This much I know....every day Trump loses some evangelicals. He has to make news every day....jab and poke and enrage....and exalt himself. Where this has been a decade of torment for many evangelicals....not to mention everyone else.....he himself thrives on the controversy. If this continues....which it probably will....Trump may soon lose a significant portion of his evangelical base.
What I do not know is how many evangelicals Trump loses every day. The uncomfortable trolling text over what happened to Rob Reiner and his wife surely woke some evangelicals up....and the even more recent reporting on the interview that Chief of Staff Susie Wiles gave will continue to hurt Trump's evangelical support.
It is interesting....to me anyway....that the above interview was from the magazine....Vanity Fair. John Bunyan coined....if you will....those words in his 1678....The Pilgrim's Progress....from This World to That which is to come. We are living in Vanity Fair....the world of amusements and outlandish merchandise and frolicking as a way of life. We have to go through it...but we do not have to stay or buy into a timeshare.
That book....The Pilgrim's Progress....was at one time the most read book in the world after the Bible. The greatest preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ....according to so many....London's late nineteenth century Charles Haddon Spurgeon....from his own testimony....read Bunyan's classic over 100 times during his life! That should tell us something right there! Every Christian should have read this book at least once in their Christian lifetime. Only ignorance and the lack of encouragement can account for it having lost some of its popularity. Heaven knows that R. C Sproul and John MacArthur did their best over their entire ministries to encourage Christians to read it!
So I would like to encourage you to find a copy....and meditate on every single passage and every single character in this allegory. If I were a character in the book....Bunyan he would probably name me....Tries So Hard....But Comes Up Short.
Derek Thomas is a wonderful Scottish preacher and teacher....now located in the United States. I encourage you to Google some of his sermons....but here I will add one episode of his marvelous and greatly edifying teaching series on the Pilgrim's Progress....this one on the chapter that includes Vanity Fair....but you can easily find and listen to his commentary on the entire book....or contact ligonier.org....and order the entire series.
