America Double Collapse follows Peter Vazquez through two converging crises: enemies pressing from abroad and moral collapse spreading at home. Col. Grant Newsham warns that Iran, China, Taiwan, and the Pacific reveal a nation stretched thin. Dr. Douglas Small argues that truth, prayer, and repentance are the missing center. The result is a hard look at whether America can survive when external threat meets internal decay.
The show opened the way life usually does in Rochester. Sunlight. Familiar voices. A little humor. A little Spanish. A little grit. Then the temperature changed. America Double Collapse
Because some days are not built for small talk.
Some days force a country to look at itself in the mirror and ask whether the danger is only gathering at the edge of the map, or whether the deeper danger has already moved inside the house.
Peter Vazquez spent this broadcast walking that line between the threat abroad and the unraveling at home, and what emerged was not a collection of disconnected topics, but one hard truth: America is being tested from both directions at once. Outside, by enemies who study weakness with patience. Inside, by a spiritual and moral erosion that leaves people hungry for peace, but increasingly cut off from the truth that can sustain it.
Colonel Grant Newsham came first, carrying the kind of résumé that ends pretense. Retired U.S. Marine colonel. Former reserve head of intelligence for Marine Forces Pacific. Diplomat. Indo-Pacific strategist. A man who has spent decades watching how adversaries think, move, wait, and exploit. Peter did not bring him on to recite headlines. He brought him on to strip away the illusion that Iran is just another news-cycle flare-up.
What came through was chilling in its simplicity. Iran is not merely a regional problem. It is a stress test. A live measure of whether the United States is still capable of staying focused, holding the line, and sustaining strength under pressure. Newsham made clear that regimes like Tehran’s do not simply threaten borders. They test will. They probe stamina. They force decisions. And while America watches missile strikes, oil routes, and diplomatic theater, China is watching something else entirely: whether the United States can be drawn into exhaustion.
That was the deeper pulse of the conversation. Not just what Iran is doing, but who is learning from it.
China, Newsham warned, does not think war begins when missiles fly. It begins long before that, in the mind, in the marketplace, in the culture, in the slow conditioning of a people to accept dependency, confusion, compromise, and delay. It begins when a nation stops recognizing attack unless it arrives in uniform. It begins when supply chains become shackles, when fentanyl becomes a weapon, when farmland, industries, ports, and political influence are quietly bought up while everyone keeps pretending the relationship is normal.
That is what made the hour feel less like an interview and more like an alarm bell.
Taiwan was not discussed as an abstract geopolitical chess square. It was named for what it is: the place where political warfare, gray-zone coercion, and military threat all meet in plain sight. Japan and the Pacific were not treated as distant terrain. They were framed as the outer walls of American security, already under pressure, already being softened, already being studied by a regime that understands patience better than many Western leaders understand consequence. Newsham’s warning did not come wrapped in theatrical panic. It came with the far more unsettling force of clarity. America is under pressure not only from the obvious enemies it can name, but from the habits of denial it still cannot break.
And then, almost without warning, the show turned inward.
After the breaks, after the local voices, after the reminders that real communities are still trying to keep families housed, children safe, and hope alive, Peter shifted from national security to national soul. The second half of the broadcast did not feel like a change of subject. It felt like the rest of the diagnosis.
Dr. Douglas Small entered not as a pundit, but as a man burdened by what he sees slipping away. President and Executive Director of Prayer at the Heart, he spoke not in slogans, but with the weight of someone convinced that America’s deepest emergency is not political confusion, but spiritual drift. Peter framed it directly: this is a nation that still wants order, still wants blessing, still wants peace, but has been severing itself from truth and then acting surprised when everything feels unstable.
The numbers were stark. A tiny percentage of Americans still hold a biblical worldview. Truth itself is negotiable to millions. Church attendance is thinning. Young people are drowning in anxiety, fear, and despair. Hope is lower than it has been in years. The symptoms are emotional, moral, cultural, and civic all at once. What Dr. Small offered was not a policy platform for fixing that. It was something more demanding.
Repentance.
Prayer.
Awakening.
He spoke of the first Great Awakening not like a museum piece, but like a forgotten survival story. He described George Whitefield traveling the colonies, preaching people awake, calling them beyond denominational pride and into something higher, until a scattered people began to discover that before they were a nation, they had to become a people with a shared moral center. He spoke of the Black Robe Regiment, of pastors who understood that liberty required courage, and of a generation that did not separate spiritual fire from public consequence.
