Epistle to the Bible-Believing Church in America

Guest essay by Jay Grimstead

Five essential and foundational commitments King Jesus requires of the church in America at this time,

And which commitments he has been requiring of all Christians since the New Testament was written

  1. The Bible is to be regarded as the only, absolute, written word of God to mankind. Jesus and the apostles regarded it as being the spirit-inspired, inerrant Word of God down to the very words used, which is to sit in judgment over all other books, ideas, and philosophies.All the Church’s theology, teaching, ministry and personal lives of its leaders and members is to be conformed to the principles, theology, morals and guidance in the Bible. To the degree any pastor, teacher, church or organization teaches that the Bible is not fully inspired by God and inerrant, or that its content may be dismissed, disobeyed, opposed or ridiculed, to that degree are such leaders opposing God and should not be tolerated or salaried by God’s people, for such leaders are unknowingly undermining God’s Truth and destroying both the Church and it’s host society. My estimate is that possibly 50% of all “Evangelical” pastors and Christians at this time believe the Bible is partly true and partly false.
  2. The only kind of Christianity and legitimate church membership taught by Christ and the apostles requires the professing Christian and church member to live in conscious, intentional obedience to God and the Bible hourly in every area of life 365 days per year, to whatever degree that is possible with the help and leading of the Holy Spirit.Since the 1800’s, sincere but mistaken Bible teachers and pastors have taught the falsehood that a person may have Christ as their Savior without simultaneously having Him as their Lord.

    “Bible-obedient” Christianity is the only Christianity taught by Christ, the Apostles and the entire Bible. (We are saved by God’s grace through faith alone, but not by the kind of faith that does not produce eager obedience to Christ and the Bible.). No “Reformation or Revival” will come to the Body of Christ in any nation unless and until pastors and leaders teach that a person has no right to call themselves a Christian if they do not desire to live in Obedience to God and the Bible and are making that effort.

  3. Christ requires that we be willing to die for him if necessary.The only kind of Christian leaders King Jesus wants to be His Church’s leaders, pastors, teachers, writers, and organizers etc. are those Christians who are willing to die for Christ and the advancement of His Kingdom upon earth, if necessary. (“If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me…Whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.”—Luke 9:23-24 and “The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”—John 10:11)  If your pastor or Bible teacher is not willing to die for Christ and His Church if it became necessary, you should probably go find a new pastor and Bible teacher.

  4. If a pastor, professor, Bible teacher or leader stands in opposition to the Biblical truth stated in the 24 Documents in the book, Rebuilding Civilization on the Bible, however sincere their hearts may be, we believe they are opposing God’s truth and are inadvertently working to undermine the church and helping our culture to further rot. These 24 Documents clarify the current battle lines where Christians must stand for the Truth of God against confused, misguided “Evangelicals” as well as against anti-Bible atheists.  These 24 Documents will form the agenda of the Global Church Council planned for 2017, 2019 and 2021. They are available now at www.ChurchCouncil.org.
  5. Our Lord Christ is keenly disappointed with the lack of practical, local unity that exists among most bible-believing churches in most cities of America, and he still desires his prayer to the father in John 17:21 to be realized on earth to some real degree before he returns.We proclaim that God wants 3 types of unity to exist among local churches in any city or county:
    • Theological Unity based upon the local church’s belief in an inerrant, fully inspired Bible and also agreement on some “generic statement of faith” such as COR’s “42 Articles     on the Christian Worldview” (which has been accepted by multiple denominations).
    • Personal Friendship Unity wherein local pastors begin to trust and love each other and pray together monthly, and come to honestly care for the success of the other pastor’s churches and general ministry.
    • Strategic-Working Unity wherein those local pastors plan projects together locally to advance the Kingdom of God in their city and county and work together on various projects such as: education, evangelism, godly politics, mercy ministry, local media work.

Many thinking Christian leaders claim that the “Laodicean, sleepy and self-serving Church in America” is not, and for the past 150 years has not been, the proper “salt and light” to our surrounding culture which our Lord Christ commanded us to be. Also, in this sleepy, self-content condition we have, by default, allowed the secular forces of atheism, moral relativism, socialism and now open decadence, to take control of the major spheres of life in America, namely those spheres of; Law and Government, Business and Banking, the Media, Arts and Entertainment, Health Care, Education, Science etc.
   
It is clear to many people that our dear, sick America is about to die as a constitutional republic, and soon will careen over the cliff into being a tyrannical, socialistic, police state under our unconstitutional federal government which will probably initiate official persecution of any outspoken Christians or constitutionalists if we do not undergo a Reformation and Revival soon. We must train the next few generations of Christians to Rebuild Civilization on the Bible no matter what chaos and tyranny may come upon this present generation of Christians. America, and other decadent nations, can be re-Christianized still, but only if Christian leaders and pastors require their followers to live in serious, hourly obedience to God’s only, written, absolute statement on how life works: the Bible.

Concluding Statement

Christian leaders in America, please take note that I believe God in heaven is requiring these 5 Essential and Foundational commitments from His Body of Christ in America to this degree:

Revival and reformation of the Church in America first, and, secondly, a rebuilding of our civilization upon the principles of the Bible, cannot and will not happen to any significant degree if these 5 points above are not believed, promoted and made to happen by possibly 5% to 10% of the Bible-believing leaders, pastors and teachers of the Body of Christ in America beginning this process immediately.

There exist powerful, exciting working models, methods and principles for transforming churches and their surrounding cultures through our friends who are creating these models. If you are interested in bringing Reformation and Revival to your area, we can put you in touch with these leaders and their successful models if you contact us at the addresses below.

May God’s Kingdom come and His will be done in America to a real degree in our lifetime.     


The original of this article came in a circular email letter from by Dr Jay, on July, 4, 2014.   

Dr. Jay Grimstead, author of the NPI title Rebuilding Civilization on the Bible: Proclaiming the Truth on 24 Controversial Issues, is founder and president of the Coalition on Revival and of the International Church Council Project.

Longtime theology activist, Dr. Jay seeks strategically to do two things: 1) Restore sound doctrine to the churches called by Christ’s name, and 2) Strategically apply that sound doctrine to every area of life toward the restoration of godly free institutions of every kind, especially in the civil order.

Dr. Jay Grimstead
Coalition on Revival
P.O. Box 1139, Murphys, CA 95247

 © 2015 Used by permission

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One Response to Epistle to the Bible-Believing Church in America

  1. Insectman January 23, 2015 at 11:59 pm #

    I pity America without pastors with the power of those who have preceded them. See them at http://www.insectman.us/testimony/text-book-war.htm.

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