Seven Opportunities in the Trump Reprieve.

December 4th, 2024.

Introduction.

The results of the election have brought about a palpable sense of relief among conservative Christians.

None of us will have to announce to our families, two days after the inauguration, that our patience with the Harris administration is completely exhausted.

This is good because we were already all exhausted two months into the Obama run and never really got our strength back.

During the Trump administration, we will not have to deal with that sort of fatigue, that sort of innervation.

I don't know, that type of civic lassitude.

Under Project 2025, undue use of the thesaurus will be banned. Under Trump, there will, of course,

be some gaudy and overdone spectacles, some of them quite entertaining, some of them a bit

dismaying, but most of them greatly encouraging. Because we know and understand that Trump is not

our savior and that

he brings no final deliverance with him, what are we to do with this sense of relief? How are we to

understand it? We should understand this period as the Trump reprieve, a time during which the

church should make a point of returning to the things we ought to have been doing all along.

Call it the Trump respite, the Trump breather.

The fact that we are not doing these things before is a big part of what got us into this mess,

and there will be a temptation to think that the thing is not settled. Some will think that the

election fixed it. But it is by no means settled, and so I believe the church has a window of

opportunity somewhere between two and four years

to return to the things that could set the stage for a genuine reformation and revival.

What are those things?

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