That history mattered because it cast a hard light on the present. Modern America wants renewal without repentance, blessing without boundaries, love without truth, and peace without God at the center. Dr. Small was unsparing about the result. When a culture expels God, it does not become neutral. It becomes unstable. It tries to build morality without transcendence, righteousness without surrender, identity without obedience, and hope without holiness. It cannot hold.
That was the force of the second half of the show. Not sentiment. Not nostalgia. A plea.
Prayer at the Heart’s Project 2026 is built around an audacious goal: one million Christians praying for one million souls between Passover and Pentecost. A 50-day prayer guide. A prayer wall. A nationwide rhythm of intercession. To some, that may sound quaint in an age of algorithms and outrage. But on this broadcast it did not sound quaint at all. It sounded defiant. It sounded like a refusal to believe that America’s future will be decided only by the loudest ideologues, the deepest pockets, or the most cynical power brokers.
What made the whole program hit so hard was the way the two conversations reflected each other.
Grant Newsham described a nation being tested by enemies who understand weakness.
Douglas Small described a nation being hollowed out by forgetting who it is.
One spoke of deterrence, military strain, China, Iran, Taiwan, and the Pacific.
The other spoke of prayer, repentance, revival, and the possibility that the deepest line of defense is not only industrial or strategic, but spiritual.
Together, they told the same story.
A country does not lose itself all at once.
It loses itself by fragments.
By distractions.
By dependencies.
By lies repeated until they sound normal.
By courage thinning.
By truth becoming negotiable.
By churches going quiet.
By leaders managing decline instead of confronting it.
By citizens forgetting that freedom has both a cost and a center.
That is why this show mattered.
Because it refused the easy split between foreign threats and domestic decline. It refused the comforting fiction that one can be solved without the other. It treated the danger abroad and the rot at home as part of the same crisis: a nation under pressure, uncertain whether it still has the moral nerve to defend what it says it believes.
Peter Vazquez held those two worlds together the way this show often does, with urgency, bluntness, faith, and the stubborn insistence that ordinary people still matter. Callers mattered. Listeners mattered. The local mattered. The nation mattered. God mattered. In an age that rewards detached commentary and disposable outrage, there was something older and steadier at work here: a belief that truth should be spoken plainly, that decay should be named without flinching, and that hope, if it is to mean anything at all, must be rooted in something stronger than mood.
The final message was impossible to miss.
America is being pressed from the outside and hollowed from the inside.
It is being challenged by hostile powers and by its own moral exhaustion.
It is being tested in its borders, its industries, its politics, its churches, its homes, and its heart.
And the question now is not whether the danger is real.
The question is whether the people are ready to face it.
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Peter Vazquez:
Mira la izquierda, mira la derecha, what do you see? Where are you? In a world that seems to change daily, what will you do next? Welcome to The Next Steps Show with Peter Vazquez, a starting point for discussion and a little direction.
Hey, hey, hey, ladies and gentlemen. It is another beautiful Friday, the sun is shining here in the Rochester metro area. Sometimes I like to start the show with a quote to put things in perspective, and today is one of those days, because these next couple of segments are going to matter.
We are living through what I keep calling the Vanbōōlzalness Crisis, the destruction of America from within. That destruction is happening at the core of this nation. It is rotting it from the inside out. It is trying to convince our young people to abandon morals, values, and truth. It is trying to shift the culture so thoroughly that people no longer know what is solid ground.
So let us begin with a guest who brings a perspective you do not hear every day.
Retired U.S. Marine Colonel. Former reserve head of intelligence for Marine Forces Pacific. Former diplomat. Former U.S. Marine advisor to the Japan Self-Defense Force. Longtime Indo-Pacific strategist.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to welcome Colonel Grant Newsham. Sir, bienvenido to The Next Steps Show.
Grant Newsham:
Pleasure to be here. Thank you very much for having me.
Peter Vazquez:
The pleasure is ours, sir. And just to make sure our listeners can find your work later, your last name is spelled N-E-W-S-H-A-M, correct?
Grant Newsham:
That is right.
Peter Vazquez:
For our listeners, if you would, briefly share who you are. But more importantly, what made you the man you are today? What shaped the mission you are on now?
Grant Newsham:
I managed to spend about 40 years in the Asia-Pacific region. I lived in Japan and Taiwan for 20 to 25 of those years. I spent a lot of time looking at China, looking at Japan, and really the whole region. I also had a small role in what people call Charlie Wilson’s war, when the Americans were trying to get the Russians out of Afghanistan.
