Eric Metaxas,
on New Apostolic Reformation leader, Lance Wallnau’s recent video states
“Trump is a new man, he’s a new man, he knows that he’s at war with satanic
enemies in the deep state[1]
… “they are the enemies of America they
are enemies of we the people.”-- "The message is we’re going to go scourged
earth on the deep state.”
Speaking of
the future after Trump has finished his first two-years, Wallnau asks, “what
can we do to unify before the midterms the next time? The suggestion, referring
to a hoped for web site asks, “What if we had people rate the pastor?”
Metaxas excitedly
tells him there already is such a web site MYCHURCH FINDER.ORG where churches and
pastors are rated. There are three grades of churches explained on this web
site. A: “Biblically Sound, Culturally Aware & A Non-Socialistic
Legislatively Active Church.”
B: “Biblically
Sound AND either Culturally Aware (with a Biblical Worldview) OR A
Non-Socialistic Legislatively Active Church, but not both.”
And,
C: “Biblically
Sound Church.”
There is
also the letters WNR for churches that do not supposedly possess any of those characteristics.
The description of a Biblically sound church
carries all the points most orthodox churches would own including the Nicene
Creed and The Apostles Creed. (Well of course the Baptist and the Pentecostals while
agreeing with those creeds in their theology do not generally accept the use of
creeds.) That would be simply C, according to their rating.
Going much farther A would include both Culturally
awareness described this way:
“ A
Biblically based church that is culturally aware with a Biblical Worldview
will, in addition to the above, be committed to countering the culture with
God’s objective moral truths, teaching regularly on other religions, the
Biblical view of Family, Sexuality & Marriage. It will be Pro-life and
encourage the congregation to stand boldly for righteousness in the face of the
current cultural decay. It will advocate for Biblical values in the arts,
entertainment and the marketplace. It will teach Apologetics and a defense of
the faith and why Christianity is true vs other religions. It will teach the
evils of Marxism, Liberation Theology, Critical Race Theory, DEI, Wokeism, One
World Government and any new depravity and corruption that the world will
attempt.”
Most
orthodox churches would agree with most of the above except the gospel of God’s
redemption through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ would be the priority
and core message rather than teaching about, “the evils of Marxism, Liberation
Theology, Critical Race Theory, DEI, Wokeism, One World Government and any new
depravity and corruption ...” Plus, an orthodox church would emphasis the
Beatitudes and other biblical principles such as caring for strangers, feeding
the hungry, forgiving enemies.
The third
part of the description of an A church is called “legislatively active but
non-socialistic.” The explanation of that is:
The church will,
“be involved with educating the church and be involved with all legislative matters
concerning Morality, Family, Sexuality, Marriage, Life, the freedom to
evangelize and the protection of Life, Liberty and Property. It will recognize
that the Church is the conscience of the government and take that calling
seriously. It will understand the legislative responsibilities given to the
Church in Exodus 18 and teach God’s plan for government. It will fight for
moral justice, not “social justice.” It will understand that the government’s
role is to protect Unalienable Rights and not to manage the economy or provide
charity or free goods and services to citizens. This is because the latter
takes by force the fruits of labor from one person and gives it to another, it
forcibly violates the Unalienable Right of an individual to do as he wills with
the fruits of his own labor. See kansasvideo.j3ip.com for a full explanation of
rights vs goods. And just as important, this kind of church will encourage its
congregation to run for office and vote and be involved in campaigns.”
The above “legislatively
active but non-socialistic” description is political and consists of points
that believers can agree or disagree on. It is the involvement in legislature
and political campaigns by the Church that is the problem. We can disagree over
federal charity but we shouldn’t disagree with the importance of separation of Church
and State—too many have lost their freedom when there was no separation. Many
of the first peoples to come to America came because there was no separation of
Church and state and they had lost their religious freedom.
I want to
return to Metaxas and Wallnau, their very comments, here and in other videos reveal
their unkindness and hurt both to faithful followers of Jesus and to the whole
Church. In their political ambitions they have lost the biblical distinctiveness
that is to mold our love for brothers and sisters and our care for a broken
world that needs God’s healing. In this particular video they are speaking
about the new Bonhoeffer movie and a review of it in Christianity Today entitled,
‘Bonhoeffer’
Bears Little Resemblance to Reality. Unhappy with the review they insist
that Christianity Today is dead. They see others who don’t embrace their
political views as satanic.
God has
called the Church to preach the good news of God’s grace through Jesus Christ.
God always places His Church under the cross not under the banner of any
nation.
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