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We've had so many great guests in the last month. I just wanted to wrap up what other people have been saying on the show to encourage you on what to do next with the information that you have learned. If you've listened to the show, if you came to the event in Memphis a little over a week ago, or even this past week, you may have heard by now, I certainly hope you have, that some documents were leaked about a ruling from the United States Supreme Court. If you've been a long time listener to the show, you know that back in December, I was in Washington, D.C., where the Supreme Court was hearing what they call oral arguments on the Dobbs case. The Dobbs case is a case coming out of Jackson, Mississippi, and it has to do with a bill that was passed by the legislature that basically says after 15 weeks of pregnancy, you cannot abort a baby anymore because it's a viable human life. It was really a miracle that the Supreme Court heard that case because since 1973, there's not been a significant case about abortion really heard by the United States Supreme Court. What happened in 1973 was there was a decision that's now famous called Roe v. Wade. If you hear comments of something saying Roe or what does it mean to do, and later this week, by the way, we're going to have a show about what it will mean to live in a post-Roe America.

My good friend who's been on here before, Grace Ricocheski, is going to teach us students for life, and Grace is going to be here to talk about what a post-Roe America will look like. We've had staff members in Washington, D.C. over the past week because this past week, what happened was in anticipation for the decision that's going to be coming out this summer, we've all thought that the Supreme Court would make a ruling on the Dobbs case probably in early June. Now, what the ruling would mean is if they ruled in favor of the pro-life argument, what they would do is they would be saying that abortion is not a constitutional right under the United States Constitution.

That happens to be my position as well. Now, I'm not a Supreme Court justice, but I've read the Constitution, I've studied the issue for many years, and I don't see in the Constitution anywhere where it even implies that anyone has a right to murder an unborn baby through abortion. It's just not in there. And so what would happen, and I want to tell you it's very, very rare for the Supreme Court to go back and rule against itself after a decision has already been made.

It almost never happens. So the liberals in this country thought that they were set with this decision forever that women had a United States constitutional right to abortion. So what we've been hoping and praying would happen would be that the Supreme Court would say, hey, it's not a federal constitutional issue, and we're going to send it back to the states and let the states make that decision in individual states. So this past week, a document was leaked.

And again, we're going to talk about this in greater detail in a few days on the show, probably in a couple of days, we'll talk about it with grace. A document was leaked this past week that was supposed to be a draft document of an early decision on that issue. And there's been a lot of think about it in the press. To me, it wasn't any surprise because the leaked document, I praise the Lord for it.

It says that they are sending it back to the states and the Supreme Court is going to say that abortion is not a federal constitutional right. But there's been such an uproar for days. I guess when you have to have a news cycle where you have news 24 hours a day, people have to create issues and stories to talk about. I mean, it is a big issue because no one's ever leaked a decision ever in the history of the Supreme Court before that decision was issued publicly. So there is an issue with the possible crime that was involved or the ethics of someone on the staff at the Supreme Court releasing a document early. But as far as the decision, I praise God for the decision. I hope that it truly is the decision. I think that Chief Justice John Roberts indicated that it really was a real draft that was submitted, that was released and leaked to the press early. But I don't know why the news and the liberals are getting an uproar. I don't think it's any secret. I've had a piece in my heart really since the day that the oral arguments were presented because President Trump had the opportunity to appoint three conservative justices to the United States Supreme Court.

I'm going to kind of go down a little rabbit trail here. I got to tell you that a lot of people gripe and complain about President Trump and they don't like his tweets or this or that or they think he's mean-spirited. He was the most pro-life president in the history of this nation and the reason that I voted for him back in 2016, he was not my first choice in the primaries. In fact, of all, what was it, 16 or 17 candidates running, he was my last choice. But he plowed his way through the primaries and I supported him, certainly I supported him against Hillary Clinton, whose values were so unbiblical. Even though I didn't care for his personal traits, he pledged to a group of Christian leaders before he took office. Of course, you never know how someone's going to do, but he released a list, a group of Christians put together a list of Supreme Court justices that they would like to see on the Supreme Court. And he promised us that if we deliver the Christian vote for him, which we did, that he would appoint only from that list. And he kept his word and he had the opportunity to appoint, to nominate three Supreme Court justices while he was in office. And I praise the Lord for that.

