God Is doing a new thing, can't you perceive it?
By Mona Austin
(TSN): Ever since Pres. Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to establish a faith based office on the grounds of the White House, the Constitutional demand on separation of church and state has been challenged. The very existence of the office, which is dedicated to empowering faith-based entities in the U.S. was a harbinger to major changes to God-in-government policies. The Trump White House has become a place where Christianity is embraced and the faithful are openly normalizing religious practice in the public sphere.
For 47-minutes, Pres. Donald Trump addressed a group of faith and business leaders with a progress report on how he is delivering on campaign promises and fighting to restore Judeo-Christian values to America at a luncheon organized by the White House Faith Office. Simultaneously, he augmented the contributions of Christian CEOs in the room acknowledged for doing charitable business nationally and internationally. At this first-of-its-type endeavor, Mr. Trump assauged the leaders to continue partnering with the White House to perpetuate the spiritual transformation of the nation that has begun to take shape under his conservative leadership.
“We celebrate the core values that built this country -- freedom, hard work, risk-taking and above all, trust in Almighty God,” he said. Likening them to John D. Rockefeller, a well known philabthropist, the president said that Christian business people have always enriched American society since the pilgrums arrived.
The event provided a different angle of acknowledgment for the faith-based community from only trumpeting evangelical voters who overwhelmingly re-elected the president. Instead, this gathering highlighted members of that demographic who wed their work to their faith and use their wealth for good.
Senior Advisor of the faith-based office Paula White Cain recognized in her remarks that God is doing a new thing with Christian business leaders in America . "Can you not perceive it?" She asked referring to the scripture.
"Prayer, worship, and doing good works is welcome back into the White House," Cain asserted to the around 60 entrepreneurial leaders gathered in the State Dining Room.
Kelly Loeffler, head of the SBA, Howard Lutnick the Commerce Secretary, and Economic Advisor Kevin Hassett were in attendance.
Founder of Hobby Lobby David Greene, Chairman and CEO of Jockey International, Inc. Debra Waller, Quest Events founder Lee Dunlap, Aethon Energy founder Albert Huddleston, Shoppa’s Material Handling founder Jimmy Shoppa and others were expected to attend.
The event comes a week after a major shift in the way the government and the church operate in the United States. The IRS made a notable change due to a reinterpretatio of the Johnson Amendment which hasa prevented churches from directly endorsing political candidate from the pulpit since the sixties. In order to maintain tax exempt status, houses of worship were expected to remain politically neutral. The agency granted a consent decree in a court case that said poltical endorsements in churches are the same as having a family talk about politics and should nit violate a church's status. Trumo said he was unaware of the Johnson Amendment at first.
The lenghty engagement was reflective of the president's personal commitment to serve God and country after he was miraculously saved from an assassintion attempt last year.
His list of successes not only reflected some economic progress but also how the the country is regaining moral ground. Working to balance the business with the spiritual.
He talked about the push back on culture wars, especially expressing disdain for the liberalism that took over in sports before he took.office a second time. He recalled a story about how far behind a trans track athlete left biological girls in a race using it as a example of how far the left the nation had gone on cultural differences.
"The whole thing is crazy and demeaning to the women of this country," he said.
The president took credit for ending wokness in the vkuntry and went on to address economix gains such as lowering gas prices. He saus the bugesst was signjng the One Big Beautiful Bill into law.
He also touted the so called "Trump Account" which makes a $1000 investment when a child is born, giving Michael Dell credit for the idea. The investment can be redeemed at arpund the age of 30 when the estimated increase would be around $70 thousand.
Mose importantly we restored the spirit of coubtry. We were so down. . . Religion took a big hut because of the way churches and pastors were treates durung COVID.
"I stopped the BIden Administration's persecution of Christians and pro-lifers."
Trump told the auduence that it was all "bullsh*t" that he got indicted and impeached multiple times.
Several times during his speech Trump ruminated about the failure of the previous administratiion, saying, "We can never forget what the past administration did to this country." He assessed that the coubtry was dinegrated under the rule of the Biden Administration under which he clained staffers ran the Oval Office and operated the country by autopen.
The White House press office has not publicized various endeavors of the Faith Office to the mainstream media broadly of the wntore Wgjte Hkuse press corp for unspecified reasons.