Bob McCoskrie, Director of New Zealand’s foremost watchdog on family matters Family First, has posted a strong message that appears directed towards New Zealand churches.

The post comes as many Christian Conservatives express frustration at what appears to be apathy from New Zealand churches over recent moral crises.

The post, written on various platforms such as X has caught the attention of conservative speakers like Elliot Ikilei who stated:

“The church that once spoke staunchly into the society that they built has become a shadow of what it once was, retreating into buildings and leaving a vaccum filled by racists, groomers and advocates for sexual depravity and killings by state-funded suicide or abortion-to-birth”

Other comments seen or received by The Daily Examiner include:

• “They have lost their salt”
• “Well said – totally agree”
• “Very, very well expressed 👍”
• “What is the church even for these days”
• “If we are silent evil will abound more and more”

McCoskrie’s written post follows:

The church hasn’t become ‘political’.

When politicians promote laws & policies which redefine marriage & gender, kill unborn children, unleash the Charities Commission against charities if they promote traditional family & marriage, pull kids away from parents who won’t support gender reassignment surgeries (even criminalising the parents & counsellors), put men in woman’s sports, deliberately end the life of vulnerable people with terminal illnesses, punish people who speak Scriptural principles in the public square, force doctors to perform abortions and assisted suicides, then the church MUST speak up.

If it doesn’t, it loses its saltiness and relevance to a culture which desperately needs truth.

A moral issue is still a moral issue – even when politicians get in the way.”