If for nothing else that he did in office, and there are other things that I like, I mean, again, I don't like his tweeting and some of the way he treats some people personally, but he had some great policy decisions while he was in office. And thank the Lord, he appointed Christian men and women in some of the cases to not just Supreme Court positions, but hundreds, over 300 judges that are federal judges while he was in office, he appointed, which will affect judicial decisions in our country for years to come. I'm not asking them to sway, I mean, I love that they're Christians and they have biblical values. I'm not asking them to go against the Constitution to do that. I just want judges sitting on a bench who don't try to legislate, but look at the Constitution and fairly make decisions based on what the Constitution says.

And so that's what's happened here potentially. And we think it is 100 percent accurate with the documents that were leaked that the Supreme Court has decided to send the issue back to the state. So abortion will now be decided on a state by state basis. And I'm excited about that because that's a major change in policy, and that's going to save the lives potentially of millions of unborn babies. Now, that doesn't mean that abortion is going to be outlawed across the country. And y'all don't need to fall for this argument about it's going to create a national health care crisis.

Look, I'm going to be mean here. You don't you don't want to get pregnant. Then you know what not to do, you know, and don't do it outside of marriage. Marriage sexual relationships were intended to be between a man and woman. Yes, only a man and woman. So you can go ahead and email me that and only in the case of marriage. So most of the abortions are taken place by people who are single mothers.

They're not married. And for whatever reason, they're wanting to abort their babies. Even if we say one or two lives, it's worth it. There's still going to be a lot of states, you know, particularly California, New York and others who will probably turn it into an industry instead of like the tourist industry. They'll be calling people in. I've even heard rumors that there were going to be liberal organizations that would pay to fly young women anywhere in the country to these areas to get abortion. But it will become more difficult, I believe, to get abortion. And hopefully, if it even saves, like I said, a few lives, it's certainly worth it as we take a stand on human life. I had just this morning a friend of mine send me a text where someone was perverting scripture and twisting scripture to where it's trying to say that God supported and endorsed abortion.

I don't want to tell you there's nothing in God's Word in any way, shape or form that even hints to that. That's just ignorant people pushing out information to other ignorant people. This is a huge victory for the life movement. And as I said, in a couple of days, we're going to do a full show on this with Grace Rickicheski.

Grace, some people, I think her handle on Instagram and Twitter is ProLifeBarbie. She's a junior in college and you're going to want to check out that show in just a couple of days where she's going to be live for us from the Supreme Court building and talking about this issue. But today, I'm really going to focus the show on some other issues and kind of a broad spectrum. This is an election year. A lot of states right now are having primaries. Ohio just had their election and North Carolina and other states have them coming up. And there's a lot of key races across the state, not only governors races, but a lot of key United States Senate races, hoping that conservatives and Christians can win some of those seats. I'm watching with great interest the race in Georgia is Herschel Walker, the former football player, is running for the United States Senate.

And then now because of this decision by the Supreme Court, statehouse and state Senate races and state judicial races are going to take on a greater interest than ever before because abortion will be decided on a state by state basis. Got to take a quick commercial break. We're going to come back. I'm going to tell you how you can engage locally through your church and as Christians in your community to make a difference in this election cycle. Stick around.

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Chris Hughes. I'm kind of doing a recap of some of the things that we have been talking about for the last month or so with different guests that have been on the show. I want you to be able to take the information that you have on the show, be able to get in God's Word, understand what the Bible says on specific issues, and then take that information to develop a biblical worldview. We all have a worldview. A worldview is just simply the lens through which we see the world. It's how we make our decisions.

It's how we interpret things. As Christians, we want that lens to be the Bible. We want to understand what the Bible says.

It addresses every issue really in the world. If you get into God's Word and read it and understand it and really study it, if you sit under a pastor who preaches from the Word of God—and by the way, if you have a pastor who never addresses issues like abortion, traditional family, homosexuality, transgenderism, what's going on in the school system, then you need to get out of that church. You need to be sitting under a pastor who's going to address the issues of the culture from a biblical perspective. They're not political issues. They're church issues.

They're sin issues. You might say, Chris, I get nervous when somebody starts talking about this stuff because I believe in separation of church and state, and I don't want to get politics involved in my church. Well, first, let's cover that issue of separation of church and state. There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is not in the United States Constitution. I travel all over the country speaking on college campuses, in churches, at big conferences and events, and everywhere I go, somebody says separation of church and state is in the Constitution.

