Dear Christian,

As much as my Air Force veteran Grandfather let her be, my mother embraced hippy culture. Long hair, bell bottoms, and jam bands. And were it not for the overwhelming influence of old school Italian-American Catholicism in my grandfather, she would have gone further. Raised in a Catholic Church, educated by Nuns who didn’t hold back from exercising Proverbs 13:24, and with a well established fear of God, my mother did as she could to live according to her faith against the appeal of the unwashed hippies sweeping the Nation.

Until my Grandmother, who now enjoys the face to face presence of her Savior, had her heart of Catholic stone replaced with one that pumps blood, and made a change. She did the unthinkable and started attending a different Church. Not only that, but she brought her children and husband with her. 

And in the divine providence of God, this all took place right when He reached His heavenly hands into the subculture that overtook a Society, scooped out His elect, and dropped them in a Church. God saved my mother right in the heart of the “Jesus People” movement.

She told me stories of barefoot, bellbottom, bikini top hippies, worn and wrung out by a culture that failed them, coming to Church. About long hair, far longer than others were comfortable with, flowing freely as they walked through open Church doors. About Friday night “Coffee House”, where those who still had the leanings of the counterculture would gather, worship, study the word, and breathe the fresh air of the Gospel that their pot-soaked lungs were so thirsty for.

This truth of God always fascinated me. That He would choose the weak. The foolish. Those whom the entrenched religious powers of the day looked down upon, are the very ones that Christ went toward. After all, the healthy had no need of a Doctor. 

How the Saints of a time before me, stood against sin with arms open to lovingly welcome those they opposed, is something I may never understand. Perhaps they didn’t do too good of a job, and in our King’s empyrean irony, He elected them to salvation to sanctify His children who had already come home. Perhaps the sharp corners of their hearts were finally smoothed down by the extra-grit sandpaper of bell bottoms being saved. 

And I can't help but draw comparisons. Not perfect ones, but ones nonetheless.

The weak and foolish of our generation may still have the beards and bongs of a bygone era, but they have far more as well. They have double mastectomy scars. They have pieces of their quadriceps, shaped by the hands of surgeons, to mimic a penis. And those who were born with penises, now have them dissected, inverted, and sewn backwards inside their bodies. 

The resin clogged synapses of the Elect saved from the counterculture of the 60’s and 70’s, are a far less severe consequence than those made by the weak and foolish of our generation, choices they may never physically recover from.

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So my question to you, oh blood bought Saints;

my question to us, oh Church of 2024, is simple:

 Are we preaching a Gospel pure enough that it shows those whose bodies will never be made right, how their souls can be made right?

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When our King reaches into the homosexual community to save His Elect from among their ranks…and then drops them into our Churches and Bible Studies, what will we do? Will our preaching be pure to the point that it overwhelms what they are forced to see when they excuse themselves to our well decorated bathrooms?

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When redeemed men are forced to sit to urinate, and redeemed women realize they can never give birth…and they darken the doors of our Churches, what will happen?

Will our doors even be open to them?

I have to say it again, lest misunderstanding usurps the tone of this letter; will those who literally fulfill the words of the Apostle in 1st Corinthians 6:11, who have indulged in the perversions of sodomy to such a degree that their forgiven sin is physically unable to be looked away from when they shower… will they be able to hear a Gospel so pure flowing from our pulpits that they will never thirst again?

What will happen? Will we bend over for the Christless conservatives whose podcasts and speeches fill our ears? Will we pay the Dane-Geld to whatever political party who can inch us further towards the Laws that Scripture says ought be on the Books, when those same Danes refuse to offer the open arms of forgiveness to the prior perverts whose dead hearts have been replaced, but whose dead genitals will have to be suffered with until the resurrection? 

Will those who have stood on the same side of the battle with us, push or coerce us into self-righteousness? We have stood outside of Grooming Story Hours, pleading with bad parents to not expose their children to such wickedness…but will we open our arms to those same parents when they see the error of their ways?  We have fought to remove pornography from Government “Schools”, crying into that State funded, demon filled hellscape, for elected officials to listen to the voices of those who put them into power… what will we do when they bear fruit worthy of repentance? We have preached at Pride Parades, the phallic and tribadic imagery burning itself into our eyes, all so we can stand in the words of Charles Spurgeon when he said that if someone is headed to hell, at least make them leap over our dead bodies to get there…what will we do when those some rainbow stained pagans, whose dissected penises and mutilated vaginas force them to wear diapers the rest of their life…come to our Churches? Will we reject them? Lock our doors? Will the shared political views we have with people who will be joining the unrepentant sodomite in the caves of Hell…deter us from calling them to repentance should they refuse to offer the forgiveness that God is going to show to the repentant transvestite?

