TOLEDO– After launching an “Evangelicals for Trump”coalition from El Rey Jesus Church in Miami, President Donald Trump visited the Buckeye State on Thursday to kick off his first rally of 2020. The two visits come after a Christianity Today (CT) editorial called for the President’s removal from office. Despite the article, one Mansfield Pastor believes evangelical support for the President is stronger than ever.
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After the President’s Toledo rally, Reverend El Akuchie of the Godsfield House of Prayer stated he believes President Trump remains popular among Ohio evangelicals and could be the most conservative President in a century.
“President Trump has done more for pro life and religious freedom causes than any President in my lifetime. I believe that God has raised him up to restore America back to her divine purpose. The case could be made with all of his accomplishments that he is the most conservative President we have had in a century.”
During President Trump’s tenure, he has transformed the federal judiciary with new judicial appointments adhering to a strict interpretation of the law. The President has reduced federal taxpayer dollars going to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood both domestically and internationally. The President has also defended religious freedom, including ending the enforcement of the Johnson Amendment. In addition, President Trump moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and has promoted Israel’s sovereignty.
Despite these successes and an economy with the lowest unemployment rate in fifty years, including for minorities, the Chief Editor Mark Galli for CT says he thinks the President should be removed from office for violating the Constitution for his negotiations with Ukraine. His editorial did not cite which part of the Constitution was violated nor did it mention that the President is required by law to investigate corruption before giving foreign aid.
According to Reverend Akuchie, “Never-Trumper” evangelicals in this situation are at fault for placing style over substance.
“Their (Never-Trumpers) personal differences regarding the President’s personality cloud their judgement over his Biblical-based policies. To their discredit, these so-called evangelicals become like blind guides, focusing on small things while ignoring larger things. As Jesus said, ‘they strain a gnat and swallow a camel.’ When Hollywood celebrities and media elites praise your opposition to the President, something must be wrong.”
Reverend El Akuchie
Godsfield House of Prayer
“Their personal differences regarding the President’s personality cloud their judgement over his Biblical-based policies. To their discredit, these so-called evangelicals become like blind guides, focusing on small things while ignoring larger things. As Jesus said, ‘they strain a gnat and swallow a camel.’ When Hollywood celebrities and media elites praise your opposition to the President, something must be wrong.”
In response to Galli’s Christianity Today’s editorial, one hundred-seventy evangelical thought leaders sent a letter to CT expressing their dissatisfaction of both the magazine’s choice to run the editorial, and the author’s past criticism it has leveled at Trump evangelical supporters.
Shortly after the letter was sent, CT announced that Galli would be leaving his post.
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“Evangelicals have never had access to the White House like they do now when President Donald Trump came along,” says Reverend Akuchie. “The blessings that have come from his bully pulpit and his power of the pen are countless.”
The pastor warns that for the upcoming election, Christians should be careful about where they get their news from. He also believes the President’s Christian detractors should first take the plank out of their own eye, so that they will see clearly to remove the speck from their brothers’ eyes.
View the video link below of President Donald Trump’s speech in Toldeo, Ohio on January 9th 2020.
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