Why are you talking about that? Well, hello, you might want to get you a copy of the Constitution. I'll tell you a great place to get one. It's from Patriot Mobile.

They're a great Christian company. You can go to their website and order a pocket Constitution. You can get it from other organizations as well, or you can email me and go to our site and sign up at citizensforamericafoundation.com, and we can get you a pocket Constitution. In less than 30 minutes, you can read the entire Constitution, and I want to tell you, I read it from cover to cover, and there's not a lick of anything in there that hints around about separation of church and state. The liberals have successfully brainwashed our country into thinking that, and limp-wristed pastors who won't get in the Word of God or the Constitution, and study what it really says. There's no such thing as separation of church and state.

It does not exist. It's not in the Constitution. The only references come from comments made by certain of the Founding Fathers, and it was never in a situation to keep the church out of government. It was always to keep government out of the church so we could have the free expression of religion. Where it really came from, the term comes from a letter that was sent to Thomas Jefferson from a group of Baptists. It was called the Danbury Baptist. The Danbury Baptist sent him a letter because they were concerned about government interfering with church rules and policy and doctrine in the church.

There's no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution, period. Secondly, you say, well, Chris, you talk about these issues, and we don't want to talk about politics in our church. Well, I want to tell you that politics, your church is full of politics.

Have you ever been to a deacons meeting, business meeting? Politics is in every part of life. By politics, do you mean talking about abortion, the murder of unborn babies? When you say you don't want to talk about politics in church, do you mean the destruction of the traditional family as described in God's Word? Or maybe do you mean you don't want to talk about homosexuality in church?

Is that what you mean? Or maybe, hey, Chris, we don't want to talk about critical race theory where people have to apologize for being born white. Is that what you mean when you say talking about politics in church? Or maybe you say, hey, we don't want to talk about what's going on in the schools right now. We don't want to talk about the indoctrination of our children. We just want to be able to go along, get along. We'll accept the transgender agenda. So when we send our little kids off to school in first grade, the first thing they're told is to choose their identity or be brainwashed and thinking they're born in the wrong body or something like that. Is that what you mean when you say politics? I want to tell you that's wrong. When I look at the Bible, those issues are not issues of politics.

No. All those issues are described in the Bible. They're talked about in the Bible. And you know what? They're issues of sin.

So when your pastor or those leaders in your church say they don't want those issues discussed, what, are you picking what you want? Is it like going, you know, when I was a kid, there was this cafeteria called Morrison's and there was another one called Piccadilly. I love going to Morrison's or Piccadilly because they had a long line of food. It's like a cafeteria. You could pick, they'd have 10 salads. You could pick the one you want and 15 or 20 vegetables. You pick what vegetable you want and all kinds of meats.

You pick what you want and then you got it. That's not how church is supposed to be. We are not a cafeteria Christianity. You can't pick and choose the parts of the Bible you want to accept and the parts of the Bible you don't want to accept. The Bible from Genesis to Revelation is the whole Word of God. It is the inspired scripture from the Holy Spirit. And listen to me, it's either all true or none of it's true and we need to preach the whole inspired Word of God.

And you can disagree all you want. Those issues are issues of sin and they're issues that should be addressed by pastors. If you're sitting under a pastor who preaches what's called expository sermons where he's going through the Word of God and not skipping things, then you're going to cover all of these issues that are in the Bible. There's a Christian pollster who you've heard me talk about on the show some.

His name is George Barna. George Barna interviews Christians and does surveys on all kinds of different things. And George Barna has found that of pastors who claim to be evangelical pastors, that less than 10% of pastors in the United States of America who profess to be evangelical pastors ever address any of those issues that I was just talking about. Issues like abortion or the traditional family or homosexuality or critical race theory or the indoctrination of our children to accept the transgender agenda. They never address them.

Why is that? Well, part of it is they're afraid of losing members. They want to be able to brag about how many members you have in your church and that's not biblical. I didn't say you have to have a mega church that has thousands of members. I've seen very small churches where their pastors and their members were on fire for Jesus and making a huge difference in their community. Some of those pastors don't want to do it because they want to get more tithes and offerings coming into their church so they can build these great palaces or country clubs for local believers instead of going out and reaching the lost for Jesus. And they're popular when they don't step on anybody's toes.

