Karl Marx once said, "People without a heritage are easily persuaded," and in the last 50 years there has been an all-out assault on this nation's Christian heritage. Anti-Christian revisionist have rewritten this nation's history and expunged Christian references and quotes from its founders. Children in public schools and students in college no longer hear of Benjamin Franklin's commitment to Christian teachings, George Washington's faith, or how during the Revolutionary War the Continental Congress issued 15 different calls for days of prayer and fasting.
The truth is that America was founded by godly people of faith in Jesus and the Bible. Even those who were not what we would call evangelical Christians held to a Christian way of thinking and believed Christian values to be absolutely necessary for a stable and prosperous nation. One of America's Founders, Patrick Henry, summed it up when he said, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ."
The truth is that America was founded by godly people of faith in Jesus and the Bible. Even those who were not what we would call evangelical Christians held to a Christian way of thinking and believed Christian values to be absolutely necessary for a stable and prosperous nation. One of America's Founders, Patrick Henry, summed it up when he said, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ."
I recently presented this overview of America's Christian heritage in a 3-part "Revive America" event at Christian Life Assembly of God in Picayune, Mississippi. I hope you will share these messages with your pastor, teacher, and friends. And check out my website at www.eddiehyatt.com.
THEY CAME WITH A VISION
A NATION BIRTHED IN PRAYER
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