This is the Truth Network. This is the Truth Network. I'm in beautiful sunny Southern California standing next to a man of God who is a. Fellow Carolinian. He's a South Carolinian.
I'm a North Carolinian. His name is Chad Connolly. His ministry is Faith Wins. He's doing a lot of work. among pastures.
trying to get everyone out to vote and Why is that so important? You know, you're a man of God, you're working with pastors. You know, it's important to encourage pastors in teaching the word. It's important to encourage them to pour into them, right? To give them some encouragement, some hope, some energy.
But you're talking about voting. Chad, Connolly, why is that so important? You know, thanks, Stu. It's good to see you, brother, and honored to be back with you and working with Faith here and your team. You know, look, I did the political stuff at the highest levels, and I saw the political side as a Christian first.
I just really got disgusted at how the Christian vote is taken for granted, it's diminished, it's pushed aside and suppressed. Even my people on, quote, quote, my side think they don't need the church vote. And the truth is, it's the most reliable voting block on the conservative side. And if the church vote were treated like the liberals treat their base, well, I don't think we'd lose any elections. You know, there's like 80 million people sitting in church.
It's the most wrapped, captive audience in all of modern politics. And if we just got pastors to be Matthew 5, Salt and Light and get their people to vote biblical values, we'd fix most of this nonsense. And, you know, it's interesting because in Virginia, and I got my daughter Faith here, by the way, number one Truth Warrior intern, helped me out, a college student who's really passionate. About God and about making a difference in our culture. Chad, I want to speak to the younger generation, and she's going to have a question for you here in a second.
You know Record numbers turned out. And they voted in a guy named Youngin as governor of Virginia. And his term played out. But then they had an opportunity to... Elect another person who is friendly to the conservatives, who is pro-life, pro-family, pro-church that would keep religious freedom open.
And Christians, by and large, stayed home in Virginia, and they voted in a socialist governor who's pro-death. who's just anti-everything that the faith is about. I mean, what happened there, and why is there some things to be concerned about in this upcoming elections, midterms, and everything like that?
Well, 2021, we actually had one donor who said, Do you think your pattern with pastors and churches works in a blue state? I'm like, that's exactly where it works. We call it run up the score. It's going to places people kind of. Take for granted and just telling pastors it's not about a party or a person, it's about a principle and policies that most closely align with the biblical worldview.
And I call it run up the score because you know, elections are one on margins, too. It's a one, two, three, four points. And what if every church just registered everybody to vote and taught them to vote biblical values? That's it, it's not complicated. I don't need them to charge the beach at D-Day in the withering German machine gun fire.
Register everybody to vote, teach them to vote. Go vote for beach's sake.
So, we actually targeted 10 state house districts, not to endorse, not to tell them who to vote for, but to run up the score. And do you know that seven of the ten went the more conservative candidate? Do you know in 2021, we found 312 churches to do voter registration? We registered 77,000 Christians who had never voted before, and a guy named Yunkin, who we never endorsed, won by 63, what was it, 64,000. And the state took a conservative lean.
Now, this person has gone so far leftward, she's in the ditch on the far side of the road. She wants, I mean, effectively, these people. That are on the left, they want Christians kind of in jail. Like, they say that if you believe in marriage between a man and a woman, if you believe a child has a right not to be killed in the womb, that you're that's hate speech. That's what they're saying.
And they're actually locking people up in England for that kind of language, and they're actually, that's their agenda. And believers, I hope you're listening. And I hope you've noticed we haven't endorsed one candidate on this program. We haven't said go vote for one party. We're simply saying, vote your faith.
We're simply saying God has given you a stewardship, like the parable of the talents.
Well, is it a sin for Christians not to vote?
Well, is it a sin for you not to use your gift? In the body of Christ? Is it a sin for you not to use common sense? Is it a sin for you not to share the gospel?
Well, God's given you a privilege. And a responsibility as a citizen of America. We're not in a theocracy. We're not in a dictatorship. We're not in a Marxist culture.
We have an opportunity to elect officials. None of them are going to be perfect. They're all blemished from the very top to the bottom. They're challenges. But this believers, we could lose all of this if we don't just simply do.
Exercise our God-given privilege to vote. And Chad Connolly, you're on the front edge of this, but there is so much apathy right now among the troops. And I know my daughter's got a question related to the next generation. What do you say about that? What question do you have about this whole thing with voting in your generation?
I would maybe just ask how you're motivating the younger generation when some of them don't see any reason to vote or they think their vote should go one way or another. How would you motivate them to vote for more conservative leaders?
So, we actually have been dealing with this.
So, the last few years, we've targeted young pastors, youth pastors, and senior pastors who helped us. We got to the younger pastors.
So, this past year, we took 20 pastors, all under 35 years old, to Israel. Most of them had never been, and we had this conversation: How do you talk about and motivate younger pastors? I think this is an issue of biblical worldview. We watch churches, entire denominations are given up on scripture, right? We're all sinners, none is perfect, no, not one.
Jesus is the only perfect guy, and he's not running.
So, we try to teach them to go back to a biblical worldview of what do you really believe. Let's face it, most people, even in church, and you know this faith, they're not really connected to any kind of belief system. Francis Schaefer wrote. A book called The Christian Manifesto in 1971, and he said something. I just reread it, been teaching this in my Sunday school class.
He said, The threat to the next generation in Christendom in America is statism. And you got statism, what, what, what? And his whole point is, God's the only one who belongs on the throne in your life, God. And what happens with humanists is they don't need God, they think they have all the answers. Remember, we were 16 or 18, we had all the answers.
