Call 2 Fall

FRC's Call2Fall Hopes to Prevent God From Destroying America Due To Our "Sexual Immorality and Perversion"

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on July 2, 2010 - 9:37am

It really is remarkable how the Family Research Council is slowly transitioning from a political group with a religious agenda to a religious group with a political agenda.

Case in point: this weekend's second annual Call2Fall event through which FRC seeks to lead churches across the nation on a "journey back to God, to His forgiveness and favor, [which] begins on our knees in humility and repentant prayer."

As we noted before, FRC is even providing participants and leaders with suggested sermons and prayer targets - targets that just happen to coincide with FRC's right-wing political agenda, warning that the Obama administration's embrace of the LBGT community's "immoral social agenda" is a "threat to us all" because it will cause God to unleash his wrath upon our nation:

Immoral Social Agenda -- June was declared by our President to be "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Equality Month." At a White House party for homosexual activists, the President recounted his pro-homosexual record and promised a host of new benefits, rights and special protections for the LGBT community. But this privileged new class, whose members are identified by their bizarre sexual practices, presents many threats to society: threats to public health, public morals, the wellbeing of children, threats to religious liberty and, indeed, to themselves. Our Creator condemns their practices as "abominable" and morally reprehensible (see Lev 18:30). Historically, many American states have had laws against homosexual behavior, yet now it is celebrated in the White House. Scripture warns that those who practice and those who approve these things are objects of God's wrath (Rom 1:32). Scripture warns that these practices will cause the very land to "vomit out its inhabitants" (Lev 18:25). Thus, public approval is a threat to us all.

The President's commitment to implement the LGBT agenda (e.g., the so-called "Hate Crimes" law, the proposals to repeal both the military's policy of prohibiting homosexuals from serving and the "Defense of Marriage Act," the pro-homosexual "Employment Non-Discrimination Act," and other measures) has far-reaching implications for America. God reminds us in the New Testament that "by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly" (2 Pet 2:6); and "In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire " (Jude 7).

FRC also warns that Christians need to fall on their knees and repent the nation's slide into "economic tyranny" and for our "corporate guilt" including "America's recent treatment of Israel, widespread abortion, the subjection of our children to immoral 'sex education,' pornography, promiscuity, divorce, same-sex 'marriage,' violent entertainment, and more" ... and has produced a handy "Catalogue of Sins" [PDF] for which individuals, families, churches, and state should repent.

And thus, the need for nationwide prayer and repentence:

Pray that God will use Call2Fall to birth a new spirit of prayer and repentance in churches across America. May He help pastors to lead their churches in repentant prayer! May a new season of prayer and solemn assembly that move God's heart begin across our nation! May God send revival to His Church and another Great Awakening to America! May our children inherit a land where Christ is honored as Savior and Lord. May America yet become a "city on a hill" to the nations.

I'd like to point out that the man running the show over at FRC and leading this Call2Fall effort, Tony Perkins, was a witness for the Republicans in Elena Kagan's confirmation hearing just yesterday.

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Another Holiday, Another Religious Right Prayer Rally

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on May 7, 2010 - 1:06pm

Do you think we'll be able to make it through any holiday without some Religious Right group scheduling a call for repentance prayer event to coincide with it?

We just had the May Day prayer rally at the Lincoln Memorial and now the Family Research Council is scheduling its own Call 2 Fall effort for July 4:

On this day after the National Day of Prayer, I am excited to announce the relaunch of Call2Fall, our church-based call to humility, prayer, and repentance found in 2 Chronicles 7:14.

We are asking pastors and believers all across America to spend time on our knees for our nation on Sunday July, 4, 2010. Visit www.Call2Fall.com and click on "I'm in" to participate and ask your pastor to sign up your church as well.

The very day we celebrate our "Independence," we need to re-declare our "Dependence" upon God in humble and repentant prayer. At minimum, we hope that those gathered in their places of worship will at least spend a few minutes on their knees in prayer on July 4. You can do much more, and the website will be continually updated with resources.

Again, visit www.Call2Fall.com and click on "I'm in" and encourage your friends to do the same. We are also on Facebook and Twitter, so spread the word.

Can you imagine what God would do if millions of Christians all across our land would actually answer the Call2Fall and mean it?

Interestingly, not only FRC organizing the events, but the political organization is actually providing lists of prayer targets, sample prayers, and lists of sins as well as complete sample sermons for churches and pastors to use [PDF]:

God loves the nations. He desires that nations seek and find Him.

He has “made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him…” (Acts17:26-27, ESV).

He so loves the nations that He has determined to bless the nation whose God is the LORD (Psalm 33:12, ESV). However, let any nation choose to rebel against His love and will, and surely the painful consequences will come.

America is at a crossroads. The church must intercede for America unlike any period in our history. The consequences of failing to intercede now are unthinkable.

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FRC's Lou Engle-Less "Call"

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on May 19, 2009 - 4:42pm

It seems that all the time that Tony Perkins has spent hanging out with Lou Engle, founder of "The Call," has given him a brilliant new idea: he should do the exact same thing!

I mentioned Perkins' new Call 2 Fall effort yesterday, but didn't really know much about what it was supposed to do. But today he and his partners - including Richard Land, Wellington Boone, and Harry Jackson - held a conference call to explain it:

Churches and individuals are invited to answer the Call 2 Fall on Sunday, July 5. The initiative is aimed at praying for the healing of America and declaring dependence on God immediately after celebrating the nation's independence from Great Britain.

"It's incumbent upon the church to assume the responsibility for where the nation is and leading us forward, not from a political standpoint but from a spiritual standpoint," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said. "If the spiritual things are in order, the political things seem to be a lot easier to solve."

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Family Research Council has set a goal of seeing 8 million Christians in 40,000 churches participate in Call 2 Fall, and church leaders are encouraged to offer their buildings as host sites July 5. FRC will publish an online directory of those churches so that people will know where they can participate.

Observances can take several forms, Perkins said, from a three- to five-minute period during a worship service when people would get on their knees and pray to a full day of praying and expressing dependence on God. Those who commit to participate will receive periodic e-mails linking to resources such as free devotionals, inspirational videos, sermon outlines, bulletin inserts and prayer suggestions.

"From homosexual 'marriage' to proposed curbs on religious speech, there are serious matters for the church to address humbly and with great earnestness before God," Perkins said.

While Perkins insisted that this was not a political effort, Harry Jackson saw it a bit differently, suggesting that it might be the beginning of a new "civil rights movement" aimed at fighting the oppression of Christians:

"What we need is something like the civil rights movement of the last century that brought liberty and freedom to African Americans as a discriminated people in the nation," Jackson said. "We need to recognize that if we do not ... aggressively seek God in these spiritual things, the Christian community is going to be an oppressed people, discriminated against and put down by this culture that God has ordained that we turn around."

Land, Boone, and Perkins all explained that this was an effort to get the nation to humble itself before God and create a nationwide spiritual awakening ... which is pretty much what Engle's own "The Call" has been trying to do for years.

But apparently Engle's efforts just weren't cutting it and so Perkins and company decided to start doing their own.