For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Daily Faith with Philip Cameron: Special Guest Pastor Earl Glisson
About this episode
Pastor Earl Glisson of Anchor Faith Church in St. Augustine, Florida joins Daily Faith to deliver a compelling, scripture-rooted argument for why the Church must engage in civic life — and why staying silent is not a spiritual option. Drawing on the biblical model of Joseph, Daniel, Esther, and Moses, Glisson reframes the entire conversation: "The Bible is basically a political book of how God chose a nation." He argues that Christians are not merely religious citizens but kingdom ambassadors whose "citizenship is in heaven" — a government term, not a religious one — obligating believers to represent their King's policies here on earth. Glisson dismantles the myth of church-state separation, explains why the Johnson Amendment is constitutionally unenforceable, and challenges pastors to educate their congregations on party platforms rather than personalities. Citing Isaiah 9:6 and 1 Timothy 3:15, he contends that the Church's ultimate role is to be "the pillar and support of the truth" across every sector of society, including government. He also warns that pure democracies historically transition to socialism and then dictatorship — and that the Church's silence accelerates that slide. If you are a believer who has been told to stay out of politics, this episode will reshape how you think about your vote, your voice, and your kingdom responsibility.
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Quotes worth sharing
“When the church is silent, fools speak in our place. When the church folds its hands, the devil finds hands that will do his work.”
“We don't vote for people anyway. This is the problem. We don't vote for people. We vote for platforms. We're voting for party principles.”
“The role of the church is to be the pillar and support of the truth. Truth is, you must be born again. But there are other truths in the scripture besides that that the church is to defend. And we need to do it in the sector of society that is government, because we are ambassadors for the King of Kings, the Lord of glory.”
What's Discussed
Pastor Earl Glisson of Anchor Faith Church in St. Augustine, Florida makes a detailed biblical and constitutional case for Christian civic engagement. He debunks the separation of church and state myth, calls the Johnson Amendment unconstitutional, and draws on Joseph, Daniel, Esther, Moses, and Isaiah 9:6 to show that God's people have always influenced government. Glisson argues believers are kingdom ambassadors obligated to represent their King's positions on abortion, marriage, and economics. He urges Christians to vote on party platforms and kingdom principles rather than candidate personalities, asserting that two consistent election cycles of biblically informed voting could transform the nation.
- Debunking Church-State Separation Myth
- Johnson Amendment Is Unconstitutional
- Kingdom Ambassadors and Civic Duty
- Biblical Figures Who Influenced Government
- Voting Platforms Over Personalities
- Church as Pillar of Truth in Society
- Democracy vs. Constitutional Republic
- Non-Negotiable Kingdom Voting Principles
Scripture in this episode
but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:What?
Philip:Hey, my friend, welcome to Daily Faith. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am glad you're passing our way today. We have got something to talk to you that is absolutely of the utmost importance. This country is in the valley of decision, this nation, in the next few weeks.
Philip:Now, listen to me. I'm from Great Britain. It used to be called Great Britain. Now it's just Britain. That's true. It used to be called Great Britain when Queen Victoria was the Queen of England and Scotland and the British Empire. The boast was that the sun never set on the British Empire — never set. India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, all over the world. The influence of the British Empire today, Great Britain, or Britain as it is now called, is 1% of the size that it used to be, 1%.
Philip:When Queen Victoria was queen, her dream was to throw all of the crowns of the British Empire at the feet of Jesus when he came. When she died, she was crying, a million pounds for a moment of time, because she wanted desperately to cast the crowns of the British Empire at the feet of the King of Kings. And our country turned its back on God, turned its back on Israel.
Philip:And our nation has fallen from preeminence in the world by a million miles — bigger than America's empire will ever be, bigger than the Roman Empire, bigger than any empire that has ever existed in history. The British Empire was the biggest of them all. And today, 1% of what it was. And all we do is do what America tells us. We are a vassal state. We are the 51st state of America.
Philip:The country that we birthed is now in charge of what we do. So when America goes to war — watch, think of it — Britain goes to war. When Britain went to war in the last World War, America rescued us. We would've been defeated, I'm telling you now. Our country was bankrupt. And when the Yankees came over on their ships and went to the Pacific and went all across Europe and shed their blood across Europe to free Europe, and America...
Philip:Now listen, listen to what I'm gonna tell you. America is at risk of following down the same path. We have turned our back on God. We are doing things that are unseemly in his sight. And we're not too big to fail. Bigger than us have failed. And the only element that's left in this country that will save it is the church. The devil doesn't care about politicians. He's got most of them. But the one thing that the devil hates more than anything else, the thing that he fears more than anything else, is a man or a woman of God standing up and talking and speaking truth. Because the church has the power to change this country.
