Thanks to the msm’s selective reporting, here’s a story you may have totally missed from last weekend. Anything that shows Christianity in a positive light these days must be avoided by the network spin machines at all costs. But luckily there are more and more great websites springing up to spread the good news.
 
I found this article at CharismaNews. The Democrat’s reaction to Charlotte714 is a pretty clear illustration of their “unofficial” party platform: Let’s just keep God out of it. ~
 
On Sunday thousands attended a prayer rally in Charlotte that was officially shunned by the DNC…

Oh, you didn’t hear about it?
 
I’m speaking about the Charlotte 714 rally (based on the biblical text found in 2 Chronicles 7:14) where Christians from more than 100 different churches in the region attended a seven-hour, non-political rally at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. (According to the figures released by the amphitheater, there were 9,000 total attendees over the course of the day.)
 
A few weeks before the DNC, the churches involved in the event made an effort to “adopt a delegation,” offering to send welcome baskets with information about their churches and the city. But the “Democrats denied the evangelical group permission because of its pro-life stance.”
 
According to David Benham, the organizer of Charlotte 714, “The mayor’s office texted me and said, ‘We regret to inform but we ask that you not send those letters, and not engage in ‘Adopt a Delegation,’ because your views on women are contrary to the convention.’”

 
So much for the Democrats’ claim that they’re an all-inclusive, everyone-is-welcome party eh?
 

It appears, then, that to deeply honor women as wives and moms and singles who make an immense contribution to the well-being of our society and to highly esteem babies in the womb (including female babies) is to hold to a view of women that is “contrary to the convention.”

 
Which party started the “war on women” again? The same one that booed God.
 

Thankfully, God was front and center at the Charlotte714 event, an event that was significant because it was, far and away, the largest gathering in Charlotte outside of the DNC itself; it gathered together a diverse group of pastors, leaders and congregations; and it was totally non-political in tone. In fact, the only really “political” moment of the day came when a black minister urged his fellow African-Americans not to vote for President Obama because of his radically pro-abortion stance. Yet there was not the slightest call to vote for Mitt Romney, whose name may not have been mentioned once.
 

 
Instead, the focus was on our sins and failings as the Church in our nation, recognizing that America’s greatest problem is not so much the presence of darkness as it is the absence of light. As I said in the closing message of the night, “The only reason that abortion of demand still exists in Charlotte and there is not a greater hope for the mothers and their babies is because of the apathy of the xhurch. And no-fault divorce among heterosexual Christians has done more to destroy marriage than all the gay activists combined.”
 
Thankfully, the response was heartening, as thousands pledged themselves afresh to be “the salt of the earth and the light of the world” (Matthew 5:13-16), wanting to make Charlotte714 into a movement more than an event. It’s a shame that you probably didn’t hear about it until now.

 
Even if most Americans didn’t hear about this rally, we can be certain that God heard the prayers. Wouldn’t it be awesome if Charlotte714 caught on across the country now?!
 

 
Here’s a little musical inspiration from Casting Crowns, a tune that asks that very question ~