Hey, don't say something offensive. You won't offend anybody and you'll fill up your coffers with money and you'll fill up your pews with people. And some of the people, you know, there's a huge number of pastors in America today that don't even believe in the Word of God. They don't believe the whole Word of God. They don't believe it's the inspired Word of God. They don't believe that the Holy Spirit guided those men when they were writing those books in the Bible and so they don't believe it.

Listen, why are you even in the profession? Why are you, and listeners who are not pastors, why are you listening to pastors? Why do you profess to be a Christian if you don't believe that the Bible is true? And Barna's also found out that a huge number of people that profess to be Christians don't believe that the Bible is the true inspired Word of God. We have got to address these issues and they've been avoided. And while they've been avoided, you know what's happened? While pastors haven't addressed those issues, while Christians haven't educated themselves and taken a stand since 1973, nearly 63 million babies have been aborted. That's just in the United States, not including around the world. And did you know that our federal government, our federal tax dollars have been used to promote abortion all over the world and specifically in partnership with Planned Parenthood and through the United Nations? There's no telling how many hundreds of millions of babies have been aborted using our tax dollars around the world, but more than 63, nearly 63 million have been murdered through abortion in the United States since 1973 while we sit back arguing about we didn't want the church involved in the state or the politics involved in our church.

You know what else has happened during that time? We've seen the dismantling of the traditional family. That's why it's so important to have judges. A lot of us don't vote for judges. There's ballot drop-off.

We don't know who they are, so we don't vote for them because we don't bother to take the time to know what they stand for or what their positions are if they have a biblical worldview. And we've got to do that because it's so important because as these cases are challenged and they go before judges, they make all kinds of decisions. I can tell you an example that happened in North Carolina a few years ago and it's happened across the country is there was a constitutional amendment passed in North Carolina where voters overwhelmingly voted to rule that marriage was between a man and woman, period.

What happened? The liberals took that because they knew they had liberal judges and justices on the Supreme Court. So every state, by the way, has a Supreme Court.

They worked through the court system to get to the state Supreme Court. The state Supreme Court in North Carolina, and this happened in other states as well, said that a marriage is not a union between one man and one woman. That opened the floodgates for homosexual marriage. And you might agree with homosexual marriage, but I want to tell you it doesn't matter what you agree and it doesn't matter what society says. Marriage is not an institution of the government. Marriage is an institution created by God. And in the Bible, God defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman for life. That's what God intended. And God didn't intend us to run around and get divorced, and I'm going to step on some toes here. You know that there are over 50% of people sitting in the church pews around you that have been divorced?

Over 50%. It's a plague not just in America, but in the church as well. God didn't intend for that. God intended for you to make what's called a blood covenant between a man and a woman. Part of the reason that marriage is not as important to people anymore is because through society and indoctrination and encouraging of others, there's such a big push to have sex outside of marriage.

Having sex outside of marriage devalues marriage itself, and there's huge statistics that show that people that have sex outside of marriage are much more inclined to get divorced than those who wait until they're married to have sexual intercourse. Same thing with abortion. Do you know that one out of three people sitting in the pews around you at church have had an abortion? One out of three women?

That's what statistics say. So why is it when a pastor is looking at a congregation on Sunday morning, and a third of the women in his congregation have had an abortion, that he refuses to address that issue? Why is it that pastors don't address the issue of traditional families, and particularly a marriage and divorce, when over 50% of the people sitting in this congregation have had a divorce? I know I'm making a lot of people upset today, but we need to wake up and we need to get involved in God's Word and take a stand on what the Bible has said.

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This is Chris Hughes. I'm covering a lot of issues today, going to make a lot of people upset because I'm talking about things like marriage, divorce, traditional family. Why pastors and Christians do not engage in these issues and take a stand on the word of God when it comes to issues of the culture.

If you didn't catch it in the first segment, go back and get it when we're released on the podcast later today. We talk about separation of church and state. There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It's not in the United States Constitution. It's just a lie that has been propagated by the left. Because people are lazy and ignorant within the church and within the Christian community, we haven't bothered to listen to what the Bible says. Right before the commercial break, I was talking about a survey where George Barna says that less than 10% of pastors in America who profess to be evangelical Christians ever address issues in the culture like abortion and homosexuality and traditional family.

I'm going to take it a step further. Most of them are not talking about what's going on in our school system. There's something called common sexuality education curriculum in public schools across the country. It's an agenda that was pushed by the Biden administration.

