Since America’s last “revival” in the 70’s, our “born-again” spiritual family has had a spate of high-profile leaders exposed for fraud and numerous adulterous affairs in the 80’s…

In the 90’s we also unanimously elected a man who was having multiple gay affairs to be the president of the National Association of Evangelicals…

In the 2000’s scores of evangelical leaders publicly celebrated a young minister who was sexually grooming his interns as “God’s man for this generation”…

In the 2010’s predatory sexual behavior became an epidemic…

…including thousands of sexual harassment cases being brought ag the largest evangelical denomination in the world, and the removal of one of the most sought after evangelical teacher/leaders in our culture…

In 2020 the president of the largest evangelical institution in the nation was abruptly removed from his multiple education and political posts for bizarre sexual sin…

…this same man was one of the very first to wholeheartedly endorse our 45th President; the first twice-divorced man to seek the office; and who openly flaunted his pornographic, adulterous sin prior to winning 82% of our vote…

Maybe it’s time to consider that we’ve spent a generation being deluded by crossless evangelicalism…

Maybe it’s time to NOT believe what our evangelical leaders are saying about a life-long cheater’s behavior re: January 6…

Maybe it’s time to listen to Nathan…

Maybe it’s time to stop this nonsense about God giving cultural prominence to us…

Maybe it’s time to recognize that we’ve looked a lot more like faithless Israel in the desert, and deluded Jerusalem in the day of Jeremiah than the 1st century church at Antioch…

Maybe it’s time for us to let the God of 2 Samuel 12 confront our adulterous ways…

Maybe it’s time to plumb line our churches, our conferences, our ZOOM meetings and prayer gatherings to the fear of the Lord…

Maybe it’s time to abjectly humble ourselves, operate in a spirit of contrition, and repent in the ashes we’ve spent a generation producing in His Name.

JSB • June 26, 2022