02673cam a2200301 i 4500 615167413 TxAuBib 20230215120000.0 220502s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022937954 9781684513895 HRD 22.99 1684513898 HRD 22.99 TxAuBib rda Metaxas, Eric, author. Letter to the American Church [BOOK] / Eric Metaxas. Washington, D.C. : Salem Books, [2022] xiv, 139 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier What is the Church? -- Does God ask us to see the future? -- "Unless you repent" -- "The church and the Jewish question" -- 12,000 pastors -- The spiral of silence -- Two errors of faith -- The Church paralyzed -- The idol of evangelism -- Speaking the truth in love -- Be ye not political -- Who do you say God is? -- The parable of the talents -- Justifying ourselves -- "Religionless Christianity" -- The final push. Can it really be God’s will that His children be silent at a time like this? Decrying the cowardice that masquerades as godly meekness, Eric Metaxas summons the Church to battle. The author of a bestselling biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas reveals the haunting similarities between today’s American Church and the German Church of the 1930s. Echoing the German martyr’s prophetic call, he exhorts his fellow Christians to repent of their silence in the face of evil. An attenuated and unbiblical “faith” based on what Bonhoeffer called “cheap grace” has sapped the spiritual vitality of millions of Americans. Paying lip service to an insipid “evangelism,” they shrink from combating the evils of our time. Metaxas refutes the pernicious lie that fighting evil politicizes Christianity. As Bonhoeffer and other heroes of the faith insisted, the Church has an irreplaceable role in the culture of a nation. It is our duty to fight the powers of darkness, especially on behalf of the weak and vulnerable. Silence is not an option. God calls us to defend the unborn, to confront the lies of cultural Marxism, and to battle the globalist tyranny that crushes human freedom. Provided by publisher. 20230215. Christianity and politics United States. Evangelicalism Political aspects United States. Christianity and culture United States 21st century. United States Moral conditions 21st century.