President Trump threw it out. But President Biden brought it back in his first year in office, dedicated $130 million that year alone to common sexuality education. It's being integrated into all kinds of courses in our school system, just like critical race theory is. We've got schools all across the country where kids can't read or write. I was in Baltimore recently, and more than 50% of the kids graduating in Baltimore can't read or write. But they're sure being taught about how to put a condom on or about critical race theory and how the white man is stumbled all over them their entire life. They're not learning what they really need to survive in life, common academic and educational skills to be able to get a good job and to make a good paycheck down the line in their life. They're also being taught, even in kindergarten and first and second grade, of whether or not to decide whether or not they're transgender.

Listen, why are we doing this nonsense? Less than 0.4% of our population are transgender, but it's being built into every curriculum and everything we do across the country. It's a major issue on the news and everywhere else all the time. Facebook has over 150 choices of what your gender can be. That's nonsense, okay?

You can play all the games you want. In biology, they're always saying follow the science. They don't want to follow it when it comes to other things.

How about we follow the science in this? There are two sexes, period. You're either male or female. It's not about how you feel or what you think you were born to be in, period.

You're born either male or female. It's over at that point. We have desecrated what God has created, and we need to get our lives straight. And as a church, we need to say this is nonsense and quit listening to this garbage. I'm just sick of hearing it, and we've got to take a stand in the church today, and pastors need to address this.

I mentioned just a second ago critical race theory. Not only is it infiltrating the public school system, it's all over the churches. We've got woke pastors all over the country. I'm a Southern Baptist. There's a big war going on right now in the Southern Baptist Convention over critical race theory and these woke pastors and what's being taught in seminaries. Even though we're the largest Protestant denomination in the world, we make up 11% Southern Baptists of churches across the country. But we train two-thirds of the pastors across the world through our seminaries that we have. We have six seminaries that are fully supported by the Southern Baptist Convention.

There are other Baptist seminaries out there that are not controlled by the convention. But these seminaries are cranking out pastors and they're teaching critical race theory in some cases and all kinds of other stuff that really should not be taught. I mean, we could do months' worth of shows on critical race theory. I'm not going to get into all of it today. There are a lot of bad things about critical race theory, but I can tell you the worst thing about critical race theory is it seeks to divide what Jesus Christ died to unite.

That's end of story. Jesus died to unite us and we need to be united. Critical race theory just drives a wedge between us and creates more problems in our society and in our country and even in the church right now. There's a war going on for the word of God. There's a war against evil and we need to boldly proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ and do what we can to share the word of God around the world. So what are some things I want to kind of delve into, some things that we can do to hopefully change our culture, not just because it's an election year, some of these things we can do within the church. But other things we need to do as Christians and we need to take a stand on these other areas.

So I'm going to start with the first one. So pastors, get ready for me. I'm going to offend a lot of people here with some of the things that I'm going to say that we can do. First, pastors, I want to encourage you to preach the whole word of God. That's pretty basic.

That shouldn't be something that's earth-shattering. You'd think if a man spent his life, he felt like he had a calling from God and he bothered to go to seminary and spend that time to get educated, that he would preach the word of God. But more than 90% of pastors in the United States today do not address the whole word of God. I want you as a pastor to believe that the word of God is true and teach your people in the church that the word of God is true. And people listen, hey, if you've got a preacher who says that something in the Bible isn't true, you need to get up and walk out right then. Don't wait until the end of the service. Don't wait to move your letter.

Get up and get out from underneath that evil man right then and there. Because God's word is either all true or none of it is true. If any part of the Bible is not true, how can you trust the veracity of any other part of it?

If you don't believe that God created the heavens and the earth and it wasn't some stupid big bang, if you believe in evolution and coming through a monkey through years and years, which is never addressed in the Bible, and you think that part is not true, if you don't believe in the flood that's described in the Bible, if we can't trust those things, how can we trust the things that we want to trust? How can we trust that when we die, our spirits are going to go to one or two places, heaven or hell? How can we trust that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins? How can we trust that? How can we trust and believe that Jesus rose again from the grave the third day? How can we trust that Jesus ascended into heaven to sit on the right hand of God the Father? How can we trust that Jesus is coming again one day to rapture the church? How can we trust the Bible that says that Jesus will rule and reign from His throne in Jerusalem forever and forever and forever? How can we trust the good things if we think that some of the other things in the Bible are not true?

