American Reformation Church Prayer Journal 91

ARC Prayer Meeting:

The last two Sundays, brother Jason Storms and I, covered the America First Movement. We explored the good, the bad, and ugly. We looked at its overall principles for political reformation and the broad-based coalition that swept Trump to power. Though there were always differences, these distinctions are now more pronounced since political victory was achieved. Now the differences are emerging, vying for power, while it splits the movement.

We are, as a church, grateful for the issues that are being raised but are the solutions by the America First talking heads Biblical? If so, fine, but if not, we don’t want to go from one side of an extreme ditch, pass the pathway Christians should walk, and then land on another side of an extreme ditch.

There are some overlaps between the America First Movement and Christian Nationalism. For our church, we would take the approach by a quote from Doug Wilson that basically stated that as Christians we would want to end our national sins and abominations (Like abortion, homosexuality, and transgenderism) that are bringing God’s judgments upon the land. Next, we should work to reestablish our government and culture based upon tried-and-true Christian principles and values that apply to the civil sphere. If government exists to promote the public good, this is a sound vision and mission to pursue by the Church of the living God.

America First needs to understand without Christ and His Kingdom being first, we will never achieve fully what we are seeking as a nation. God’s word is clear, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” Psalms 33:12).

The opposite of that blessed nation is discovered in Psalms 94:20-22, “Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? (In the name of law, unjust governments promote lawlessness. In the name of justice, they practice injustice. They invert the sword of justice, to protect the evil-doer and penalize those who are good in God’s sight.) They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. But the Lord is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

Obviously, our nation needs much prayer, and the church needs to step up as salt and light to our poor-fallen world, especially, when civil government descends to such a wicked state, “. Even our own Declaration of Independence recognized the need to change government if it violated our God given rights:

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The Apostle Paul taught, “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”

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