Preach the Word and Don’t Get Played
by Steve Bateman, TGC:
Review: ‘Letter to the American Church’ by Eric Metaxas:
Eric Metaxas has written a provocative book for a large audience. In Letter to the American Church, he assumes a prophetic role—the American church, he warns, is committing the same mistakes in the 2020s as the German church did in the 1930s. If we continue course, similar catastrophic consequences await. By choosing silence, German pastors facilitated the rise of Nazism—and the innocent blood of millions is on their hands. The current complicity of the American church, especially its pastors, leads to similar red-handed guilt (45–46). As a best-selling Christian author and host of a nationally syndicated radio program, Metaxas has cultivated a wide influence and this book will be well received by his many fans.
Letter urges Christians to fight against Marxist ideology, abortion, same-sex marriage, transgenderism, critical race theory, Black Lives Matter, and government policies that threaten religious liberty. These are indeed credible threats to the church in America. Metaxas wants to motivate pastors to raise their voices and lead their members to political activism (100).
Despite elements of truth, I offer four cautions to Christians, especially pastors, who will encounter the arguments in this book.
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