It just doesn't work like that, folks. It's either all true or none of it's true. I mean, we were talking about cafeteria Christianity a while ago. You can't pick and choose which parts are true and which parts are not.

It's a problem. So you need a pastor who's going to preach the Word of God. You need to sit under a pastor who is going to study the Word of God, believe the Word of God with his whole heart, soul, mind and body. He's going to seek the Holy Spirit to guide him in the issues that he's to address in the pulpit. You need to sit under a pastor who's not going to be afraid to address those issues.

I tell you a good litmus test. You know, just last week when this issue was released from the Supreme Court on the Dobbs case, on determining whether or not abortion is going to be returned back to the states where the Supreme Court is saying that abortion is not a constitutional right or the United States Constitution. Did your pastor address that at all Sunday, even if he was preaching about something else? Did he address it?

That gives you a good indication. If something major is happening in the culture and your pastor doesn't at least mention it from the pulpit, I'm not saying he had to change what he was preaching Sunday to preach on that. He may not have had time to get deep into the whole issue or understand everything. But if he's not at least mentioning something that's going on in your community, did he address the riots that were going across the country leading up to the election in 2020? Does your pastor tell you that you need to be registered to vote? Has your pastor ever talked about what's being taught in our school system and the attempt to indoctrinate our children as transgenders? I want to tell you, if you're sitting under a man who professed to be a man of God and he never addresses those issues, he's not preaching the whole word of God and probably doesn't have the courage to stand on the whole word of God. And I know I'm upsetting people.

I don't care. We need men and women who are professing to be Christians that have a backbone and a spine. And certainly when it comes to pastors, we need men of God who are sitting in the pulpits, standing in the pulpits, who are preaching the whole word of God, boldly proclaiming the word of God and helping their people understand the issues that are in culture today. It's important. And you need somebody who's got a backbone that's going to address these issues.

I mean, it's crazy when things were going on, allowing homosexual marriage just a few years ago, when that became a thing across the country. Did your pastor address those issues? If not, you need to ask, why not?

And you need to go ask him. Why not? If 63 million babies have been brutally murdered through abortion since 1973? I mean, at least some of the pastors out there at least give a token acknowledgement to it once a year. Every January, there's a Sunday where pastors across the country are asked to address the issue in January on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. That's why so many Christians don't know even what Roe v. Wade is, is their pastors don't even address it once a year. But I bet those pastors preach about time and, oh, yeah, I bet you they'll be asking for your money at least once a year.

And more often than that, in most cases, getting that money is important. But how about defending the lives of those unborn babies, pastors? I'm not saying that tithing is not right.

It's biblical. We need to tithe. You need to give a 10 percent of your money was the example given in the Bible and even more to that to missions and other areas. Your church needs money.

Don't twist what I'm saying. Your church needs money to operate, keep the building up and have the programs and the same pastors and missionaries and the plant churches around the world and hopefully be involved in the pro-life movement and other issues within your community. But what I'm saying is you can't pick and choose. Again, getting back to that cafeteria Christianity, you can't pick and choose which issues you want to address and which ones you don't want to address. Just like you address tithing every year, pastors, you need to be addressing the issues in our culture.

And abortion is a major, major issue. And your church needs to wake up. You know, a lot of Protestants. I'm a Protestant.

I'm a Southern Baptist. A lot of Protestants are very critical of Catholics on so many issues. But I want to tell you what, there's one issue that the Catholic Church has gotten right. That's for sure. And that's abortion.

That's life. They have taken a bold stand on life. I was at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. back in January. And I'm not saying that there were not some Protestants there.

There were. But the overwhelming majority of people taking a stand in Washington, D.C. on the issue of life were Catholics. And I'm thankful for our Catholic brothers and sisters who take that stand.

But I'm ashamed that Protestants, and particularly my Southern Baptist brothers and sisters, did not have a strong representation in Washington, D.C. for the March of Life, particularly in a year right after, just a month before, just a few weeks before that, the Supreme Court had heard the case, the Dobbs case. And we're trying to encourage them and pray for them to make the right decision, which I think they've done, to say that abortion is not a United States constitutional issue and to send that issue back to the states. Folks, we've got to get involved in these issues. We wouldn't have had this problem if we elected godly men and women to office in the first place. We wouldn't have had this problem if we would take a stand. Do you know that over 40 million people in the United States who profess to be evangelical Christians aren't even registered to vote? But we're cowing down to the transgenders that are 0.4 percent of our society. It is time to register to vote and get engaged.

