Council Grove Christian Church

1/22/26

Servants of God,
“Righteousness exalts a nation,
 but sin is a reproach to any people”
-Proverbs 14:34

Why does the United States of America need Christian missionary efforts within our own borders? Well, to put it bluntly, in many parts of the nation, America has become a largely pagan nation. Portions of urban Minnesota are now a strange combination of secularism and Islam. That is a problem, but the real issue is that a Communist overthrow of the nation is well underway and the Communist sharks can smell blood in the social and political waters of Minnesota. Communist love to use the beliefs of Christians against them.
When the good folks who attend Cities Church, the relatively young Southern Baptist mission church in St. Paul, Minnesota this past Lord’s Day, I am certain they did not know their congregation would be the lead story on the evening news all over America. The church building the congregation occupies is a stately building constructed in 1912 by an Anglican congregation.
The Anglicans vacated the building when they could no longer fill it with worshippers. A small Southern Baptist mission congregation now meets in that building. It is an outpost of conservative Protestant Christianity in an area that is trending leftward in politics and religion.
On Sunday a large group of visitors entered the building. They did not come to worship but to disrupt the morning worship service with loud accusations and shouts of rehearsed slogans intended to alarm and frighten those in attendance. The ultimate goal was to cause such a stir that the church would dismiss one of the pastors who was employed by the federal government. Had this man worked for the IRS no such disruption would have occurred. But this pastor was in the employ of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. The “visitors” quickly turned into trespassers.
America was established amidst a unique confluence of two worldviews. The Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment (Age of Reason) met and the result was the American republic. For the first two hundred years of the republic the influence of Protestant Christianity clearly shaped the nation. The last fifty years have shown what happens when human reason forces the belief in divine revelation to the margins of life.
Communists have been scheming for and orchestrating the destruction of the American republic for well over a century. The plan is to demoralize the population then destabilize the social fabric until a crisis occurs. The goal of the crisis is to change the nation into a communist utopia. That stage they call “Normalization”. The unthinkable becomes the unavoidable when the population has been driven over the cliff in a social panic. The Communist rush to the rescue with their version of order—tyranny.
Christianity brings stability to a nation because it is based on the recognition of and subjection to a God who has made a way for fallen humans to be graciously redeemed through faith in Jesus Christ. Christianity enables humans to think straight about God, themselves and others. It enables humans to establish justice and practice righteousness. The Bible warns that sin is a reproach to any people. It is righteousness that exalts a nation (Proverbs 14:34).
Perhaps the recent events at this St. Paul, Minnesota church remind us that it was the missionary effort of a guy we call “St. Paul” that brought the life-giving message of the gospel to Europe and eventually across the Atlantic to the shores of America. America needs revival and even more it needs a great spiritual awakening. You and I can pray for and work for exactly that. Our brothers and sisters of the Cities Church congregation are on the front lines but we serve in reserve and we need to prepare for our part in the battle for the glory of the Lord Jesus and for the preservation of a free nation.
Blessings,
Pastor John
Coram Deo