We didn't know what the questions were, we had all the answers. And so, when people like that don't want God, they put self on the throne. All sin begins in self. Me, me, me, me, me. When self figures out, hey, I don't know the answers.
They look the steak. And so that's what really is what we have to do to talk to the younger generation is don't just talk the Bible. Show them how it applies to their life and connect the dots. I think we got a lot of seminaries, a lot of pastors that really struggle connecting the dots. And yet when you read the Word of God, you realize it is timeless.
It connects to everything in your life. It is applicable to what you're doing. Look at Daniel. Look, there's no difference in what Daniel did. The bureaucrats of the day, the satraps and the priests of the day, they came up with a new law.
That would punish Daniel because they saw him praying. And oh, you can't bow to anybody else yet, the King Nebuchadnezzar. And hey, King, I know you like Daniel. He's a good guy, but he wouldn't bow to you. You know, he's in there praying to his God.
That's wrong. Guess where Daniel goes? He gets in big trouble, goes and lies down. We know how the story comes out. But the story about that is it's just another set of bureaucrats that come up with rules that affect our lives.
And yet, a lot of Christians can't even tell that story. And they don't even connect it to the dots of, oh, you Christians, you tweeted something that's offensive because you said that boys can't get pregnant, which is actually the truth.
So the ultimate deal here is truth's under attack. You and I can walk in that ballroom and say, that's about 100 foot wide. Your dad can say it's about 80. And those are just two opinions. Until we pull a tape measure out, now we have a standard by which we can measure.
Truth is under attack. You know, you can get asked to go to the local college. I want you to pray. And you know, they're going to probably say, we like you to pray. But hey, by the way, what are you going to pray in?
And if you say something wacky, like I'm going to pray in the waves or goat's breath or eagle's feathers or whatever, they're going to go, ooh, I'd like to know more about your faith. But if you say, I'm going to pray in the name of Jesus Christ, and all hell breaks loose because truth is under attack. And our founders were the first place on the planet. To say that truth matters, we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator. There's the whole thing about state versus God: there's something greater than the state, and that is God above, and He doesn't change.
That's how we do it. What do you think about that?
So, I completely agree that our truth is being attacked.
So, how would you exactly reach my generation with the truth when there's so much evil and corrupt propaganda out there trying to sway their beliefs and opinions? You gotta ask them questions. You gotta build relationships and ask them questions, get them thinking. You know, thinking's kind of a. Kind of a commodity now.
And so a lot of people don't really believe what they believe and why.
So if I'm talking to a younger person and we get into an argument about whatever, I'm just going to ask a question.
So if it's about, you know, life, well, when does life begin? Um well Well, have you seen the 3D or a 4D picture of that baby in the womb?
So is that life? It's kicking around and grabbing onto things and moving and making expressions? Is that not alive? And so we can go back and just make common sense discussions with and ask questions. Who wrote the book Tactics when he talks about using the Clumbo method of ask questions?
Ask questions. That's right, it's Klisdor. I spoke after him at Summit one time, and I just thought that's fascinating.
So that's what I've tried to teach is just ask questions and get them thinking. Make them think. Because a lot of times people make emotional decisions. They're just right here, right there in front of their face. And it's emotional.
It feels good. And it's not threatening. And making them think kind of makes them go, wait a minute, the pause is important. Parent, youth pastor, when the kid comes in and brings up something that's absolutely anti-God, antithetical to the faith, don't blast them. Ask them a question.
Ask them the difference between, for example, Islam. And I got plenty of Muslim friends. Islam's goal is to force you to pray to one entity, and if you don't, you're dead. I mean, you're, you know, but Christianity is different. Christianity says, yes, I'm going to pray in Jesus' name.
but I'm going to fight for the freedom for you. To pray to Allah or to pray to the Hindu, two gazillion deities.
So the founders said: hey, come one, come all. And the the conservative movement Is trying to preserve those rights of everybody. It's the most tolerant, actually, movement. But the left says: well, if you don't let men and girls' bathrooms. And if you don't, you know, if you don't allow women to kill.
This baby that has an authentic heartbeat, has a unique DNA that's creating the image of God. Then you're fomenting hate. Right. And so they have, they are. Censoring, they are intolerant, and as a Christian voter, How do your values influence your vote?
And if you don't vote, fine. But don't complain when they want to put your pastor in jail.
Well, what's going on here? Why are they coming in and putting in cuffs? Because he just preached a sermon in hate speech. They've done that to pastors in Canada and other places in the world. They're doing it in here, and it could be coming to America.
We're not trying to scare people, but Chad, the bottom line, getting out of here, your passion, your challenges, and then the website for your ministry. Yeah, listen, this is why we go at pastors. Our entire effort is: let's go at pastors and influence pastors because they do need to be surrounded by other people that empower them and make them feel like, okay, I'm not the only one by myself. Faithwins.org, F-A-I-T-H-W-I-N-S, faithwins.org. A name the Lord gave me one night driving.
What are we going to call this thing? Faithwins.org. If you go there, you can sign up. You'll find out about our meetings. We'll be all over the country.
Two things: not endorsing a person or a party, but endorsing and pushing the policies and principles that line up with biblical worldview. Thanks for having me, bro. Yes, sir.
Well, people are smart enough if they're informed by God and the Word of God and they're walking with the Lord to know who to vote for. We don't even We need to tell them who to vote for. And it's cool, your ministry is called Faith Wins. Because this girl's faith, and her mom and I, God gave us that name for her, and she's really encouraged us in our faith.
So, thank you, Faith, for jumping in here and Chad Connolly. God bless you guys. Faith wins. Love you, bro. Website again, fakewins.org.
True to the lie. Yeah.
