Vote: Only The Church Can Rescue The Republic And The Economy

Lance: Welcome, welcome to the Lance Wallnau Show and we always promise you that we’re going to be relevant. We’re going to be succinct. We won’t waste your time. We’re going to be doing that today. I’ve got Mercedes Sparks here to keep us on schedule and a very special guest. We’re pushing 7 million downloads now close to 800,000 a month and you guys are making it happen. You are the audience that is made up of activists. Christians that know what’s going on. You’re informed and you’re not just happy talkers. You want to hear the real story and I can always tell you what’s the good, the bad, and the ugly. Fortunately, now, I’ve got a really important update that I think is going to bless you Bruce Chadwick Connolly as an American politician who served as chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party from May 2011 until June 2013. When he resigned to take a senior role at the Republican National Committee. 

I always love Chad because I’m in these chat threads where certain people join in and they say something and so substantial I think, alright there granular. They know what’s going on. They’re not just speaking hypothetically. So, I want to welcome you, Chad Conley. Founder and CEO of Faith Wins. What an optimistic statement for a Republican National Committee guy. I didn’t know that we ever had such strong faith people in the RNC, but you’re certainly one of them. Brother tell me what are you seeing out there? You’ve been in the field. You’re doing events. How many events have you done with churches in the last year do you think?

Chad Conley: Well, Lance first you’re a hero and I just love you brother and you’re right. Our text thread sometimes people can get a little bit down and I just want to come on the show today to tell you that Christians are coming out of the woodwork brother. We are actually David Barton and I are in Phoenix, Arizona. We just did a lunch meeting here. We’ve got an evening session then we fly to Dallas where we do a lunch meeting in Dallas. So, by tomorrow afternoon, we’ll have done 132 meetings with pastors and faith leaders in 24 states since mid-February. Since September 1st I believe we’ve done 70 meetings in I think it’s 18 states Lance and so man I just want to tell you I’m not at the RNC. I left the RNC in 2017 to start a 501C3 called Faith Lent because I do believe that the way back for the nation is through pastors. As you know spreading the gospel, but also spreading the truth about God’s role in America too.

Lance: Well, both of those are sizzling subject matters. So, how’s the response in the churches. I get the pastors. I know that they’re a little under siege and you guys are helping them solidify their convictions but they’ll go the way their people go. So, how are the people responding?

Chad Conley: Man, I’ve been in politics a long time Lance and you it’s like pulling our teeth as my mom used to say to get people to do something sometimes as you know, leading churches and just groups of people. But people are coming out of the woodwork like I’ve never seen before. They’re just finished in Phoenix and people raised their hands. What do we do? And I’ll tell you what I can do. Let’s get you involved in poll watching just like our team did in Virginia in 2021. Our little team of just seven pastors. We had 312 churches do voter registration. We registered 77,000 new Christians who had never voted. But bigger than that and we stumbled in this Lance. We recruited 1343 poll watchers. And the kind of things that they found just having Christian eyeballs on the process was a stop

So, I mean I can tell you stories from so many states. We were in Wisconsin a couple weeks ago. A pastor said I’m skeptical. I’ll let you use the room because your pastor asked me to. Guys got a church at twelve00. He was saved late in life. Tattooed up on his arms. And he said, ‘Chad I’m just skeptical about the whole thing.’ I said, ‘Well, Pastor thanks for letting us be here but you need to stay in our meeting. What are you skeptical about?’ He said, ‘Well, just political stuff.’ I said, ‘Pastor we don’t want you to be political. We want you to be biblical.’ He said, ‘Oh real.’ I said, ‘Why don’t you stick around?’ He said, ‘Well, I really can’t.’ The guy stuck around for my talk, my testimony, how God put me in the political realm about he’d stick around for David Barton’s talk. He comes up to me afterwards. He grabs me by the arm.

