Just this morning, an announcement went out from TheCall, asking its list of followers to join a national prayer-and-fasting movement aimed at “the spiritual darkness of the homosexual agenda” and the “restraining” of our “ideology.” TheCall is not just another fringy extremist church group — we need to pay serious attention to this move it’s making. Lou Engle, founder and leader of TheCall, is not the familiar old bible-thumping enemy like Jerry Falwell and James Dobson. A major figure in the New Apostolic Reformation that I’ve been writing about, Engle has close ties with the violent anti-abortion movement called The Army of God, who stirred up such a frenzied atmosphere of attacks on abortion clinics that they finally incited someone to assassinate the well-known doctor George Tiller.

Now Engle’s front is calling for 21 days of national prayer against the “unseen spiritual powers” (meaning the unholy demons that allegedly possess you and me). But that’s not all. His own movement also calls for acts of “martyrdom” — meaning followers who are willing to commit violent acts, including murder, who will willingly go to prison or be shot down by police, so they can rid the world of the movement’s “enemies,” namely prominent abortionists and LGBT leaders and the like.

In other words, leaders like Engle can keep the blood off their own hands, and themselves out of prison, by merely inciting others to riot. Their weapons are other people who leap into “Christian soldier” mode and pull the trigger.

– Bilerico