Black Robe Regiment

[teamnelson]

https://nationalblackroberegiment.com/history-of-the-black-robe-regiment/

It is strange to today’s generation to think that the rights listed in the Declaration of Independence were nothing more than a listing of sermon topics that had been preached from the pulpit in the two decades leading up to the American Revolution, but such was the case.

But it was not just the British who saw the American pulpit as largely responsible for American independence and government, our own leaders agreed. For example, John Adams rejoiced that “the pulpits have thundered” and specifically identified several ministers as being among the “characters the most conspicuous, the most ardent, and influential” in the “awakening and a revival of American principles and feelings” that led to American independence.

Historians today, and the British at the time, attribute our ability to win Independence against all odds directly to the Black Robe Regiment - bold preachers, encouraging the people to stand up for liberty. To be clear, it was not about party, it was about liberty - those Creator endowed rights that they had preached about for years prior. Preachers from differing denominations united in this. And those preachers captured by the British suffered extra punishment because they were recognized as the source of courage to the troops. There would be no USA without the pulpit, and there will be no USA without the pulpit.

Where is the Black Robe Regiment today?

[Dee]

Their shivering behind their 401C3 status created by Lyndon Baines Johnson and company with the  Johnson Amendment.

Many are seminary trained, denomination fearing, government controlled goobers,  who get their Sunday sermons from the most popular of the day , internet sermon service.

Patriot Preachers are out there, are few and far between, and will be promptly shut down if they speak out too loudly.

Most today are "profession driven" little wimps whose passion is to get mega church status, without rockin the boat.

The preachers you speak of were the circuit riding preachers, that could sit horse in all kinds of weather, live off scraps, studied THE BIBLE,  not someone's "opinion commentary" , had spiritual discernment, was willing to look the devil in the eye and grin back at him.

Those types will show up AFTER THE FACT, when the winnowing has trashed the weaklings that are a mile wide, and less than an inch in depth.

[ironglows]

To his credit, Pres Trump tried hard to get rid of the free speech robbing Johnson amendment.  He put effort into rescinding the blockage created by LBJ, but the efficacy of his move is still debated.
  Surely if the hate-god gang moves onto capital hill, they sure won't do a thing to help God's work, and will likely work against Him...as they have been doing for years !
   If I were a pastor at a local church, I would pay little or no attention to the Johnson amendment, since the likes of J Jackson and Al Shark-ton, have not been jailed yet, and it seems they raise campaign funds at the churches they visit!
  What needs to happen is for churches to unite in the sense of pooling their efforts and resources to combat such injustices.
  Jay Sekulo is doing a good job with his organization, but one group cannot take on ALL the injustices by themselves.
  Here's a preacher who "calls them as he sees them"..and he is located in Leesburg, VA...not far from DC !
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wInJkBEHQw

[pastorp]

Tune into SBN, the Swaggarts 24 hour Christian television broadcasting network and you will plainly see the pulpit proclaimers are not scared or dead.

Their TV goes into most of the world as well as the USA.

[teamnelson]

I for one was in a church yesterday that continues in the spirit of the black robe regiment ...

a problem I see is we have people that treat the Bible and the Constitution with equal disdain. That I have a copy of each does not make me knowledgeable nor able to teach anyone about it, or speak with authority on it. Without a good understanding of the A(a)uthor(s), the historical context, the language, the theological and philosophical ideas that were at work in the minds of the writers, all of which require some time, effort, and submission to the teaching of more learned men ... without that, any man can hold up their copy of the Constitution and imagine the 2A is about hunting, or their copy of the Bible and imagine that since the word abortion does not appear in it, God must be okay with it.

As long as we treat the office of pastor with disdain, imagining that anyone with a copy of the Bible is as equally equipped for office of pastor as anyone else, then we will continue to have weak and timid pastors, leading weak and timid churches. They will lack the courage that can only come from the vocation call, the indwelling of the spirit enabling that specific call, and the self-discipline that comes from humbling themselves to be a learner of the word. Paul the most educated Jew in Israel under the best teachers still spent 8 more years studying before he preached his first Christian sermon. Maybe if we were as hesitant as he was, maybe if we didn't rush the ill equipped and ill prepared into the pulpit, maybe if we didn't treat the very job of Pastor like a joke and a byword, but with the respect that the book of Acts suggests, we'd have better pastors in the pulpit.

I was in a great little New England church yesterday, all of the pastors are devout men of the word and prayer, boldly speaking out against ungodly counsel of government that leads to fear and not freedom. The church has survived a couple of decades during which time the other churches have cycled through one untrained immature dude with a bible after another and gone through all manner of heresy as a result, which weakens and divides the church. Yet this little church persists, grows slowly and deeply. A more praying church I've not seen. I have hope ... especially when I remember that for all of that, only 3% of the American colonials participated in obtaining their independence. It doesn't take everyone, it just takes enough, but they have to be strong in a way that is hard to find.