Sean Hannity Show - Renewing America's Faith Aired: 2026-05-13 Duration: 35:56 === Faith and Family in America (15:23) === [00:00:00] This is an iHeart podcast. [00:00:02] Guaranteed human. [00:00:04] Turn someday into right now with Body by Jake Radio. [00:00:08] Nonstop workout music and expert tips 24-7. [00:00:11] Hey, head over to iHeart.com. [00:00:13] Search Body by Jake Radio and stream it for free right now. [00:00:16] Awesome health and wellness tips 24 hours a day, seven days a week. [00:00:20] Remember, stick to the fight. [00:00:21] When your heart is hit, it's when things seem worse that you must not quit. [00:00:24] Don't quit. [00:00:25] Body by Jake Radio, where hope meets momentum. [00:00:28] Search Body by Jake Radio and stream it for free. [00:00:31] Have a great day. [00:00:32] iHeart Radio. [00:00:34] You To your city Gonna, play our guitars and sing you a country song. [00:01:04] The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. [00:01:10] The tax system as we have it is fundamentally unjust. [00:01:13] We are speaking about living in the wealthiest city and the wealthiest country in the history of the world, where one in four New Yorkers are living in poverty. [00:01:19] And we are going to have to explore massive judicial reform, state by state and at the federal level. [00:01:27] And everything should be on the table as far as I'm concerned. [00:01:30] Freedom is back in style. [00:01:32] Welcome to the revolution. [00:01:36] Yeah, we're coming to your city. [00:01:39] Gonna play our guitars and sing you a country song. [00:01:45] Sean Hannity. [00:01:46] The new Sean Hannity Show. [00:01:48] More behind-the-scenes information on breaking news and more bold, inspired solutions for America. [00:01:59] Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. [00:02:01] My name is Rose. [00:02:02] Joining me now is former Speaker of the House and best-selling author, Newt Gingrich. [00:02:06] And by the way, Check out the podcast Newt's World. [00:02:09] I think you'll really enjoy it. [00:02:11] Welcome to the show, Speaker. [00:02:12] How are you? [00:02:13] That's great, Rose. [00:02:14] How are you doing? [00:02:16] Doing well. [00:02:16] Thank you. [00:02:17] I was hoping we could start with President Trump's visit to China and the number of business leaders that are traveling with him. [00:02:24] We have Tesla CEO Elon Musk, we have Apple CEO Tim Cook, we've got Boeing CEO. [00:02:30] That's just to name a few. [00:02:31] How closely does this reflect how investment strategy is now tied to policy direction between Washington and Beijing? [00:02:40] There are a couple of different things going on. [00:02:43] I mean, I think we're interested in more investments from China and more investments in China. [00:02:51] And frankly, for a lot of our biggest companies, China is just a huge market. [00:02:56] And so I think you have people who are very interested in protecting themselves in that market and in showing their support for a U.S.-China agreement on trade. [00:03:08] And I think that's probably a positive. [00:03:12] an important visit and I know that on both sides they have been for weeks preparing and planning and trying to get it right so this is not a small thing. [00:03:25] No it's not and you've been known to be a great strategist. [00:03:27] I mean what do you anticipate being the primary purpose of the visit and what outcomes do you think are necessary or even possible moving forward and also will Taiwan be a major discussion point? [00:03:45] Yeah, I think we might have lost the speaker. [00:03:49] So, all right. [00:03:50] So, we will hopefully maybe we'll get him back. [00:03:52] If not, we'll just continue without him until he does come back. [00:03:57] But I do think it's interesting. [00:03:58] You know, when we talk about all of the CEOs that are joining them, the other business leaders from this country, and I know that it's important to them, but I just want to find out about the fine line there, though, too, because we talk about trying to limit what we've Sent out to China and what we are establishing here in our own country. [00:04:20] For example, let's talk about prescriptions and drugs and medications and how we really should start manufacturing those things right here in this country. [00:04:30] So, how do we kind of balance all of that? [00:04:32] That was one of the things I wanted to ask him. [00:04:34] And I do hope that I have a chance. [00:04:35] Okay, great. [00:04:36] He is back with us. [00:04:37] Okay, so I think that you heard my question. [00:04:40] I asked about Taiwan being a major discussion point and what you really anticipate as a primary purpose of the visit and the outcome. [00:04:48] Well, I think both Taiwan and Iran. [00:04:51] Will be major discussion points. [00:04:53] But as I started to say earlier, I think historically the biggest breakthrough may