Amy Hawk

“According to Jesus, the gospel can be contaminated by at least two common attitudes, which can spread throughout the church and ruin the whole batch of dough. Some of the Pharisees were judgmental and hypocritical. Their religious instruction was heavy on control and rules and legalism and hoop jumping, and had a convenient way of overlooking the log in its own eye while barring entrance to God’s kingdom for others. For example, a gospel contaminated by such a yeast might condemn a gay, married, and monogamous person for sexual immorality, while simultaneously saluting a twice-divorced, thrice-married, unrepentant serial adulterer and sexual assailant who sleeps with porn stars while his wife is home tending to their infant son. This is the type of hypocrisy Jesus can’t stand.”
― Amy Hawk, The Judas Effect: How Evangelicals Betrayed Jesus for Power

“In the same way, God doesn’t need a Trump for Christianity to prosper in America. And this may come as a shock to white American Evangelicals who have been conditioned to believe otherwise, but he also doesn’t need a United States of America. We are no more or less special to him than any other country on planet Earth.57 Love of country is wonderful, but idolatry of country is quite a different matter. America could dissolve tomorrow, and the kingdom of God would be unconcerned. The gospel does not begin and end on American soil. It originates in heaven, and when God has a mind to bring his kingdom to earth, he can use any people he wills, any nation he wills, any time, any old way he chooses. *”
― Amy Hawk, The Judas Effect: How Evangelicals Betrayed Jesus for Power