I have been around a long time and seen some of the world. I was a diplomat, as you mentioned. I was also with the Marines for 30 years. I worked for an investment bank and for Motorola, if anybody remembers that company. I have seen the region from a lot of different perspectives, not just a military one.
Peter Vazquez:
Interesting. Let us look at what is happening right now. You have pointed out a perspective many people miss, and I want to start with Iran, because it is what is on everybody’s mind. It is in the news every minute. But Iran is not just another foreign policy flare-up. It is a live stress test of American strength, readiness, and resolve.
This is a regime that, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, had amassed more than 9,000 kilograms of enriched uranium, including material enriched up to 60 percent U-235. Add the Strait of Hormuz and the oil that moves through it, and this becomes about far more than Tehran.
Grant Newsham:
That is exactly right. It is the nature of the regime that matters. Iran has been at war with us for 47 years. They have killed a lot of Americans, maimed a lot of them, and their stated goal is to destroy Israel and, if possible, destroy us too. This is a very bad regime. It is not our friend. It makes North Korea look almost normal by comparison.
The important thing is to understand that 80-plus percent of Iranians would like to see this regime gone, but the regime itself is dangerous. That is the heart of the issue.
Peter Vazquez:
Fundamentally, I think what makes them dangerous is that there is a spiritual component to this, and a determined effort to take down a nation that believes in freedom. But Iran is not alone. There are other nations watching this war closely, not just for oil or money, but to see how it weakens us internally.
Grant Newsham:
That is right. China is the big one. They are watching this very closely. They would like to see the Americans get bogged down in Iran so we cannot focus on Asia and cannot focus on China.
The Chinese have armed the Iranians for years. They buy about 100 percent of Iran’s oil. They are even providing missile fuel for Iranian rockets. China would very much like to see us fail in Iran, because that makes things much easier for them in Asia and anywhere else in the world where they are pushing against us.
Peter Vazquez:
You warn in your work that China does not think conflict begins with missiles. They understand manipulation. They understand that if they can bamboozle people, if they can shape how people think, they can weaken us without firing a shot.
I have had guests on this show explain how China presents itself as loving and orderly while crushing dissent. That is a deliberate cognitive strategy, is it not?
Grant Newsham:
Very much so. China’s strategy is to control the way its enemies think. If you can do that, everything else gets much easier. You do not even need a particularly strong military if you have convinced your enemy that China is no threat, that it is just a country full of people who want to get rich, that it is not really communist, that it is somehow just harmless and friendly.
At the same time, China is building a huge military. It is pumping fentanyl into the United States. That fentanyl has killed over 800,000 Americans, and China has received no punishment for it. Somehow, we still act as though this is our fault or someone else’s fault.
So yes, it is very much a cognitive war, a war against the mind, while they are also building a real military that in some circumstances could probably beat us.
Peter Vazquez:
Ladies and gentlemen, that voice is Colonel Grant Newsham. The lines are open. We have a question from social media, from the West Coast. Mark asks: what is Colonel Newsham’s view of Pakistan’s role in Iran peace negotiations? Are they doing China’s bidding?
Grant Newsham:
Yes. Pakistan is very much following Chinese direction. People should remember that Pakistan supported the Taliban while Americans were in Afghanistan, and Americans were killed and maimed as a result. Pakistan is also behind a great deal of terrorism against India.
They serve a useful role for China as an intermediary in these negotiations. In many respects, Pakistan functions as a puppet of the Chinese.
Peter Vazquez:
Thank you for that. Let me move to your work from March 22, 2023, “China is preparing to challenge the U.S. over Taiwan.” You wrote that “the combination of political warfare, gray-zone actions, and the potential for kinetic warfare come together most clearly around Taiwan.”
We have a caller. David, thank you for calling The Next Steps Show.
Caller David:
Two points. One is the role of the Rothschild bank and the Sassoon family, going back to the opium era. The second is the larger Marxian agenda and chaos.
Peter Vazquez:
David, I appreciate the call. Colonel?
Grant Newsham:
One thing to pay attention to is how many people benefit from the People’s Republic of China. The Bush family, for example, has long supported the status quo with China, the idea that we can all get rich by getting along with them. Peter Schweizer writes excellent books laying out who has been on the Chinese payroll.
Peter Vazquez:
Ladies and gentlemen, we will get to more of this after the break.
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Peter Vazquez:
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. The lines are open. We are speaking with Colonel Grant Newsham. Keith, thanks for calling The Next Steps Show.
