Resources for church leaders and pastors:
We hope that pastors and church leaders will start to courageously talk about this matter with their staff, youth leaders and congregations.
There is so much power in the pulpits of our good churches and most people in these congregations want our leaders to help us navigate these troubled days with facts and truth.
Please don’t think that this battle is about politics alone; this is a battle for the minds, bodies and souls of our neighbors.
We are called to love God with all and love our neighbors as we love ourselves. The Church’s silence on this will allow destruction in our state and that is not love.
Organizations and ministries helping teach a Biblical worldview:
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF): legal organization protecting the Church and its congregants from litigation.
American Family Association (AFA.net): multi-faceted national organization equipping the local church to navigate the culture.
Barna.com: the George Barna group which contains excellent news, statistics and surveys about the American people with an emphasis on church related ideals.
CBN News: excellent videos and resources on the detrimental effects of marijuana.
Coral Ridge Ministries: “A Christian Dereliction of Duty” (video 7/19/24) by Pastor Rob Pacienza.
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC.com): from the Southern Baptist Convention, bringing the teaching of God’s Word and principles of wisdom to bear on the public policy issues of our day.
Family Research Foundation (FRC.org): para-church ministry helping to defend and promote the Church’s voice in these chaotic days.
Focus on the Family: excellent resources to truly build strong healthy families in the U.S. and around the world.
Heritage Foundation: a national conservative think-tank having resources to preserve the rich foundation of America’s heritage.
Salt and Light Council: why you should start a Salt & Light group in your church.
Smart Approaches to Marijuana (S.A.M.): excellent resources based on facts and science, not hype and hysteria.
Summit Ministries (Summit.org): teaching the next generation real Biblical values to enhance a godly worldview of life and purpose.
The Public Discourse: a journal of the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ. Their authors are committed to the “idea that truth exists, is knowable and should inform our politics and culture.”
Washington Stand (FRC News): excellent, relevant and timely news updates regarding issues affecting the Church here and abroad.
Biblically relevant news articles and quotes:
Good quotes:
Charles G. Finney:
“Brethren, our preaching will bear its legitimate fruits. If immorality prevails in the land, the fault is ours in a great degree. If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the Church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in religion, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it. Let us not ignore this fact, my dear brethren; but let us lay it to heart, and be thoroughly awake to our responsibility in respect to the morals of this nation.”
As recorded in his Memoirs, Charles Finney wrote: "The time has come for Christians to vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them .... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to their country as a part of their duty to God ... God will bless or curse this nation according to the course Christians take in politics."
Please watch:
CBN News: “Very high, very fast” video on the dangers of vaping marijuana/ THC.
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) video: “Religious Liberty”
Family Research Council (FRC.org): “The pandemonium of politics: should Christians really engage in it?”
Pastor John Amanchukwu: “Now is the time for the Church to wake up.”