People in this group are Joel Webbon, Brian Sauve, Eric Conn, Joshua Haymes, and Dale Patridge.

 

They say a lot of edgy, mainly racist things, like supporting the Curse of Ham, equating the goodness of Western society with whiteness, giving “natural law” arguments against interracial marriage, and of course a deep hatred and distrust of Jews.

 

When these things are pointed out their followers usually respond by saying one of two things: “you’re taking them out of context” or “at least they’re doing something.” Both of these claims warrant a response.

 

First, the claim that these men are being taken out of context isn’t true. For example, Partridge preached an entire sermon supporting the Curse of Ham and said blacks need to submit to white Europeans. Sauve had a Nazi sell books at his conference and in his “defense” video said he agreed with the pro-white material “we’ve been arguing for this for years” is what he said, then only condemned the paganism in the material that was being sold. No added context makes either of these things biblical or justified.

 

As for the claim that “at least they’re doing something,” I think it is more revealing. It shows the person is more concerned with defeating the Left, than being faithful to Christ. The claim also isn’t true.

 

These online Christian Nationalists aren’t as influential as people want you to believe. Their demographic is primarily young single white men, which is a very small voting demographic. And even within that demographic, they aren’t universally accepted.

 

Okay if they aren’t that influential then why write a post like this? Because the souls of our brothers and sisters matter. James 5:19-20, “My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.”

 

These men are leading many young brothers astray and stirring vitriol in their hearts. I mentioned the racist things they’ve said, but they’ve also said a number of sexist things that I won’t get into. If you know people going down this rabbit hole, go to them. Lovingly point them back to the Word of God and call them back to Christ.

 

To the young men buying into these false teachers, I understand that our culture is a mess. I work in politics, I very much get how frustrating things can be and how it looks like no one is doing anything. It’s okay to be frustrated. But we have to remember that our primary task is not to renew the culture. It is to seek and to save the lost.

 

The biggest issue with these false teachers is that they’ve lost sight of the gospel and instead preach a false gospel that desecrates love of neighbor and love for the Body of Christ.

 

For those of you interested in cultural engagement, I exhort you to memorize 2 Timothy 2:22-26, “So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.”

 

This is how we engage the culture. This must be our disposition when we go to the lost whether they’re in our state Capitols or in our communities. And as we do this, we must be reminded that our hope is not in this world. It’s in Christ who has already conquered this world.

 

May we engage faithfully to the glory of God.