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This is Chris Hughes and I'm happy to have you with us today. We're talking about issues in our culture and what the church can do to get involved. Before the break, I was talking about how pastors need to preach the whole word of God and stand on the word of God. Let me tell you something else we need to do, pastors. We need to hold voter registration drives in our church. So you need to take the initiative on that, pastor.

You need to do it. So find somebody in your church. You sure can find people to serve on every other committee in the world, and some of those committees don't matter at all. Find somebody in your church who will go to the local board of elections or voter registration office. They have different names in different parts of the country, but every county in the country has one. Send somebody from your church to go down and find out what's involved in getting registered to vote. In most states, if not all right now, you can register to vote online. So it might be as simple as having a couple of laptops or iPads set out in the vestibule or in the lobby of your church. And on a Sunday morning, you encourage people to go out and register to vote.

In some states, it's a paper registration. But it's very, very simple, and you can do it. So I want to encourage you right now, set a Sunday or two. Really, I do several throughout the year. Really, one a quarter. And at least once a year, preach on the importance of being an engaged Christian in society and our civic duty and civic responsibilities as Christians.

Come on. We need to be addressing these issues in church and then have a table set out in the lobby of the church. And after church, ask them to go out and register to vote.

It doesn't take five minutes. The first step of engaging the culture here is we've got to get our Christians registered to vote. As I mentioned, there are over 40 million people in the United States who profess to be evangelical Christians who are not even registered to vote. Black churches have done a great job over the year of getting their people engaged in the process. But white churches seem scared to death to ask people to vote. It's crazy, y'all.

It is not it's not illegal. You can ask people to register to vote. I'm not telling you which party, although if you're doing your job as a preacher, how about you do that on that Sunday? Compare and contrast the platforms of the two parties. Again, you don't have to tell them how to do anything.

Just show them. What does the Democrat Party say? The Republican Party say on the issue of life? What do they say on the issue of marriage? What do they say on the issues of homosexuality? I can send you graphics, if you like, that you can use in PowerPoint. Go to CitizensForAmericaFoundation.com.

Contact me and I can get you the information. It's pretty basic. And if you're preaching the word of God, say the Bible says this. This is what the Democrat Party says. This is what the Republican Party says. Period. You're not interjecting your opinion into it.

You're just stating facts. Let them make their own decision and encourage them to step out that door in the lobby and to register to vote. We need the Christians to register to vote so they can get involved. And you can do it in churches. Say, Christian, I don't Chris, I don't want to I don't want to violate separation of church and state.

Well, I've already told you if you didn't hear the show earlier, go back and get the podcast and listen to it. There's no such thing in the Constitution. There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the United States Constitution. Or you might say, well, Chris, I don't want to jeopardize my 501 C3 status.

That is just ignorance coming from you. First off, it shouldn't matter what the federal government says on an issue. If the Bible says it, you need to preach it. Get a spine and be the man of God and preach the word of God and not worry about some stupid 501 C3 status.

Secondly, if you bother to study the issue at all in five or 10 minutes, you can find out and don't trust me. You can find out completely that registering people to vote in your church is not a violation of your 501 C3 status. And then finally, I will tell you, there's not been one case in the history of the nation since the 501 C3 status creation, where a church has lost that status because of registering people to vote. Not one.

Not ever, ever, ever. In fact, there's a strong argument that the church does not even need to have the designation of a 501 C3. But I'll let you talk to your lawyers about that. Anyway, you're not endangering it by registering people to vote. We need to get our people in the churches registered to vote. So after we get them registered to vote, what do we do? We need to educate them on the issues. Educate them on the issues. And we can help you with that. If you go to CitizensForAmericaFoundation.com, we have monthly webinars where we have speakers who come on. It's absolutely free. You can attend.

You can interact with those speakers and learn about issues that are going on in our culture today. And you can find out more about that at CitizensForAmericaFoundation.com. I would also encourage you to go to something called iVoterGuide.com.

iVoterGuide.com. Boy, this is a great tool put out by the American Family Association. Anybody can pull it up on their phone, their laptop, their computer. It tells you who's running for office in your area. It tells you the issues that they stand for.

It tells you where your people can get registered to vote and where they can go and vote. There are a lot of great organizations that put out their nonpartisan 501c3 compliant voter guides. American Family Association does it.

The Faith and Freedom Coalition puts out a great voter guide. The Family Resource Center does, coming out of Washington, D.C., Tony Perkins and his group. And there are a lot of different other state groups that do as well. And what they do is they send surveys, questionnaires to candidates running for office. And they ask them a question. And they don't change the answer. And they make a form where it's basically a graph. And they put Chris Hughes, pro-life, pro-choice. And they click which one it is.

It's just that simple. They cover some of the top issues. It's completely compliant with the IRS under the 501c3 status. It's not making an endorsement of any candidate. It's just a way for your people and your church to see how these people stand on these issues that are important to them. And again, if you, as the pastor, have preached on these issues and taught these issues, they're going to understand what the Bible says. You don't have to tell them which one to vote for. But they can choose that issue by looking at the voter guide. And again, most people, unfortunately, in your church have never met the candidates for office.

They've never bothered to call them and ask them how they stand on these issues. And by getting these resources, again, some nationally, or Faith and Freedom Coalition puts out a great one. The American Family Association has a wonderful online program called iVoterGuide.com.

It's tremendous. And Family Resource Council and others put out these other great voter guides. If you have trouble and you want help finding where to get one, again, if you'll contact our team at citizensforamericafoundation.com, we can help you get voter guides. And what they are is bulletin inserts. So they're printed the size of a bulletin a few weeks before the election.

You just stick those in the bulletin and it helps people understand the issues. Another thing that you need to give to your churches and the people in your church and your Sunday school classes and Bible study groups is a sample ballot. You can get those online these days, or you can just call your local Supervisor of Elections or Board of Elections office. And what the sample ballot is, here's why that's helpful.

It tells you everybody that's running for office and every office that is up for election that year. It looks just like the ballot will look, so it helps people get familiar. You know, some people don't like to go to the voting booth because they don't want to stay there too long and they don't understand the issues.

They don't understand the candidates. Well, if you hand out a sample ballot to your congregation, which again is 100% legal if you do that going into the election. And right now, right now, all across the country, there are states that are having primary elections. And we have a big general election in November of this year where every member of Congress is up and about a third of the Senate is up. And we have judges up and we have every member of State House across the country. A lot of state senators, a lot of county commissioners, school boards, mayors, city councils, a lot of important positions. And in my opinion, by the way, there's no more important position this year than school board. We need to elect godly men and women of school board.

If just a few churches in your community would turn out and vote, you could control the school board, county commission, city council, and everything else right there in your community. But a sample ballot helps you because that way you know who's running, you're familiar with it, and you're allowed to take them by the way. You're allowed to take them to the voting booth so you can fill out your sample ballot before you get there and then just copy it over and write the same thing down near the voting booth. That way if there's a candidate running that you're not familiar with when you have the sample ballot, you'll know about it and have the opportunity to learn information about that candidate beforehand.

And you'll know what offices are running for and you'll know what offices are up for election that year. It's so important to have a sample ballot that you familiarized yourself with. Again, just takes a few minutes, but you want to become an educated voter. Finally, I want to encourage you to be an engaged voter. Be an engaged voter. You need to know who's running for office and you need to know what they're standing for, and I would encourage you to get involved and pick some campaign. You don't have to work in 20 campaigns, and I would encourage you to pick a local campaign.

I'm not saying that national campaigns or state campaigns are not important. They all need helpers and workers, but maybe your first foray into this, you help somebody that's running for school board this year. County commission or mayor or city council or something like that, and get involved. Every politician needs workers to put out yard signs, to make phone calls, to help write letters, or maybe help with scheduling.

There's any job in the world you can think of. They need help with doing it. Another way you can engage and also become educated is have something in your church that I call. You can call it what you want. I call it a God and country service. I pick one time a year where you invite people to come to your church that are running for office or in office. Don't let them speak. Just introduce them, and pastors preach a message of salvation to them because some of them never hear the word of God. Then have your people go to the fellowship hall and get to meet with them. You say they won't come.

Yes, they will. It's election year. If there's a warm body in the room, they're going to be there. Well, I've run out of time today, but I wanted to give you some ideas of things that you can do. First, preachers preach the word of God, get registered to vote, get educated, and then engage in the process. If we can do that, then we can go impact the culture for Jesus. Thank you for listening. The Christian Perspective with Chris Hughes. Learn more about impacting the culture for Jesus. Visit citizensforamericafoundation.com. This is the Truth Network.