After receiving an email from Steve Baldwin recently, he got me thinking. God says that "My people perish for lack of knowledge." So I have some carefully considered thoughts for all of us in the Christian-based moral conservative fight:

If it were not for the next two verses, we could easily lose hope: Jeremiah 18:8 says "If that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned." and 2nd Chronicles 7:14 states that "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

We have those two verses as a firm and de facto encouragement from God. We know persecution is coming in some form or another, but I personally believe that God has not set a date for it in stone; other wise He'd have to white-out those last two verses.

Given all that, we need to get the word out more effectively to Christians. I'm a relatively new activist and I had not thought of this before, but one of the underused tools we have is evangelism, and I am not an evangelist. Evangelism is not something I enjoy; I am more prophetic, as some of you are. I love the fight and I love getting the word out. I call things as they are. I'd just like to win a little more often than we have been! We need more new Christians who will have the desire and motivation to call evil for what it is: evil. They will act and speak out and throw political correctness to the winds where it belongs.

So why evangelism? Because most new Christians are on fire for righteousness while many 'mature' Christians are not. We need to do and say little to get new Christians to vote correctly and to contact their legislators. They instinctively know what they must do and they have the chutzpah to do it. As far as the older Christians, we must find a way to get them to see the mortal dangers ahead. Because they just do not, as a group, see the grievous and impending threat ahead of them. They are largely blind to the approaching dangers that are coming. Much of their inaction is due to their misinformed sense of kindness and tolerance, but that is not God's attitude. Remember the money-changers?

The Romney letter was a nice opening volley in what appears to be a new season of warfare. It was like a shotgun, in that it hit more than we intended.

I began thinking this way when I recently called one of the original Ft. Lauderdale Five (they basically started the charismatic movement in the 1970's). I have spoken to this man many times and I was surprised that a man of such character and true love for God's people would not sign the Romney letter. I am not questioning the man's sincerity, but it did get me thinking. If the people under such men would awaken, our cause would be advanced overnight.

I just finished reading two excellent books, 1776 by David McCullough and another by Dr. Bruce Chadwick entitled George Washington's War. They are excellent works for those of in the fight, so to speak. Many people are not aware of how close we came to losing the Revolutionary War! Time and time again, Washington lost battles and was forced to run. His men deserted him many times. He almost had to recruit a whole new army for each campaign. Supplies were usually low. The press of the day vilified him until almost the end. It was not until Trenton that enough Americans realized that they HAD to fight. The final inspiration Washington spoke to his troops went like this: "My brave fellows, you have done all I asked you to do, and more than could be reasonably expected, but your country is at stake; your wives, your houses and all that you hold dear. You have worn yourselves out with fatigues and hardships, but we know not how to spare you. If you consent to stay one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty, and to your country, which you can probably never do under any other circumstances."

In my opinion, we are at a similar crossroads today. In Washington's letters to Congress it is remarkable how often he urged for "unremitting courage and perseverance." We are in need of such resolve today. But are there enough of you?

English poet Edward Young wrote "Affliction is the good man's shining time". I fear we are in a similar time as before Trenton, and things will likely have to get a lot worse before Americans wake up. The danger is that we might never recover from that fall. Another quote from Washington's letter says that "A people not used to restraint must be led, they will not be drove." We need new heroes.

A friend sent me a version of "America the Beautiful" which says "America, God shed His grace on thee". Surely God does nothing without great deliberation and purpose. God does not make mistakes. God does nothing for which He must apologize for later. Will you rise to the occasion?

As David McCullough ended his book 1776 by saying: "How often circumstance, storms, contrary winds, the oddities or strengths of individual character, had made the difference -- the outcome seemed little short of a miracle.

We need to seek Almighty God for such a miracle. But that does not exclude us from acting; far from it! God frequently works through human agents.

Possibly you are one of them?