Wake Up, Look Up

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hello everybody thanks for listening to

wake up lookup a podcast where we

connect events happening in real time to

the Gospel of Jesus Christ I'm Zach wck

and in today's episode we're asking the

question are we terrorists that's

because I read an article this week that

had the auspicious headline the

Christian radicals are coming and I

thought oh man that sounds scary and I

don't want to be a Christian radical

what does that mean but reading the

article showed that it was really about

a small subsect of Christianity a

movement called the New Apostolic

Reformation which has launched a Tent

Revival Style

political tour across the United States

called the courage tour and they're

saying predictable things things like

Donald Trump is God's appointed ruler

and that Christians should do whatever

it takes to get him elected they are

saying things that are vaguely sounding

violent that could be metaphorical or

could be literal listen it's it's scary

stuff I wouldn't go to one of their

events I wouldn't want you to go to one

of their events they do not represent

the gospel of of Jesus that I find in

the New Testament it's troubling to be

sure but the the tenor of the article

suggests that just as Christians were

behind the January 6th Insurrection a

point by the way that I'm not sure

anyone has proven or could prove they

are also going to be behind a

potentially violent movement to install

Donald Trump as president they are

essentially saying that radical

Protestant Christians are the threat to

our country is that true should we feel

bad about being terrorists the answer of

course is no what the article really

does a really bad job of pointing out is

that the New Apostolic Reformation

movement comprises about three million

people now that sounds staggering right

three million that's a lot of people and

you can just visualize three million

people mobilizing on Washington that

would be a problem but actually 3

million people within the overall Banner

of protestantism is a drop in the bucket

it's not even really a drop like for

example in the United States there are

140 million Protestant Christians that

means that the New Apostolic Reformation

represents 2% of the Christians in

America 2% that's nothing 3 million

people in this movement pales in

comparison for example to 71 million

Catholics 13 million Southern Baptists

uh 8 million National Baptists almost 6

million United methodists this is a very

very small portion of Christianity using

this group of people to represent a

larger group of people and pinning them

out to be dangerous is like saying that

because there's one Muslim terrorist all

Muslims are terrorists which of course

is something that the magazine I read

would never do but somehow it's fair

game name for Christians the truth is

that the overwhelming majority of

protestant Christians neither believe

that Donald Trump is God's anointed or

that we should use violence to install

anyone into office the overwhelming

majority of Christians believe what

Jesus taught about loving your neighbor

about honoring the government no matter

who's in charge about believing that

Jesus's kingdom is not of this Earth but

is actually of something greater the

overwhelming majority of Christians put

their hope not in a political candidate

but in the promise of Jesus in The Book

of Revelation that he is making all

things new listen frankly I'm tired of

misar characterizing Christians I'm

tired of letting a few Lunatic Fringe

members of quote unquote Christianity

speak for all of us I'm tired of lazy

media that makes that comparison

Christians do all kinds of things that

make this country a better place we're

going to do do those things by the way

whether Kamala Harris gets elected or

Donald Trump because we don't do them

for the political party we do them for

the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ and

the good of our neighbors and our

community are we terrorists not even

close no matter how much lazy

journalists try to make us out to be hey

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