The New Awakening of Faith
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PART II — BODY OF CHRIST
THE NEW AWAKENING OF FAITH
Awaken the Lion. Find the Pride. Take the Measure. Take Action.
Godly CivicsTM begins with awakening, not politics.
A New Awakening is the spiritual doorway into Godly CivicsTM. Before we ask how believers should engage in civics, we must first recover who we are, why our Abba Father created us, and how His order governs His creation.
The earlier colonial Awakening did not begin as a political program. It crossed denominational lines, restored personal faith, emphasized the work of the Holy Spirit, and changed the character of communities. That spiritual renewal helped create the moral soil in which American Liberty could later grow.
Godly CivicsTM sees the present moment in the same sequence: awakening first, then civic obedience. This is why the Awakening page belongs first. This page explains the heart behind what comes next.
Why “Abba Father”
Godly CivicsTM intentionally uses Abba Father more often than the general term “God” because this is the believer-facing implementation of The Biblical USA View™. The language is relational, not merely institutional.
Jesus prayed, “Abba, Father,” in Mark 14:36. Paul then brings believers into that same family language: Romans 8:15 says that by the Spirit of adoption “we cry out, ‘Abba, Father,’” and Galatians 4:6 says the Spirit of His Son cries in our hearts, “Abba, Father.” Godly CivicsTM therefore approaches civics as Family Business: children of our Abba Father seeking to glorify Him in every part of life.
That purpose is explicit in Isaiah 43:7: we were created for His glory. Paul carries it into daily life in 1 Corinthians 10:31: “Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” Godly CivicsTM adds one unavoidable application: our civics is part of “whatever you do.”
The Awakening and Liberty
The colonial Awakening, from roughly 1730 to 1770, spread across the colonies and denominations through preaching, repentance, conversion, personal holiness, and the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. Its spiritual emphasis also reinforced the equality of souls before our Abba Father and a personal faith that could not be reduced to state religion or inherited membership.
Godly CivicsTM sees a powerful parallel today. Our worship centers do not need to unite in doctrine, liturgy, or denominational structure. They can awaken together to a common civic responsibility: to preserve the Social Liberty in which Religious Liberty can live and do it in glory to our Abba Father.
That does not make a spiritual Awakening a political campaign. It does the opposite. The Awakening moves believers away from political-faction identity and back to our Abba Father, Truth, Liberty, moral responsibility, and the Laws of Nature. The political strategy comes later.
The Laws of Nature Are Part of the Awakening
The Biblical USA View™ establishes that the Laws of Nature are not an isolated phrase in the Declaration of Independence. Scripture repeatedly presents creation as ordered, knowable, consequential, and accessible to human reason and conscience. Godly CivicsTM brings that biblical understanding into Christian implementation.
Psalm 19:1–4 says the heavens declare our Abba Father’s glory and their witness goes throughout the Earth. Jeremiah 33:25 speaks of His appointed “ordinances of heaven and earth.” Romans 1:19–20 says His invisible attributes are understood through the things that are made. Romans 2:14–15 says the work of the Law is written in human hearts and witnessed by conscience.
The same pattern appears in cause and effect. Galatians 6:7–8 gives the moral law of sowing and reaping: what a person sows, that person reaps. Proverbs 14:34 extends moral consequence to nations: “Righteousness exalts a nation.” Job 38:33 asks, “Do you know the laws of the heavens?” Genesis 1:28 gives humanity the assignment to fill and subdue the Earth—an assignment that requires discovering how creation works.
These passages broaden the foundation. Physical laws, moral laws, economic laws, and social laws differ in how they are discovered and measured, but Godly CivicsTM treats them alike in one important respect: outcomes matter. We do not get to repeal cause and effect because a political faction dislikes the result.
The Awakening Needs an Instrument
The earlier Awakenings changed hearts and prepared people for action. This Awakening must do the same, but our civic assignment has something earlier generations did not have: almost 250 years of American experience with Liberty, government, economics, social outcomes, and political factions.
Our Founders understood governing Principles and placed the Laws of Nature at the bedrock of the Declaration of Independence, but they could not enumerate what centuries of experience had not yet revealed. Today we can search, test, compare outcomes, improve the Principles, and write them down.
That is the missing bridge from Awakening to action. The Laws of Nature cannot remain an inspiring idea. They must become a usable Citizen’s Measure. Godly CivicsTM calls that measure WePEG1787TM — We the People’s Principles of Effective Governing.
The Awakening prepares the heart. The Laws of Nature provide the governing standard. WePEG1787TM puts that standard into the hands of WTP.
From Awakening to Action
The Awakening is not the implementation plan. Its job is to awaken the Body of Christ to our Abba Father, His glory, Liberty, Truth, moral responsibility, and His ordered creation.
