The Making of a Great America Where the Church and the Founding Fathers Fell Short

This is an excerpt from the Preface:

I didn’t vote for Mitt Romney. I just left the presidential ballot blank. I felt that the Republican Party had distanced itself too far from its Christian support, now labeled the “Religious Right.” I felt that the Republican Party had become the party of economics and all things anti-Democrat.   

That brings me to the last election. I felt trapped as many of you may have. I felt forced more than ever before, to choose between “The lesser of two evils.” For the first time, I believed that I could not merely leave the ballot blank and let things sort themselves out. For the first time, like Barbara Bush said before she died, I didn’t know if I could consider myself a Republican any longer because of the party’s nominee.

This book is not a book primarily about President Trump, though I do not hesitate to address him. This book is not written for Christians who merely voted to elect Donald Trump as our 45th President. I was just as torn as many others on this issue as I have always voted with a view toward Supreme Court justices, but in this case, I felt that the end did not justify the means.

I voted for Hillary Clinton, but this book was not written to exalt my choice to vote for Clinton, over someone who voted for Donald Trump. Before 2016, I could have never imagined myself voting for Hillary Clinton. When I voted for her, I couldn’t say, definitively, that she was the better choice.

This book will speak to what I believe is a blind spot for many Christians and Christian leaders who have chosen to look past the character and morals of our president while, wrongly, I believe, anointing him as chosen and ordained by God.

I believe this is so important because embracing President Trump as “chosen by God” sets up followers in the body of Christ to think that if God chose Donald Trump, that perhaps God wants to keep him in office for a second term. It serves up the erroneous notion that we don’t have, in all of America, another Republican candidate, who could run and win in 2020. A candidate with the character and morals that match our Christian views and is befitting of the office of the President of the United States. I believe the label chosen by God, could lull the Church into the position of not picking another leader who more consistently represents its values, before the field of candidates is narrowed to just two choices, “R” and “D.”