The National Day of Repentance, sponsored again this year by Christian attorney and Pastor Jeff Daly, is set for later this month.
Daly says the National Day of Repentance is intended for the nation as a whole, specifically for Christians.
"We need to clean up our own act within the Body of Christ," he contents. "It has to start with the leaders. It has to start with those who are the 'called-out' ones. I studied early American Christian history, and those devout men and women of God who were our founders knew that when we called for a day of fasting and repentance, God moved."
God willing, the pastor hopes the event will trigger 2 Chronicles 7:14, which deals with prayer, fasting, and repentance of sin.
"Yes, we will vote in this coming election, but the issues we have are deeper than politics," Daly asserts. "There are spiritual issues for which we need a spiritual solution, and so I think repentance -- a National Day of Repentance -- we're going to have it coincide with the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, which is on September 25 and 26 this year. We think this will be a great quickening in a positive way of the Body of Christ, waking it up to be a more spotless bride."
The last president to declare a day of repentance was Abraham Lincoln.