Second: how does the Body of Christ actually organize, teach, measure candidates, and vote without becoming another political faction? That is the purpose of All Believers — The Implementation.
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Below are the email strategies to reach
Pulpit Leaders and the Body of Christ
Body of Christ Outreach Email
Subject: What if we have been fighting the wrong battle?
Dear Christian Citizen,
What if the answer to America’s governing crisis is much simpler than we have made it? God in our hearts. His Laws of Nature in our government.
Consider what happened in 1620. The Pilgrims were headed for territory where they expected to settle under their existing English charter with the Virginia Colony.
Nature intervened.
The wind and sea carried the Mayflower north—outside the territory their existing charter covered. Before they ever stepped ashore, they faced an extraordinary question: How will we live together? Their answer was the Mayflower Compact—an agreement among themselves for self-government.
And then came another lesson. Their original economic arrangement required communal labor and common production. It failed to produce what the colony needed. In 1623, William Bradford abandoned communal farming and assigned families their own plots of land. Production increased.
Responsibility. Property. Liberty.
Was God teaching something? More than 150 years later, those lessons reached their extraordinary expression in 1776. America declared that our Rights come from our Creator—not government—and that government derives its authority from the consent of the governed. Godly Civics™ calls what emerged God’s 1776 Creation, Eden 2.0:
Liberty. Free will. God-given Rights. Self-government.
God created Liberty in Eden when He gave mankind responsibility and the freedom to choose. He also created an ordered universe governed by the Laws of Nature that do not change with our opinions, beliefs, or political factions. The Founders understood pieces of this—but they did not have what we have today: 250 years of results.
We have decoded DNA, split the atom, transplanted human hearts, and walked on the moon. Why shouldn’t we also examine 250 years of American government and identify the Governing Principles (Laws of Nature) that consistently produce Liberty—and what happens when we violate them?
That is Godly Civics™. Not another political party. Not someone telling you how to vote. Principles reveal. Citizens decide. Our purpose is larger than an election. It is to protect Religious Liberty, preserve individual Liberty, and give the Body of Christ the freedom to fulfill Jesus’ last words before ascending for generations to come.
But first, Christians have to look. The failure to look has consequences.
Godly Civics and The Biblical USA View™ — For a Time Such as This (Esther 4:14) (Click) presents action, not more knowledge. See how the entire strategy fits together at GodlyCivics.com.
Blessings to you.
The Scribe:
Pastor K. Bruce Brown
Sr. Pastor/Biblical Counselor
Bruce@GodlyCivics.com
Five-Email Pastor Outreach Strategy
Email #1 — The Solution Is Ready
Subject: Pulpit Leader, the work is ready
Dear Pulpit Leader,
For the past several years, Godly Civics™ has been asking a difficult question:
What is the Body of Christ supposed to do with the governing authority Americans have been given?
Not politically. Biblically and Civically. That work is now ready. It has become a three-book system:
The Biblical USA View™ — For A Time Such as This (Esther 4:14)
From the Pulpit to the Pride™ — the implementation plan for pulpit leaders and the Body of Christ.
Liberty Civics™ — Our Last Chance at Self-Governing.
Three Books. One Mission. Two Liberties.
Religious Liberty gives the Body of Christ room to fulfill its mission.
Individual Liberty gives every Citizen room to live theirs.
This is not another call for pulpit Leaders to become political. It is a call to examine whether we have left part of our Biblical and Civic responsibility unattended. The work is finished.
Godly Civics is asking you to examine it.
Start at GodlyCivics.com
Onward, Christian Soldiers!
The Scribe:
Pastor K. Bruce Brown
Sr. Pastor/Biblical Counselor
Bruce@GodlyCivics.com
Email #2 — The Biblical USA View™
Subject: What if 1776 was bigger than we were taught?
Dear Pulpit Leader,
What if America’s Founding was bigger than we were taught? The trail did not begin in 1776. Consider 1620. The Pilgrims were headed for territory where they expected to settle under their existing charter. And nature intervened.
Wind and sea carried the Mayflower north to Cape Cod—outside the territory their existing warrant covered. Before stepping ashore, they faced a fundamental question: How will we live together?
Their answer was the Mayflower Compact—an agreement among themselves for self-government. Then came another lesson. Their communal system of labor and production failed to provide what the colony needed. In 1623, William Bradford assigned families their own plots. Production increased.
Responsibility. Property. Liberty.
Was God teaching something? More than 150 years later, those lessons reached an extraordinary expression in 1776. America declared that our Rights come from our Creator—not government—and that government derives its authority from the consent of the governed.
We call it God’s Second Nation Creation—Eden 2.0.
