Doug Giles: "10 Reasons Why Pastors Avoid the Culture War"

If you love Ann Coulter, you'll love Doug Giles. His most recent column is at Breitbart's Big Hollywood and it's titled, 10 Reasons Why Pastors Avoid the Culture War and it's brilliant. Whether or not you're a church goer, you should be able to see the light when he shines it on the pussilanymous pastors across the fruited plain.

This is really an important piece, especially if you attend a church which shys away from involvement in politics and community affairs.

Here are a few of the money paragraphs:

1. Fear of Man: If you purport to be a man of God then your regard for God and His opinion must trump the trepidation of the creature God created from spit and mud. Come on, man of God, don’t fear the crowd . . . we’re peons with cell phones who’ll shoot Botox into our foreheads. We’re weird and fickle weather vanes of what’s en vogue. You’ve got to lead us. Therefore, move into the Moses mode and command us to be and do what is holy, just and good. The grinning, mild, subtle Oprah approach doesn’t seem to be stemming the current flood of cultural filth.

2. Ignorance: Most people are not bold in areas in which they are ignorant . . . always excepting Janeane Garofalo, of course. I know keeping up with all the pressing political issues is maddening, but that’s life, brother, and if you want to be a voice in society and not just an echo, you have got to be in the know. Staying briefed is par for the course for the hardy world changer.

3. Division: Y’know, I hate the current non-essential divisions in the church as much as the next acerbic Christian columnist. Squabbling over the color of the carpet, who’ll play the organ next Sunday or who is the Beast of Revelation, is stupidity squared. That being said, there’s a time and place for a holy throw-down and an ecclesiastical split from political policies and parties. For a minister to seek unity with secularists when they are trashing and rewriting Scripture with impunity is to side with vice and to allow darkness to succeed.

4. Last Days Madness: Many ministers do not get involved in political issues because they believe that “it simply doesn’t matter” since “the end has come.” These defeatists believe that any change in the jet stream, war, earthquakes, a warming globe, the success of a corrupt politician—or even a new Shakira video—are “proof” that God is getting really, really ticked off and that His only recourse is to have Christ physically return and kick some major butt. Attempting to right culture is, in the defeatists’ eyes, equivalent to polishing brass on a sinking ship; therefore, they are content to simply pass out gospel tracts, tramp from Christian rock concert to Christian rock concert, eat fatty foods and stare at Christian TV.

There are 6 more knock-out points that you need to see in Giles' column. Your pastor needs to see them too. Why not pass this piece along to him and all your Christian friends. I passed this along to one of my favorite pastors, not because he needed it but because he's one of the few pastor's I know that is out there telling it like it is (without getting in any body's face).

Be sure to read the rest of Giles' piece. He's always entertaining and never uninformed, and he has no problem at all getting in any one's face.

By the way, you can hear my favorite pastor, Ron Dart, at Born To Win Radio Archives or you can scroll down on the right hand column of this blog and click on the BTW icon to hear him.

Christians and Christian pastors everywhere need to get with the program and start "standing in the gap" with the courage and effectiveness of those in Big Talk Radio. Right now, Talk Radio is the only entity "standing in the gap" between right and wrong. Deal with it!

Scarily, the Bible warns us that if we can't handle the job he has commissioned us to do, He can and may have to raise up stones to do what He would have us do.

Doug Giles might ask, "do we have the 'stones' to do what God wants us to do?' or is He going to have to resort to plan B?