By Ben Everson
We're always talking about how to save America.
But what if I told you Christians might actually be the ones destroying it?
Not with protests.
Not with politics.
With silence. With compromise. With rot in our own house.
When America finally collapses, if it does, it won't be because of who's in the White House. It'll be because of what's been tolerated in God's house.
The Rotten Pillar
A few years ago, a historic church building collapsed during a storm. No lightning. No tornado. Just steady rain and wind. When crews investigated, they found the real culprit: one of the massive support pillars had been slowly hollowed out by termites.
To the eye, it looked like solid stone. But it was rotting from within.
That's us. That's the Church in America.
Everybody's blaming the storm.
Maybe it's time we checked the pillars.
Because if America falls, it won't be drag queens or Democrats that brought it down. It'll be Christians, the very ones called to hold it up.
So how do we destroy a nation? Easy. Just follow this playbook.
1. Neglect Personal Holiness
Destroy America by looking just like it.
Matthew 5:13-16
A family kept noticing a strange smell in their house. They cleaned the garbage. Took out the recycling. Still it lingered. Eventually they pulled out the fridge and found an old Tupperware container, sealed and forgotten for months. When they opened it: mold, slime, rot. It had quietly poisoned the whole kitchen from the back corner of a cold refrigerator.
That's what happens when we stop pursuing holiness. You don't need a moral collapse. Just a neglected spiritual life. Quiet sin. Private compromise. Holiness shoved to the back corner of the soul. We rot from within while the nation smells the stench.
2. Abandon the Bible
Destroy America by becoming biblically illiterate.
Hosea 4:6
I watched a man in downtown San Francisco try to find his hotel with a dead phone. He had the address written down, but no map, no GPS, no clue. He walked five blocks the wrong way before he realized he was lost. Not rebellious. Just disoriented.
Isn't that the Church when we stop opening the Bible? Not hostile to truth. Just lost. Guessing. Wandering. Trying to live for Jesus without ever listening to what He said. The world doesn't only need our passion. It needs our grounding.
3. Worship Comfort Instead of Christ
Destroy America by making church about convenience.
Revelation 3:17
Two ships sit in the harbor. One is a cruise ship: pools, buffets, soft towels. The other is a battleship: steel, radar, weapons. One is built for luxury. The other for war. Send the cruise ship into combat and don't be surprised when it sinks.
When churches are built for comfort instead of conflict, we are that cruise ship. We weren't saved to relax. We were saved to fight. But we traded the mission for convenience, and America is going under while we're still at the buffet line.
4. Tear Down Leaders Instead of Building Up the Body
Destroy America by gossiping about your pastor, splitting churches, and sowing discord.
Proverbs 6:19
A man in a lifeboat panicked during a storm. He didn't like how the captain was shouting orders, so in his frustration he cut the rope tying his boat to the rescue ship, just to make a point.
That's what we do when we tear down our leaders. When we gossip about pastors, sow division, and split over style instead of Scripture. Satan doesn't need to destroy the Church if we'll do it for him. Division is demolition, and we've got the tools in our hands.
5. Forget to Pray
Destroy America by fixing everything except the one thing that matters.
2 Chronicles 7:14
A man showed up to a job site with a brand-new cordless drill. It looked great. But when he squeezed the trigger, nothing happened. The battery was dead. He lined up the screws, pressed down, looked busy. Without power, nothing happened.
We're holding the right tools: Scripture, tradition, truth. But we've unplugged the power. Without prayer it's just noise. Just motion. Just effort with no effect. We don't need more strategies. We need power from above.
The Fire That Wouldn't Spread
During World War II, villagers built a signal fire to guide Allied planes. They stacked it high and soaked it in fuel. When the moment came, they struck the match, and it barely burned. Wet wood. No kindling. No air. The fire never took.
The planes flew overhead, and kept flying.
We have pulpits, programs, budgets, podcasts. But if the fire is gone, the prayer, the purity, the power, the world will keep flying right over us. America won't fall because the fire of evil was too strong. It will fall because the fire of the Church was too weak.
So don't ask, "What can I do to save America?"
Ask, "What am I doing that might be destroying it?"
Let it start here. Let it start now. Let it start with us.
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