"You are here for a purpose. You are here for a reason. I try to pray that God shows me what it is like to think like an atheist but then I think, there would be no purpose, no sense of destiny. Everything would be randomness." - Dr. Michael Brown
Here we see the corruption of the Purpose Driven Life from Rick Warren. Generations of false teachers have weaved this nonsense into sermons for the past two decades. First of all, the assertion that the unsaved live without purpose is flawed and arrogant. Many live their lives in awe inspiring, albeit carnal purpose. What they lack is any purpose or hope beyond this life, which is truly sad. The vehicle to address this, given to us by God, is the gospel. Not changing laws or judges. This was an important point to highlight because too many in the apostate church system today have this muddled confusion. As if their ordinary existence is somehow beneath God. The true reality is that the vast majority of us will live very normal, ordinary lives. It is how we live them that matters to God and for eternity. We always hear about how the praying grandmother led someone to Christ over their lifetime. Was her life meaningless and without purpose just because she was a grandmother? The bottom line here is we do not come to Christ to discover our purpose. We do not come to Christ so we can have a sense of destiny. We come to Christ because we are sinners in need of being saved.
"1John 2 says don't love the world neither the things in the world for the things in the world, such as the pride of life are of the world." - Dr. Michael Brown
The disconnect Dr. Brown cannot see is that his solutions for winning the culture wars he insists Christians must engage in, are all of this world. They are all entirely carnal. Dr. Brown creates this extra biblical example of how a tide can carry you and that the evil of the world is a tide and thus we have to consciously strain against it or be carried away. This might be able to be applied to our own life but what the NAR advocates for is applying our solutions to the unsaved masses, whether they want it or not. This busybody Christianity extends their bony finger of accusation at people and screams sinner. It draws not one single person to Jesus Christ. In this radio show the first question he asks from callers is if their church prepares them for the culture wars or if they consider these things too "hot." This is another fundamental disconnect and strawman argument from the NAR. There are still some pastors who correctly realize that the pulpit is for the gospel, not carnal politics. It has nothing to do with it being to "hot." This is a common argument from dominionists. I hear it from pastors like Shane Idleman all the time. That if people disagree with his belief of preaching politics, then they must be too scared to do so. It never even occurs to these idolators that they might in fact be wrong. Dr. Brown actually says in this broadcast that we are not in a game, we are in a war. This is textbook dominionism. The theological problem of course is the enemy in this NAR declared war become the unsaved. It becomes people who vote Democratic. In most cases, the very people who need to hear the gospel the most, are now our enemies in a war. This hyperbole is what leads many churched people today to be so arrogant and downright mean to the lost. They have been taught that they are the enemy. The reality beloved is we are in a war for the souls of men and the enemy is the devil, not who we have determined to be leftist, woke, or democratic.
I will close with a memory Dr. Brown shares about someone asking Franklin Graham why he talked about political and cultural issues more than his father did and he said because when his father went to school, they read the bible in public school. So, in Graham's estimation, there was more reverence for scripture in society. What utter nonsense on many different levels. First of all, forcing children to recite prayers they do not understand is not more "reverent." Secondly, the level of sin and depravity has not changed. What has changed is the media saturation through which we can view our sin. Sure, it may be more severe now, but the overall metrics have not really changed all that much. Thirdly, the reason why more people are falling away today is directly the fault of the apostate church system, not the world. When you spend your spiritual capital on screaming sinner while changing laws to force people to adhere to your beliefs, is it any wonder why so many would become hostile to those beliefs? This is the Crusades all over again only with legislative swords instead of real ones. Franklin Graham talks politics because he is an NAR political shill disguised as a Christian, earning a million dollars per year for running two charities. He is the one who took Mormonism off the Billy Graham Association list of cults in the run up to the 2012 election because Mitt Romney was a Mormon and Graham always demands everyone vote Republican.
Brown closes by saying things have shifted now and we need to be ready to give an answer. This is an utter butchering of the key verses today, which includes relevant context. Providing an answer does not mean changing the laws to form a theocratic government. Suffering for righteousness' sake means suffering within the unrighteousness of the world and shining the light of Christ into it. Through this people are saved out from it. Dr. Brown and the NAR however do not wish to save anyone out of the culture - they seek to change the culture itself. In doing so they chase a false sense of revival based upon a false history where they believe America was once righteous. Does it say in your culture to honor Christ as Lord as holy? No! It says in your hearts! When the NAR dominionists such as Brown speak about culture wars their desire is to change the culture to honor the righteousness of Christ, but it does not work that way. We are not a vehicle of righteousness beloved - only God is. Only through the preaching of the gospel. We are to be prepared to give an answer for our own faith! Not changing theirs! God works the supernatural change in a sinner's heart. Yet, even in this demand to be prepared to give our own reason God is careful to make sure that we understand this is to be done with gentleness and respect. There is zero gentleness and respect with how the NAR carries out their dominionism. According to the key verses the slander we can expect is based upon our good behavior in Christ in our own lives, not forcing the unsaved to behave better in theirs. That means we do not steal at work. It means we do not curse when someone cuts us off on the highway. It means we are kind, humble, and turn the other cheek. It means we do not seek vengeance. It means we behave differently not that we demand they do. I tell this story a lot, how I had two people working for me that couldn't stand each other. One was a Christian sister who wore Christ on her sleeve. The other an angry unbeliever who constantly tried to get her Christian peer in trouble with Human Resources. Every time, the Christian woman just treated her with love. Every time. After a year of this, including trying to get the Christian peer fired, the other woman's life went seriously sideways. Who did she turn to? Her Christian peer who had only showed her love. The other woman became saved and serves God to this day.
Dr. Brown can declare all the holy wars he wants to, but he will remain wrong. At the end of the day, he will advocate for Christians to vote for people just as evil as the ones on the other side. Rabid dominionists like Greg Locke and Mario Murillo have preached that anyone who votes Democratic is going to hell. That they are beyond redemption. I would imagine Dr. Brown would not agree with those sentiments while refusing to call Locke and Murillo false teachers, but the larger point is they are enabled by Dr. Brown. It is easy to point to the raving lunatics, but someone is paving the road for them and one of those people is Dr. Michael Brown. He does so by insisting that we are in a war against the very people that need us to represent Christ to them, not change their school board members. They need the church to behave as God intended again. The Crusades did not work thousands of years ago, and they will not work now. Attempts to legislate morality and Christianity will have as much success as the Temperance movement did. I understand that it is easier to just tell people they are wrong rather than show them what right is in our own lives. The lost are not our enemies beloved. Their culture is at odds with our faith because they do not know God. That dilemma will never be solved in a courtroom or the halls of Congress but only through the gospel and prayer. Dr. Brown should know better.
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