be on how do we manage artificial intelligence because we are beginning to have systems that are frankly scary, that have such an enormous ability to learn that we have to really take seriously how we are going to deal with it. [00:05:17] And that can only be done if the U.S. and China work together. [00:05:23] Do you anticipate them agreeing to work together on that, or do they really care how we feel about all of this? [00:05:28] No, no. [00:05:29] I think this is such a big threat to all of us that I think, you know, Henry Kissinger said before he passed away that he thought artificial intelligence might be the greatest single event in human history and how much it changes everything. [00:05:46] And there's some evidence now of some breakthroughs that are really so uncertain about how the system could learn on its own and do things on its own. [00:05:59] But I think there's a very real sense that only the United States and China could develop a system for monitoring and trying to make sure that we don't end up with some kind of system which is a direct threat to human beings. [00:06:13] Yeah, and I'm certain you're right. [00:06:14] I'm sure they share that concern as well. [00:06:17] One of the things, too, and then we're going to move on to Iran, I think, but this trip may or may not determine whether America and China cooperate because, I mean, it could reveal whether the next decade will be defined by more. [00:06:29] more by competition or confrontation. [00:06:32] Would you agree? [00:06:34] Yeah, I think that's right. [00:06:35] And I think both Xi Jinping and President Trump are trying to walk a tightrope. [00:06:42] There's a lot of pressures that move them towards constant conflict. [00:06:48] And there are other pressures that move them towards trying to find a way to live together. [00:06:52] And I think they're trying to balance that. [00:06:54] But in the process, frankly, the Chinese for a long time took so much advantage of us. [00:07:01] Just getting back to a balanced system causes the Chinese a lot of problems. [00:07:07] Interesting. [00:07:08] Now, you mentioned Iran, and I did want to play a soundbite for you real quick. [00:07:11] We won't go into it too long, but it is remarks that were made by President Trump just today. [00:07:17] Take a listen. [00:07:18] At what point are you done negotiating with Iran? [00:07:21] Well, we're going to see what happens. [00:07:24] We're only making a good deal. [00:07:26] We have their military's gone, it's wiped out, and we're only going to make a good deal, and we'll see. [00:07:32] What happens, but I believe that one way or the other, it's going to be very good for the American people, and I think actually very good for the Iranian people. [00:07:41] Are you reconsidering the Pakistani side? [00:07:43] I think we're going to take it from there. [00:07:46] Speaker, my curiosity is at what point are we done negotiating with Iran? [00:07:50] I mean, because it does seem, we do seem to move the line a little bit, and it does seem to drag out quite a bit. [00:07:56] Well, I mean, I don't, I think the president is sort of being overly optimistic. [00:08:03] Certainly in terms of closing off the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranians are not yet defeated. [00:08:10] In terms of their using various missiles against some of our allies, they're not yet defeated. [00:08:19] And they certainly don't think they're defeated. [00:08:21] I mean, the people now in charge, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, their leader fought for eight years with the Iraqis, and they took about a million casualties, including 300,000 dead. [00:08:37] So these are very tough people. [00:08:40] And I think that there was a belief that if we hit them hard enough, that somehow we would do okay. [00:08:47] And we hit them pretty darn hard, and they're still there, and they're very defiant. [00:08:53] If you look at their most recent proposals, it's almost like they were taunting President Trump with ideas like we should pay them reparations for the war damages and so forth. [00:09:04] So I think this is sooner or later, he's going to have to find a way to open the Strait of Ramuz, because if that's open, the price of gasoline will drop. [00:09:14] And if the price of gasoline drops, the Republicans will win a huge victory this fall. [00:09:18] But if they don't solve the price of gasoline, the Democrats are going to win. [00:09:23] It's not complicated. [00:09:25] Yeah. [00:09:25] You know, in fact, that was exactly where I was going to go next, because I know that you have a path. [00:09:31] I've seen it on social media. [00:09:32] You've posted that you believe there is a path to Republican victory, but that it has three components. [00:09:38] So, okay, you just mentioned the first, because that would be my concern. [00:09:41] Anything that prolongs what's