Philip:This nation was founded in the church. The church was the church house. It was the school house. It was the hospital. It was the center of the community. And over the years, America has substituted the church for programs. And they've taxed us so money that should have gone to the church in tithes and offerings, that should have gone to the church, ended up being taken from us by state and by federal government.
Philip:So now they can tell you — I'm watching them — the politicians right now, one's saying, I'm gonna cut your taxes, and the other is saying, we're gonna raise your taxes. They have the right to tell you how much money you'll keep. You earn it. You spend your life creating the money, and they can have programs that are completely and directly against what you believe. And you just shut your mouth and send them the money and let them do what they want. And until the church stirs itself, we are in desperate trouble.
Philip:So today we have a great guest, a great man of God. Earl Glisson is with us. He pastors a church called Anchor Faith Church in St. Augustine, Florida. And he is gonna talk to us from a spiritual perspective. He's much more spiritual than I am, 'cause I'm just so angry right now, 'cause I learned that 70% of the church doesn't vote — 70% of the church. And that is a sin. And we need to talk about this today.
Philip:And we are going to. So I'm delighted to have you with us. You need to share this broadcast today. You need to call your pastor because your pastor needs to get involved in this fight. And maybe the greatest gift you can give your church and your community is to have your pastor stand up and say, I'm not interested in personalities, but I'm interested in godly principles. I'm not voting for Trump because I like Trump. I'm voting for Trump because I believe that he's closest to what I believe according to the word of God.
Philip:That's my principles of it. And we are gonna have a great program. I'm so glad you are with us today. Share us on YouTube and you can hit the like button and share it with your friends if you look on the other social networks. But we need to get this out as far as we can to influence people to go to the polls early and vote. So I'm delighted to have you with us. Welcome to Daily Faith.
Philip:Hey, my friend. Welcome to Daily Faith. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am so glad you are joining us today. We have got a very, very important program. Normally at this time in our show, we'll talk about mission work and what we do overseas. We have tremendous work in Ukraine and Moldova. We've been in Ukraine long before the war started. We have a home with girls in it that are at risk of being trafficked. And we keep them safe. We put them back in school, and orphans become sons and daughters and sons and daughters become missionaries.
Philip:We have a village of houses in Moldova, an amazing place where these girls come and boys come. And that's the largest lake in Moldova. And this place was built for rich people to have a home on the lake. And they poisoned the lake with chlorine to kill algae. And it killed this project. And we ended up buying it after the houses had been sitting empty for nine years, never finished. And we built this place and finished it, and it is now full — every bed full — with young women and young men.
Philip:Every girl you're watching in the video right now is worth $300,000 a year to a trafficker. Every girl — one girl makes $300,000 a year. And they come to us and we share the gospel with them. And Jesus becomes Lord of their lives. And we are watching miraculous stuff happen constantly.
Philip:And normally we show you videos and we kind of do a day in the life and what they're up to. But today I'm not doing that because what we wanna talk about — and my guest today, I believe, has a subject that is so important — that we're changing the schedule of the program to just let our pastor friend share from a biblical perspective as to what our responsibility is regarding the future of America.
Philip:Let me tell you, listen to me. I'm Scottish. If you listen to my accent, I'm Scottish. I came to America in 1969. I've been here for 55 years. America is the biggest mess I've ever seen. America is collapsing. I'm telling you now. We have stretched away from the word of God so far that we are at a tipping point. And I believe with all my heart that this next election is going to decide the future — whether America continues under the blessing of God or whether America fails like every other great society has ever failed.
Philip:When the Romans were conquering the world, the then-known world, when the Egyptians were the greatest society, the Greeks — I could go on for hours and tell you that societies that do exactly the same thing that we are doing right now, going through exactly the same actions, committing the same sins.
Philip:I mean, have you ever been to Pompeii in Italy? I have, several times, and Herculaneum. And they were despotic cities where vile practices took place, and Rome thought that we could do this, and they stretched their borders and they were the big guys. And if you go to Scotland, where I come from, I'll show you the wall called Hadrian's Wall across the country, where they built the wall to keep the northern Scots out. And that was where the end of the Roman Empire came from.
