5/30/2023 0 Comments Calvary chapel chino hills(Samson is among many biblical characters to which Trump has been compared by his religious-right supporters.) “Samson was willing to do what God’s people weren’t-confront the evil in their culture,” McCoy said. In his conversations with Hibbs and McCoy, Kirk compared Trump to the biblical character Samson, who led an immoral life but was used by God to destroy his enemies. Intervention, saying, “it seems as if God came down and intervened at Portrayed President Donald Trump’s election as the result of divine Treasure” whose knowledge is “a gift given to you by God.” Kirk returned In December, Hibbs gushed over Kirk, calling him a “national Pastors who aren’t willing to be as aggressively involved in politics between light andĭarkness. Claiming that American Christianity is in “crisis,” he decried Or one of the dominionists he works with. Leader of a secular political organization and more like Lane himself In his conversations with Hibbs and McCoy, Kirk sounded less like the Hibbs warned potential hecklers that it was a federal offense to disrupt a religious gathering, adding that there were local and federal officers in attendance. On Wednesday night at Hibbs’s church, Kirk was in conversation with another leader in the Calvary Chapel network, pastor-politician Rob McCoy, who Lane describes as the inspiration for his effort to recruit 1,000 evangelical pastors to run for political office. And before the Wednesday evening event, Kirk recorded a segment for Hibbs’s “Real Life Talk” podcast, which was essentially a condensed version of the longer evening session. On the morning of Kirk’s appearance last Wednesday, Hibbs promoted the evening event via Facebook video as an “unscheduled interruption by the Lord” that would not only include Kirk but also congressional and judicial candidates. Hibbs is proudly defiant of restrictions on electoral politicking by churches and other nonprofits he endorses candidates from the pulpit and unabashedly tells congregants that the church will instruct them how to vote. In December and again last week, Kirk appeared on stage at Hibbs’s church. Hibbs leads Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Church, a southern California megachurch, and he is helping lead a long-term push to mobilize conservative evangelical churchgoers to topple Democratic political dominance in the Golden State. Among the other speakers were California pastors Jack Hibbs, Rob McCoy, and Ché Ahn. Kirk was listed as a speaker at Rediscovering God in America, a Pastors and Pews event in January organized by Lane’s California Renewal Project Lane’s events are designed to get pastors more actively engaged in turning their congregants into conservative voters. Right Wing Watch reported last week that Kirk had endorsed California congressional candidate Sean Feucht, a worship leader at Bethel megachurch and a favorite of dominionist “apostles” and “prophets.” It turns out that endorsement was the tip of the iceberg of Kirk’s partnership with a group of California-based pastors connected to Christian nationalist political operative David Lane. The rhetoric of the seven mountains has been adopted across the religious right even by leaders who may not share NAR’s theology, but find the concept a convenient lingua franca for encouraging conservative evangelicals to get more involved in politics. Seven mountains dominionism is associated with the New Apostolic Reformation, a network of Pentecostal and charismatic leaders who believe God has given modern-day apostles and prophets the power to work miracles, transform the church and whole nations, establish God’s kingdom on earth, and speed the return of Jesus Christ. Government, media, education, business, arts and entertainment, church Proponents argue that God wants a certain kind of Christian to be inĬharge of all the “mountains” or spheres of cultural influence: Viewers may have missed the quick reference to seven mountainsĭominionism-sometimes called the seven mountains mandate-whose Seven mountains of cultural influence.” Many CPAC attendees and online Thursday morning, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk declaredĮnthusiastically, “Finally we have a president that understands the In his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference Seven mountains dominionism is associated with the New Apostolic Reformation. TPUSA’s Charlie Kirk (Image from appearance on Real Life with Jack Hibbs)
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