happening between the U.S. and Iran is going to have an effect on the midterm election. [00:09:48] So let's talk about what else will have an effect and what we need to do. [00:09:52] to find that victory at the midterm? [00:09:56] Well, look, I actually developed sort of a four-box model in which the first box is the things we have done right and the things we will do next two years if we keep power. [00:10:08] You know, they had a press conference yesterday, and they had all sorts of people there talking about mom.org, which is a site the government's put up that shows how many different ways you can save money and is really moving towards affordability in health care. [00:10:25] We have a good story in terms of no tax on tips, a whole range of other tax breaks that were passed last year. [00:10:32] So there are things we could report to the country that are pretty good, and the president's made really good progress in lowering the price of prescription drugs and so forth. [00:10:40] I think the second box is we run a project called the America's New Majority Project, which people can see by going to America's New Majority Project.com. [00:10:51] And we do lots of polling, and the Democrats, in a sense, are at war with the American people. [00:10:57] On issue after issue, they're down at about 15%, 12%, 13% with everybody else against them. [00:11:04] The most recent example is the man who won three contests against women in California this week and the anger among women about the idea that these guys are now pretending to be women for the purpose of winning when they shouldn't be. [00:11:20] I mean, it's a remarkable moment. [00:11:24] And then third, frankly, you've got to recognize that Schumer and Jeffries, the two Democratic leaders, would represent sort of do dangerous things, do destructive things, Congress if they ever got a majority. [00:11:37] The first thing they would try to do is impeach President Trump and lock Washington up. [00:11:42] They already locked Washington up on things like the Department of Homeland Security. [00:11:47] So imagine they were in charge. [00:11:49] We would get nothing done for two years. [00:11:53] You know, one of the things that you said, and I'm going to go back to it real quick, is communicate clearly the number of positive achievements in the first two years. [00:12:01] Well, here's the thing, Speaker. [00:12:03] the very first time that he served this country, we could go to numerous sites and find the list of accomplishments, all the great things. [00:12:11] For myself and others who are in the media, it was great. [00:12:15] It was a great resource for us. [00:12:16] But right now, I don't see that kind of messaging. [00:12:19] And so basically, the bottom line is messaging here. [00:12:22] And I'm not seeing it to the degree that we did during his first term. [00:12:27] I think that's right. [00:12:28] And it's, you know, between now and Labor Day, they've got to get all that up and out in the open and through the country. [00:12:35] I mean, they have a great story to tell, but if you don't tell it, nobody knows. [00:12:40] That's true. [00:12:41] You know, there's one thing I did want to bring up because you wrote a book. [00:12:44] Now, the thing is, you wrote this particular book back in 1996, and I was just beginning my own journey in radio, and I've always had an interest in American history. [00:12:55] But your book was to renew America. [00:12:57] And I just have to ask you, when you think about what you wrote then, and as we approach America's 250th anniversary, what do you see as the most significant cultural or even political shifts that would have surprised you back in 1996? [00:13:11] Well, I mean, in 1996. [00:13:14] I could work with Bill Clinton because there were still moderate Democrats who were in touch with reality, and we could reform welfare. [00:13:22] We passed the only four balanced budgets in the last hundred years, but we could work together. [00:13:30] The Democratic Party has gone crazy. [00:13:32] When the president said in the State of the Union when Democrats refused to stand and applaud for protecting children, and the president said, you people are crazy, he's right. [00:13:42] They're not liberal. [00:13:43] They're not socialist. [00:13:44] They're crazy. [00:13:46] No, he's absolutely right. [00:13:48] It's an enormous change from when I was a speaker. [00:13:51] Yeah, it really is. [00:13:53] And the craziness becomes more and more obvious. [00:13:56] But I do think that we have to include that in our messaging as we go forward. [00:14:00] And there is one other thing I want to ask you, too, because we've seen moments of spiritual renewal in parts of the country over the past few decades, especially in the last, I'd even say, five years. [00:14:09] There's revivals, church growth in some areas, and there's a renewed interest among the younger