Tea Parties or Revival Movement?

This year 2009 has sparked undoubtedly an introspective mood within the hearts and minds of many Americans—a passion and sentiment that has occurred only a few times since our nation’s founding. The organizing and fervent emotion that stems not from the urgings of manipulative artists who are able to control the individual’s mood and direct them to do this or say that, but an passion that flows from the reality that one’s freedom and ability to maintain those unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is being threatened! Apparently, only when a people begin to feel a national threat does national anxiety begin to appear. A sense that something is wrong with the direction America is now going because it is not the direction towards forming a “more perfect union” as we have been taught was good, but totally foreign in basic concept and ultimately evil!

No movement has shown as much passion as the thousands of tea parties held across the nation—individual communities, yet bound together with a fervent devotion to God, country and family—each of the many thousands of attendants holding the deeply-held commitment to finally stand and be counted for something greater than themselves. Frankly speaking, this movement bears many of the attributes of a great Christian revival of past periods of U.S. and world history so often written about by today’s theologians and the resurgence of basic Christian principles we pray for today!

There is an undeniable fact that those who truly understand and appreciate America’s founding and the sacrifices of the millions for its birth and then its very struggle to survive, are waking up to a great reality, and that reality is that our generation of freedom-loving and peaceful people is being challenged like never before, because those principles that many of our veteran soldiers went across the oceans to resist in order to prevent them from coming here have arrived, and now have taken control of our own places of power. We who had fallen asleep, and had forgotten that freedom is not free are now awakening!

Those powers that have now manifested are not interested in the truths that are still self-evident: “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness …,” but are boldly unabashingly forging ahead to remake America in the image of their own gods. Darwin, Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Mao, are the men they worship. Gramschi, Alinsky, DuBois and have replaced Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, while Castro, Mugabe, Ortega, Chavez and Obama preach the religion of government power and human dependency upon it. In contrast to this, we recognize that this Creator is God. Our inspiration of the Holy Bible and no other. Those beliefs that over 90,000 American soldiers died fighting against in Korea and Viet Nam as well as untold numbers of people around the world were slaughtered by have now captured and taken over the last center for the world’s hope for freedom—the United States government.

We did not fall neither under the power of the Soviet military might, nor the menacing million-man army of the Chinese, but we succumbed to the one thing founding father Thomas Jefferson feared would happen to us—ignorance! Jefferson believed that in order to prevent America from being conquered by foreign enemies, it had to be a nation of educated people who knew the word of God. Neither Jefferson nor any of the founding fathers anticipated America becoming a nation of Biblically-illiterate people! We have come to this point in our history because of our own moral failures to truly stand up and actually be one nation under God primarily because the vast majority of our Christian leaders have cowered in their offices and become timid in their pulpits!
We only find a very shallow remnant of what was once a great fire that served as the core of America’s struggle for freedom—the church and the preacher! Where are they today? If the Declaration of Independence is explicit enough to correctly tie the only source of our very freedom and humanity to a Supreme Being— a Sovereign Ruler—then where are the men who are yet willing to carry that message forward to remind and teach the true meaning of this great document? Is government still the servant of God, who once appointed kings but has now given us the responsibility of stewardship to elect Presidents who represent His kingdom here on earth?

So, as a start, a good question has to be, “Where are the Christian leaders today, especially the pastors?” Has the revival started without them? Much of what has gone wrong with America is not attributable to the invasion of foreign powers, but a crumbling of our moral and spiritual infrastructure within! As the nation stands on the brink of plunging into a world of socialist utopianism (a perfect world without God), many of our Christian leaders and personalities continue with programs and agendas as if there are no threats to our future!

Have we become too busy tending the buildings and the programs while the very soil beneath our feet is about to be taxed from under us? Are we afraid to become involved because it may jeopardize the 501(c)(3) status? One pastor replied that his congregation is comprised of both democrats and republicans, so it was his duty to remain neutral in the political arena. Since when did it become the pastor’s responsibility to keep the peace within the church at the expense of the truth in God’s word? The issues should never be interpreted to be acceptable within the ideologies of neither the democrat nor republican, but rather whether the church is addressing the matter of good versus evil! To the credit of many, there are pastors and Christian leaders who are addressing these issues, and leading the cause to remind Americans that without we are a Christian nation, even in spite of President Obama’s declaration that we are “no longer…”

The institutionalized pastor and the domesticated preacher may place their limited focus on protecting their positions and dominions, but God bless those who, like the original founding fathers of this nation, have committed the moral equivalent of pledging their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for America’s salvation. As the mega churches pack the pews and the people sing and dance with joy, may the grass root revival begin, challenging those who place their hands on the Bible and swear to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic, so help them God! As the churches embrace the gospel of tolerance, may the sword of the spirit do its duty to separate! As the pastors declare that there are other ways to heaven, let the average citizen stand up and declare that Jesus is the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords! As the preachers lay prostrate at the steps of Washington D.C. and sell their souls to the government beast in the name of the social gospel, may the common man be spiritually rejuvenated in the new declaration of independence—that we still are one nation under God—and no one else. So let revival come, regardless of whether the church wants to get involved!