Tucker Carlson: Andrew Isker is the sixth generation in his family to live in the same Minnesota town. But when the state declared war on Christians, he fled to Tennessee, where he’s helping to build a new and real community based on faith and freedom.
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Wrong.
As Christians we are in the world, not of it. Stay in the world and be an influence. Don’t retreat.
Grow where you’re planted.
But one alone is easily overcome.
Grow your numbers for strength in unity, even if everyone does not think alike.
Hopefully soon you’ll be able to go back to your home town and “retake” it as a Christian community. The struggle will be long, it will be difficult, but it will be worthwhile.
Hey!
I did something like that!
Will listen to this 90 min video with interest later… Initial reactions to the concept:
This country was built on colonies of settlers doing this. They saw advantages in working with each other for commerce and common defense; not so much for intermarriage or otherwise diluting their demographics. The Amish and the Mennonites have maintained their communities like this.
Rod Dreher’s book, “The Benedict Option,” discusses this contemporary approach from a trad Catholic/Orthodox point of view. Ave Maria is a town in Florida built around a recently established traditional Catholic college. Every SSPX monastery and church organically attracts trad Catholics to move to the hinterlands where they are built –like Buckingham County, Virginia, which is also home to Yogaville, which attracts a very different demographic of spiritually motivated pilgrims and settlers.
It’s kind of appealing to cluster with your own like that, but I’m not ready to retreat from the small town I’ve lived in for a quarter century, which is in grave danger of being colonized by liberal Yankees, who have already brought their boutiques and breweries and now started buying up poorly attended churches and redeveloping them into Air B&B rentals…
This will be fine as long as they follow the Scripture and follow the commands of God. The main reason we are here and called to be Christians is to become more like Jesus Christ. And what did he do?
Went into the world, eating with sinners. He didn’t do that to join them in their sin, but to lead them back to God.
That is the purpose for us; meet with other Christians to be discipled how to become more like Christ, and to reach the lost.
We must go into the world, but not be of it.
Romans 12:2 – Do not be conformed to this world,[a] but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Mark 16:15 – He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
…this would be a GREAT strategy if we were only supposed to keep the same number of Christians together;
But we are ACTUALLY supposed to be getting MORE.
…dont take MY word for it,
Ask THIS Guy…
“13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 25:13-30
…building an insular colony and not trying to show the Lord through yourself to non-Christians is like unto the servant who buried his Master’s wealth; he did protect what was there, but failed to increase it for when his Master returned, and could NEVER increase it in this way. It just sat there and did nothing for nobody, not even the servant who buried it.
…and you see how the Master felt about that…
I am the most reluctant evangelist there is….but here I am, in “the most unchurched city in the country”, Seattle, WA.
My vocation is my mission field. As could be (should be?) for all Christians. I fought the sense of failure for a long time until I revisited scripture (I’m very slow) and discovered that it’s not my job to harvest. And, so, I go cheerfully about my “business” and scatter seeds. Sometimes I water them. I fear not because I know I’ve been called for this work and that God has granted me skills to do his will in the world. I’m well over worrying about God not taking me off the bench and putting me in for some important play; it took me too long to figure it out. I’m embarrassed, now, even thinking that. I write this to encourage others.
I’m 100% with Claudia and others with a similar message. We’re not supposed to hide out with each other in a safe space. The safest of all spaces will come soon enough. I pray I have at least one crown to cast at my Master’s feet; not a ball cap that’s still smoldering