the clergy…
And 300,000 pulpits are mostly silent…
Christian morality cannot be taught in America’s public schools, but atheistic immorality can. The Ten Commandments cannot be distributed, but condoms can. A Christian pastor cannot address the class, but a witch or a transvestite can. Jesus cannot be mentioned, but Muhammad can. The Bible cannot be read, but the Koran can…
And 300,000 pulpits are mostly silent…
The entertainment media in America offers the average American TV viewer 14,000 references to sex a year, 81 percent of which are outside of marriage. Add to that the multitude of homosexual characters preaching tolerance of what God declares as an abomination. Add to that the extreme violence and sexual immorality, the greed and the paganism. Program after pro gram, movie after movie contains immoral, ungodly, destructive messages that grow more gritty and graphic with each passing day…
And 300,000 pulpits are mostly silent…
Rock and rap music fills the media and our children’s minds with music and images which legitimize rape, murder, group sex, sado masochism, adultery, satanic worship, homosexuality, alcohol and drug abuse, etc….
And 300,000 pulpits are mostly silent…
Hardcore pornography outlets outnumber McDonald’s in America. Since 1960, the pornography industry has grown by more than 10,000 percent. Over 6,000 adult videos are produced every year. Consequently, rape has increased 700 percent in the last 50 years, and every year a majority of all sexual assault victims were reported as children under 18, many of these attacks were made on children under 12…
And 300,000 pulpits are mostly silent…
Nearly every state in America now has a lottery or some form of gambling preying on the poor and robbing their children’s future…
And 300,000 pulpits are mostly silent…
The favorite indoor-sport in America among many is Christian-bashing. The media elite constantly and condescendingly refer to Christians as “simple minded, easily led, right wing fanatics….” The courts are savagely removing public prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the name of God from every public institution of our nation…
And 300,000 pulpits are mostly silent…
Pastor, the time has come, and has long since passed, for us to stop listening to the devil’s assurances, and stop allowing ourselves to be rendered inactive and immobilized by his lies—particularly about the separation of church and state, of God from government, of Christ from culture.
The time has come for us to be what the Lord Jesus called us to be: the stinging Salt that stops the decay of death, the shining Light that dispels the darkness and shines the way to the only hope found in Jesus Christ!
Pastor, will you take a stand?
1 Modeled after a wake-up call given by Don Wildmon of the American Family Association, in a Reclaiming America Conference, but with updated statistics and different issues.
