Can we praise God for Trump? Yes.
God gave us mercy in a form that’s difficult for the pious to understand. But He has used far worse men than Trump to save His people before.
So, as we celebrate a shift in political power, what should faithful Christian learn from this win and how should we prepare for the next four years?
- Convictional Christians must stop believing that political disengagement advances the gospel. Even with a Trump victory, navel gazing Christians are not seeing their impact for the Kingdom grow by ‘sitting politics out’. The agenda of the right has grown less biblical because of the silence of Christians. As such, your silence is shrinking the Kingdom not growing it. Re-engage!
- A Trump win is only the beginning of a long road to restore moral clarity to an extremely confused nation. We have won the right to steer the nation. We can’t squander the opportunity. Work lies ahead.
- We need to start taking bold stands. Trump did not win with slick speech. Allowing our critics to falsely judge our intent or choose the topics we can address will inevitably end in submission to their agenda. The Keller model of attempting to accommodate every word from the left and capitulating in the name of perceived relational wins must be rejected. We can speak truth in love, but if we are compromising for “relationship” we are being neither loving or truthful.
- Christians must see fighting for truth as an act of love and not an immoral aggression. Weakness is not Christ-like. It is a moral failure to be ill-equipped to protect the vulnerable.
- In the wake of many political victories, many pre-born babies will be killed. With Florida being a noteworthy exception, the pro-life agenda was decimated at the polls. This is yet another indicator of the enormous work that must be done to restore the salt of moral conviction to a culture prone to rot. We still must find a way to win the battle to protect the our pre-born children!
- Hope in God and get MORE political! With notable exceptions, the collective church is like Pilot, washing their hands in a bath of cowardice while allowing the cause of goodness and righteousness to be crucified. We have to see the political shift as an opportunity to advance truth not a momentary reprieve from an inevitable cultural collapse.
Dear Christian brothers and sisters, it is time to enter the King’s battle, advance with the genuine hope that Gods truth is a benevolent solution to the brokenness around us. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. We cannot rest on the good vibes of a political shift. Let us not squander this opportunity. Onward.
