Republicans fought hard to retake control of the country this election cycle, but prominent author and speaker Eric Metaxas says the battle for America's soul is only beginning.
As he explains in his best-selling books "Letter to the American Church" and "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy," Metaxas believes Christians must take a stand, get off the pew and into the fight to take back the culture for Christ.
He recently sat down with "1819 News: The Podcast" host and CEO Bryan Dawson to discuss how, with President-elect Donald Trump's resounding election victory, the American church has a generational opportunity for a holy revolution.
Metaxas began by explaining how Christians, when not bowing to the whims of woke culture, have failed the country by making "an idol of evangelism" at the expense of true discipleship.
"Clearly, evangelism is central. But if that's all you do and if you cut away everything else, you will end up being a lousy evangelist," he said. "You will not be effective because you will be making converts that are not discipled and that are not salt and light. That is what we have in America... If everybody's a Christian, nobody's a Christian. You need to be warriors for truth."
Mextaxas drew parallels between the American church of today and the one in 1930s Germany during the rise of Adolf Hitler and how those Christians failed to heed the warnings of Bonhoeffer to push back against Nazism.
"They needed to stand against evil. And he tried to make them understand, this is God's mandate. This is not extra-credit Christianity. This is what it means to obey God, is to stand against evil in your time," he said. "And many at the time were just; they were in love with church, doing church, and having church services. And what I say over and over is like the devil was thrilled with their church services because he did not feel threatened by their little church services."
He continued, "The point is, if you're doing church right, you're supposed to be the number one threat to people doing evil. But if you get that wrong, as the German church in Germany did in the early 30s, you're no threat to evil. You're no threat to the devil. And that's kind of where we are in America now. It's where we've been. Now, a lot of pastors have woken up or are waking up, but there are many, many, many who they don't want any trouble."
Metaxas said that, like America's founding fathers, citizens today are experiencing a revolutionary moment and that the fight has just begun.
"We're living through a tremendously historic moment. And what I keep saying is that we are now in the third existential crisis of history as a country, that the first is the revolution, the second is the Civil War," he said. "We are now right in the middle of the third existential crisis. And what just happened in this election makes it possible for us to win the war, just as we won, just as when Washington survived the Battle of Brooklyn in mid-1776, that made it possible for him to fight on in 77 and eight and nine and eventually win independence. We're at that moment right now in the middle of the war. It's like we have just begun to be able to fight."
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