Caller Keith:
I want to first say I respect the sacrifice of the Marines, from Iwo Jima to Okinawa and beyond. Why does Trump not call up Xi and tell him: no more fentanyl into our country, no more support for Iran? Why do our leaders not speak more directly and make it stick?
Peter Vazquez:
Colonel, that is a fair question.
Grant Newsham:
It is. I think President Trump would like to do exactly that. When he first got in office, he did get very tough on China. But for the first time, the Chinese said they would stop selling us critical minerals and rare earth materials. That would have shut down a large chunk of American manufacturing.
President Trump is dealing with 40 years of appeasement that has left us dependent on China for critical materials, pharmaceuticals, and even things needed to build our military: explosives, night vision systems, specialty metals. It is insane, but that is the position he has inherited.
On fentanyl, I do think he should speak more loudly and directly and say clearly that this comes from China, and that China could stop it in an afternoon. This is China waging war against us. But he has been dealt a bad hand by his predecessors.
Peter Vazquez:
That is exactly right. We as a people also bear a burden here. We have to shift the culture back toward accountability. We have governments and communities funding behaviors that keep people dependent, that normalize addiction, that even redefine destruction as something therapeutic.
Before the break, I mentioned two pieces of your work, including “Beijing’s subversive political warfare in the Pacific.” You wrote that China is managing to do what Imperial Japan could not accomplish. Why is that relevant today?
Grant Newsham:
It is relevant because China is trying to weaken and destroy us without firing a shot. That includes drug warfare like fentanyl. It includes American companies moving to China and hollowing out our communities here. It includes influence operations on Capitol Hill and support for political movements that divide us.
China is funding unrest. It funded Black Lives Matter. It funds No Kings rallies. It is not just doing this in America. It does it in every country on earth. It does it in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and in the central Pacific.
You need to look at the map and those small islands in the Pacific where the Marines and Navy fought in World War II. The Chinese have moved into those places with businesses, drugs, bribery, and political influence. Countries that used to support America are shifting toward China. Even U.S. territories like Saipan and Guam are being influenced by the Chinese.
We think war begins when the shooting starts. The Chinese do not. In their mind, the war has already started. It is psychological. It is commercial. It is political. Ultimately, it is intended to break us apart and destroy us.
The biggest problem is that we still do not accept that China wants to destroy us. We still want to believe that if we just talk enough, we can be friends.
Peter Vazquez:
And we are depending on them for cheap goods while they buy up farmland, industries, and strategic resources. They are even buying into historic industries like whiskey in Kentucky. It is astonishing.
I am down to the last few minutes. How can people find your work and get educated?
Grant Newsham:
You can find what I write on X at @NewshamGrant and through the Center for Security Policy. One of the best things people can do is contact their congressman. It sounds hard to believe, but they do listen when constituents call and write. If you tell them why you are worried about China, they pay attention.
People can also write letters to the editor, call radio shows, and keep raising the issue. There is a lot ordinary citizens can do.
Peter Vazquez:
I agree completely. Colonel, thank you for your time today. May God bless you and the work you continue to do.
Grant Newsham:
Thank you very much for having me.
Peter Vazquez:
The honor was mine. Ladies and gentlemen, do not change that dial. We are coming right back with another guest and another important conversation.
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Peter Vazquez:
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. We are on social media, Facebook, Rumble, YouTube, X, all of it. The issue in America is not merely political division or cultural confusion. It is something deeper.
We are watching a moral and spiritual unraveling in a country that still wants order, still wants peace, still wants blessing, but has been steadily cutting itself loose from the truths that once gave it stability.
When only 4 percent of American adults hold a biblical worldview, when two-thirds of the country reject or doubt absolute moral truth, when just 30 percent of Americans attend religious services regularly, and only 21 percent attend weekly, that is not a minor shift. That is a civilization losing its footing while wondering why everything feels unstable.
And it goes beyond faith. Gallup reports that only 59.2 percent of Americans expect to be living a high-quality life in five years, the lowest level recorded since that measure began in 2008. More than half of Gen Z adults report regular anxiety, depression, or crippling fear, and only 1 percent of that generation holds a biblical worldview.
So this is not simply about church attendance or poll numbers. It is about a people severed from moral clarity, spiritual confidence, and lasting hope.
That is why this moment cannot be answered with branding, safer language, or another round of political theater. It demands repentance where there has been pride, prayer where there has been passivity, and awakening where there has been drift.
Joining me now is the President and Executive Director of Prayer at the Heart, Dr. Douglas Small. Sir, bienvenido to The Next Steps Show, and thank you for joining us.
