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Dear Faithful Friend,
This year, as we mark 250 years in this great experiment in liberty, I keep
asking myself the same question: Are we keeping the faith?
Let me explain what I mean.
At the very heart of it, we were born a nation of Christian pilgrims and
dissenters.
The Pilgrims. The Puritans. The Quakers. The Huguenots. The German Pietists.
Wave after wave of men and women who crossed an ocean because they refused to
let any earthly power stand between them and their biblical faith in the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – the God revealed in Jesus Christ.
That is the seed America grew from, and every time we’ve forgotten this, we’ve
gone astray.
The very first freedom in the Bill of Rights – the one the framers put first,
not fifth or tenth, but first – isthe freedom to worship God without
interference from government. That wasn’t random. It was the whole point.
And when people knock our founding fathers as relics of a bygone era who
“wouldn’t understand the world today,” I ask you to think about our brothers
and sisters in Christ today,right now, in places like Nigeria, Iran, Pakistan,
North Korea and many other places.
There are an estimated 388 million Christian men, women and children being
persecuted, oppressed and ruthlessly murdered simply for loving Jesus.
Here in America, it’s almost impossible to know what that’s like, but we do
have the freedom, the platform and the resources to support them, and fight
back in a wide range of ways.The question is, will we?
I can’t help but feel that this year, on the 250th birthday of the world’s
most indispensable Christian nation, that we have a duty to rededicate
ourselves to God and to the defense of His people around the world.And today,
I’m asking you to partner with me and an incredible organization in that
endeavor.
There is no organization in this country more committed to that fight than
Save the Persecuted Christians, where I’m proud to serve as a board member.
Whether it’s the growing awareness of the active genocide against Nigeria’s
Christians (and recent U.S. action to help stop it), or the recent and very
real victories against the rise of sharia and Islamism here in America, it is
due in very large part to the relentless advocacy and education campaigns of
Save the Persecuted Christians and the coalition of 200+ organizations they
help to guide.
As we commemorate America’s 250th birthday, I humbly but urgently ask that you
help to supercharge their efforts with a generous, tax-deductible contribution.

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As you contemplate your potential commitment, I ask you to think about this.
While Christians in America today are the freest Christians in the history of
the world, 388 million of our brothers and sisters, in other parts of the
world, are being hunted for practicing the same faith that built this country.
Every generation that ever mattered to the kingdom of God understood that
faith without action is sentiment – and sentiment has never freed a single soul.
Now it's our turn.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the founders pledged their lives, their
fortunes, and their sacred honor.They paid the price. They handed us the
inheritance. The only real question this year is what we do with it.
On July 3, 1776 – one day after the Continental Congress had voted to declare
independence – John Adams sat down in Philadelphia and wrote to his wife
Abigail.
He told her this new American holiday " ought to be commemorated, as the Day
of Deliverance, by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be
solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells,
Bonfires and Illuminations, from one End of this Continent to the other, from
this Time forward forever more. "
Notice the order. First solemn devotion to God. Then the fireworks.
250 years later, we’ve kept the fireworks. But the question is, have we
maintained the devotion?
I believe we still can. This anniversary is bigger than a birthday party. It
is a reckoning – with our history, with our blessings, and with our obligations
to the brothers and sisters around the world who are paying the highest
possible price for the very faith we still get to practice openly.
They are praying for a Church that does not always remember their names.
On this 250th birthday – of all years – we have the chance to tell them they
are not forgotten.
That is what your gift does. That is what Save the Persecuted Christians does.
And that is why, I am asking you to give as generously as you possibly can.
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Thank you for your time, your patriotism, and your commitment.
For God and country,

Eric Metaxas Member, Board of Directors Save the Persecuted Christians






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