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He believed that the attempt to remove school prayer was part of “a movement gathering momentum in America to take the traditional concept of God out of our national life. If this movement succeeds, IN GOD WE TRUST will be taken from our coins, the Bible will be removed from our courtrooms, future Presidents will be sworn into office with their hand on a copy of the Constitution instead of the Bible, and chaplains will be removed from the Armed Forces.”

He also argued that, “The Preamble of our national Constitution speaks of ‘the blessings of liberty.’ The men at Philadelphia could never have written that document if they had not had faith in God.”

Was he right?

On the one hand, Presidents still swear on the Bible when taking their oath, Bibles are still present in our courtrooms, IN GOD WE TRUST is still on our coins, and chaplains are still in our Armed Forces.

On the other hand, our essential Christian freedoms are under constant assault, and in spirit, the Bible is being increasingly removed from our courtrooms.

As for our Armed Forces, could Rev. Graham have imagined a military that paid for sex-change surgery for transgenders and that penalized chaplains for refusing to facilitate a same-sex “marriage”? And how about this for a headline: “Religious Freedom of Military Chaplains Under Attack for Event Saying Religious Freedom of Military Chaplains Is Under Attack.”

In my view, Billy Graham was absolutely right in describing “a movement gathering momentum in America” which desired “to take the traditional concept of God out of our national life.”

But there is a solution, and it is not found in simply bashing those who differ with our views. Instead, if each of us who claims to really know the Lord can demonstrate the beauty of our faith to a watching world, we can show the nation that God, in fact, has a better way.

Let’s do it during this holiday season

Let’s continue through the end of the year, and let’s make 2019 a year when millions of Americans see our faith and are provoked to turn to the Lord themselves.

Only a vibrant, consistent, holistic, life-giving movement like this can turn the negative tide.

(Several paragraphs from this article were excerpted from Michael L. Brown, Saving a Sick America.)

 

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