Philip:America is not too big to fail. And the greatest sin of what is being done just now is the church is sitting on the sidelines and watching this train wreck happen. 70% of the church — listen — 70% of the church does not vote. If the church in the next few weeks would stir itself and stand up and say, we are going to believe and vote on righteousness according to the word of God, this election wouldn't just be a blowout. It'd be the biggest transformation of a nation in history.
Philip:When the church is silent, fools speak in our place. When the church folds its hands, the devil finds hands that will do his work. We are killing babies at a rate that is unbearable to think about. Hitler — oh, Hitler — how they insult President Trump. He's like Hitler. The inference is, and the reason why Hitler got that reputation was he killed 6 million Jews in gas ovens. I've been in Dachau, been in Auschwitz. I've touched the ovens where these people were burned to death. 6 million.
Philip:Do you know how many babies have died in America? Do you know how many American babies — American babies with American blood pulsing through their veins — were pulled out of a woman's womb and cut in pieces? Do you know how many? We've killed 63 million. Guys with suits and white coats and stethoscopes, with calm voices, and politicians will talk about a woman's health. A woman's health ends up being the death of a baby, a wee soul that God has knit together in his mother's womb, known by God, known intricately by God.
Philip:And we have done that. And I was sharing with Pastor Earl before the program. I can't find anything else to talk to you about. Nothing else makes sense. Anyway, I may be a bit radical, but I don't think I am. I believe I'm standing on pretty solid ground. I am honored to have him listen with me today. He pastors Anchor Faith Church in St. Augustine, Florida, a great church. This guy has got vision, and when I see a man doing what he's doing in the days we're living in, my hat is off to him. I'm so delighted to have you with me today, my friend.
Philip:Excuse me for shouting and screaming and hooting and hollering. But I'm just a wee bit worked up at the moment because I know that America is at risk.
Earl Glisson:Yeah. America is at risk. And the church can save it though. We have the saving power. We have the Savior, and if we'll do our part in line with the word, then, as you're correct, in two election cycles our whole nation would be completely different. Absolutely.
Philip:So it's great to be on the program with you today. Tell us — there are other pastors watching today who have been scared into silence by the Johnson Amendment. If you talk about politics in church, we're gonna pull your 501(c)(3) away. As far as I know, it's never been done. But the threat has been so powerful that the church has sat down and shut its mouth. The largest percentage of this country, the faith partner of America, has been silenced by this fear. How does a pastor stand up this coming Sunday and speak to his church and let them know it's good and it's necessary that you go to the polls in the next few weeks?
Debunking Church-State Separation Myth
Earl Glisson:Yeah. It's very easy for a pastor to take the position to be able to communicate our civic duty. You know, first we have to get rid of a couple of myths. The first myth we have to get rid of is this idea of separation of church and state. If a pastor would actually study that letter specifically, they would understand that Thomas Jefferson was communicating that we're not gonna build a republic that is going to dictate how the churches worship. And that was the extent of that letter.
Earl Glisson:As far as the Johnson Amendment aspect, that is actually an unconstitutional law. Many groups have been daring them to come and sue them for that. But the power of the enemy is fear. The IRS, the government, is not coming after pastors for standing in a pulpit having a conversation about political parties or the right to vote as a citizen of the United States. They just want to keep the fear that's there, because they know what would actually happen. The church would sue, it would go to the Supreme Court, and it would be found unconstitutional.
Earl Glisson:Absolutely. Because every other nonprofit group can have a conversation concerning any political party. But the church is all of a sudden exempt from that. But that's just not legally accurate. So a couple of things that pastors need to do, and it's from a biblical perspective. Number one, we are in, you know, Abraham's perspective. God came to Abraham and said this: I'm gonna make you a great nation, and whoever blesses you will be blessed, whoever curses you will be cursed.
Johnson Amendment Is Unconstitutional
Earl Glisson:So when we look at the context of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, it's really about a king, his kingdom, and his royal offspring. And it's about God's government, his kingdom, influencing here on the earth. And so why would the church even pray for Israel if we weren't gonna get involved in government affairs? Because Israel's not a religion. It's an actual nation that exists on the earth.
Earl Glisson:Why is it that we believe that any nation that supports Israel is blessed? And that's government to government — that has nothing to do with religion. And so pastors are confident to have that position, but they are less confident to be able to communicate concerning policies that are going on in our nation. And then you get over to Isaiah chapter nine, verse six, which says a child will be born, a son will be given, and the government shall rest on his shoulders. And there are so many terms that are within the word of God that the church knows.
