“I don’t think it’s Donald Trump or the Republican Party or Christian nationalism that’s keeping people from accepting the gospel. They just provide a convenient excuse,” Jeffress told me. “I think at the end of the day, it’s all about a person’s personal relationship with God. He can come up with all kind of intellectual reasons for not accepting the gospel—‘look at this hypocrite over here’ and so forth—but I think deep down, there’s a personal reason he doesn’t come to faith in Christ. The reason a lot of seekers never find God is the same reason that