He says, Chad we want to be ground zero for everything you do in the state of Wisconsin. And like I said, I can tell you that story in state after state after state. We have been on the ground. We were in New Hampshire last week. We were in Miami and Fort Lauderdale last week. We were in California and Arizona. Then been in Nevada right now or Nevada last week as well now we’re in Arizona and we wrap up in Texas tomorrow. I’m telling you I’ve never seen people coming to the forefront of wanting to engage this culture and truly be Matthew 5 Salt Like, like we’re seeing right now.

Lance: That is so powerful. I normally this we wait to the end of a broadcast to do this. I’m not going to do that; I want to do it now. How do people track with you, how do they contribute to this organization, how do they support work?

Chad Conley: Well, we’d love that. That’d be an honoring thing but they go to Faith Wins, “FaithWins.org”. Faith Wins.org”. It’s got our full schedule. It tells people where we’re at. We’ve got videos on there of me and David Barton explaining how they can be involved. Lance, we’re still actively recruiting poll watchers in 8 key states, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona because we believe second Timothy 2:5 says,“You can run the race but you got to run the race by the rules and let’s face it”. It ought to be easy to vote hard to cheat and Christian eyeballs in the process are a big deal. So, tell them to go to “FaithWins.org” and they can follow what we’re doing. They can sign up. They can take action, a whole myriad of things they can get involved with brother.

Lance: Alright man, listen to me and I just go along with Steve Bannon on this. You don’t want to be sitting at home watching election night results and just say well I prayed or I gave $25 to somebody. You actually want to have put at least some time in to this is Nehemiah’s project. Everybody has a task and they return to the work. The work isn’t watching. The watching and praying has to be with corresponding action or your faith is dead. You’ve got skin in the game. So, you’re telling me that people can go sign up on your site and find out how to become a participant.

Chad Conley: Yes sir. Absolutely. We actually, we did something a little bit different in Virginia and this has been my dream Lance for a long time and you probably heard me talk about this on Garlow show as well and I think I covered on your show last time. But I just really believe that the political types and it’s one a big reason I left the RC. The political types don’t understand the church. They don’t understand the message. A lot of them really just have a causal relationship and I’m not trying to be rude or ugly. These are their description. They’ll tell you their casual, this denomination. That denomination. And so, I started contacting and contracting with by the vocational pastors. And so, my entire team. I think I got 6th one by vocational pastors on my team in 16 states right now who all I ask them to do is hey open doors for me to pastors and faith leaders who need to hear this message.

That’s how we got started recruiting poll watchers and churches. And let’s face it. If a church person goes down to the election commission and says, hey, we want to help out. Then they’re not coming from a party or a committee or some group out there. They’re from Calvary Baptist or community church or First Baptist down the street or whatever. We called it in Virginia Lance the Miss Bessie Project. We had a lady, little old lady who just wanted to be involved, Miss Bessie and when she took discrepancies that we found by going through the voter rolls and by newly registered people, they didn’t know what to do with her because she wasn’t coming from a party. She was a Local organic person who came from down the street in that county.

In Virginia, you probably heard about this. One of the election commissioners was arrested about 10 days ago by the attorney general. That came because I had a pastor who went to that county and simply, I wrote a little 3×5 card. We’re here to pray for you, here to pray with you. How can we help? And by the way, we like to see all the list of the newly registered on Friday nights at midnight which is public information. Well, that person quit and was arrested for voter fraud about 10 days ago by the Attorney General in Virginia.  We didn’t go looking for bad stuff. I told my people look for two things. People over 100 years old and not that somebody over 100 can’t vote, right. Look, that’s just a flag or if they registered more than 6 people at an address.

We found one place in Virginia, Lance and this was a church group that 17 people registered from the one address. So, they called me and said, Chad, what do you I said, must be a big house. Well, they took a Sunday school class down there and it was a field, Lance. There was no structure on it. It was a field. So, there needs to be Christian eyeballs on the process everywhere. It should be easy to vote and hard to cheat. Such as one way they can get involved. But go to “FaithWins.org” and we we’d love to have your help. No doubt about it.

