By Ben Everson
We’re always talking about how to save America.
But what if I told you Christians might actually be the ones destroying it?
Not with protests.
Not with politics.
With silence. With compromise. With rot in our own house.
See, when America finally collapses, if it does, it won’t just be because of who’s then in the White House. It’ll be because of what’s been tolerated in God’s house.
The Rotten Pillar
A few years ago, a historic church building collapsed during a storm. No lightning. No tornado. Just a steady rain and wind. When crews investigated, they found the real culprit: one of the massive support pillars had been slowly hollowed out by termites.
To the eye, it looked like solid stone. But it was rotting from within.
That’s us. That’s the Church in America.
Everybody’s blaming the storm.
But maybe it’s time we checked the pillars.
Because if America falls, it won’t be drag queens or Democrats that brought it down.
It’ll be Christians: the very ones called to hold it up.
So how do we destroy a nation? Easy. Just follow this playbook:
1. Neglect Personal Holiness
Destroy America by looking just like it.
📖 Matthew 5:13-16
A family started noticing a strange smell in their house. They cleaned the garbage. Took out the recycling. Still, the smell lingered. Eventually, they pulled the fridge out and discovered an old Tupperware container, sealed and forgotten for months. When they opened it there was mold, slime, and rot. It had quietly poisoned the whole kitchen from the back corner of a cold refrigerator.
That’s the church. That’s what happens when we stop pursuing holiness. You don’t need a moral collapse. Just a neglected spiritual life. Quiet sin. Private compromise. Holiness shoved to the back corner of the soul. We rot from within while the nation smells the stench.
2. Abandon the Bible
Destroy America by becoming biblically illiterate.
📖 Hosea 4:6
I watched a man in downtown San Francisco try to find his hotel with a dead phone. He had the address written down, but no map, no GPS, no clue. He walked five blocks the wrong direction before realizing he was lost. Not rebellious, just disoriented.
Isn't that what the Church looks like when we stop opening the Bible? Not hostile to truth. Just lost. Guessing. Wandering. Trying to live for Jesus without ever listening to what He said. The world doesn’t just need our passion. It needs our grounding.
3. Worship Comfort Instead of Christ
Destroy America by making church about convenience.
📖 Revelation 3:17
Two ships sit in the harbor. One’s a cruise ship: pools, buffets, entertainment, soft towels. The other’s a battleship: drills, steel, radar, weapons. One is for luxury. The other is for war. Now imagine sending the cruise ship into combat and wondering why it sinks.
When churches are built for comfort instead of conflict, we are the same thing. We weren’t saved to relax. We were saved to fight. But we traded the mission for convenience, and America is going under while we’re still at the buffet line.
4. Tear Down Leaders Instead of Building Up the Body
Destroy America by gossiping about your pastor, splitting churches, and sowing discord.
📖 Proverbs 6:19
A man in a lifeboat panicked during a storm. He didn’t like how the captain was yelling orders. So, in his frustration, he cut the rope connecting the lifeboat to the rescue ship just to make a point.
That’s what we do when we tear down our leaders. When we gossip about pastors, sow division, and split over style instead of Scripture. Satan doesn’t need to destroy the Church if we’re willing to do it for him. Division is demolition, and we’ve got the tools in our hands.
5. Forget to Pray
Destroy America by trying to fix everything except the one thing that matters.
📖 2 Chronicles 7:14
A guy showed up on a work site with a brand-new cordless drill. It looked great. But when he tried to use it, nothing happened. The battery was dead. He lined up the screws, pressed down, looked busy. . . but without power, nothing happened.
We’re holding the right tools: Scripture, tradition, truth; but we’ve unplugged the power. Without prayer, it’s just noise. Just movement. Just effort with no effect. We don’t need more strategies; we need power from above.
The Fire That Wouldn't Spread
During World War II, villagers in Europe tried to light a massive bonfire to signal Allied planes. They built it high, soaked it in fuel, waited for the right moment. When the time came, they struck the match, but it barely burned. Wet wood. No kindling. No air. The fire never took.
The planes flew overhead, and kept flying.
They had the right plan. The right mission. But without fire… nothing changed.
We’ve got pulpits. Programs. Budgets. Podcasts.
But if we’ve lost the fire-the prayer, the purity, the power-the world will just keep flying right over us.
And America will fall… not because the fire of evil was too strong…
But because the fire of the Church was too weak.
Don’t ask, “What can I do to save America?”
Ask, “What am I doing that might be destroying it?”
Let it start here. Let it start now. Let it start with us.
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