Nation­al Day of… Woke? A Call for Change From the Fam­i­ly Research Coun­cil

Why is the Fam­i­ly Research Coun­cil pro­mot­ing woke peo­ple, includ­ing indi­vid­u­als who open­ly pro­mote Democ­rats that stand in oppo­si­tion to FRC’s val­ues? That’s the ques­tion we have, and we want to see this not just changed, but open­ly acknowl­edged and repent­ed of. FRC, if you still are a con­ser­v­a­tive, Bible believ­ing orga­ni­za­tion opposed to abor­tion and LGBT non­sense, and still for the pro­mot­ing of Bib­li­cal val­ues, then address this right away.

We’re refer­ring to FRC’s pro­mo­tion of the Nation­al Day of Prayer event orga­nized and spon­sored by the Nation­al Day of Prayer Task Force, anoth­er Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion which we call to repent. When we saw FRC pro­mot­ing this to their sup­port­ers, we were flab­ber­gast­ed that FRC would pro­mote such a poor selec­tion of speak­ers.

Men such as Lecrae, and Nick Hall stand in oppo­si­tion to God’s Word. These men are not the only ones with con­vic­tions bib­li­cal Chris­tians should find offen­sive, but we will use these two to demon­strate the issue. Let us start with Lecrae. He has pro­mot­ed rad­i­cals such as Sta­cy Abrams, Raphael Warnock, and Jon Ossoff.

On the day of Joe Biden’s inau­gu­ra­tion, Lecrae tweet­ed “Feels good to be on the right side of his­to­ry. Which of course is the anti-racism, pro-life from womb to tomb, care for the mar­gin­al­ized, anti-Chris­t­ian nation­al­ism, anti-abuse of pow­er side.”

Let us be clear, the “anti-racism” pushed by Lecrae and the left is not root­ed in the Bible, but the Marx­ist idea of Crit­i­cal Race The­o­ry, which breeds more hatred. The same goes for “pro life from womb to tomb,” which is often used to push social­ism and a soft or pro stance on abor­tion. The rest fol­low a sim­i­lar pat­tern of being some­thing oth­er than what the words might ini­tial­ly sug­gest. Has Joe “right side of his­to­ry” Biden improved any of the areas Lecrae ref­er­ences? No, he has only made things worse for all Amer­i­cans. This “right” side of his­to­ry is not very right.

Return­ing to Lecrae, that is all in addi­tion to his sup­port for BLM, join­ing protests (riots), his refus­ing to take a Bib­li­cal stand homo­sex­u­al­i­ty and abor­tion, and pro­mot­ing ideas such as sys­temic racism.

As we men­tioned, Lecrae is not the only per­son­al­i­ty caus­ing con­cern. Let’s take a look at Nick Hall, whose recent “Togeth­er 22” con­fer­ence was spon­sored by He Gets Us, anoth­er prob­lem­at­ic orga­ni­za­tion that we’ve already cov­ered in great detail. 

Nick Hall has described racism as “America’s orig­i­nal sin.”

Has defend­ed vio­lent riot­ing by claim­ing the crim­i­nals are just vic­tims.

No mat­ter what atroc­i­ty has been com­mit­ted, real or per­ceived, riot­ing, loot­ing, destruc­tion, and mur­der is nev­er the solu­tion. Nick Hall paints crim­i­nals and van­dals with a broad brush to make them look like vic­tims. He does say he con­demn their actions, but removes the weight of the con­dem­na­tion by pro­mot­ing the lie that it is the sys­tem is to blame, not them.

There’s more. Nick Hall also has pro­mot­ed a woke, Demo­c­rat group that seeks to push Chris­tians to vote for can­di­dates that vio­late God’s com­mands, known as the “And Cam­paign.”

The point of all this is not to chase after and prove every detail, but to give a quick overview to jus­ti­fy the ques­tion: Why is FRC pro­mot­ing an event with peo­ple like this? We call on the lead­er­ship of the Fam­i­ly Research Coun­cil to repent of this pro­mo­tion of heresy, to do so pub­licly, and to prove that they have the integri­ty required to push back against the lies that are tak­ing so many peo­ple cap­tive. Paul’s warn­ing to the Chris­tians at Colosse applies to us today: “Beware lest any­one cheat you through phi­los­o­phy and emp­ty deceit, accord­ing to the tra­di­tion of men, accord­ing to the basic prin­ci­ples of the world, and not accord­ing to Christ” (Col. 2:8).

The issues we have high­light­ed here are not periph­er­al. They are core issues that address the very nature of the human con­di­tion and man’s most basic nature and needs. The ideas Lecrae and Nick Hall are pro­mot­ing are anti-Chris­t­ian and unbib­li­cal. Whether they are pro­mot­ing these false ideas know­ing­ly or unknow­ing­ly, FRC should know bet­ter than to pro­mote and plat­form them.

We call on any and all sup­port­ers of FRC to peti­tion them to repent. Do not let this issue slip by. Is it because we have some­thing against FRC? No, it’s because errors like this lead to big­ger and big­ger com­pro­mis­es, and thus should not be left unad­dressed. Con­tact them today, and demand bet­ter.