Kingdom Ambassadors and Civic Duty
Earl Glisson:But if we don't watch out, because we have taken this myth of separation of church and state and that we stay out of politics, we find ourselves downplaying words that are not religious in any form or fashion. They are literally national or involved with government terms. So the prophet said, a child will be born and a son will be given and the government shall rest on his shoulders. Jesus came to bring the kingdom back so that we would have access.
Earl Glisson:And as kingdom citizens, because we are born again or born from above, our citizenship is in heaven. Citizenship is a government term — it is associated with a nation, not a religion. And then we are called ambassadors for Christ. Christ is not his last name. Christ is a title. It is the Greek equivalent to the Hebrew word Messiah, which is the king who will come and set up his kingdom forever.
Earl Glisson:So we all know that Jesus is the king. Jesus is only representing the ideals of his Father who sits on a throne. Thrones are in kingdoms, and kingdoms are in governments and not in religions. And so everything we do as a church really should be from this perspective of an embassy where all the ambassadors come together to hear from our home country, so that we can influence this world that we're not even of, with the policies and positions of our kingdom.
Earl Glisson:So when an ambassador from the United States is in a territory or a nation they're not of, they say to that nation, this is not my opinion on the matter, but my government's position is this. Every believer should have the same perspective. So as a pastor, I can confidently stand in a pulpit and say, the kingdom's position concerning abortion, the kingdom's position concerning transgender, the kingdom's position concerning homosexuality, the kingdom's position concerning any sexuality, the kingdom's position concerning economics — the list goes on.
Earl Glisson:And so pastors have to come from that perspective. At that point, all they're doing is representing a nation they are of, that they all believe they'll go to when they die. We are to be the light of the earth. And that's not just Jesus saves you from your sin. That is, my government's position in this matter is this. And that's the influence the church should have.
Earl Glisson:And when we look at our history books concerning the scripture, we see that it's only about God's covenant people influencing local governments. Joseph is a person of covenant that influenced a local government all the way up to the king — he's called Pharaoh — of a government. Daniel did the same thing. And Daniel went through multiple administrations. And all of them were impactful with the policies that are associated with those nations.
Biblical Figures Who Influenced Government
Earl Glisson:And here's the next thing. The people who are kings in nations may never convert to God. Pharaoh never changed his belief system or his gods. Joseph, when he encountered him concerning his dreams, did not say, you worship the wrong gods. He only dealt with him on policy. He says, you're gonna have an economic collapse, but here's how you can overcome that. Daniel had the same things. They had conversations that were impactful for those nations.
Earl Glisson:Esther — for such a time as this — not to extend a religion, but to save a nation. Moses — let my people go. I mean, that was everything. Let my people go. Everything is political. The Bible basically is a political book of how God chose a nation and said, you'll be my people and I'll be your God. And who blesses you I'll bless, who curses you I'll curse. And the dealings of the Old Testament all the way through is God protecting and wreaking vengeance on those who were against his people, setting up kings, taking down kings.
Earl Glisson:If you go through the whole Bible, it is a political story. God is involved in politics. We are going to rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years. Where, Christian friend of mine, where are we going to rule and reign — in some vaporous clouds somewhere floating around over the Atlantic Ocean? No, we're going to rule and reign here.
Philip:That's right. For us to sit on the side — I've got a dear friend, and when Donald Trump first ran, this dear friend of mine — I don't bet, but I bet, and he's never paid it. That's been eight years ago. And he wanted Ted Cruz to win. And I mean, we had drag-down fights. I'll never vote for that man. He's crass, he's rude. He's this and he's that. And I said, I agree, all of those things are true. But I'll tell you what he does have — he stands closest to our truth, to what I believe we should be, because God doesn't use godly men and saints all the time. He uses Cyrus. He uses guys that fail and fall.
Philip:But David — for crying out loud — David was the king, which was the president of Israel. You wanna talk about a guy that killed and committed adultery and did everything else? And then at the end of it, he says, now that's a man after my own heart. So don't look at the personalities of a person. Look at what he can bring or she can bring into being.
Voting Platforms Over Personalities
Earl Glisson:That's true. And we don't vote for people anyway. This is the problem. We don't vote for people. We vote for platforms. We're voting for party principles. And so most people are ignorant of that party's platforms in general. In 2019, we made a conscious decision that we were going to educate and equip our congregation to be the most well-informed people when they go to vote. I do not tell people who to vote for. I will tell our congregation, when I step out of this pulpit, when it comes to a candidate, if you want to know who I'll vote for, I'll tell you, because I am a citizen of the United States just like you are. And I have no problem communicating to you why I will vote for a very specific person. I don't openly endorse an individual from the platform.