generation. [00:14:15] We've just heard about that recently in the news. [00:14:17] Is that it? [00:14:19] Do you see this as an ongoing thing that we're going to continue to see renewal? [00:14:23] Because it really does tie into what you talked about very much in your book. [00:14:29] I think there are younger people who look at their older brothers and sisters or look at their parents' generation and they think, you know, their lives are hollow. [00:14:42] You have to have something at the center of your life to make it worth living. [00:14:46] And I think that's why you've had, for example, so many suicides among young people. [00:14:50] And I think that the return to faith, seeking to have God fill up that vacuum, I think that's very real, and it's a great American tradition. [00:15:00] We've had several waves of revivals going all the way back to the 1730s and 40s, and again in the 1830s and 40s, and in the 1920s. [00:15:10] And so every once in a while, suddenly the American people look up and go, you know, a life without God is a very lonely life, and suddenly you get a wave of recommitment that's very healthy for the country. === Renewing the American Spirit (04:11) === [00:15:23] Yeah, I agree 100%. [00:15:26] Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, joining us today on The Sean Hannity Show. [00:15:31] Thank you so much, Speaker, for spending time with me today. [00:15:33] I appreciate that. [00:15:34] I'm glad to do it, Rose. [00:15:35] Take care. [00:15:36] Have a good one. [00:15:36] Take care. [00:15:37] Yeah, you too. [00:15:38] Thank you. [00:15:39] We'll be back with more The Sean Hannity Show after this. [00:15:42] Love talking to Newt Gingrich. [00:15:43] He's awesome. [00:15:44] He's always got the perfect thing to say because I know he thinks very strongly about certain issues and he's very thoughtful in his responses. [00:15:52] We'll be right back after this. [00:15:59] The world is awake and watching President Trump's every move. [00:16:05] And I will fight for you. [00:16:06] And they're well rested, too, after four years of Sleepy Joe. [00:16:11] This is the Sean Hannity Show. [00:16:35] Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. [00:16:37] My name is Rose. [00:16:38] The phone number here is 800 941 Sean, 800 941 Sean. [00:16:43] I see Bruce. [00:16:44] I'm going to get to you, Bruce. 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[00:19:32] My first guest, though, I want to talk to him because it's so important. === Building Strong Moral Families (12:17) === [00:19:35] We've been talking about America, and as we're approaching its 250th anniversary, we're taking a closer look at the faith, family, and biblical values that helped shape this nation from the very beginning. [00:19:47] So, to help me talk about that right now is J.P. DeGans. [00:19:51] He's the founder of Communo. [00:19:54] And he's the co-author of the book Endgame, the church's strategic move to save faith and family in America. [00:20:01] JP is a ministry leader helping churches strengthen marriages, families, and this is very important, the next generation of faith across America. [00:20:11] Hi, JP. [00:20:11] Thanks for being on today. [00:20:13] Hey, Rose. [00:20:13] Thanks so much for having me. [00:20:14] What a great topic. [00:20:16] Oh, yeah, absolutely. [00:20:17] I mean, we owe it to our founding fathers to keep the spirit of America alive. [00:20:22] And that spirit, Is the one that we find through our belief in God and the idea that all men are created equal and that freedom can only be just given to us by God and God alone, not by men, because they can take it away. [00:20:38] But as we prepare to celebrate America 250, why is it important to remember that faith was foundational to the birth of this country? [00:20:47] Look, it's super important for us to recognize that the ideas of liberty weren't just pulled out of some thought experiment. [00:20:53] They were born out of a very real people with a very real anthropology and history. [00:20:59] And our civilization was built by pilgrims and settlers. [00:21:03] It was not built by a government. [00:21:05] Government came from the civilization built by these pilgrims and settlers. [00:21:09] And what motivated these people to come across the sea in such a way that they were isolated from everything? [00:21:16] No earthly king could come to their aid. [00:21:18] They were motivated on a deep faith in Christ. [00:21:22] These were Christian pilgrims, Christian settlers that came. [00:21:25] It was their strong moral commitment that gave them the self discipline. [00:21:32] To be able to forge civilization out of a wilderness. [00:21:35] And the early American experience, Alexis de Tocqueville and his Democracy in America, written in the 1830s, he's trying to understand when you look at Republican France, right? [00:21:48] It was so broken. [00:21:49] It