Lance: Well, alright. We’re going to be pushing that. It’s interesting to me is that I looked at the data for Virginia with Youngrid’s win and so they said, well, there was like 70,000 more votes coming out than we’re expected, but you’re actually responsible there for like 77,000 people getting involved. I think you made a decisive impact in Virginia. So, there no doubt about it to me. What do you tell people? So, if they come out give us a taste and see. We only got 2 minutes. I’m going to have to hold you over for the second segment. Give us a start for a minute here. What do you guys talk about when you and Barton are talking in these meetings?

Chad Conley: Well, the first thing is I’m kind of teamed up by telling how God put me in politics and I give my testimony of course losing my first wife to suicide meeting my wife Dana who was widowed by suicide and how God’s not done with me. So, he’s not done with them or their church or our nation, and then I introduced David. David’s going through as you know his incredible encyclopedia of knowledge in his brain about God’s role in America. It’s irreplaceable but it can’t be denied. So, I love watching the light bulbs go off in the audience when we speak. Last night we had 600 people down in Tucson at the church. Today we had about 60 at a lunch meeting here above Phoenix and tonight we’re going to go down to Mesa. Church is called Church Without Walls in Mesa, Arizona. We’re expecting several hundred there. And I love watching the light bulbs go off when people hear history of God’s role in our nation. And how it’s undeniable but they didn’t know it because they weren’t taught.

Lance: Alright, so when we come back I’m going to ask you some questions about god’s role in our nation because I’m getting flooded with these articles that it looks to me like the left realizes the church is behind a lot of the mobilization and now they’re starting to do, they’re doing attacks on Christians, Christian nationalism, Christian patriotism and I want us to talk for a minute when we come back for this break about what the role is of historically of God in America. I got to do some Dave Barton note taking here and tell me what Dave is saying, because I think we’re losing confidence in the fact that God has a hand in shaping the nation. It’s almost like there’s preachers trying to decouple national identity from Christian influence. But we’re going to be back in a minute.

Chad Conley: That’s right.

Lance: With Chad Conley, you don’t want to miss a second of it.

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Lance: Welcome back to the Lance Well Now Show. We’re talking to Chad Connolly who’s doing a really powerful job all over the country with like on a 130, 240, 250 I can’t keep up with it. Meeting with pastors, meeting with Christians, and mobilizing that vast confused army of potential game changers that make up the body of Christ. I mean, we got like 300,000 or something evangelical churches my friend Jim Garlow tells me. They’re divided over how they should be engaged in their own destiny. It kind of blows my mind. Chad, I’m going to throw it open to Mercedes. I have a question I’ve got for you. I’m going to planted right now. Can you give me any evidence of God’s hand in forming the United States? Because I think we’re too willing to give up on God having a hand in our own nation. But Mercedes, what’s your question?

Mercedes: Okay, we’re going to stack them with questions here. So, Chad I was saying during the break that I would really like to know what your response is when we’re talking about that pastor earlier who said why I just don’t want to get involved in politics. And you’re like, well, do you got to get involved with being biblical? Like what exactly are you telling people? Because I think there’s a lot of lay people in the church that feel the same way.

Chad Conley: There are Mercedes and your question is the best question. I remember the first time I got it. I was in Durango, Colorado and the pastor came up and said, ‘Chad, we don’t do politics in the pulpit.’ I really didn’t know what to say at first Mercedes and I said, I did a quick prayer. Lord, give me something. So, I always ask when I need a second to think. Okay, what do you mean? And the guy said, ‘Well, we don’t want to be political.’ And I said, and here’s what the lord gave me and put my heart just came out and bubbled out of my spirit. I said, ‘Pastor, I don’t believe life is a political issue. It’s a spiritual one. I don’t believe traditional marriage is a political issue. It’s a spiritual one. I don’t believe the defense of Israel is anything other than a biblical spiritual issue. I don’t believe religious liberty is a political issue.’ These are spiritual issues.

