Pastor Tony Evans says America is under divine judgment from God because Christians are failing to represent His Kingdom and are more ‘cultural,’ not ‘biblical.’

“We’ve been more cultural Christians than biblical Christians,” Evans said during his sit-down interview with The Christian Post.

“Our identity is to be rooted in the Imago Dei, in the image of God. But we’ve gotten so ingrained in the thinking of the culture, that we wind up being parakeets to what the society is saying, rather than taking a solid, loving but clear stance on what God is saying,” Tony continued. 

Christians shouldn’t take Pastor Evans’s warning lightly. The Bible tells us that God will judge the world one day, and everyone will be held accountable for their actions. As Christians, we know that we will be judged according to our deeds, so it is important to live our lives in a way that is pleasing to God.

“From womb to tomb, God identifies the person as a bearer of the image of God, so much so that James 3:9 says that you can’t even curse a person because they are created in the image of God,” Evans said.

Christians are turning further away from God, which leads toward the inevitable. Evans says that Christians need to become empowered by the Lord and ultimately choose His holiness over idolatry. Only then will you be able to see through the deceit of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Evans stated “The dignity of every human being has to be held in the highest standard less you insult God. And when you understand that, that is how God made us and that is how he wants us to relate, God is not colorblind, He’s just not blinded by color. He recognizes and has created the uniquenesses of the cultures in which we are born and the ethnicities, but He never wants that to be the deciding factor for decision making in our lives.”

Pastor Evans explained that when putting race, identity, or even national allegiance above Christianity is “idolatry,” and “whenever that national allegiance causes you to have non-Christian perspectives, underneath the flag, then what you have done is you’ve created a national idol that God must resist, reject and judgment.”

Evans said that America is already under God’s judgment and cited recent conflicts for evidence. Evans cited 2 Chronicles 15:3-6, 

“One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress,”

America continues to remain deeply divided by racial conflicts. It is something we must frankly acknowledge so that we can change this oncoming course.

“What we’re seeing now is conflict, and the conflict is the judgment because God has been removed and the idolatry of culture, nationalism, and race has replaced God’s primacy in our lives,” Evans said. “He’s allowing a conflict until it gets so bad that we wake up and look up.”

Evans says when we tell God He is not invited to prayer or worship due to our “illegitimate disunity,” we have wasted our time because whenever God sees disunity, He keeps Himself away.

How do Christians fix the problem?

Take action and become “bridge builders” that foster relationships through racial and cultural diversity. Start conversations with friends and family about race and culture and how we can better understand and respect each other. Christians should never compromise the essentials of their faith for those relationships. Christians should never idolize their ministry. It puts God in the background and makes them vulnerable. Pastor Evans says Christians need to “keep that dynamic to God’s Word and God’s person.”

Even when life is difficult, we must have hope. When we see chaos ensue, we must know that God has allowed it because He’s setting things “up for His return.” If He’s not returning for a short time, then Evans warns that it will be a “divine reset and reshaping culture.”

Judgment day will be a moment of truth when all things will be “turned back to the way they were meant to be.” Trust in His righteousness and keep your eyes on the prize to prosper in His promises!