Liberty. Free will. God-given Rights. Religious Liberty. Government accountable to We the People. God created Liberty in Eden when He gave mankind responsibility and the freedom to choose. And He created an ordered universe governed by Laws of Nature. The Founders understood pieces of this—but they could not see what we can see today:
250 years of results.
The Biblical USA View™ examines that remarkable progression through Scripture, the Laws of Nature, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and American experience. You do not have to accept the premise.
Examine it.
If it is wrong, the evidence should expose it. If it is right, what is our responsibility?
Explore The Biblical USA View™ at Amazon.
Onward, Christian Soldiers!
The Scribe:
Pastor K. Bruce Brown
Sr. Pastor/Biblical Counselor
Bruce@GodlyCivics.com
Email #3 — From the Pulpit to the Pride
Subject: Pulpit Leader, what do we do with it?
Dear Pulpit Leader,
If The Biblical USA View™ is right, the next question is unavoidable:
What do we do with it?
Scripture calls Jesus the Lion of Judah. That image gave Godly Civics™ a powerful way to understand our Civic responsibility.
The Lion of Judah gives us our direction.
But a lion was not designed to stand alone. A group of lions is a pride. The Pride represents the Body of Christ—believers equipped, connected, and moving together while remaining independent in their own worship centers and communities. And when that Pride enters the Civic arena?
We call it the Lion of America.
Not another political faction. Not a Christian political party. Not pastors telling people how to vote. Principle-centered Civics. Pulpit leaders teach the Biblical foundation. The Pride learns the Governing Principles. Citizens examine and measure those who seek authority over their government.
And then they act according to conscience. That is the purpose of From the Pulpit to the Pride™—the implementation companion to The Biblical USA View™.
The Lion of Judah gives us our direction.
The Lion of America gives us our Civic mission.
See how the Pride moves at GodlyCivics.com
Onward, Christian Soldiers!
The Scribe:
Pastor K. Bruce Brown
Sr. Pastor/Biblical Counselor
Bruce@GodlyCivics.com
Email #4 — Take Liberty Beyond the Worship Center
Subject: Pulpit Leader, the mission cannot stop at the worship center
Dear Pulpit Leader,
The Body of Christ has a mission inside the worship center. But our neighbors live outside it.
Millions of Americans may never begin with Scripture, read The Biblical USA View™, or accept our understanding of God’s hand in America’s Founding.
They still understand Liberty.
They understand that government should not own them. They understand equal justice. They understand the freedom to raise a family, worship—or not worship—work, speak, create, and pursue a meaningful life. And whether they recognize their Creator or not—
The Laws of Nature still work.
Gravity does not ask what you believe before you fall. Neither do the Governing Principles that produce Liberty or the violations that destroy it. That is why we wrote Liberty Civics™ — Our Last Chance at Self-Governing.
It carries the Civic case beyond the Body of Christ. No theological test. No political party. No requirement to agree with us about God.
Just Liberty, Governing Principles, history, and measurable results.
This gives the Pride something extraordinarily important: A common language for talking about Liberty with everyone. The Biblical USA View™ establishes the Biblical foundation.
From the Pulpit to the Pride puts the Body of Christ into action. Liberty Civics opens the conversation to America.
Take Liberty beyond the worship center at LibertyCivics.com
Onward, Christian Soldiers!
The Scribe:
Pastor K. Bruce Brown
Sr. Pastor/Biblical Counselor
Bruce@GodlyCivics.com
Email #5 — Now Measure Them
Subject: Pulpit Leader, now measure them
Dear Pulpit Leader,
We have spent generations asking: Is the candidate a Republican or Democrat? What if we asked a better question? How will you govern? That is why Godly Civics™ created WePEG1787™ — We the People’s Principles of Effective Governing.
The concept is simple. Candidates examine the Governing Principles and rate their level of agreement on a scale of 0 to 10.
No one is exempt. No one is omitted.
Instead of relying primarily on party labels, campaign promises, personalities, endorsements, or political advertising— Citizens can see how candidates say they intend to govern.
Then We the People decide. No pastor tells anyone how to vote. No political party makes the decision for us. No Christian test is imposed.
Principles reveal. Citizens decide.
That completes the system:
The Biblical USA View™ — Understand the Biblical foundation.
From the Pulpit to the Pride™ — Put the Body of Christ into action.
Liberty Civics™ — Take the Liberty conversation to every Citizen.
WePEG1787™ — Measure those asking to govern.
Learn it. Teach it. Share it. Measure them.
Start measuring at WePEG1787.com
The books are published. The tools are ready. Now it belongs to We the People.
Onward, Christian Soldiers!
The Scribe:
Pastor K. Bruce Brown
Sr. Pastor/Biblical Counselor
Bruce@GodlyCivics.com
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