America is no Longer Good

French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, after visiting America in 1831, said “I sought for the greatness of the United States in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, her fertile fields, and boundless forests, and it was not there. I sought for it in her rich mines, her vast world commerce, her public school system, and in her institutions of higher learning, and it was not there. I looked for it in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great!”

I read Democracy in America in college. De Tocqueville traveled all over America searching for what made us a great nation and he found the old time church with old time preachers, preaching hellfire and brimstone sermons was what made America a great nation. A good nation. A nation that took God and His word seriously.

The flame of righteousness has flickered out folks. America is in the sad condition that it’s in today because we have pulpits full of spineless, weak kneed preachers scared to death to say anything that might offend someone. Preachers who care only for the money left in the offering plate instead of the dying souls sitting in the pews.

Where are the Johnathan Edwards, the Billy Sunday’s, the John Wesleys, the Calvins, Knox’s and Spurgeon’s? Where are the old time hellfire preachers of yesterday? Men that stood on the truth of the Bible and cared more about the souls of men than their feelings.

We need those preachers right now and we need them desperately.

America is no longer good because the church has ceased to be a beacon of truth.

Father, send some men of God out into the streets of this wicked, wretched nation. Men who aren’t afraid to hurt feelings and offend with the truth of your word.

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