– Understand that God does not need a tax break, 501c3 tax exempt status, accreditation, or credentials, it will be up to Christians singularly and collectively to learn how to trust him to make a way for us to do without them.

– Know what you believe (a necessary antecedent to your “Equip”) how many members of solid Reformed churches could give an articulate presentation of either the Scriptural teaching on, or Natural Law case for, conjugal marriage (for example)?

– Buckle up, it’s going to be a rough ride. Persecution IS coming. It is unlikely to be the “police breaking up the prayer meeting and standing by while the mob burns down the church” type (at least for a while). It will be “knuckle under or we’ll pull your 501 c3 status” for organizations; and using the IRS code, laws against child abuse, and drug laws on individuals as in “Pastor, do you want to explain what’s in this baggie I ‘found’ in your car, and where’d you get this picture?” Anyone familiar with the history of pro-life protests know that when the civil authorities’ take the gloves off, the gloves really come off. The process is the punishment. Even if after a decade long legal struggle costing thousands of hours and millions of dollars you win, you still lose. The Federal government has virtually unlimited time and resources (at least as far as a temporal power goes) to burn making an example of on one or two private institutions or individuals, pour encourager les autres.
The direction of our culture will affect accreditation for institutions. And there is the question of whether Christians will be able to get professional credentials in, well any field actually, inasmuch as the earthly powers controlling credentialing agencies and the institutions that feed into them are beginning to require affirmation of belief in atheistic mechanistic evolution as a theory of origins, affirmation of and participation in same-sex “marriage” festivities, etc.

Franklin Graham is conducting his 50 state #DecisionAmerica Tour prayer rallies in every state capital. Good as far as it goes (and I don’t mean to demean or belittle his efforts in any way, may his tribe increase), but we’re past the point where vapid civics lessons and passively praying is an adequate response.

Christians I talk with at my local church seem to have chosen a strategy of denial. The church leadership’s view seems to be “as long as we have our carve out for pastoral tax breaks and church tax exemption, we’re good.” It’s the “hope the alligator eats us last” strategy.

What the Church seems to need is more leadership. Which you are providing. Keep up the good work.
And it needs more followership. Everyone seems to want to be a captain of 10,000, without having learned how to be one solder under a captain of 10.