What Changes Things

What Will Change People?

1. Prayers of brokenness

2. Love for lost souls

3. Fasting

Lifestyle Prayer

Thank God for bringing back the "house of David" - a restoration of king David's prayer temple which joined passionate music and fervent prayer and fasting. Best of all, people that share the vision of lifestyle prayer encounter a massive priority shift in their lives. They begin to think of themselves as followers of Christ and not primarily as American Christians. Their values are God's dream rather than the American Dream.

After Praying

After praying, they do things motivated through God's love, such as social and political action. Their actions do not resemble those portrayed in the news programs of the '80's, because their faith is not in candidates or political parties. They are supportive of a candidate or party to the extent that the candidate or party supports God's laws for the earth. Does this mean we "legislate morality"? Absolutely. I wish I realized sooner that every other belief system is trying to do this, although most other groups are not interrogated about it as much.

Those Trying to Legislate Morality Include

Groups who maintain...

Child Pornography is OK, "in the privacy of your own home"
Dad + Dad or Mom + Mom are equally beneficial for children & society as Dad + Mom.
Video Games with secret X-rated downloads shouldn't be "censored" from anyone
Underage girls should be allowed to travel to another state for medical procedures without parental knowledge or consent.

As well as...
Activist Federal Judges
Polititians
Gambling Moguls & Municipalities
People for the American Way
Move On.org
Corporations

Every other religious groups...
Every other religious sect...
Athiests...

And finally
Christians

The neat thing about America is that whoever wants it bad enough gets to make the laws. The neat thing about Jesus Christ is that he has the power to change people's hearts. The neat thing about God's kingdom is that there are tools that will change the world around us if we want it bad enough to use them.

What Won't Change America

1. Wishing for the good old days
2. Waiting for the rapture
3. Disgust, judgment, or fear-motivated petitions to God
4. Human plans, political or otherwise
5. Making sweeping judgments and lists of hostile groups such as the one I made under the previous heading. Doing this tends to cause others not to trust you (could you blame them?).