Preach the Gospel

My wife and I live in a mobile home in small town rural Indiana, evangelizing Decatur County as well as a 25 minute radius of our church building.  I preach the gospel almost every day to someone.  We do discipleship, Bible studies, and meet for church.  Her and I exist in our own little bubble.  We walk twice a day by fields of beans, corn, and wheat.

I do think that the work of our church here transcends other contemporary narratives. We keep our eye on the ball, staying focused on the real problem in the world and its actual solution.  It glorifies God, gives Him pleasure.  Someone might say our little lives here epitomize one of many micronarratives within a larger macro one.  I could argue, however, that we represent the macro and the popular larger narrative equals the micro.  The gospel overshadows politics or what occurs to a nation in a window of history.

No one in the future kingdom of Christ and then the eternal state will look back and think that the American government was the main theme.  Neither will anyone in that kingdom consider the decline of the United States to be the major issue of that day.  The way back to Paradise, lost in the Fall, comes through Jesus Christ.

Slow Motion Car Crash

As a backdrop to serving God in a church, I observe now a slow motion car crash.  Two cars now careen toward each other and a future wreck.  Maybe I could use another metaphor, like the trajectory of an asteroid in the path of earth on schedule to collide in November of 2024.  It might not matter what your side of the political spectrum, you see this crash coming too.

I don’t write to say, “You read it here first.”  You could have read it somewhere else first.  However, I haven’t read yet about the collision of which I explain and describe.  When you read it somewhere else, you might say, I read it first at What Is Truth.  Who cares, really?  As I write about this here, first or last, you might anticipate this inevitable demolition derby.

Trump

Donald Trump leads the polls on the Republican side.  He embodies a large faction of the country, bigger than any single cohesive body of people.  That car continues rolling forward at a larger than ever fifty plus percent of Republican voters.  Even in Iowa and New Hampshire he dominates his opposition right now 16 months before the next presidential election.

As Trump moves along his path, so do four different legal prosecutions against him, all very suspect in nature, especially in comparison to others (I understand this will trigger a portion of the readers).  Trump voters saw the Russia hoax impeachment.  They also witnessed the Zelensky phone call impeachment.  The government spied on his campaign.  The Clinton campaign paid for the fabricated Steele dossier used for a FISA warrant.  The FBI lied about it and then covered it up.  And all that is less than half of everything Trump supporters know.

Still, Trump enemies continue to use the legal system to impede or stop Trump, what people call weaponization of government.  Every prosecution looks shady, questionable, like political persecution.  The present administration targets its number one political enemy.  Nevertheless, the Trump car rumbles down the road, even gaining in momentum the more legal woes he faces.

Biden

Joe Biden comes from the other direction.  Even though he couldn’t fill an average sized local gymnasium to see him, he tallied the most votes ever in 2020.  Zuckerbucks influenced local election offices all over the country.  Courts changed laws to favor ballot harvesting with little to no voter identification.  Social media giants censored news unfavorable to the Democrat.  In addition, lies, lies, lies, lies, and more lies.

The Biden car and the Trump car head toward each other.  They’re moving fast, but they’re so far away, that it’s like watching from thirty thousand feet.  The cars move at an imperceptible pace, yet moving on an identical line.

Criminal prosecution hovers around Joe Biden.  Massive corruption on an unprecedented scale looks obvious.  It seems like no repercussions for him.  Like the Clintons, nothing will happen more than verbiage.

A crash looks inevitable.  No one knows what will happen in 2023-24.  Will they prosecute Trump and try to put him behind bars?  Might the Bidens skate again or face their comeuppance?  Could a third party enter the race?

The Great American Divorce

Many more questions remain.  What would Trump supporters do if this government convicted him?  Would they accept that verdict?  With the way the progressives use the system like a banana republic, will people stand by and let this happen?  A large percentage of United States citizens see their government as dirty.  Those people are waiting and watching right now from that thirty-thousand feet.  A big gap separates the two biggest factions in the country.  The two sides are irreconcilable.  One of them is especially unhappy.

The country doesn’t neatly divide like the north and the south in 1860.  Both factions live in the same states.  Red citizens are fleeing blue states to red ones.  A few years ago some started calling this, the great American divorce (here and here) or American secession (here and here).  Historian Victor Davis Hanson says we’re on the verge of our French Revolution.  He also called it, “The Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America.”

The Only Remedy

To go back to the way I began this essay, I call this slow motion car crash just a backdrop to the most important.  The belief and practice of an individual true church surpasses the miserable condition of the nation.  It seems obvious a future collision is coming.  No one knows the outcome of this monumental head-on crash, but scripture says the remedy is still the same, the gospel.

Elevation of the gospel starts with the church.  Turn and look to the message of the cross as the prescription.  Judgment must begin in the house of God.