This above argument presupposes a few things that must be discussed.

First, it presupposes that God is going to elect to salvation someone who has butchered their reproductive organs into nothing but a mass of infertile flesh. If, for some reason, you do not think that God could ever save someone like that, then I would encourage you to repent of your self-righteousness and believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Your own sins, though they may not have been as culturally detrimental to your society, or as physically handicapping as those who now keep their testicles in glass jars on their bookshelves, are still just as deserving of the wrath of God. All of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, regardless of if that sin is premarital sex, drunkenness, gluttony, laziness, murder, child molestation, drug abuse, or racism. All sins are high treason against the King of the Universe, and their just punishment is nothing short of eternal damnation under His neon wrath. 

Secondly, it presupposes that there are going to be certain people who wear the mantle of a conservative, but have no idea what they want to conserve, or why it is worthy of being conserved. They will say that they want to conserve the “American way of life.” but then they will reject people who live under the freedoms that America allows…which heaps entire mountains of cognitive dissonance into the small space under their MAGA hats. (This letter isn't the place to discuss the truth that “the american way of life” can only maintain continued existence in America, if her people are governed from within by an unchanging standard of morality, and free from that, it will devolve into her children being groomed into accepting anal penetration as a valid form of love between two men). But the truth remains…there will be people, some of whom will be galvanized to action by reading the harsh and impolite words I am on purposing choosing to use so that their sin will reveal itself, that will refuse to accept that they themselves are just as deserving of hell as those they hate, if they refuse to repent and believe. They will say they believe in God, then refuse to put the bottle down. They will loudly (and accurately!) proclaim that America needs Jesus…and then view pornography as if that slime slicked sin won't quicken their descent into the gaping maw of eternal damnation. They will vote with us but they will never be with us.

Third, it presupposes that ahead of time, and beforehand, during those times that we are presenting the hope of the Gospel to those who have encouraged their own children to undergo Female Genital Mutilation, only to dress it up with the powder and lipstick of DEI language…I am presupposing that when you are interacting with these bad and wicked parents who are storing up the wrath of God, that you are showing them the actual Gospel, ahead of time. You are presenting them with the truth that what they are doing is a grievous and severe evil in the eyes of a Holy God, whose power know no end and whose Crown will never waiver, and, that that same God sent His only begotten Son to die under the wrath that all who will ever believe in Him, deserve. I am presupposing that you are being compassionate and bold, at the same time. I am presupposing that you are being unwavering in regards to the sin of homosexuality, and acting out of love because of it. To speak plainly, I am presupposing that you do not hate them. That out of love for their eternal soul and the weight of Heaven that is poised to crush it forever, you will reach your hands into the flames to snatch them to safety, while at the same time being careful to not let the hand that reaches be stained by the garment of self-righteousness.

Do you show them love by refusing to affirm or encourage the gangrenous disease they so willingly claim as part of their very identity? Would you invite them into your home? Feed them? Clothe them? Would you protect them from the Christless Conservative lynch mobs looking for any excuse to let their hate out?

Are we preaching and living in such a way that it shuts the door on the future redemption of the homosexual?

I understand that there are variables in these questions that any wise person would have to take into account, (if you don’t, you would be a fool) but if you want nuance, then I am going to apologize and will have to direct you to the bread lines of numerous other solid Christians who can help you work through the variables.

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And still the point remains; is the Gospel that is coming out of our Churches pure enough to satisfy the thirst of those who have mutilated their bodies in pursuit of their sin?

