With the divide in America widening and Western civilization collapsing, now is the time for the church to take a stand, according to leading pro-life advocate Seth Gruber.
Founder of The White Rose Resistance and creator of The 1916 Project, Gruber recently joined "1819 News: The Podcast" to deliver a stark warning about the future if the church allows the decline into leftist Marxism to continue.
"We believe that unless the church flatulent becomes the church militant, it will become the church irrelevant," Gruber said. "... I mean like militant for righteousness, right? Militant for the kingdom, militant to defend the little ones and the next generation."
Gruber said Christians should not just engage in politics but also lead in shaping laws and policies, especially at the local level.
"The church always understood that one of the ways that you make culture is by contending politically. It's a two-way street. Yes, culture is downstream from politics, but politics is also downstream from culture. They're functionally the same thing… If we can establish righteousness, fight for truth in the family and be a bulwark to evil, first in your city and then in your county and then in your state, that's what's going to safeguard liberty and freedom."
Given the current political climate and the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, Gruber said America is at a "civilizational moment" that history will remember as either the final chapter or turning point back toward Christian principles.
"Charlie Kirk's life, death, assassination and martyrdom is a total indictment on the last 100 years of the American Evangelical Church's cultural engagement model," Gruber said. "If what we were told to do was true and was effective, then Charlie's death should have yielded nothing because he didn't go through the approved channels. He didn't get the credentials and the degrees. He didn't go to the seminaries that you're supposed to go to. And yet he was boldly proclaiming the gospel on all of these topics. That released the revival and the new interest in spiritual things that our theological betters told us they could do if we did it their way. So we're at a turning point, quite literally. And this is it, baby. This is the last stand."
He concluded, "So the question is no longer whether a battle is coming, Bryan. The question is whether the people entrusted with the faith that built the West will finally recognize that the hour has struck and act accordingly. How do we solve this? Reclaim your dominion mandate, church. Remember who you are. Recast the battle lines, not as Republican versus Democrat, as conservative versus progressive, but as truth versus false, evil versus goodness, light versus darkness, the heavenly versus the demonic, and do something, anything. For the love of God, do something."
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