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THE CHURCH HAS ACCEPTED ITS REDEMPTION BUT REFUSED ITS MISSION |
Last week, I wrote about the centrality of nations in the Word of God, a subject I addressed over the weekend at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., during The Turn Around's dedication of the Declaration of Independence. |
Two thousand years of Church history provided the spiritual soil from which Christendom and Western Civilization emerged. This was no historical accident. It reflected God's ancient promise to Abraham that through him all the nations of the earth would be blessed.
Find my article on the topic here.
Four thousand years ago, God began preparing a people through whom He would bless the nations. After four centuries of bondage in Egypt, He delivered them with extraordinary demonstrations of His power.
BUT DELIVERANCE WAS NEVER THE DESTINATION. IT WAS PREPARATION FOR THE MISSION.
God had not redeemed Israel merely to celebrate its freedom. He had redeemed a people to possess a land, establish a civilization, and prepare the stage upon which the Redeemer of the world would appear.
Through Samuel, David, the prophets, and the kings, Bethlehem and Jerusalem would become central to the unfolding drama of redemption. |
But the generation delivered from Egypt refused its assignment.
THEY ACCEPTED GOD'S DELIVERANCE BUT REJECTED HIS MISSION.
Their bodies were buried in the wilderness. Their children inherited the responsibility their fathers refused. Numbers 14 stands as an enduring warning to the Church.
THEY WERE A PEOPLE WHO CELEBRATED THEIR REDEMPTION WHILE LIVING IN REBELLION AGAINST THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THEY WERE REDEEMED.
Is this not the condition of much of the American Church?
We celebrate salvation. We sing of heaven. We rejoice in forgiveness. Yet we have largely abandoned the assignment Christ gave His redeemed people. His final commission was not merely to collect converts.
OUR MISSION IS TO DISCIPLE THE NATIONS.
God did not choose Israel because that small parcel of land was the ultimate object of His redemptive purposes. He chose it because of what He intended to accomplish through it. It is the stage upon which the completed story of redemption was told.
Situated at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Israel would become the stage upon which the Redeemer of mankind would enter history. From that tiny geographical location, the Gospel would begin its march into the nations. |
THE LAND WAS NEVER THE ULTIMATE DESTINATION.
THE NATIONS WERE.
And herein lies the tragedy of the wilderness generation. They refused to enter the land that God had chosen as the launching point of His purposes for the world.
Twenty centuries after Christ, has the Church committed a similar offense? We have embraced the redemption accomplished in that land while neglecting the mission that redemption made possible.
ISRAEL REFUSED TO ENTER THE LAND. THE MODERN CHURCH REFUSES TO ENTER THE NATIONS.
Matthew 28:19.
The distinction is enormous.
The Gospel transforms individuals, but transformed individuals are commissioned to bring the authority of Christ to bear upon families, communities, institutions, and nations.
Christianity is not merely preparation for eternity. It is instruction for righteous living on earth. It demands the lifelong study of Scripture and the application of God's truth to education, economics, law, government, and every institution shaping human civilization.
It means establishing educational institutions grounded in biblical truth rather than the shifting philosophies of a secular age. It means teaching generations that God's moral law, not the ambitions of political rulers, provides the ultimate standard of justice.
It means seeking public servants who cannot be bribed, whose character is beyond reproach, and whose allegiance to Christ exceeds their appetite for power.
It means recognizing that elections in our cities, counties, states, and nation are not matters beneath the concern of the Church.
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT AN ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD.
IT IS CHRIST'S CLAIM UPON THE WORLD.
Did Jesus not teach us to pray that God's Kingdom would come and His will would be done on earth as it is in heaven?
America's founding generations understood that Christian conviction carried public responsibilities.
Alice Baldwin documented the political influence of colonial pulpits in The New England Clergy and the American Revolution.
Ellis Sandoz preserved that remarkable inheritance in his two-volume Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730–1805. |
The American pulpit once understood that the spiritual condition of a people could not be separated from the character of their government.
Today, too many pulpits regard the moral direction of the nation as somebody else's responsibility.
Consider the words of 2 Chronicles 7:14:
If my people, which are called by my name, shall 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.
Originally spoken to the People of God, the descendants of those whom Stephen in Acts chapter seven called, "the church (ekklesia) in the desert." These words confront us with a sobering principle: God's people must examine their own faithfulness before blaming the surrounding culture.
AMERICA'S LAND IS NOT HEALED.
