46. Pastor Story Hour

Rejecting Drag Queen Story Hour and Cultural Passivity

Welcome back to the podcast where we prod the sheep and beat the wolf. This is a special episode called Pastor Story Hour. Yeah, I'm going there. We live in a drag queen story world. You know, just a few years ago in the LGBTQ stronghold of San Francisco, drag queen story hour was birthed and unleashed upon the world.

Adult perverts with a penchant for sexualizing children, donned their demonic costumes and infiltrated one public library after another. Within a few weeks and continuing on in the years ahead, an unholy movement was spawned that would captivate the country.

Today, in libraries all across this nation, the mentally disturbed and morally degenerate continue unabated, mustering all of their energy that they can spare to bring the kids, to bring our kids into their world of seedy shadows and dank darkness.

Enough is enough. Point one, we need to stop being turtles. When I was deployed to the National Training Center in Death Valley, California, one of our pre-mission briefings was about a local indigenous turtle.

Now, apparently, whenever that poor beast felt frightened, it would hide in its shell, which to me seemed like a kind of fairly normal thing for a turtle to do, right? But if the predator persisted, if it, for instance, picked up or jostled the frightened testidine, the turtle would do the unthinkable and it would actually urinate in its shell, drowning itself in its own urine.

Apparently, you really could scare the pee out of this animal and it would inevitably kill it. Now, knowing about this was extremely important for the United States Army because this particular turtle was on the endangered species list.

And it came with a hefty price tag. And the last thing you can imagine Uncle Sam wanted to do was one of his boys accidentally suiciding this poor turtle with a very peculiar defense mechanism. This unfortunately is what many churches and many Christians in the United States have become.

You see, instead of rising to the challenge of our day like lions or becoming salt in a decaying culture and light in the midst of darkness, far too many have ran back and began hiding in their shells.

And the moment that culture flames up against it, is it any wonder that we look like we've wet our pants and that we appear like we're dying? What we've done is we've adopted the cultural engagement strategy of a Death Valley turtle.

Instead of continuing that miserable and failed approach, I'd like to offer something different because I believe it's time for us to be honest as Christians about who we are. We do not support the perversion of our children.

We don't stand idly by while the perverts in our society in the line of Kenny continue to perform disgusting social experiments on our kids. Enough is enough. Now, finally, is the time for the church to wake up and to begin speaking the truth in love, which most definitely requires speaking.

It is time for us to stand up for truth so that the nation that we live in doesn't continue to fall into rancor and danker error. Now is the time for us to boldly herald the truth from the word of God, even if it conflicts with what society elites are shoving down our throat, and even if it conflicts with some people's view of niceness.

Pastor Story Hour and Why It Was Started

Enough is enough, which that brings us now to pastor story hour. What is it? Well, last month or so, one of my friends named Michael Foster, he's a fellow brother in the CREC denomination, he's also in the Augustan Presbytery, which I'm a member of, he's definitely not a turtle, announced that he was doing a pastor story hour at his public library, and he announced that on Facebook.

Soon thereafter, I saw that Dale Partridge, not related to a bird, would do the same thing, followed by Kirk Cameron and then several other pastors around the country. Now, I watched and noticed that the Lord was moving in this, and as I was passionate for discipleship, for the discipleship of our children, and encouraged that our families might be blessed by something like this, I decided that I was gonna reach out to our local library here in Massachusetts, and I was gonna try a similar thing to see if the Lord would open up a door for us to do this as well.

Now, let me be honest, I felt sure that one church, one pastor could not change the world. Like us doing this is probably not going to end Drag Queen Story Hour, but if I was inspired by just a few men who were doing this, and if I begin doing this, maybe I could inspire just a few more men to begin doing this as well, maybe we could start a movement.

Maybe, just maybe, one library at a time, all across this country, we could begin teaching our children who their God is, why His plans for their life are best, and how following Him will lead to a life of joy and peace.

I also thought, wouldn't it be amazing if God used something like this to show the world who He is, and why following Him is the only way to salvation? Now, at the time of this recording, it was yesterday when I found out that the library accepted my request, they approved it.

Event Details for Chelmsford Public Library

So we have reserved our very first spot for Pastor Story Hour at the Chelmsford Public Library. I'm gonna give you the skinny on the details now. We are gonna be meeting at the Chelmsford Public Library on Friday, January the 13th at 11 a .m. to 12 p .m.

Now, I chose this time for two reasons. First, the public library has got a lot of requests and not that very many spots available, so I had to pick what we had, and I wanted an hour to be able to do this.

But the second thing is that I thought families could come before lunch, and that they could leave with plenty of time for food and naps and all of that, so that that time slot of the ones that I had to choose from seemed like the best one.

Now, if it doesn't work out for everybody, that's okay. I'm gonna be doing this more than once. I'm hopefully gonna be doing this once a month. And if there's better times, just reach out, let me know.

I'd love to consider other options as we continue doing this in the future. Now, this gets to the point of how can you help. I wanna offer four things. As you can imagine, the unholy trinity in the world, the flesh, the devil, hate when Christians bring the gospel into the public square.

Satan has been working overtime for the last 50 years or so to muddle marriage, redefine sex and gender, and to cause a rising generation of children to adopt the disgusting sexual ethics of Brave New World.

I do not expect that this fight is gonna be easy, which no fight is, but I actually think that it will be a fight. It's a fight worth fighting, both in material and spiritual realms, and it's a fight we must win.

How Pastors Can Join the Effort

With that, I'd like to ask you to help me with four things. Number one, if you're a pastor and you have time in your schedule for the discipleship of children in your area, and you don't like seeing Drag Queen Story Hour coming into your town, and you want to see Christ reign supreme through your public library, and you wanna do something that's going to immediately have impact on the life of a child, then I ask you to do the same thing.

I'd ask you to call your library, register for a pastor story hour, choose a book that's going to immediately engage with the child and teach them biblical truth, and then go and do it, take pictures of it, post it on social media, let the world know that Christ reigns and that we will not stand by and let the world redefine truth.

That's the first thing. Pastors, get involved. Number two, I would ask that if you're not a pastor and you're listening to this podcast, pray. One of the most important things you can do about things like this is pray.

Pray that the libraries that we're gonna be reaching out to don't bend to the societal pressures and cancel our event. Pray that woke mobs don't show up and accost us. We've seen that happen on TV and everything else.

Pray that God would get the glory. Pray that we would have a platform to be able to share his truth and pray that we would be honorable, humble, and holy in everything that we do as faithful ambassadors of Jesus Christ.

Pray that we would love the librarians well, that we would love the people well, that we would be good stewards of Christ and that his good, glorious news and gospel truth would be at the center of everything we do.

That's the second thing. The third thing, would you share this? Would you talk about this? Would you let other people know that we're doing this? One of the ways that events like this can be successful is that if we get the word out.

The room that I have reserved is gonna hold about 75 kids and I would love to get as close to or over that number as we can. I want the library to see a massive group of Christians joyfully gathering around the love that we have for our Savior and a commitment to his truth over everything else.

Now, also perhaps there's children and parents that you know who would benefit from something like this. We would love for them to come. In fact, we're open to anyone coming so long as they're willing to give God and his word a fair shake.

So that's the third thing. Would you share this event on social media? Would you send it to your friends in email or text message or pen pal or carrier pigeon or shoot it out of a cannon? I don't really care.

Let's just get the word out. And number four, would you finally mark your calendars and commit to coming? Our Pastor Story Hour is January the 13th at the Chelmsford Public Library. Come join us because it's gonna be great.

And remember, don't be a turtle. God bless you.