Dozens Accept America As Lord And Savior At First Baptist Dallas Service!”
— From The Babylon Bee, a funny and incisive Christian website
Walter Brueggemann: The Church of Christ pastor and Old Testament scholar writes often and well about all that ultra-conservative Christians get oh-so-wrong about the Bible.
Your Wednesday Wisdom is from America’s best Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann, who says this:
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“The crisis in the U.S. Church has almost nothing to do with being liberal or conservative; it has everything to do with giving up on the faith and discipline of our Christian baptism and settling for a common, generic U.S. identity that is part patriotism, part consumerism, part violence, and part affluence.”
That’s a most relevant quote in the wake of First Baptist Church of Dallas continually putting America and patriotism and the worship of Donald Trump ahead of God.
And if there is one God hates it’s idolatry and this we know because the Bible and Ten Commandments tell us so.
This horrific case of Trumpianity (Idolatry Div.) is being lead by First Baptist preacher Robert Jeffress.
See the story on a recent worship service at the megachurch here ….
That Sunday worship service praising America was followed up by Jeffress and the church hosting the Jeffress hero who is the unrepentant occupant of the White House, for now, at a weekend “Celebrate Freedom” event in D.C.
First Baptist’s choir and orchestra premiered a new song composed to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan with these lyrics:
Make America great again…
Make America great again…
Lift the torch of freedom all across the land
Step into the future joining hand in hand
And make America great again.
Pastor Jeffress can’t get enough love from his hero, and his hero can’t seem to get enough Jeffress love.
Charles Wesley–you remember him as he’s the greatest Christian songwriter who ever lived–rolled over in his grave.
And here is the perfect barb thrown at First Baptist Church of Dallas from always funny and incisive Babylon Bee:
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DALLAS, TX—After an hour-long service commemorating Independence Day at First Baptist Church in Dallas, a beaming Pastor Robert Jeffress reported that “dozens and dozens” in attendance accepted the United States of America as their lord and savior.
The service’s patriotic songs, political message, and readings from the Founding Fathers all came together to powerfully convict many of their need to place all of their trust in the modern-day nation.
“When the massive flag unfurled behind the choir singing ‘Make America Great Again,’ I couldn’t deny my need any longer,” one emotional man told reporters after the service. “I surrendered my life then and there to the United States of America. May this great country change my sinful heart and make me into a new person.”
“I even wrote the date in the front of my Bible so I’d never forget it,” he added.
All of the new converts reportedly went forward after an impassioned altar call delivered by Jeffress and received a miniature American flag and red commemorative “Make America Great Again” hat, before being asked to recite the nation’s Pledge of Allegiance to seal the deal.
This service was simply shameful.
And then there’s “Liberty” University, where every service is the Fourth of July.
This is so despicable there are no words on earth or in heaven to describe it. Jefffrees, Franklin Graham, and Jerry Falwell Jr are the harbingers of the Fourth Reich, and are destroying our America. They are indeed “Making America Little Again.” How about a song about that in the story of our lives as humans and as Christians.