was so problematic. [00:21:53] And when he looked at the health of a Republican America, he saw such a contrast. [00:21:59] And he really, his great work of political science was also really a work of social science. [00:22:04] He recognized That America had a unique commitment to strong marriages. [00:22:09] There was strong morality born in those strong families. [00:22:12] And he saw religion as the first of their political institutions, not political in the sense of you derive power from it. [00:22:25] It was the first institution that gave rise to self governance, right? [00:22:30] And so you can't have a self governing people without the faith of early America. [00:22:37] Right. [00:22:38] And without a morality, right? [00:22:40] You know, it's interesting because you spent years studying how faith is passed down through families. [00:22:46] And you did, there was recent research with Harvard University that revealed something very surprising to some of us that read that. [00:22:56] Could you share that with the audience right now, what your recent research with Harvard revealed that surprised you most? [00:23:02] Yeah, 100%. [00:23:03] You know, the reality is faith and family are a double helix, they mutually reinforce and support each other. [00:23:09] And when one comes unglued, so does the other. [00:23:12] We had a research partnership that was trying to understand how faith. moves from one generation to the next. [00:23:18] And what we recognized, of course, is healthy marriages are key there, but then also certainly getting to church regularly matters. [00:23:26] But what was the big factor that came up was having open conversations with your kids about their Christian faith, that kind of regular conversation, just having those conversations weekly. [00:23:41] An adult who said they had those weekly conversations when they were a child were 2.5 higher odds of having those conversations with their own. [00:23:49] With their own children. [00:23:50] And if you remembered having those conversations as much as even daily with your parents when you were a child, you had nearly eight times higher odds of having those same conversations with your own kids. [00:24:04] Nothing else, that was a huge, the researchers said there's a huge finding that even the action of going to church as a kid did not have the same level of replicability. [00:24:17] So what we thought we have, you know, we uncovered is kind of a key. [00:24:21] Specific thing that any parent can do right now. [00:24:24] Like if you're listening to this, you're driving with your son or daughter running an errand, you can have a conversation with them right now that has a profound long term impact on their future faith when they're adults. [00:24:40] Yeah, I think that is so important because I have an image in my mind of me standing in our kitchen. [00:24:46] I can see it clear as day. [00:24:48] So often while my mom was cooking, I would badger her. [00:24:51] My biggest thing was revelation Mom, what do you think about this? [00:24:54] And what about that? [00:24:55] And I'm talking. [00:24:55] Even as a younger person. [00:24:57] But I think the thing is that we can integrate, as you said, some aspects of our faith into almost every situation, really, if we would just take the time to do that and make ourselves aware. [00:25:07] Because I feel like, JP, that we owe this to our founding fathers. [00:25:12] We owe it to the Puritans. [00:25:14] We owe it to those pilgrims that came over here because they believed in something so strongly. [00:25:19] They believed in freedom of religion and they were willing to risk so much to establish that freedom as one of our freedoms here in this country. [00:25:28] And we owe it to them. [00:25:29] We owe it to them to continue making this and keeping this a faithful country. [00:25:36] Yeah, look, you're not going to have a self governing people without a virtuous and moral people. [00:25:40] And the government can't form that. [00:25:42] The government can't form morals in the way that a private family can, as John Adams said. [00:25:47] And the reality is, you don't have to be a biblical scholar to have these conversations. [00:25:55] You don't have to be a theologian to have these conversations. [00:25:58] You might just ask your son or daughter, you're driving. [00:26:00] What are you grateful to God for today for this week? [00:26:03] I do that regularly with my children. [00:26:05] We're just driving around running errands. [00:26:07] And then you can be creative. [00:26:08] I love, I was with my 13, 10, and 7 year old driving in the car, and I said, if you could go back in time to any story or passage in Scripture and you could be there and witness it, what would it be? [00:26:20] And my 13 year old said, Oh, I'd want to see. [00:26:23] My 13 year old boy wanted to be there for David and Goliath. [00:26:25] He