{"id":3506,"date":"2026-07-06T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:20:25","slug":"letter-to-the-american-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/letter-to-the-american-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the American Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Letter-American-Church-Eric-Metaxas\/dp\/1684513898\">Letter to the American Church by Eric Metaxas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is a link to an interview with Eric Metaxus and Pastor Alan Jackson (pastor of <a href=\"https:\/\/wochurch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Outreach Church?<\/a> since 1989).<br><a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pfr7u5pvEpo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pfr7u5pvEpo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a few take away points from this very informative interview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>God is trying to get the church to speak and not be silent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eric took writing this book very seriously, &#8220;What does God want to say&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The book is like a needed cold bucket of water being thrown in the face of the church.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The American church is being silent in the face of evil similar to the German church leading up to WWII.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There was also CRT (Critical Race Theory) way back then.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some evangelical churches are opening their doors to CRT.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many church think they are only supposed to &#8220;preach the gospel&#8221;. Jesus did more than that, He spoke truth about all issues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eric says don&#8217;t stay in churches where they hide the truth about what&#8217;s going on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This is urgent, it&#8217;s not at the door step, it&#8217;s in the building.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Bonhoeffer story is a warning to us.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Millions of people are looking to the church for wisdom on all the craziness that is going on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The safe thing, i.e. churches afraid to make waves, is probably from the devil.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is and should be a privilege to participate in the battle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People have died for what we have in this country<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to the American Church by Eric Metaxas The following is a link to an interview with Eric Metaxus and Pastor Alan Jackson (pastor of World Outreach Church? since 1989).https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pfr7u5pvEpo Here are a few take away points from this very informative interview:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}