Evangelical political power delivered major electoral and policy wins—from the Moral Majority to Project 2025 and the overturning of Roe. Yet church attendance has collapsed and the “nones” keep rising. This piece traces four decades of activism and asks the hard question: Did the Kingdom advance, or did politics become ultimate while the nation’s soul slipped away?

Preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not politics, sparks revival. From Jonah’s Nineveh to the Welsh Revival and 20th-century Holy Spirit movements, repentance and the Gospel transformed pagan and secular cultures. To save America, we must preach Jesus Christ alone, for only Jesus changes hearts, not political movements (Acts 4:12).