A Lebanese Maronite’s Letter to American Christians

“If one part suffers, every part suffers with it.” — 1 Corinthians 12:26

Brothers and sisters,

I write to you as a Lebanese Maronite Christian, a professor, a husband, and a man who has learned to pray in the ruins. I have spent time in your country and far more time praying for it. From the East I can see your extraordinary power—for good or for harm—and I believe God intends to use you again for the good of His church and for the saving of your own souls. This is not a political memo. It is a spiritual alarm and a brother’s invitation.

What I see in you is immense capacity: resources, platforms, and reach that can shake the earth when submitted to truth. When you align your power with Christ, the world feels it. But I also see a vulnerability: your compassion is often captured by narratives that weaponize your faith against other Christians. When love is harnessed by deception, it does the devil’s work while speaking Christ’s name.

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood…” (Ephesians 6:12). The darkness working through governments, media, and money is not new. It desensitizes, distracts, and divides. It teaches you to worship abstractions—nation, freedom, safety—while neglecting the Person who is Truth. Freedom without love becomes license. Patriotism without Christ becomes idolatry. Outrage without repentance becomes theater.

Because I love you, I will speak plainly. In Scripture, “Israel” is not a modern nation‑state; it is the people who belong to Christ—spread across the world: Lebanon, China, Africa, the Americas. I pray for the salvation of the Jewish people in Christ. My critique is not of a people but of power systems and policies that crucify truth. There is a real political project—often called “Greater Israel”—which, together with regional wars and militias, has brought devastation across our lands. In Lebanon, in Gaza, in Syria, Christians have been maimed, displaced, and silenced. Some of the funding, lobbying, and moral cover for these actions flows from American churches and donors who believe they are honoring God. They are not. Christ is not served by the destruction of His body. If your tithes or votes underwrite violence against Christians, you are being manipulated by powers that hate Christ while speaking His name. Test every spirit. Measure by fruit. Refuse to bless what He does not bless.

How then do we fight? The first Christians sang while being torn by lions. They conquered by loving unto death, not by killing. The monastic stream of the Church taught us to return to the desert—fasting, silence, repentance—so the Holy Spirit can cut away our illusions. Do likewise. Pray and fast in secret and ask God to reveal your own sin first. Turn off the noise; X and Instagram are not agents of the Holy Spirit and cable news is not a prophet. Re-center your loyalty on Jesus alone—not on party, platform, or state. Speak truth in love, because courage without love becomes cruelty, and love without courage becomes complicity.

If you ask what you can do now, begin here: fund [PROJECT NAME TBD], led by Isaiah McCall—an American journalist who made the trek to listen and learn because he knew we weren’t getting the full story. He was right. In the coming months, this work will help uncover what the so‑called “Greater Israel” project has done to American Christians and to Middle Eastern Christians. The church needs to see the truth clearly. Alongside this, support truthful journalism led by Middle Eastern Christians. Fund reporting that lets our people speak directly about Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, and Iraq without NGOs, think tanks, or state propaganda filtering our voice. Open your churches, schools, and platforms to host these witnesses and resist the urge to script their testimony. Provide the means for field reporting, translation, and digital security so that truth-tellers can publish safely. When you hear an Eastern Christian tell the truth, share it until the narrative monopoly breaks. Pray for the church in the Middle East by name; adopt monasteries, parishes, and families; write to them; visit when prudent. If you have wealth, fund assignments. If you have audience, open doors. If you have prayer, fast and intercede. All of this is your duty in a time of amplified spiritual warfare.

A word about America: your nation has been a vessel of grace and a weapon of harm. The difference has always been your obedience. Repent of every alliance that requires you to ignore the cross. Refuse to call darkness light because it wears your flag or quotes your Bible. Christ does not need us to defend Him; He invites us to become like Him. That means bearing the cross with courage, choosing restraint over revenge, and loving enemies without lying about evil. It means cutting off the hand that causes us to sin—discipline, not denial.

My appeal is simple: remember us, not as a cause but as family. We need your strength; you need our witness. Let us walk together—your resources and reach joined with our endurance and prayer. East and West, one body, one Lord. I offer this not as a politician, but as an older brother: repent, return to prayer, and re-order your allegiance to Jesus alone. If you do, your power will heal instead of harm, and many will be saved—perhaps beginning with you.

He already won.

— Mayssam, a servant of Jesus Christ in Lebanon