Dr. Douglas Small:
Thank you, Peter, for having me.
Peter Vazquez:
For our listeners, tell them who you are. But I also like to ask this: why is prayer so important to you today? What in your own life brought you to this point where you lead an organization called Prayer at the Heart?
Dr. Douglas Small:
There is really nothing in our relationship with God that does not involve prayer. You are saved in the context of prayer. Your life is set aside and consecrated in prayer. You are filled with the Spirit in prayer. You are called and directed in prayer. You are healed and guided in prayer.
Prayer is the means by which God has created a link between heaven and earth. One of the great privileges of prayer is that we get to ask God for something. That is astounding. In the ancient world, when you came before a sovereign, you did not ask. You listened.
But with God, we get to ask. The problem is that we usually ask only for ourselves, not for the nation, not for the lost, not for those who have never heard, not for the social and moral issues you are talking about. Prayer at the Heart is about bringing prayer back to the heart of everything we do, and back to the heart of the nation itself.
Peter Vazquez:
I have decided I am not going to be afraid to pray anymore. I tell people I am praying for them. Some say they do not care. But I have seen prayer in action in places where politicians and even pastors said people were beyond help.
Let me quote you. You said, “It took a great awakening to give birth to our nation.” Why did you say that?
Dr. Douglas Small:
In the early 1700s, the colonies were deeply divided. The halfway covenant had disconnected culture from the church. We had really given up on one generation reaching the next. There was competition and division between the colonies and between movements of faith.
It was not a morally strong society. A great many people were not here to build a holy commonwealth. They were here to get rich and go back to Europe.
Then George Whitefield came, preaching from Savannah to Boston and back seven times. He woke the colonies up. He woke them up to morality, to the holiness of God, to the possibility of divine judgment. He also woke them up to something they had in common.
He would say, “Father Abraham, do you have any Anglicans up there? Any Quakers?” And then he would answer, “No, we only have Christians up here.” Then he would tell the audience, “Let us be Christians.” In other words, let Christ become central and superior to our differences.
That changed the identity of the colonies. Whitefield became more widely known than Washington or Franklin. Through him, the colonies began to see themselves as something more unified.
Out of that came what we now call the Black Robe Regiment, pastors preaching with fire and conviction, calling people to act, and from that came the matrix for the American founding. Without that Great Awakening, there would have been no America.
Peter Vazquez:
I am glad you brought up the Black Robe Regiment. That story is not told nearly enough.
Dr. Douglas Small:
It is extraordinary. Britain burned down many churches because pastors were preaching resistance. They would go to the pulpit in black robes and beneath the robe there would be a military uniform. They would preach, then go outside and organize militia units.
For the last 60 years, we have whitewashed that story. We have painted over it. We have had a sustained war against the truth of our founding and against prayer in schools, until finally we silenced ourselves. But we have to break that silence, not with belligerence, but with kindness and gentleness, and say clearly: there is a God, He is alive, and He is giving us a window for change in this nation.
Washington cannot save us. Only God can save us. Only another Great Awakening can save us.
Peter Vazquez:
Amen to that. I had a guest recently who spoke of Christians worldwide as one family. If you are in Christ, whether in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, or America, you are part of the same family. Would you agree?
Dr. Douglas Small:
Absolutely.
Peter Vazquez:
You referenced Whitefield’s 1739 to 1741 tours, and how one sermon in Boston drew 30,000 people and changed culture. There is an uncommon friendship there with Benjamin Franklin too, is there not?
Dr. Douglas Small:
Yes. There is a film called Awakening that tells that story. Franklin was not a believer, but Whitefield kept drawing him in, speaking with him, and pressing him toward God. It was Franklin, the skeptic, who later called the Continental Congress to prayer when they were stalled.
Franklin himself said that tens of thousands heard Whitefield. Something happened in that generation.
Peter Vazquez:
You are now calling for one million Christians to pray for one million people. What inspired that vision? Why should we pray for one million strangers?
Dr. Douglas Small:
Across all denominations, we are seeing under half a million people come to Christ each year, but we are losing far more ground than that. We are losing the culture.
If we saw one million people saved by Pentecost, it would affect the nation. It would be the first domino. We really need tens of millions, but ten percent of the nation could be enough to create a tipping point. Historically, it was about 20 to 30 percent who changed the nation and gave us this country.
Peter Vazquez:
More than half of Gen Z adults report regular anxiety, depression, or crippling fear, and only 1 percent of that generation holds a biblical worldview. That says a lot. Let me ask this: how can listeners access your digital 68-page, 50-day prayer guide?
