until the church is willing to ethically deal with the things that trump is saying they have no moral ground to criticize him. here he is trying to help whiny evangelical leaders to give them the freedom they refuse to take by making themselves free churches.

here it is trump telling Christians that he wants to restore their freedoms then they sit and complain about him. its unbelievable.

Todays western nations are suffering from a 'modern' lack of good leadership, when we compare them with previous generations.
But the church is lacking too in sound doctrine with so many churches swinging apostately to the self-assisted salvation and works based religious ideologies such as Liberalism and Arminian free will.

The plague of Liberalism is clearly satanic and heretical and affecting the world which includes politics and the church and institutions such as family and morals.

America's choice of "leader" at the moment is no choice, but Christians can still trust in a Sovereign God who remains in complete charge over all nations. Thus has it always been.

God's promise of:-
Rom 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Was made at a time in Israel when they were under military occupation; But God brought His people through.

1Thes 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
v11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

Christopher000 wrote:
....Trump has trumped all previous political promises by any politician.

Phil Johnson wrote:
...America’s moral decline has accelerated dramatically since evangelicals became politically aggressive in the late 1970s....they have been remarkably ineffective when it comes to using politics to reverse America’s moral and spiritual decline. In fact, if you measure their success or failure according to their own stated political ambitions, evangelicals have failed spectacularly in America’s political arena. Over the past quarter-century, they have not accomplished any of their long-term legislative or constitutional goals.
....Evangelicals have become accustomed to compromise. They have abandoned (or else are in the process of abandoning) virtually all the doctrinal distinctives that made them distinct from Roman Catholics and nominal Christians whose faith amounts to a kind of civil religion. Evangelicals have pretty much forfeited whatever real moral and spiritual authority their movement ever had.

pennelope wrote:
...purifying the church.

Gen 6:1-3a And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh:
...Gen 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD

so he speaks to the church of the freedoms they lost which were lost by their own free will by signing incorporation papers for Christ's church.

again, God is showing His judgment, bringing the truth, and the issue as not a political one, but rather the fact that the organized church will not set itself free...... like a deer caught in a trap that has a button to open the trap but wants someone else to do the work of setting it free.

John MacArthur wrote:
Many think this is a political problem that will not be solved without a political strategy. During the past twenty-five years, well-meaning Christians have founded a number of evangelical activist organizations and sunk millions of dollars into them in an effort to use the apparatus of politics—lobbying, legislation, demonstration, and boycott—to counteract the moral decline of American culture....

But is that a proper perspective? I believe not. America’s moral decline is a spiritual problem, not a political one, and its solution is the gospel, not partisan politics.