Guest Post: Jaws, Charlie Kirk, and A Christian Manifesto

 - Guest post by Lori Morrow - 

The day before Charlie Kirk was killed, I’d been taking a precious group of women through chapters 1-3 of Francis Schaeffer’s book A Christian Manifesto.

Do you remember the scene in the movie Jaws, when the characters got so desperate for some kind of tactical advantage over the shark that they harpooned it with big yellow barrels?

Those barrels removed the shark’s stealth.

They became a surface-level indicator of the shark’s position underwater, so that the people in the boat could perceive what was lurking beneath them invisibly.

Schaeffer argues very forcefully that our politics are merely the yellow barrels at the surface, being driven by some kind of ideology underneath.

According to him, Left-leaning politics are the outgrowth of secular humanism, while Right-leaning politics are the outgrowth of the Judeo-Christian worldview.

He also argues very convincingly that each side is a totalizing worldview, and each is completely opposed to the other, so that there is no way to fuse them.

I think Schaeffer is correct.

And I backed up his claims with some data which is relevant to our current day cultural crisis.

There are born again Christians, who don’t realize that by voting leftward, they’re actually playing for the other team. And there are secular conservatives who don’t realize that the goodness they see in conservative politics actually flows from a Judeo-Christian worldview.

I can honestly say I have never grieved the loss of someone I never met, like I grieved the death of Charlie Kirk last Wednesday, but I believe that God is going to use it for good.

We are in desperate need of revival.

I’ve been saying it for a long time, but I believe the window for revival has never been more open than it is right now.

Politics certainly has its rightful place. But by actively pursuing evangelism and revival, we can create social cohesion and political renewal.

If you’re ready to get started. Here are some things you can do:

1. Watch and share relevant sermons today. 
   My family was unable to attend our home church this week, so I watched Josh Howerton deliver a very relevant, timely, convicting, and powerful sermon.
   I’m sure there are others like him who are doing the same thing… I would imagine John Mark Caton at Cottonwood Creek Church, and Skip Heitzig at Calvary Church are all good options.
2. Buckle up.
   There’s no reason to expect that the work of revival will be easy.
   The other side will dig their feet in, which is why we need to be persuasive and persistent, not angry or insulting or reactionary.
   There was a day when the Christian worldview was a consensus in this country. But that day is behind us.
   From now on, when you seek to reach people with the gospel, you’ll have to convince them that it matters.
   They can’t follow God if they don't believe he exists, but they won’t follow God if they don't think he’s good.
   You're going to have to make the case.
   Do you know what you believe?
   Do you know why you believe it?
   Now is the time to learn.
3. Start seeing your friends and family on the Left as a mission field.
   If we can help them see that their lives are in partnership with Secular Humanism, we can win some of them back.
   Not only will that win some of them over to conservative politics, it will also serve to re-unite us under the Christian worldview from which our nation was produced.

If you have questions about this you can email me at the address below.

If you're a Christian woman who’d like to study with me, I’ll be leading women through a Book List which would allow you to sink your teeth into theology, apologetics and worldview — starting with Schaeffer’s book.

If you’re a Christian who’s conservative, I’d love to help you move forward in using your life to bring revival in this generation.

If you’re a Christian whose politics lean left, I’d love to have the opportunity to show you why conservative politics align more closely with the Biblical worldview, and why progressive politics are actually the product of Secular Humanism.

If you’re a non-Christian who simply wants to work to restore some balance and harmony to our broken culture, I’ll happily show you why the Christian worldview is the cure we’re all looking for.

Message me or email me at AskTheApoloChick at gmail.com

P.S. Happy first Sunday in Heaven, Charlie! You will be missed. But I’m committing to my part to make this our nation’s Turning Point.

Lori Morrow
MA in Christian Apologetics, Biola
Colson Fellow
Women in Apologetics board member
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