I experienced so much of the same...great piece...I agree completely!
-Helen Utegaard
Most of you who know me realize it is quite rare for me to release the type of post I did yesterday rebuking the editor of Christianity Today for his support of the impeachment of President Trump. I have sit back quietly and watched very infuriating actions of Schiff, Pelosi, Comey and the other compromised characters and yet I knew I only had angry flesh responses to their evil intentions to perpetrate a coup. However, the editorial page by Mark Galli was so sinister and below the belt- and in the name of Christ- that it just had to be strongly cast down. My spirit was very stirred in me and I am glad to have found out that over 200 evangelical leaders joined in condemning that post. It was spiritually a must do.
The timing of that post was designed to cause maximum damage to President Trump and to be particularly painful as it would come from his assumed base of support. I pray the President saw from the reaction on his behalf that there is almost wholesale appreciation from the evangelical community for his brave stances of rightness and righteousness on so many fronts.
I heard after the fact that Mark Galli retires in two weeks and that there is Soros money funding at least some joint projects with Christianity Today. Those realities if true would explain more the timing of what was intended by Mark. It was absolute foolishness in every way. Some wondered about my strong statement that Trump's righteousness exceeds 90% of pastors. First you have to understand I haven't really done a study on it and secondly I am only speaking of what we know about President Trump since he became a believer. We operate anti-christlike when we condemn him for the totality of his "sins" from almost 70 years of life before giving his life to the Lord. It is not allowed.
Since coming to the Lord he has shown the highest level of courage of anyone (pastor or not) of any human I have ever met. He has risked his life, his finances and his family in order to attempt to eliminate the most treacherous and immense Goliath on the planet- "the swamp", "the deep state", etc. etc. The courage to do right and risk all in the process outweighs whatever coarseness of language he might have. Furthermore, in the upcoming days we will all be learning that most of the people he has had rough language for are immensely more dark and evil than most can even imagine. Many have thought him over the top for repeatedly calling the Clintons criminals. Most are finding out that calling them criminals is a great understatement. The same will be proven with many of the others he has confronted. Jesus called Pharisees "white walled sepulchres". How much more might He say for criminal sex and human traffickers.
And here is the obvious point in all this. President Trump was not called to be our Savior- as Jesus was. Neither was he called to be our pastor- as your pastor is. He was called to be our President in perhaps the most trying national time since Abraham Lincoln was President, with an insanely difficult assignment of uprooting multigenerational deep rooted corruption and core wickedness. Can we please stop putting him through the holiness screening? He is much more righteous than we deserve.
