To the American Pastor,
As our nation faces an impasse — millions of Americans have set their gaze on the pulpits for guidance, direction, and wisdom. They look to you, their spiritual leaders, for counsel.
This letter serves not as a condemnation - but as a reminder of your responsibility as a minister and the consequences of a pastor who does not fulfill his/her current responsibility (Jeremiah 23:1–3).
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. — Acts 20:28
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. — 2 Timothy 4:2
Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. — 1 Peter 5:2–3
I love the Church. I love the office of Pastor. But, over the last three years — I have witnessed mediocrity, false doctrines, and cultural pandering infect the pews, pulpits, and pious hearts of our churches.
As pastors, we are a part of the most important moments of a person’s life. When a child is born, we dedicate them. When an adolescent accepts Jesus into their heart, we baptize them. When a man and woman fall in love, we marry them. When a member of the congregation passes, we bury them.
Scripture instructs us to Shepard our flock with great care, with great tenacity, and with great selflessness (1 Peter 5:2–4).
Followers of Jesus find themselves confronted with great evil. Sexual deviancy and gender confusion have plagued our children and adolescents. Millions of our unborn are being carried to the slaughterhouse — women scarred, traumatized, and utterly alone. Crime, homelessness, and drug addiction are modern-day epidemics across the state of California. Your response (or lack thereof) has been breathtaking and disheartening.
Instead of speaking up for the unborn, the destitute, and the fearful (Proverbs 31:8–9), we stand behind our grandiose pulpits and preach false hope and a watered-down Gospel.
Instead of coming alongside our congregants who are suffering and confused by the Spirit of this Age (Galatians 6:2), we ignore the silent cries under the guise of being “apolitical.”
We sit idly by, light our candles, and sing our songs while government, the institution created to punish evil and reward good by God, is on a crusade against righteousness, morality, and human decency (1 Peter 2:14).
When the government closed the doors of the Church, we were compliant.
When the White House deregulated the abortion pill, leading to millions of deaths, some in our very own congregation, we were silent.
When the California legislature allowed courts to take custody of children because their parents didn’t want them to change genders, we were ignorant.
When families got pushed into poverty, addiction, and helplessness — we were soundless.
We are the priests in the Parable of the Good Samaritan, who see a man beaten and left for dead by robbers. We see the man, and we pass on the other side (Luke 10:30–31).
We have wandered away from the Truth (James 5:19–20). We profess Jesus but refuse to lift our congregation out of sin. We have preached the very thing the Lord hates (Proverbs 6:16–19): a false Gospel of tolerance, secularism, and sinful lifestyles (Proverbs 19:9).
We have chosen to live and lead from a position of fear, and my friend, I worry that God’s judgment will be swift, powerful, and painful (Revelation 21:8) against the Church.
In the Book of Acts, the Apostle Paul says he is innocent of blood because he chose to preach and teach the entire Wisdom of God. We have neglected that same fervency, and if we do nothing, there will be blood on our hands, and it will be coming from our pews.
God told the Prophet Ezekiel, “The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts” (Ezekial 34:4–5).
Pastors — our congregation is weak, sick, injured, and scattered. They need us. They need you. As the Political forces of this nation seek to muzzle you with labels and slander — pay them no ear. Speak the truth and speak it with love, with courage, and with the help of the Holy Spirit. We’ve been running from the Cultural Goliath — and I believe this moment calls for bold pastors willing to pick up some stones.
I am not calling for a political revolution but a spiritual one.
Pastors have always been catalysts for tremendous change and reformation. Church leaders were at the front, locked arm-in-arm, fighting for civil rights for women and people of color. Churches brought tremendous reform to child labor laws, healthcare, and education. The office of the Pastor was an influential benevolence for the hurting, broken, destitute, and confused. Our office needs, once again, to use its influence to seek the peace, deliverance, and salvation of America — at all costs.
If you do nothing, the darkness that comes for our children, our families, our churches, and our society… will be on our hands.