Earl Glisson:But I will communicate clearly from the scripture. And if you have ears to hear, it becomes very clear which parties — and when I say parties, there's more than just the Democratic and Republican party in the United States anyway — but of those platforms, it's very simple to say, well, I have to go with the kingdom. Which one aligns the most, the closest? And as a result of that, it becomes a very clear choice.
Earl Glisson:Again, the individual themselves — I mean, how many people come to the church that aren't yet mature? How many of them still fall into sin? How many of them are carnal? How many of them are babes in Christ? I mean, we tolerate and undergird and strengthen the saints to grow. Well, how much more should we do for other individuals that are being elected to power? Sure. But yet they are favorable to the church. And so those are the things that we are constantly communicating when it comes to legislation and amendments and those things.
Earl Glisson:Well, at that point, we are being very direct, even from the platform. Because that's not endorsing an individual — that is behavior and lifestyle that is very clear in scripture. And at the end of the day, isn't it the church's responsibility to communicate what truth is? Philip, the problem is the church got away from its original role. We say the church's role is to win the lost. That is an aspect of the church, but it's not its ultimate role. Its ultimate role is found in First Timothy, where it says that the role of the church is to be the pillar and support of the truth.
Earl Glisson:Truth is, you must be born again. But there are other truths in the scripture besides that that the church is to defend. And we need to do it in the sector of society that is government, because we are ambassadors for the King of Kings, the Lord of glory. In fact, he calls us a holy nation in the new covenant. So all we are doing is representing our nation to all the nations of the world. None of those governments are going to exist anymore. The only one that will remain forever is the kingdom of God.
Philip:Oh my goodness. This is absolutely — I hope, watching me today, there are Christians that are going to get off their seats and go vote. Your responsibility, your civic responsibility, your spiritual responsibility. Let me tell you what happened to the church, because we have been pushed to the side by the Johnson Amendment and other things. What's happened is we have lost our voice in this debate. So these guys laugh at us and think, look at those silly people over there sitting in that church and claiming all kinds of stuff while we vote.
Philip:There's a story I often tell of this church. This city had two men running for mayor. One was a hellion, an absolute reprobate, and the other was a good, godly man. So the pastors of the community were thinking, well, we've got to pray and ask God to give us the victory. And so in a unique and unusual show of solidarity, all the pastors got together and all the churches had a whole day of prayer on election day. They prayed, my goodness. They prayed and read scripture and they prayed to protect our city.
Church as Pillar of Truth in Society
Philip:And at the end of the evening when the results were tabulated, to their amazement, the good guy hardly got any votes at all. And the hellion became the mayor because all the Christians were so busy praying in the church that they didn't go and vote.
Earl Glisson:That's right. I mean, we have the privilege in our nation to vote. And that is our civic duty. Again, that's why God called us to pray. Moses delivered the nation of Israel from Egypt. God did not do that alone. In fact, when we see him encounter Moses in the third chapter of Exodus, he says, I've come to deliver my people. So Moses is like, great, I'm glad you're doing that. He says, now get up, go. He says, wait a minute, I thought you were doing it. He says, but I don't do it by myself. I do it with man.
Earl Glisson:And so God has empowered the US church. We actually, unlike other of God's churches in other nations who cannot vote like us — he's empowered us to be able to vote. So again, we can't say, well, I guess it was God's will for that person to be in office, when the reality is it could be the lack of the church — and most of the time it is the lack of the church — voting in line with the principles of the kingdom.
Earl Glisson:If the church would've always done this from the inception of our nation, we never would have tolerated ungodly people in power, because we would've always been able to vote them out. And again, the church has also kind of adopted this new thought that's happened in the US, which is we are a democracy. We are not a democracy. We are a constitutional republic. Yet the church has adopted a democratic mindset. Well, you know, pastor, you believe what you wanna believe. We're gonna believe what we want to believe, and we'll all get along. Well, the Bible is truth. And I believe what I believe because that's what the Bible says. That's what the Spirit has revealed. These are not my personal opinions.
Earl Glisson:Well, in our nation, the Constitution is what governs the lives of the citizens. Yet we act like we're just a democracy. No. We have the ability to vote democratically for our leaders, which empowers us, but yet they want to write laws or they really want to change our constitution, remove our republic, and as a result become a democracy. And if you've done any history in government, pure democracies are a transitional government to socialism, which then transitions straight into dictatorship every time.
