The support offered by an evangelical megachurch to President Trump has been “incredibly damaging to the Gospel and to the church," former megachurch pastor and author Joshua Harris said.

In his interview for Axios on HBO, Harris told host Mike Allen that the movement’s identification with Trump “won’t end well”.

“Having a leader like Tump, I think, is in itself part of the indictment,” Harris said when asked whether the Christians who support Trump are due for judgment. “This is the leader you want and maybe deserve; that represents a lot of who you are.”

The Hill reported that during the 2016 elections, a majority of Trump’s supporters were evangelicals who gave him a higher-than-average job approval rating throughout his three years in office. They gave him a 77 percent rating in a recent fall survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute.

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Anti-Muslim, anti-gay Texas preacher, the Rev. Robert Jeffress (not pictured) is a member of Donald Trump's evangelical advisory board. Above, (left to right) Sealy Yates, founder of My Faith Votes, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Kelly Shackelford, president of the First Liberty Institute, after a meeting with Trump in New York, June 21, 2016. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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