In a move to solidify the Christian vote for Republican ticket this election season, Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance held a town hall meeting in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, this weekend, hoping to flip the battleground state red.
The townhall took place as part of the Lance Wallnau Show’s “The Courage Tour,” an event billed as “the celebration of Jesus Christ’s courage and triumph,” which is touring the United States.
Pastor Jason Howard, a local nondenominational pastor, who was the moderator for the townhall, discussed some of the pressing issues facing Christians this election cycle such as immigration, the economy and the growing religious persecution facing Christians in America.
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“Unfortunately, our current federal government is trying to destroy [Christianity in America], and it’s a disgrace,” Vance says. “Let’s hope that we can take this country back and make our country better.”
Vance shares that he believes if leaders want to enforce the core values of the Christian faith, it starts with taking care of the American people they were elected to represent.
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“As an American leader and a person who wants to be your next vice president, my first responsibility is to American citizens. And I think there is this Christian idea that you owe the strongest duty to your family, and then you owe the next duty to your community,” Vance says, in relation to the surge of illegal immigrants flooding the United States over the past three-and-a-half years.
The best way to address this, says Vance, is to bring civilian-led, Christian charities back into the forefront of society.
“We want to empower Christian charity, not try to destroy it from the government level, which is, unfortunately, what we see,” Vance shares.
“So what Donald Trump and I promised to do is protect religious freedom, protect people’s rights to say what they want to say and to worship how they want to worship in their church, and to guarantee that the government is not going to strip nonprofit status from the churches it doesn’t like,” he adds.
For the many Christians who have taken notice of the increase in sexual immorality, demonic activity and apostasy taking root in American culture, these types of reassurances provide an alternate path than the one the nation has been going down for decades.
If a true revival of the American spirit is to take place, it must start with repentance for our communal sin as a nation against God, and turning back from the evil path of recent decades.
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James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
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