America’s greatest treasure is not located in Fort Knox, Kentucky or in lower Manhattan, New York; throughout our history our greatest national treasure has been located in our towns, villages, hamlets, communities, and cities… in Main Street America.

Often, you would find our national treasure next to a United States Post Office, or perhaps down the street from the Courthouse or General Store, a beautiful place of worship called the Christian church. Some churches are decorated with ornate fixtures, leaded glass, pipe organs, and masonry arches. However, the majority of our churches were simple wooden structures, with exterior cladding, cornices, entablatures, shutters, columns, and even wooden balustrades. All of them, whether standing tall in monumental grandeur in a bustling city center or picturesquely set on a hill outside of town, these beautiful houses of worship defined the character of our nation’s parishioners and the sincerity of their worship to Jesus Christ.

New England Church In Fall
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Often, the whole town could hear the midday toll of the chimes or bells in the church’s bell-tower. The sweet melodic sounds resonating from those simple steeples reminded the townspeople of the goodness of God and stirred within their hearts a desire to gather again with friends in worship.

The memories of our grandparent’s churches still soothe our souls and quiet our spirits today. There is a certain peace and tranquility that is found within the premises of these hallowed churches.

The Christian church was then, and is now, a central part of American society. Regardless of how careless we may have become in our stewardship of its teachings or in our willingness to live out its truths in our personal lives, we are none the less, a nation of people whose founding is on the bedrock of Judeo-Christian morality, teaching, ethics, and character. The Bible has always been the hallowed Book our nation has historically looked to and referenced as its source for spiritual guidance.

Each of our founders pledged the solidarity of their lives while holding the Bible. You will find Christianity and its teachings casting its radiant hues throughout their quotes, instructions, writings, ledgers, memoirs, and/or daily diaries. You will find innumerable references to their Christian faith and to Jesus Christ, Christianity’s God.

Christianity’s adversaries have launched a full scale assault against the landscape of America’s Christian heritage. They are set in their destructive will. They have set their sights on expunging our historical Christian narrative, changing the God we worship, and abolishing many of our treasured landmarks – our Christian churches. The enemies of Christianity are counting on the passivity that checkers the landscape of modern Christian ideology and culture. The enemies of Jesus Christ count on the naiveté of easy-going Christians. In fact, the enemies of the Cross believe that Christian’s pursuit of peace through pacifism has already yielded a great victory to them, the subtle surrender of many of the beatific highpoints of American history.

Few Christians are aware of the depth to which Christianity and its Message has impacted our nation’s historical narrative. History provides such a unique perspective on the force and influence of Christianity in America. Facts such as the United States Capitol regularly serving as a Christian Church building; a practice that began even before Congress officially moved into the building. The Capitol served as a church until well after the Civil War. David Barton wrote an article entitled, "Church in the U. S. Capitol" dated November 10, 2005.

Source: http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=90

It’s our history that captures our nation’s reverence for the Scripture and its profound influence in our politics. For example, few people seem to be aware that in 1865, Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) became the first African American to speak to Congress. But Mr. Garnet was not invited to merely give a speech; no, he was invited by the United States Congress to preach a sermon in Congress to commemorate the passing of the 13th Amendment on February 12, 1865.

Fast forward one hundred and forty nine years and today you’ll find our nation’s Congress passing laws against the Christianity to which it once ascribed. You will discover men and women in high office who seem to be possessed with a zealot’s ambition to aid and abet every enemy of Christianity, both foreign and domestic.

What will become of our nation’s greatest treasures?

Have we, as a society, fallen so far from Christianity that we have no recollection of its Gospel brilliance, the promise of Christs’ redemption and His saving grace? Have we really become a land where any god will do? Have we become a nation whose lust for entertainment, thirst for a thrill, and hunger for appeasement, drown out the sweet chimes that once tolled from the bell-towers of our hope? Are we that nation that will silently sit back and allow our leaders to decimate our freedoms, the very freedoms that are the result of our Christian values?

I have but one more question for you. Will you sit back and watch until the sweet melodic sounds of America’s Christian bells toll no more and her chimes are replaced by the sound of the adhān (see below) five times a day?

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord….and Save America’s Christian Churches.

Listen to the adhān (or the azan as it is called in the Middle East)