It’s the 14th Monday in 2024. We have 31 more Mondays of prayer and fasting until 4 Nov 2024 – the day before election day.
Thinking soberly across 31 more weeks until national elections, Tucker and Jordan Peterson speak to:
The Coming Collision
We have Jesus colliding with similar forces and people in today’s Bible reading in the Gospels: Mark 7-8
After feeding 4,000, Jesus collides with Pharisees. The question - in the middle of these types of ‘Collisions’ - How do we respond? Strategically, it’s easy to wring our hands and bemoan the ‘State of our Union’ at our comfortable dinner tables.
At the personal, family, church, and local levels, what matters and what does not? How shall we then Live as Francis Shaeffer then Chuck Colson asked in the titles of those books? For people of faith, Eric Mataxis’ book, Letter to the American Church, asks us what we do in our Faith walks, Churches, and Bible Studies. If you join me in prayer and fasting on Mondays - not all can fast and that’s okay - consider the ground level tactical and practical:
Political - All live in precincts, city districts, county districts, congressional districts and can go to candidate town halls and meet and greets for state house, state senate, and shake hands with our local candidates. Same for Congressional candidates who will be on the ballot in primaries this summer and the ones who land on national election ballots in November. While shaking their hands, ask candidates how we can pray for them.
Across Colorado Springs, we have multiple organizations that serve life and the homeless. Drop off clothes, volunteer, and engage people who but for the grace of God could be us.
Engage at church in men’s ministry, women’s ministry, classes, teach classes, attend small groups, serve at the welcome desk, engage in benevolence ministries… Proclaim Christ in all you do and when necessary, use words.
After feeding the 4,000 and Jesus’ collision with the Pharisees, can you imagine the conversations that took place? About Jesus? Get into God’s word so you can have those conversations with all around us.
If your gym is letting men enter women’s bathrooms and locker rooms, engage the management and ask them why they are not actively protecting the ladies in our lives from wives, daughters, granddaughters, to all our local ladies who are their customers. Make them show you the laws they supposedly think ties their hands.
Eric makes the point in his book and Podcasts that today’s American Church is far down the same path traveled by the German Church in the 1930s as the Nazis (Flavor of Socialism) rose to power and took the world into horror and tragedy. Look around, pray for wisdom, and stand for the Love of Christ.
In particular, pray for our nation on this day of prayer and fasting. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, the peace of Washington DC, and our national elections in November.
Jay