Were calling for an army of citizen activists peaceful warriors for Christ ready to take back America. The Awakening 2013 provides a powerful blend of spiritual patriotic and grass-roots training that will have a lasting effect on your life and on America.
I just had breakfast with the Rev. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg. Well not the real Peter Muhlenberg but a preacher friend of mine named Travis Witt. Travis does a powerful impersonation of the Revolutionary War-time pastor-patriot at churches and other venues around the country.
Travis will be in his full Muhlenberg character at The Awakening 2013 on April 19-20 in Orlando Fla. The Awakening is a life-changing spiritual-political revival.
But more on that later.
At breakfast Travis and I were discussing the man Muhlenberg and what he stood for.
One early Sunday morning in January 1776 Rev. Muhlenberg was preaching what seemed his normal weekly sermon. His Scripture for the day focused on Ecclesiastics 3 which observes in part To everything there is a season a time for every purpose under heaven." Muhlenberg continued: In the language of the holy writ there was a time for all things a time to preach and a time to pray but those times have passed away."
With his voice reaching a dramatic crescendo and his congregation now captivated a fiery Pastor Muhlenberg then declared: There is a time to fight and that time has now come!" He then tore away his clerical robes revealing underneath the crisply pressed uniform of a Colonial Army officer.
His congregation gasped.
Pastor Muhlenberg then marched to the rear of the church building turned and shook the walls declaring Who among you is with me?" That very day 300 brave men from his relatively small church stood with Peter Muhlenberg to become the 8th Virginia Regiment.
Frederick Muhlenberg the good pastors brother questioned in a letter whether it was Peters place to fight. Peter wrote back with words as true today as they were then. I am a Clergyman it is true" he wrote but I am a member of the Society as well as the poorest Layman and my Liberty is as dear to me as any man shall I then sit still and enjoy myself at Home when the best Blood of the Continent is spilling? … so far am I from thinking that I act wrong I am convinced it is my duty to do so and duty I owe to God and my country."
I think Peter Muhlenberg set an example for each of us to follow. I think we all owe a duty to God country and one another to stand up and fight for liberty regardless of our station in life.
Like then we find ourselves today in the midst of a revolutionary war. Not a war with guns but a war of ideals. We battle not against a foreign king but a man among us who thinks hes king. We struggle not against a tyrannical foreign government but a government of our own making a government that tilts toward tyranny.
We desperately need revival in this country spiritual cultural and political revival. Its time for the next Great Awakening.
To that end I invite you to be part of The Awakening 2013: Fighting for the Soul of America in Orlando Fla. at First Baptist Oviedo April 19-20. It is our intention to begin the next Great Awakening.
While there you will hear from over 60 of our nations top religious and policy leaders including Rep. Michele Bachmann Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin Liberty Counsels Mat Staver Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of the TV show 19 Kids and Counting" Rev. Samuel Rodriguez and many more.
The early colonialists like Muhlenberg came together in meetings just like The Awakening and looked to God not government to guide public affairs. These boldly committed leaders understood that God has given us certain unalienable rights: life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that any government that transgresses against what God gave us has disqualified itself to lead. It has become tyrannical.
Today we face unprecedented threats to our faith and freedom as the government is forcing religious organizations and businesses to provide abortion drugs through the Obamacare mandate. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Our basic liberties and moral foundations are under violent assault.
We have come to a critical crossroads. The future of America will be determined in our lifetime by our actions. What we do now will echo throughout history.
Like Muhlenberg I ask Who among you is with me?" Were calling for an army of citizen activists peaceful warriors for Christ ready to take back America. The Awakening 2013 provides a powerful blend of spiritual patriotic and grass-roots training that will have a lasting effect on your life and on America. Take a stand for righteousness and justice and join the next American Revolution.
John Adams our second president once said Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Indeed in contrast with the deeply held religious and moral values embraced by our Founding Fathers men like Peter Muhlenberg todays America is governed by an immoral" and irreligious" chief executive. Barack Obama is the King George of secular-socialism. He seeks to undermine if not altogether dismantle the American exceptionalism that hitherto has been fundamentally woven throughout our national fabric. He aspires to the lowest common denominator. He seeks to uproot Ronald Reagans shining city on a hill" and relocate the land of the free and the home of the brave" to a much lower altitude alongside those Euro-Marxist nations he so admires and wistfully desires to emulate.
Yes for everything there is a season.
Now is the season to fight.
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