wanted to see David out Goliath. [00:26:28] And then we talked about that for a few minutes and how cool it was, how much fun. [00:26:32] How scary it must have been. [00:26:33] And I asked my 10 year old son, and he said, Oh, I'd want to be there in the storm and see Jesus and Peter walk on the water. [00:26:42] And we talked about that and the faith there. [00:26:44] That must have been required. [00:26:45] And then I turned to my now, she's six years old, six year old daughter, about to be seven, and she said, You know, I want to be there and see Cain and Abel. [00:26:56] And we look at him. [00:26:57] Oh, my goodness. [00:26:58] We all start laughing. [00:26:59] She goes, Well, I'd want to go and slap Cain and tell him, You know, why'd you do that? [00:27:05] Why'd you do that? [00:27:07] But the point is, you can have fun with these conversations. [00:27:11] You don't have to be a deep scholar. [00:27:15] Okay, there's. [00:27:17] What you want to do is help your kids make the faith their own by engaging them in dialogue in it. [00:27:25] It's important to form them, to teach them the truths of the faith and the scriptures. [00:27:31] That's also super important. [00:27:33] But having these open conversations, asking them, what do they want to pray for today? [00:27:38] And then offer a short prayer while you're driving around, while you're running an errand. [00:27:42] Those are good, simple habits to do each day. [00:27:46] And it'll have a profound impact, as what the research suggests. [00:27:50] So, I love that you start with family because really it starts there. [00:27:54] And it's about, you know, saving faith and family in America. [00:27:59] And that's important. [00:28:00] Those are two things that are really inseparable. [00:28:02] But what role should churches play in helping rebuild a culture? [00:28:07] And in that culture, we're talking marriage, commitment, biblical discipleship, those kind of things. [00:28:13] Look, it's absolutely vital. [00:28:15] Anybody who's sitting in a church needs to know that the collapse of the family and marriage preceded. [00:28:22] And really cause the societal wide decline in Christian faith, right? [00:28:26] You start to have a decoupling of sex from marriage in the 1960s, marriage from parenting, parenting from partnering. [00:28:32] And as non marital households grew, you had about 25 years later, the rise of religious non affiliation starts to grow. [00:28:38] I write about this in our nationwide study on faith and relationships. [00:28:42] Rose, 80% of everybody sitting in church on Sunday grew up in an intact married family. [00:28:47] And so if there's a man sitting in church born in the year 2000 and he's single and he's sitting in church, And he's sitting next to a guy who was born in 1965, and he's married. [00:29:01] Okay. [00:29:02] Both guys, 81% of those men from both those groups, 81% of them grew up in a home where mom and dad stayed continuously married. [00:29:10] And so, if we want to understand why there's a lot fewer men born around the year 2000 sitting in church on Sunday on average, it's because so many fewer of them grew up in an intact married home than those who grew up in the 1960s. [00:29:22] And so, our big message to churches is that. [00:29:25] The restoration of Christian marriage is actually an evangelical necessity. [00:29:29] We've got to bring that about. [00:29:30] The original small group is the family. [00:29:34] That's God's plan for sharing and passing the faith. [00:29:37] And marriage is that covenantal sign of salvation. [00:29:41] We see it in Genesis at the beginning of salvation history, and it's there again at the end in Revelation with the eschatological wedding of the Lamb. [00:29:50] And then you have it dripping. [00:29:52] The nuptial meaning of Scripture is dripping throughout Scripture in the Old Testament and into the New from the minor prophets like Hosea, the Songs of Solomon. [00:30:00] To the major prophets like Isaiah. [00:30:02] And you see it in Paul's writing when he lays out that great mystery in Ephesians 5, where he gives us a window into Christ's love for his church as a bride and as a sacrificial love of the bridegroom for his bride. [00:30:16] And so it shouldn't be surprising, I tell pastors and church leaders, that when the human story of love breaks down, when less and less people experience the human love story, less and less people experience the love of an earthly father, and when less and less people Experience the love of an earthly father less and less, except the love of the heavenly father. [00:30:35] And so, these things are deeply interrelated. [00:30:38] And the good news is, God's hardwired us for this. [00:30:40] God has hardwired us for love and for relationships, for marriage. [00:30:44] And so the world has been selling some bad goods over the last number of decades. [00:30:49] And