With the events in 2014 surrounding Pope Francis and Tony Palmer’s declaration that "the protest is over" at the Kenneth Copeland Ministers’ Conference on January 21, 2014, do we stop and ask ourselves, "What protest?" Do we know what a Protestant is? When did "the protest" occur?
In The Vanishing Protestant, author Charles Lawson examines the political climate fifteen years into the twenty-first century in regard to religious freedom. One member of the U.S. Congress seems to think of our First Amendment rights as a "special privilege." If that were the case, "there would be no protection from a government with unlimited power to distribute, modify, and rescind privileges." The Bible tells us that this day will come.
"I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him."