America is experiencing a religious revival of sorts. More people are wearing cross necklaces, participating in public prayers and hymns, and referring to faith, the Bible and Jesus. Surveys are finding small but significant expansions in the numbers of Americans who read the Bible, believe in Jesus, attend church each week, and convert to Catholicism or Orthodoxy.

“We’re bringing back religion in our country,” President Donald Trump said in a National Day of Prayer speech on May 1. “We’re bringing it back quickly and strongly—because for America to be a great nation, we must always be ‘one nation under God.’”

Particularly among younger Americans, the Christian “lifestyle” is trending. They’re reacting against the radical liberals, who had split the nation and almost completely eradicated what was left of American Christianity, religion, tradition and patriotism. God used President Trump to save the nation—not because we had turned to Him, but to give us one last chance to do so!

Are we turning to Him? Are we coming under God? Or is it only a lifestyle trend? Jesus warned about fake Christianity. We can’t afford a fake!

For the resurgence to be real, someone needs to give Americans a deeper message. How wide it spreads is up to the people.

“President Trump has a strong following among evangelicals and Catholics,” my father, Gerald Flurry, wrote in “Why God Is Saving America Through Trump.” “Many Christians in America today look to this man for leadership. Some people believe America is on the cusp of a religious revival. But you need to know your Bible and beware religion that has only ‘a form of godliness’; God tells us ‘from such turn away’! (2 Timothy 3:5).”

Real Christianity is the actual message of Jesus Christ. He taught a message not only of faith but also of repentance from sin and obedience to God’s laws (e.g. Matthew 4:17; 7:21; 28:20; Mark 1:15; Luke 6:46; 13:3; 15:7; John 14:15; 15:10).

President Trump, Republicans, conservatives and even most Christian preachers are not warning Americans to repent of their sins and obey God’s laws. Our nation is filled with lying, swearing, coveting, taking, selfishness, self-sufficiency, dishonoring parents, drunkenness, drug abuse, pornography, fornication, adultery, divorce, homosexuality, deviancy—and all the horrendous results. Yet no one is sounding the alarm to repent toward God!

They are like President Trump’s first vice president, who boldly quoted from the Bible during his campaign. It was so refreshing to so many to hear him cite 2 Chronicles 7:14 as, “[I]f His people, who are called by His name, will humble themselves and pray …. He’ll hear from heaven, and he’ll heal this land.”

But that’s not what it says. Mike Pence intentionally skipped “and turn from their wicked ways” and “forgive their sin.” Other Republicans and Christians, the president included, have this same mindset: They are bold enough to believe in the Bible and Jesus Christ, but not bold enough to repent and obey!

Someone needs to bring Americans the real message of the Bible, of Christ—not a fake! We need to be reminded that “we have forgotten God,” we “vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts” that our blessings were produced by our own wisdom and virtue, that we were spiritually “intoxicated,” “too self-sufficient” and “too proud to pray,” guilty of “national sins” and needing to “confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow” and trust not in self nor a president but rather in “genuine repentance.”

Confess their sins and transgressions. Contrast that to the current American president who led his party to accept homosexual “marriage” to increase their vote share—and to the millions of American Christians who went right along. Something is terribly wrong not only with America but with American Christianity.

President Abraham Lincoln and America’s founders knew that Christianity means faith in God and obedience to His laws. As one Puritan minister put it, it means “to suffer the greatest inconvenience than to commit the least sin.” They knew that America had much to repent of and much to learn about God. Their words and their example, let alone those of Jesus Christ and the Bible, stand as a warning to us today—our last warning.

No matter how wide this religious resurgence gets or doesn’t get, it makes no difference if we remain this shallow.

Lincoln and the founders are gone, but God is sounding His warning message today! We need—you need—to hear it and to repent toward God.