In preparation for his upcoming “The Response” prayer rally, Gov. Bobby Jindal hosted a prayer meeting at the Louisiana governor’s mansion last month with more than 70 local and national pastors. The participants included anti-gay activists like Jim Garlow and E.W. Jackson, as well secretive and influential Religious Right activist David Lane, whom Jindal can been seen praying with around the :30 mark in this piece produced by local reporter Rick Rowe:
Lane is actually the one orchestrating Jindal’s entire prayer event, which is just part of his overarching agenda to ensure that America is run by Christians who share his extremist views. As such, Lane is also organizing an effort to recruit 1,000 pastors for run for political office.
Not surprisingly, Lane sees an opportunity to combine these efforts, which he is doing by calling upon pastors to attend Jindal’s prayer rally and participate in the pastors’ briefing on running for office the day before:
A month ago, I appealed for pastors to commit to pray for 30-45 days, in order to discern if the Lord is calling them to run for city council, county commissioner, school board, mayor or congress in 2016. By simple arithmetic, if the Lord called 1,000 pastors to run in 2016 and if they averaged 300 volunteers per campaign, then that would mean 300,000 ground-level evangelicals working within their local precincts. When my own pastor, Rob McCoy, ran for office this fall, he saw 625 volunteers join in his campaign. A similar grassroots evangelical movement—from coast-to-coast—would change America for good.
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If we advance spiritual men and women into the public square-people who know wisdom, then we improve America’s chances for remaining free. We trust in the Lord and we marshal the army … Godly wisdom has inestimable superiority to military might and gold. A key to sustaining freedom is the launching of spiritual men and women from behind the pulpit and four walls of the church … right on into City Hall.
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If you feel called, then we hope to see you in Baton Rouge on Jan. 23, 2015. The Friday Pastors’ Briefing will be called “Issachar: Training The Men and Women of Issachar.”