Yes, they’ve been politicized, but that doesn’t remove my responsibility as a dad, a Sunday school teacher, a deacon in my church, a leader in my community, that doesn’t remove my responsibility to be salt and light and it made him think and I realized then I’ve got the right answer for people. Just because these things have been criticized largely by people who hate our god, right. They hate us but they hate God. It’s truly a godless agenda out there that wants to suppress Christian vote and talk them out of it. Call them names. Tell them it’s political. Make them scared of that and you’re right. There are lay people. There are people that given the church and they taught their pastor out of involvement by saying, oh let’s don’t do political.

So, I’ll ask them, can you show me where politics begins in your Bible and your spiritual life stops? Can you show me a book of the Bible that god’s people aren’t talking to, with, from, or about political leaders throughout the Bible, everywhere you see and see, we don’t lose our First Amendment rights. Because we’re in church or even a pastor behind the pulpit. In fact, they’re enhanced. I believe with all my heart, the pastors are the key in every aspect but they’re multipliers of a message and when they get this right, then they’re get this right. It’s why I work through pastors around the country and every state and I just ask him, who are 10 more pastors who need to hear this message. But that’s what I tell him Mercedes is where’s your spiritual life stop and your political life begin.

My God’s big enough to be at everything all the time all day long 365 accepting it leap year. He’s involved in everything. There’s not an area by which we just don’t get involved because Goddoesn’t want you involved. That’s just not true.

Mercedes: I love that and Chad I have a question and also as a follow up. So, if there’s a pastor who’s listening, and he wants to start speaking to these issues, these biblical issues, not political issues. Do you have resources for pastors? That’s one thing that I have been looking high and low for us to help local pastors really have the biblical references for these political quote issues that are really spiritual. Do you guys offer anything like that or know where pastors could go?

Chad Conley: Oh, my goodness, yes. So, at our site, “FaithWins.org”, we are loaded up with videos from other pastors who teach these points. I’d also send them to “WallBuilders.com”. David Barton’s stuff is unmatched. Wall Builders owns 160,000 pieces of original American documentation. 120,000 of them before the war of 1820. They own the actual original pieces. So,if some pointy headed nerd university professor said I think the founders meant no David and Wall Builders own the actual words, the Bibles, the letters, the journals from the founders who quoted God over and over and over again. It’s been a fallacy. It’s been a lie that’s been glossed over, hidden, and lied about.

So, they can go to “FaithWins.org. Watch our videos. Go to “WallBuilders.com” and get all sorts of information. And the other thing I take Mercedes. We’re going to be doing this tour next year in every state we can afford to get to basically. And we’re going to of course do it in 24. We believe this is the beginning of a movement the church to reemerge as a cultural force in America.

Mercedes: Amen.

Lance: Well, we’re going to make sure that our audience knows every state that you’re in so that we could drive the traffic and get the pastors out there and get the people out there. So, if I was kind of the first listening to you and saying, well, you’re saying God is involved with the United States, give me some evidence. What’s in our history that kind of gives you that idea that there’s even been that God has even been in in the inception of this country.

Chad Conley: Yeah, and there’s so much proof and they just got to go back and read original documentation. I’ll give you one great example. Benjamin Franklin is as always known. This is something David Barton talks about a good bit. Benjamin Franklin’s known as the least religious of the founding fathers. Nobody disputes that. Of course, there’s no, that’s all-relative right. Most you could be the least religious in your church and you’re only a 99% Christian or 96%. Benjamin Franklin gave a speech at the 1787, June 28 1787 where he just off the cuff in he had poured his life into this thing called America. He was not biblically illiterate. He was literate. He knew his Bible. And he gave a 14-senate speech. He said things like we’ve been assured sir in the sacred writings that except the Lord build a house. They labor in vain to build it. If a spare cannot fall out his notice how can Empire rise without his aid. He goes on and on and on. Off the cuff for 14 sentences.

