The New Right Needs to Be Discipled

By: Chris Johnson

We’re now less than a week away from the presidential election. If it goes as suspected, we are likely to be in the dark as to the winner for days, if not weeks, after.

However, as I look ahead to the post-election landscape, there are some things that I already know we’ll need to talk about. This election season has revealed much about where we are as a nation, a church, and a “conservative” movement.

One thing that must be recognized is that the old line of distinction marking the political divide in our country has been essentially obliterated.

Gone are the days where the image evoked by the word “Republican” is of an ardently pro-life, anti-LGBTQ, Bible-thumping Christian, as seen in Mike Pence or the word “Democrat” brings to mind a pro-peace, anti-corporation, hemp-wearing pagan as seen in Bernie Sanders.

Covid, the transgender trend, the January 6 narrative, etc showed plenty of people under both those old labels that our government, health officials, educators, and news media are completely unworthy of our trust.

The line is now drawn between those who are sick of being lied to by their institutions and those who still trust the institutions; and there are plenty of pro-“choice,” pro-homosexual pagans on our side of that divide.

This is an important reality for conservative Christians whose worldview was summed up succinctly in the 2016 Republican platform. We heard it over and over again in 2016, that Donald Trump was running on the “strongest GOP platform ever.” Well, it’s not 2016 anymore, and as we’ve reported before, the platform has been weakened. The tent has been expanded. Trump has spoken out strongly in favor of protecting a woman’s “right” to abort babies conceived by way of rape and incest, which results in an unborn child paying the penalty for the father’s crime. Melania Trump has pointedly hosted fundraisers for the “Log Cabin Republicans,” a homosexual Republican advocacy group.

The most prominent voices in the GOP today aside from the candidates – RFK, Jr. and Elon Musk were Democrats in the last election. RFK, Jr.  has apparently evolved his stance on abortion to something like Trump’s, while Musk’s are unknown, and neither have commented much on homosexual marriage because, frankly, it’s just accepted at this point. Even conservative legend Glenn Beck, in his appearance on Tucker Carlson’s live tour in September, suggested that God would smile on a group called “Gays Against Groomers,” saying, “I don’t think the Lord is checking the church you go to. I don’t think he’s looking for your church card punched every Sunday. I don’t think he’s looking for anything. At this point, He is looking for His children who know the difference between right and wrong and pedophilia and will stand up against it. I applaud Gays Against Groomers…”

For those of us praying for and looking for a spiritual revival, Glenn’s take is quite simply the opposite of that. Pedophilia is not the only sin that God is opposed to, He absolutely does care whether you go to church and whether the church you go to tells the Truth about Him and what He says, and if you know the difference between right and wrong you won’t be part of a group called “Gays Against” anything.

Of course, we are grateful for everyone who understands the unique wickedness of the perversion of pedophilia, but being against it does not cover all the other sins we’re each guilty of. Only the blood of Christ can do that.

In short, we no longer have the luxury of the ideological divide running parallel to the political divide. What that means for people like us is that our promotion of Biblical values like the rights of the unborn and traditional marriage and strong families can’t just be aimed across the aisle. The people next to us at the political rally may or may not be “values voters,” but we can and must still have the courage to stand on what the Bible says.

At the same time, the news isn’t all bad regarding this new political divide. The Trump campaign, including Elon Musk, while weakening on support for pro-life legislation, has sent strong messages on Americans’ need to have bigger families, which is a message which will advance life. If more people see babies as a blessing, fewer people will want to have an abortion. Prominent voices on the right promoting Donald Trump like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly have come out more strongly against abortion than ever before.

At a Kamala Harris rally in the last weeks before the election, a rally attendee shouted “Jesus is Lord!” from the floor. Harris replied, “you must be at the wrong rally.” The same phrase was shouted at a Vance rally and his reply was, “yes, Jesus IS Lord.” Trump has also publicly credited God with saving his life, saying his faith “took on new meaning” in the aftermath. Of course, talk is cheap. As we’ve seen, no one is looking to Trump and Vance for astute theological observations. But what is obvious is that while one party rejects the authority of Christ outright, the other welcomes its influence.

It is also obvious that it needs Christian influence more than ever. A desire for “freedom” without its Biblical foundation is how our society got where it is today. More than ever, Christ’s Great Commission to the church to “disciple the nations,” must drive the church. We can start in our own nations, and our own political parties.

 

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