Philip:Every time. Let me tell you something, the church is the same. If the church is a pure democracy, that's exactly what happens, because the unhappy people vote. This country has become beaten to death by unhappy people. Transgender, my identity, my truth — it's not your truth. God's truth counts. And if the church could stand up in the next few weeks...
Philip:We've got three minutes left in this program, and it has flown past. And I appreciate your wisdom today because I know there are a lot of folk that have been trained — I mean, since they were kids — no, that's not us, that we pray and we go to church. But that's the dirty stuff that all those other people do. And I believe the church should have the judges, and I believe the church should have the school boards. That's what this guy saw. He's not going after the big national things. He's going after your school board.
Philip:So what happens is you can have boys and girls sharing showers because the school board says it's all right. And he's going down to the smaller parts of government. And in your community in St. Augustine, I know that a church of your size and your voice could literally impact a whole race. You've enough folk that could go and vote and say, this is the kind of school board we want to have. And in your hometown, wherever you're watching this from today, you have the authority. If the church would rise up and not vote on a personality — don't look at personality, look at principles.
Democracy vs. Constitutional Republic
Philip:Give us two or three principles. We've only a minute and 50 seconds left. Give us two or three principles that you think are unbreakable as far as a Christian voting.
Earl Glisson:Number one is God has the right to define the relationship between man and woman. Again, we are cast as homophobic, but the reality is we are against fornication, which is a heterosexual relationship outside of marriage, just as much as we are against adultery, which is a heterosexual relationship but not between husband and wife. And so God has the right, and those are non-negotiables. You are not loving when you are communicating relationships that are outside of God's character and what God has defined.
Earl Glisson:Again, before you were in your mother's womb, I knew you. And so life begins at conception. Now, there is no law in the 50 states of the United States that has that kind of position on a child. The strictest ones are six weeks. You can still have an abortion at six weeks. So when you hear that they banned abortion, that is not true. Every state legally allows abortion in the United States.
Earl Glisson:But that's a non-negotiable because life is with God. Those are just some very simple principles. And God has a right to identify us. We don't have a right to identify ourselves. Now, God will let you do whatever you want to do, but at the end he's gonna hold you accountable to what he has said, because his word is the final authority. So I would just admonish here in the last couple of seconds: if you are a believer, you need to get out and vote. You need to vote based upon the principles of the kingdom of God. Because we can change everything in two election cycles and our nation will look totally different.
Non-Negotiable Kingdom Voting Principles
Philip:Amen. Thank you for watching Daily Faith. Go vote. Bye-bye.
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Common questions
What does Pastor Earl Glisson say about the Johnson Amendment and whether pastors can legally talk about politics from the pulpit?
Glisson argues the Johnson Amendment is unconstitutional, pointing out that every other nonprofit can discuss political parties freely — the church is the only one singled out. He says the IRS is not actually coming after pastors for speaking about voting or political principles; the real weapon is fear, and if a church were sued over it, he believes it would go to the Supreme Court and be struck down.
How does Pastor Glisson explain the 'separation of church and state' idea, and why does he think pastors misunderstand it?
Glisson says pastors need to go back and actually read Thomas Jefferson's original letter, which was simply saying the new republic would not dictate how churches worship — nothing more. He argues the phrase has been stretched far beyond its original meaning to silence the church on civic matters it was never meant to be excluded from.
Does Pastor Glisson tell his congregation who to vote for?
Not from the pulpit — Glisson says he doesn't openly endorse individual candidates on the platform, but he does clearly teach which policy platforms align with biblical principles and lets the congregation draw their own conclusions. He adds that if someone asks him personally, outside the pulpit, he'll tell them exactly who he's voting for and why, because he's a U.S. citizen just like they are.
What are the non-negotiable voting principles Pastor Glisson says every Christian should apply?
He names two core principles: first, that God alone has the right to define marriage and human sexuality, making any sexual relationship outside of that definition a non-negotiable issue; and second, that life begins at conception, which means abortion at any stage is off the table scripturally — he also notes that despite claims to the contrary, no U.S. state has actually banned abortion, with even the strictest laws permitting it up to six weeks.
Why does Pastor Glisson say Christians should think of themselves as ambassadors rather than just religious believers when it comes to politics?
Glisson frames the church as an embassy of the kingdom of God, with every believer functioning as an ambassador. Just as a U.S. ambassador in a foreign country doesn't share personal opinions but states their government's official position, Christians should be able to say 'the kingdom's position on this issue is...' — whether that's abortion, economics, or sexuality — rather than treating those stances as merely private religious views.
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