From the director of The Call, Lou Engle:
“Today, March 5th, one of the most significant court cases in America’s history will take place. The California Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding the overturning of the vote of the people last year to pass Proposition 8, which defines marriage between a man and a woman. If this vote is overturned, not only will it set a major precedent of the court’s power over the will of the people, but it will likely be the flash point that will determine the future of America as liberal and homosexual agendas will disseminate throughout the educational systems and into the very fiber of American culture. The California State Senate just ruled against the peoples’ vote and asked the court to overthrow the defining of marriage as between a man and a woman. Senator Leno likened the people who voted for Prop 8 to the Germans who voted for the Nazi Regime.”
During these past three months since President Obama’s election, the voices of rage against Judeo-Christian values and against the church have been emboldened to use inflammatory language and pass bills and laws that are anti-Christian in their very nature. When senators use such language, persecution is close at hand. We are in a desperate moment in American history. Everyone is pointing to the severe crisis of our economy, but I am convinced it is only an indicator of a massive moral decline America has slid into. It is time to pray, humble ourselves, and rid ourselves of moral compromise in the Church. If the salt loses its savor, it is only good for being thrown out and trampled under the foot of man.
Today we are calling for the church to pray!
Take this moment and hear His call to humility, fasting and repentance. If we do this, God can deal with kings and judges like He haunted Nebuchadnezzar with dreams and removed Herod by the angel of the Lord. This hearing today will be followed by a 90-day period in which the court must make a decision. Pray for these judges that the hand of God will influence their minds and hearts, that the fear of the Lord would fall upon them, and that dreams would invade their world, their wives, their children, and their innermost thoughts.
Pray that God would restrain principalities and powers that have mustered their forces of demons to seize this nation through this door in California. Pray for an unprecedented outpouring of the Spirit in California and America. Pray that God would raise up righteous leaders and bring down the unrighteous ones. Pray for the cleansing of sexual compromise and divorce in the church so that she can reclaim spiritual authority. Finally, pray that the love of God would be poured out on those struggling with homosexuality across this nation. Oh that the power of God, the power of the gospel, would be released again to free the captives!
Let me preface this by saying that I don’t think homosexual marriage should be legal; it’s against the word of God – definitely.
But part of me can’t wait for Prop 8 to be overturned and for California to legalize homosexual marriage. Every vote has been challenged, and they’re not going to stop until it happens. Can we just admit that sooner or later it’s going to happen, and let it go?
I feel like the more the Church fights this, the more bitter the “victory” is going to be for those pushing to overturn P8. It’s going to be a big, “Finally, we’ve prevailed over the Christians!” moment and it’s going to further alienate people from God’s love.
Part of me can’t wait for it to just happen, so the Church can stop lobbying and rallying, and get back to loving people and preaching the gospel of forgiveness.
I absolutely believe that we need to pray, that it’s wrong, that we need to be a voice for morality in our society. But on P8 it seems like the cost is too high to just prolong the inevitable. When do we just let it go and minister TO people instead of AT them?
Okay. I’ll preface my reply with the following statement: I’m not a pastor, so I don’t necessarily always say things in the most gentle way. I’m an evangelist at heart, whose primary objective is to delcare truth and allow the cards to fall where they may…..
Restoring people is a redemptive work of the cross, not a pass-time for the church. We can no more restore people than we can save ourselves apart from the power of God. Redemption and restoration must be based in Godly truth, or they are counterfeit. Therefore, exposing the homosexual agenda is not “ministering AT people,” but rather declaring truth, which is the ultimate act of love.
Further, this is the REVOLUTION BRIGADE website. It’s militant in nature, as the title suggests. We don’t surrender ANY battle, even the ones that we will likely lose (at least in the short term), for the sake of saving face in the eyes of the lost and dying.
It’s a call to pray, not to shout curse words and carry picket signs.
amen
As we pray, let’s pray for the Church to realize the need for a long-range strategy that will prepare and send kingdom-minded people into the high places to provide righteous leadership.