so the overwhelming science keeps showing the happiest people are married people who have kids. [00:30:56] And married people who have kids who go to church are happier still. [00:30:59] And so the church can be a place where our folks learn to love, learn to love well, and then disciple our kids well. [00:31:08] And then it can be a front porch, it can be a way to. [00:31:12] To draw people in with, you know, in a situation with such loneliness and isolation and growing mental health challenges and suicidal ideation, the church has to sell to the world, and that's the gospel. [00:31:26] Yeah. [00:31:27] You know, and as we head toward this historic 250th celebration, you can see that you have hope about the future of faith in America. [00:31:34] And we have about a minute here. [00:31:36] I'd love for you. [00:31:36] We're talking to J.P. DeGantz, and he's the co author of the book called Endgame. [00:31:43] I think you should all pick this up. [00:31:44] It's very important, especially right now. [00:31:46] As we do celebrate this specific anniversary, the church's strategic move to save faith and family in America. === Hope for Future Faith (04:03) === [00:31:52] How can people learn more about your organization and about the book? [00:31:57] Yeah, go to communio.org, and on there you can sign up for our free newsletter. [00:32:02] You can download, you want some of the data that I shared, the Nationwide Study on Faith Relationships, you can download for free under the research tab. [00:32:09] And then you can buy the book right from our website or from Amazon, Endgame, the church's strategic move to save faith and family in America. [00:32:16] And it's co authored with my friend. Dr. John Van App. [00:32:19] It's a great resource and action plan for the church. [00:32:25] You know what? [00:32:26] God bless you and thank you for your efforts on behalf of this country and American families. [00:32:30] That's communio.com. [00:32:32] Thank you so much, JP. [00:32:34] God bless. [00:32:34] Thank you so much, Rose. [00:32:37] Great to be with you. [00:32:38] Thank you. [00:32:39] All right. [00:32:39] So we'll be back with lots more of the Sean Hannity Show. [00:32:41] I'll be taking your phone calls next. [00:32:43] So don't go too far away. [00:32:45] Also, we have Bill O'Reilly coming up next hour and Jenny Korn, the faith director for the White House. [00:32:58] Hannity Watch. [00:33:00] Keeping an eye on breaking news and bringing it to you first. [00:33:06] Sean Hannity. [00:33:31] Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. [00:33:33] The phone number here is 1-800-941-Sean. [00:33:35] I'm going to take Bruce from Tennessee. [00:33:37] He's been waiting. [00:33:38] I'll get to all of you, I hope, this afternoon. [00:33:40] Bruce, how are you? [00:33:43] Hey, Rose, I'm good. [00:33:44] Good. [00:33:44] Great show. [00:33:45] What's going on? [00:33:46] Thank you. [00:33:48] I'm a senior citizen, almost 70, Army veteran, conservative, Republican, patriot. [00:33:55] And I got to say, the best election in my lifetime was the midterm election of 1994. [00:34:05] And that was organized and led by the man you just had on a little earlier, Newt Gingrich. [00:34:11] And my statement about this is that it was a landslide victory for the Republicans. [00:34:21] And they finally had everything organized 10 major issues that the American public was interested in. [00:34:29] And he organized Congress, all the Republicans, pretty much all the Republicans in Congress, better than anyone I had ever seen. [00:34:36] Everyone was on the same page. [00:34:38] They were all giving the same message about these 10 issues. [00:34:41] And my problem is, I haven't seen him do it since. [00:34:45] That was the. [00:34:46] Well, he hasn't had that opportunity, I would think, or the people in agreement. [00:34:50] You're right. [00:34:50] The contract with America was amazing. [00:34:53] I do have to let you go. [00:34:53] But Bruce, I agree with you 100%. [00:34:55] Thank you for your service, by the way, Bruce. [00:34:57] And he's a brilliant mind, brilliant political mind. [00:35:00] Please check me out on Real Life Network. [00:35:02] My show is Rose Unplugged. [00:35:03] Sign in and Google or search it. [00:35:05] I'm sorry, RoseUnplugged on reallifenetwork.com. [00:35:09] We'll be back with. [00:35:10] Bill O'Reilly coming up next. [00:35:26] Turn someday into right now with Body by Jake Radio. [00:35:30] Nonstop workout music and expert tips 24-7. [00:35:33] Hey, head over to iHeart.com. [00:35:35] Search Body by Jake Radio and stream it for free right now. [00:35:38] Awesome health and wellness tips 24 hours a day, seven days a week. [00:35:42] Remember, stick to the fight. [00:35:43] When your heart is hit, it's when things seem worse that you must not quit. [00:35:47] Don't quit. 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