Dr. Douglas Small:
Go to PrayerAtTheHeart.org. Under Resources, you will find the 50-Day Prayer Guide. It is a daily devotional for every day, with a featured state, an unreached people group, a prayer quote, and a prayer guide. It is beautifully done and free to download.
There is also a Project 2026 section with a USA Prayer Wall.
Peter Vazquez:
Tell us about that prayer wall. Can others duplicate it?
Dr. Douglas Small:
Yes. We have about 45 state leaders covering their states in prayer. People are taking one-hour blocks, state by state, city by city, and praying. This morning I was on a call with about 40 people from around the world doing the same thing globally, praying for revival and the global family of God.
You can call in, claim an open time slot, and host that hour. There is 24/7 prayer going on for America. It is all at PrayerAtTheHeart.org.
Peter Vazquez:
Politicians love to paint a grim picture, and some people in church leadership do the same. But many also want renewal without repentance. They want blessings without boundaries. Why is that?
Dr. Douglas Small:
We live in a culture that wants love without truth. There are really two cities in the world, Babel and Jerusalem. In Babel, God is a visitor. In Jerusalem, God is at the center.
The problem is that man cannot hold his center without God, because we were created for God to be at the center. Once we expel God, Babel becomes the dwelling place of every dark thing. We are trying to be moral without God, righteous without God, like Him without Him. It cannot be done.
In Genesis 1, God gives blessing. In Genesis 2, He sets boundaries. Violate the boundaries and you lose the blessing. We have violated the boundaries and lost the blessing.
But the last word of Jesus before He ascended was blessing. Even the crucifixion did not silence the desire of God to bless us. He is calling America back into that blessing now. It will require repentance, but He is a loving God who wants to give this nation another chance.
Peter Vazquez:
A caller earlier referred to himself as “Christ-lam,” combining Christianity and Islam. He believes the two can come together. Is that appropriate for a Christian?
Dr. Douglas Small:
No. I was just in Kuwait working with pastors there. Christianity and Islam are fundamentally different faiths. There has long been pressure to merge the best parts of all religions, but you cannot do that. Christ stands alone.
Peter Vazquez:
In New York and elsewhere, they call that interfaith, and government money often helps prop it up. Let me give you some current numbers. Twenty-nine percent of adults believe revival could be coming in the next 12 months. Thirty-eight percent of Gen Z believe the same. Gen Z churchgoers average 1.9 weekends per month, Millennials 1.8, and all churched adults 1.6. At the same time, Pew says there is no clear evidence of a nationwide revival among young adults. What do you make of that?
Dr. Douglas Small:
There are mixed signals, but I can see something stirring. On college campuses, in some places hundreds and even thousands are gathering. In some parts of the church, attendance among Gen Z is up significantly. Bible sales are up. I have heard that directly from leaders at the American Bible Society and Billy Graham’s ministry.
So I do not know that you can call it revival yet, but something is definitely happening. We may not be dealing with a post-Christian culture so much as a pre-Christian one. Many young people have been so disconnected from the church that they have never actually heard the pure Gospel before. When they do hear it, it meets the void in the middle of their hearts.
That gives me hope that we may be on the edge of a great spiritual awakening.
Peter Vazquez:
Let me ask once more for listeners: how can they access the 68-page, 50-day prayer guide?
Dr. Douglas Small:
Go to PrayerAtTheHeart.org. Sign up and say, “I want to be one of a million.” There are resources there on prayer, evangelism, public witness, and spiritual leadership. But the key thing is to say: I want to be one of a million, and I want God to help me reach my one by Pentecost Sunday.
Peter Vazquez:
PrayerAtTheHeart.org. I love that prayer wall. I have been thinking about how to implement something like that on TheNextStepsShow.com, because prayer is what keeps me on the air, unapologetically.
I am down to the last minute. Anything else you want to leave with our listeners?
Dr. Douglas Small:
Just my thanks for the time, Peter, and my prayer of blessing over the nation, that God would visit us the way He did 250 years ago.
Peter Vazquez:
I truly appreciate that, sir. Dr. Douglas Small, President and Executive Director of Prayer at the Heart, thank you, and may God continue to bless you and the work you are doing.
Dr. Douglas Small:
Thank you, Peter.
Peter Vazquez:
Ladies and gentlemen, let us end it here. Be a leader, be a leader, be a leader. God bless these United States of America. Do not let a second go by where you are not a voice for liberty. Until I get back.