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Biblical Christians?
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| I don't even use the term Christian anymore. | |
| I don't like the term Christian. | |
| I use the term biblical because what happens is Christians keep making God in their image. | |
| Well, here's what I believe. | |
| I'm a Christian. | |
| That's what God believes. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| No. | |
| God's got a Bible and that tells you what he believes. | |
| And so we call it ABCs. | |
| Authentically biblical Christians, authentically biblical churches, authentically biblical colleges. | |
| Right now, 50% of Christian kids that go to Christian colleges will renounce their faith while at college. | |
| Tell me that's a Christian college if you're driving people away from Christian faith. | |
| It's not a biblical college. | |
| So we do everything in the name of Christianity. | |
| I don't even like the term anymore. | |
| And as I pointed out, 72% of pastors said we don't believe the Bible. | |
| How can you be a Christian and not believe the Bible tells you how to become a Christian? | |
| So, now, but from a historical standpoint, this kind of polarization that's happening now is always indicative of a revival. | |
| And I think I can statistically prove we're in a revival right now. | |
| But here's the deal: revivals always historically span decades. | |
| The first great awakening went from 1730 to 1770. | |
| That's 40 years. | |
| We think a revival, the Spirit of God's going to come in and turn the nation over on Monday morning at 8 o'clock, we're all going to be fine. | |
| It doesn't happen. | |
| It's decades of hard work. | |
| The second great awakening was 1801 to 1878. | |
| It was 77 years long. | |
| And here's the deal. | |
| In revivals, it is always the church leaders who are the most outspoken advocates of what God's got going on. | |
| If you take George Whitfield in the First Great Awakening, one of the reasons he preached outside was none of the pastors would let him preach inside their churches. | |
| That's the only place he could go. | |
| The pastors actually told their parishioners to go stand in the trees over George Woodfield and pee on him and defecate on him. | |
| That's what the pastors were telling their people to do. | |
| Usually about three-fourths of the way through a revival is when the church says, oh, we think God's doing something. | |
| Let's be the leaders. | |
| And so the church will take credit for the revival, but they're usually the last ones to come on board. | |
| And that's what I see with a whole lot of our spiritual leaders right now. | |
| They're still in that resisting thing. | |
| Their people are going around them, which is, again, why we focus on what individuals can do. | |
| It's not up to church leaders. | |
| I would love to see church leaders be what God wants them to be. | |
| That's why we have the sixth section of the book. | |
| But historically, I think we're in a really good situation, as polarized as it is. | |
| This is part of what helps, as Jesus said, separate the wheat from the tares. | |
| We're starting to see who the tares are, which makes it really easier to know what wheat looks like. | |
| We talked earlier in the Kavanaugh hearings. | |
| With all that nonsense in Kavanaugh hearings, the nation has broken very much in a direction away from what they were trying to accomplish. | |
| And so we're looking at picking up several Senate seats. | |
| We're looking at keeping the House. | |
| The approval ratings for Trump are the highest they've been since he's been elected. | |
| That Kavanaugh stuff was part of separating the wheat from the terrors. | |
| It's not an easy process. | |
| It's not a pleasant process. | |
| Revivals never are. | |
| They're very messy. | |