Coach Dave Daubenmire
November 8, 2007
NewsWithViews.com
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb
dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they
are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own
way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. Come ye, say they,
I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink;
and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
No I didn’t spell
prophet wrong. A prophet is “a person gifted with profound moral
insight and exceptional powers of expression.” Today the Church’s
door is shut to the prophets. We have traded the prophets for
profits.
I saw it again
this weekend. Every time I go I pray it will be different; it is
my nature, to believe for the best. But I have to admit, it is
very discouraging.
I travel the
country standing up for Truth. I’m not sure how this mantle fell
on me but I do my best to be faithful to the call. I believe that
the Lord is using me to awaken the Church. My message is hard and
penetrating. It is a sin-hating, God-fearing exhortation to “Go
ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching
them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded.”
I am a missionary
to America, an alarm clock to the Church, which has punched the
snooze button far too many times. Like a teenager on Saturday
morning most of our church leaders do not want to hear the sound
of the alarm. They “love to slumber.”
“Not all of us
Coach,” I often hear via email. No, not all but the ones who
are not “afraid to bark” I can number on two hands. At least that
is my experience. In seven years of blowing the trumpet I can
honestly say I have met only a few who truly “get it.” Most give
lip service, trusting in the Rapture to “save them from the wrath
to come,” in-different to what those who are “left behind” will
have to go through, and too self-absorbed to fight the Devil for
the souls of men.
A
“costless-Christianity,” that’s what I like to call it: A war
without price, a Christian-welfare system where someone else
always picks up the tab. Tell the persecuted church in China or
the Sudan that Christianity is free and easy. American-style
Christianity is easy. Authentic Christianity is not.
Eureka Springs,
Ark is a honeymoon-haven. A popular retreat in the Ozark Mountains
this quaint little town markets itself as a Christ-centered
retreat where The Great Passion Play, an outdoor drama, draws
thousands. Tourism is the town’s life-blood and it is the home of
the breathtaking statue of Jesus, Christ of the Ozarks which
towers majestically over the city. This family-friendly vacation
resort is a well-kept secret to much of America.
This past weekend
the Macedonian call came to me from some faithful Christians in
town who issued an appeal for help. I ran to the trumpet. It is
what I do.
As is often the
case, the homosexuals had decided that they wanted Eureka Springs.
No longer content with getting married, they wanted to OWN
marriage, at least in Eureka Springs. It seems that the
“progressives” in Bible-belt Eureka Springs had passed an
ordinance establishing a “Gay Marriage” registry where “gay”
couples could register their “marriage,” opening a Pandora’s Box
that would draw thousands of deviants to this once family-friendly
village. It is rapidly becoming “the
most homosexual city in the South.”
November 3-4 was
designated “Diversity Weekend” by the local “authorities” and
thousands of homosexuals descended on the city to celebrate
sodomy. One brave man, Pastor Philip Wilson took on the fight. The
“tolerant” homo-folk fired their cannons at the brave pastor. His
fellow “men of the cloth” went into hiding, and his local
congregation put him on “sabbatical,” ashamed, I am sure, of his
“un-Christian” approach to those who want to destroy every pillar
of decency in this land. “Woe to those who call good evil and evil
good.”
But all was not
lost. As is usually the case, some brave souls, sick of seeing
Christian values attacked and tired of waiting for the pastors to
stand up for Christ took it upon themselves to do something. They
invited some of us to town to hold a “Shake the Nation” rally, a
Clarion call to the Church designed to organize and mobilize the
saints for the battle.
What do we do in
these “Shake the Nation” rallies? We bring Truth to the church.
Most pastors and church leaders are so focused on building “their”
church that they have become disassociated and disinterested in
events outside the safety of their stained-glassed fortresses.
Hosea said “My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge:”
This past weekend our team of God’s-warriors journeyed to Eureka
Springs to awaken the Church to the enemy who had penetrated the
gates of their city. We spoke to those who attended about: