LOCAL FOCUS // Sunday, May 1, 2022 // Pastor Jeff Hines
/Sunday — May 1, 2022
Local Focus
Proverbs 29: 2 (ESV)
When the righteous increase, the people rejoice,
but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
Proverbs 23: 7 (ESV)
…as he thinks within himself, so he is.
Dr. Benjamin Rush
John Adams: 1 of top 3 Founders…
1. George Washington
2. Benjamin Franklin
3. Benjamin Rush
Today’s Standards: Evangelical
1st Bible Society
1st Sunday School Program
1st Abolitionist Society
Father of Public Schools under
the Constitution
Started 5 Universities…
Women and Blacks
Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic
Used to be 13 different nations.
Now One Nation of 13 States.
What must we teach in schools to stay a nation?
1. Love and Serve God
2. Love and Serve their country
3. Love and Serve their family.
We have Anti-Family Public Policy because we have people with an
Anti-Family worldview.
Local Focus
1st 4 Battles of the Revolutionary War:
1. Lexington
700 British vs 70 Americans
70 Americans = Rev Jonas Clark…
Taught = Self-Defense
18 Americans shot…
2. Concord
700 British vs 300 – 400 Americans
Rev William Everson
Now it’s Self-Defense
1st British of the war are shot…
3. Road Back to Boston
4500 Americans along the way
Guerilla Warfare…
4. Bunker Hill
Rev Joseph Willard
2 Companies that joined the others…
Local Victories to National Victory
Great Awakening / National Revival
George Whitfield
Chaplain to the State of Georgia
7 trips on horseback from Georgia to Maine (Massachusetts)
Preached in EVERY town he traveled through…
Preached 34 Years… 18,000 Sermons
80% of Americans Physically heard him preach…
MESSAGE PENETRATION
Local Focus
Vote in America:
1. Must be 18 years old
2. Legal Citizen
Required:
1. Register
2. ID
65.3% of Eligible citizens registered.
100+ Million Americans don’t care…
Presidential Elections:
Last 11: Average 54% Voter Turnout
54% of 65.3% = 36%
Eligible Population Participate…
18%
American Population Determine Who Our President will be.
Off Year Elections:
Last 21: Average 38% Voter Turnout
38% of 65.3% = 26%
Eligible Population Participate…
13%
American Population Determine Outcome: Gov Senator Congress