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Is it watered down with the heretical idea that some action on our part spurred God to save us, and thereby He owes us salvation? Is it watered down with limp-wristed, hollow-chested, feelings-based Christianity that wouldn't be able to stand against the smallest breeze, let alone the technicolor tornado swirling and staining our great Nation? Does your Pastor care about his standing with people who hate the God he serves, to the point that he never warns them of Hell? Is the Gospel that comes out of your Church a weak and impotent, feel-good TED talk with a few Bible Verses stapled on to appear holy, and wholly unable to save anyone? Does your Pastor endlessly ramble on with clever little stories about clever little experiences he had the week prior, shoehorning himself and his words into the Bible?

I pray, brothers and sisters of God, that your Churches preach no such thing. Your words, fellow Preacher, are fully useless against the evils of a sodomite culture. Your words, fellow Pastors, can do nothing to stem or stifle the rainbow parade marching out of Washington. Your funny stories, your quippy one-liners, and your self-absorbed, self-centered “sermons” will be nothing but the kindling by which the fires of your damnation will spark upon for your failure to feed the flock that Christ has entrusted to you. I pray that from your pulpits flow rivers of uncompromised truth. Neither compromised by the sodomy affirming culture of our current year, or compromised by the self-righteous homophobes and bigots who will inevitably take the reins of the culture once the pendulum of God swings in their direction. This is of utmost importance, because we are the hands and feet of Him whose hands and feet were pierced for our sins.

When we minister to the ex-alcoholic…we advise him to stay away from his favorite Bar, even if he intends to remain sober. We tell him to not keep alcohol in his house, knowing that once he is sober, and the old man of his sin nature tempts him to indulge once again, he will know exactly where in his refrigerator he keeps his favorite Beer. We warn him about the people he has spent time with that will help him sin, the places he has gone that helped him sin, even the music he liked to listen to while he was drunk…because all of them will be used by his enemies to tempt him back into that life once again.

How can we minister to the ex-transgendered? Pastors, What will we tell the former transgender man when he is crying in our Offices, soaked in regret, held down by the weight of his sins, and is physically reminded, by his literal hands and his literal eyes, every time he has to relieve himself? How can we tell a woman to physically avoid the places where she used to engage in her sins, when she is reminded of them every time her mastectomy scars itch? 

We tell them the unfettered, unadulterated Gospel of Jesus Christ. We tell them who He is, what He has done, and why He has done it. We tell them that though they have sinned in dark and wicked ways, that the golden blood of Jesus Christ is able to heal their soul to the point of them being declared holy in the eyes of a perfect God. We tell them that their past does not define who they are, their sin does not define who they are, either the sins done against them or the sins they themselves have done. We tell them the truth that they were one time guilty of cosmic disobedience against God, and earned nothing from Heaven but His divine anger and curse, but because He is just as loving as He is just, He sent His Son, Jesus Christ to satisfy the wrath that you deserve. We tell them that the evil they have performed against their bodies was finally, and completely, and fully, and irrevocably punished on the back of Jesus Christ, on a Roman Cross, two thousand years ago. We tell them, over and over and over again, that when God looks upon them, He doesn't even see the scar tissue left by their sins, but instead He sees the spotless and perfect blood of His Son Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. That when they repented of their sins and believed in Jesus Christ, the punishment that their Gender reassignment surgery earned them, was not only poured out on Christ, but His righteousness was given to them in exchange.

And then we envelope them into a life of Christian love and fellowship. We break the bread and drink the cup of the Lord's Table, we go to their Baptism and scream and shout for joy that God has taken His one time enemy, and made him a son or daughter. We wrestle over Scripture with them, as the temptation to understand it through their own sin inevitably presents itself. We Worship with them, harmonizing our voices with theirs. We treat them exactly how we treat every single blood-bought Saint whose sins have been washed clean by the broken body and shed blood of Jesus Christ. 

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Let the Gospel, brothers and sisters, and nothing but the Gospel, pour from your pulpits and pews, for that is the only thing strong enough to stand against the sins of our day.

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To close this letter out, and wonder about things that may never have an answer; the depth to which our current culture has sunk, where bad parents force their children to accept sexual immorality to the disgusting depth of hormone blockers and genital mutilation...has it gotten this far because the Church was too afraid to confront the culture? Did we relegate ourselves to saying nothing but spiritual sounding words for Sunday morning social club, fearing that if we confront the sins of the day then people will hate us?

Soli Deo Gloria,

Rev. Jacob Marchitell

02/21/2024