Our institutions are deteriorating. Our cultural foundations are crumbling. Our children are increasingly educated in philosophies hostile to the faith that shaped Western Civilization.
And the Church wonders what has happened. |
COULD IT BE THAT OUR WICKEDNESS IS NOT MERELY WHAT WE HAVE DONE, BUT WHAT WE HAVE REFUSED TO DO?
We have accepted redemption while refusing the mission.
Even this Tuesday's elections will likely reveal how little responsibility many Christians feel for the direction of their communities.
The problem is greater than voter participation.
It is a Church that has forgotten why it was redeemed.
Israel's wilderness generation reminds us that being delivered from bondage does not excuse disobedience to God's calling.
May God raise up courageous men to occupy America's pulpits—men who will proclaim not only the glorious redemption purchased by Christ, but also the responsibility entrusted to His redeemed people.
WE WERE NOT REDEEMED MERELY TO ESCAPE THE WORLD.
WE WERE REDEEMED TO SERVE CHRIST'S PURPOSES IN IT. |
Surely judgment, both now and then, begins at the church of God! ~ I Peter 4:17 |
DR. EVERETT PIPER from Sunday, November 1, 2026
ALL CHRISTIANS HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION TO VOTE |
It’s the first weekend of November, and election day is once again upon us. With so many critical issues at play for our country, the ubiquitous question remains: Will the largest potential voting bloc in American politics bother to vote, and perhaps even more importantly, do they even believe they should?
Will America’s Bible-believing Christians go to the polls this Tuesday, or will they stay home thinking that politics has no place in their Church and their Church has no place in politics? |
The most recent Gallup polls indicate that 30 to 35 percent of American adults presently identify as “born-again evangelicals.” This number alone translates to approximately 100 million people nationwide, and if you add practicing Catholics to the equation, the number increases by another 20 million.
So, a conservative estimate of Americans who align themselves with the Bible’s clear teachings on matters such as the sanctity of human life, the definition of marriage, sexual identity, individual freedom, moral culpability, private property rights, and community responsibility totals at least 120 million men and women nationwide. BUT DO THESE PEOPLE VOTE?
The unfortunate answer is that millions do not. In fact, the data shows that as many as 40 percent or more of our country’s Christians will not show up on election day to simply check a box as to whether or not Planned Parenthood can kill babies, children should be sexually indoctrinated in our public schools, or whether women should have their own bathrooms, showers, locker rooms, and sports. |
WHY IS THIS?
Well, the unfortunate answer is that many Christians have bought the lie of “separation of Church and State,” and, thereby, believe politics has no place in their faith and that the faithful should stay out of politics.
IS THERE ANY LEGAL, HISTORICAL, OR BIBLICAL BASIS FOR SUCH ECCLESIASTICAL DISENGAGEMENT?
THE SIMPLE ANSWER IS NO. Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists, for example, makes it unmistakably clear that his hypothetical “wall” of separation exists to keep the government out of the Church’s business and not the other way around.
There is zero evidence here that our nation’s third president was telling Christians they were legally obligated to confine their faith to the four walls of the church building.
In fact, he said the opposite and reassured these Connecticut pastors that the government had no say in what the Church did or didn’t do in the public square.
AMERICA’S FOUNDING ERA IS REPLETE WITH REFERENCES THAT PROVE THIS POINT.
On the Christian responsibility to engage politically, John Jay didn’t equivocate. He wrote that, “It is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest, of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” John Adams obviously concurred and added that without Christian engagement the American republic would fail: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other," he said. |
The Bible is equally clear, if not more so.
Here are just a few verses that could fill volumes on the matter:
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn. (Proverbs 29:2)
Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. (Jeremiah 29:7)
I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions... (1 Timothy 2:1–2)
And, Jesus explicitly commanded his followers be salt-and-light (Matthew 5:13–16) and, thereby, to engage in the society around them — not to withdraw from it.
In all this, no one is arguing that politics has any salvific merit or that civic engagement should replace the Great Commission. No one is saying that voting is the sum of all Christian responsibility.
Obviously, confession, prayer, evangelism, and personal holiness rank higher. But who among us can argue that voting is not one simple way to use the freedom God has given us to love our neighbors as ourselves?
SHOULD CHRISTIANS VOTE?
The answer is yes, and we should be ashamed of ourselves if we don’t.