James Madison who took notes on the constitutional convention. He wrote down these words of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin didn’t do this from our handwritten note. He spoke from the heart. Out of the abundance of heart, the mouth speaks, Jesus told us. In those 14 sentences y’all, there were 14 scriptural references. Now, today, people, especially maybe a university professor, they’re so biblically illiterate. They don’t even know those are Bible references. But Ben Franklin knew that everybody in the room was so well versed and so well informed about the Bible that he didn’t to say this comes from this scripture. That comes from that scripture. I would challenge anybody. Do the Google. Look at Benjamin Franklin’s speech on June 28, 1787 at the Constitutional Convention. And you know what he did? He called. They were fighting, right.The Virginia plan. The New Jersey plan. They were fighting about who’s going to get what done. And he said, we’re going to let’s pray. Let’s call on the Father of Lights to bless our endeavors. And we’ve called on him throughout our history. Let’s call him now. They had 3 days of prayer fasting and that’s where they hammered out the discussion that became the constitution of the United States.

Nobody can read the declaration and not see the 4 references to God. Nobody can read the constitution and not see the references to God. Nobody can read the founder’s words and not see the references to God unless they’ve been removed. Look at George Washington’s farewell address when he made it clear that we cannot have. You can’t call yourself a patriot if you so the very meaning of the word of God and people miss all that. when Washington was going to be they wanted to make him a king and he quoted Jeremiah 17:9. He said, the heart is wicked and deceitful above all things only God can judge. We were just come from a kingdom we don’t want to be a king. If I were a perfect man and I’m not, who would the next man be a perfect man to the next to the next. He quoted scripture to deny them making him a king and he was elected unanimously as the president of the United States. The first president.

You can go on and on I tell you scripture after scripture. David Barton does a book called The American Story. It’s available on “WallBuilders.com”. It’s probably the best compilation I’ve seen him do and there are other awesome American historians. But David’s probably the greatest living Christian historian, because he owns those documents. He spent his life compiling them in the things to show people. Here’s proof of God’s role. When you read the founder’s words, you cannot deny the existence and hearts of who they believe led them to where what they did.

Lance: And you know what really amazes me is it extends beyond the founders. So, the idea that America is in a Christian nation. Well, it’s so steeped in Christian influence that Lincoln even in the height of the civil war made a proclamation for prayer and fasting. He said, we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We’ve grown in numbers. Wealth and power as no other nation. But we forgotten God. We forgot the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthen us. We vainly imagine in the deceitfulness of our own hearts. All these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and persevering grace. Too proud to pray to the god that made us. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended power to confess our national sin and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Hardly, the kind of speech that you would expect from a raging secularist, that’s a Christian nationalist actually. That’s the prayer of somebody that is fusing God in the founding god in the blessing and the offended god in the civil war saying, our distress currently is the byproduct of offending the god. We become too proud to humble ourselves to and that’s where the church is right now. We can’t expect the secular people to do it, but if we will humble ourselves and pray, that’s the disposition. We don’t have to scratch around the yard to figure out how to pray. Lincoln captured the Zeitgeist, the mood, the perspective of an administration in a crisis. You’re not going to hear that out of this government, but you’re going to hear it out of God’s people. And by the grace of God, we’ll have god’s government govern in the affairs of this nation more than ever. Chad Conley, once again, how do they get in touch with you? We got 30 seconds.

Chad Conley: Yes, sir. “FaithWins.org”. “FaithWins.org”. They can follow what we’re doing and help us out. Even be a poll watcher. Hey, I love you guys and God bless you all for what you’re doing. Keep praying and pushing through the tape.

Lance: Thank you so much, Chad. We’ll be keeping track of you and track of what you’re doing. Well, Mercedes, I’m encouraged when I hear that because this is the news we’re not hearing. There is a mobilization like Nehemiah of God’s people and we’re going to be back again with more. You don’t want to miss a single broadcast.

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