Future of the United States Rests on a Moral Foundation

July 10, 2026

I had the honor of speaking on Sunday, July 5, at Seaford Wesleyan Church (The Ark) on the importance of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

I thank Pastor David Kiser for inviting me to speak and Wanda Johnson and Sue Bibb for helping me navigate the technology.

I began by saying I like the quote I found online about the mission of the Wesleyan Church.

The Wesleyan Church is praying to become a movement, a Kingdom Force ‘unleashed everywhere’ in order to see lives, churches and communities changed.

I would love to see this mission for very church, every denomination, every pastor, and every Christian. It is so needed today if our nation is to survive for the next 250 years.

The history of our nation is an exciting story of faith and courage.

Those involved in writing the Constitution for this new nation had suffered under a long train of abuses under King George III.

They shared a sentiment that the U.S. Constitution should not be overbearing. In Federalist 51, James Madison wrote:

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Madison help form a government structure to include checks and balances, a system designed to prevent any one branch from gaining too much power, reflecting the need for control over human ambition.

But the Bill of Rights, ratified in 1791, gave us the freedoms of speech, religion, and the right to bear arms, among other rights.

We may not have survived for 250 years without those rights of protection from an overreaching government.

Quoteworthy

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected. Samuel Adams