Anthony Esolen of Touchstone Magazine says it best:
We [vote] to keep the madness at some distance, and buy what time we can to recover… We vote for breathing space. [We are] recommending not retreat but real and energetic assault on all fronts… [We vote to] recover the goodness of ordinary life, so that others, wearied by political war without end, will see with their eyes what we believe in our hearts and profess with our lives, that there is no other name but Christ whereby we may be saved. |
Find Dr. Piper's complete article here. |
Find more Dr. Everett Piper here: Dr. Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host.
He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery).
He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.
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DR. LAUREN SCHWARTZ
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 The OCPAC FOUNDATION PRESENTS at the Oklahoma History |
Watch Dr. Lauren Schwartz here. Watch the entire program here. |
WELL DONE DR. SCHWARTZ!!! |
DR. JAMES LINDSAY THE BEST SUMMARY OF MARXISM EVER!
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 The OCPAC FOUNDATION PRESENTS at the Oklahoma History Center |
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Read a transcript of the James Lindsay presentation here.
The transcript linked to above is a rough and unedited version of the transcription completed by software and has typos and mis-spells.
It also lacks our introduction of James and the comments we made earlier in the meeting which James responded to as he began.
However, the content is fabulous. |
"SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER!" HAS ARRIVED! |
MAY 27 MEETING
WADE BURLESON REPLICATING THE FOUNDER'S TOAST |
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THE TOAST TO COMMEMORATE THE FOUNDER'S TOAST |
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DR. KEVIN CROW INTERVIEWS THE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES |
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OKLAHOMA STATE TREASURER TODD RUSS GIVES REPORT |
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TY ENGLAND LEADS IN SINGING GOD BLESS AMERICA |
TY CLOSES MEETING LEADING US IN THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE |
"SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER!" HAS ARRIVED! |
MAY 13, 2026 MEETING:
CANADIAN LEADER
STOCKWELL DAY |
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TY ENGLAND & GRACE REFORMED BAPTIST HOMESCHOOL SINGS GOD BLESS AMERICA |
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TY ENGLAND CLOSES THE MEETING WITH: THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE |
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APRIL 1, 2026 MEETING: ALEX GRAY |
The international experience of Alex Gray is unmatched and his presentation illustrates his competence to speak on the most sensitive areas of national affairs.
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After watching this ten minute presentation, every Christian in Oklahoma should be furious about the lack of integrity of our school boards, our school superintendents and administrators and our legislative leadership.
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NOTES FROM MARCH: TEENPACT |
THIRTY YOUTH Home Schoolers from Elgin, Oklahoma TPUSA Students |
Grace Reformed Baptist Church Homeschoolers from Elgin, Oklahoma led the Pledge of Allegiance |
KENDRA WESSON JOINS RYAN WALTERS AND TEACHER FREEDOM ALLIANCE |
Kendra Wesson is stepping aside from other responsibilities to work full time with Ryan Walters and the Teacher Freedom Alliance (TFA) with a goal of providing teachers a pro-America Christian environment within which to work.
Thus far, the effort has been massively successful as thousands of teachers are fleeing the pro-Marxist teacher unions including the National Teachers Association (NEA).
Watch Kendra's Announcement here.
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News media was there to cover the TFA announcement. |
DECEMBER 3 MEETING: SAMANTHA FULNECKY INTERVIEW With OCPAC Foundation President Bob Linn and Senator Shane Jett |
Watch Samantha Fulnecky interview here.
Note:
Senator Shane Jett was pointed in his query and his followup remarks.
Shane Jett's first question begins at: 9:38 mark. Shane's blistering salvo to the University begins at the 11:21 mark.
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LEGISLATIVE COMMENDATION GABE WOOLEY |
GABE WOOLEY here
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WES LANE, PRESIDENT SALT & LIGHT LEADERSHIP TRAINING SALLT |
Wes Lane was the keynote speaker and once he finished, it was clear why he has had so much success challenging the church to step forward in boldness.
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We anticipated the professionalism of Jen Nicole's voice, but her moving presentation of the Christmas season was breathtaking. She opened the meeting by leading us in "O Come All Ye Faithful" and brought tears to our eyes as she followed Wes Lane singing "O Holy Night."
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TPUSA Students were in attendance Supporting Samantha |
SHANE JETT MESSAGE TO POLITICAL CLASS |
Senator Shane Jett here
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BOB LINN PRESIDENT OF OCPAC FOUNDATION |
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Our beginning financial goals will allow us to secure the initial permanent staff positions necessary to the function of a foundation with ambitions to change the world. |
We are in desperate need of returning our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.
Thank you for your activism. |
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