We need cut our pastors loose and encourage our congregations–fellow Christians–to get involved in the politics of our day!!! Many, many of our pastors believe that the church should not be involved in politics and they won’t open up in the pulpit about what is right and wrong in our communities. We need congregations involved!! We need pastors to get people registered to vote, get them involved in local issues, running for office and fighting the socialist/communist leftists who want to take over our communities and our Nation. Jesus dealt with politics in a huge way every day dealing with and confronting the Pharisees, and the rulers of his day, and so should we. MEN, DAD’s, Grandfather’s —we should NOT be seeing our wives, Mom’s and Grandmothers take on the school districts boards, city councils, the LGBTQ agenda, the CRT agenda, the Transgender Agenda, the entrance of MEN in to our daughters sports, and the like. IT IS TIME TO RISE UP AND FIGHT!! SCHOOL CHOICE IS CRITICAL!! RACIAL INDOCTRINATION, SEXXX EDUCATION IN OUR SCHOOLS, and the move of public schools and TEACHER’S UNIONS to indoctrinate instead of educate ALL need to be struck down. NOW!!! We must move forward…Pastors take your rightful places…the Black Robe Regiment needs to become the Regiment it once was!!!
If you successfully transform your church into a politically active group it will be necessary to give up their non-profit status. They can’t be both. Another solution is to teach biblically sound doctrine and allow everyone to be as politically involved as they care to be. There are strong christians everywhere we go who live out their faith day by day without bumper stickers, buttons, slogans etc. Billy Graham warned against aligning our Christian faith with a political party way back in 1981.
“… preach the Gospel. That’s our calling. I want to preserve the purity of the Gospel and the freedom of religion in America. I don’t want to see religious bigotry in any form. Liberals organized in the ’60s, and conservatives certainly have a right to organize in the ’80s, but it would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.”
You still need to teach the Church on how to vote biblically…We need to pray before we vote and we need to put what we are voting on and who we are voting for to the biblical standard and if they do not meet the biblical standard then we must not vote on it…We need to always vote accordingly to the Bible and our Faith and churches need to teach this and preach this…It is part of discipleship and expanding God’s kingdom…
I totally agree. Pastors need to step up regardless of the consequences; one does not have to embrace a political party but embrace right from wrong. If pastors are frightened, where is their faith in God? The pastor I am most frightened of is the one where the flock is in danger and they are running away from danger. Where is that individual’s faith? Are we Christians full of fear, because He has not given us a spirit of fear. Have we not read about the men of God in Hebrews 11? We do not serve dead faith but a living faith powered by the Holy Spirit.
Yes we do all need to rise up to our responsibilities in the Lord, in our families and in our societies; Dave and Matthew commented also correctly that we need to stick to biblical principles, God’s Will in our lives, and firstly be a good “imitator” of Jesus inside and out, be transformed by His Life (while our old selves are “dead” and crucified with Christ), before we can step into the public to battle the darkness in a world that is fallen into sin. If a person is Not fully possessed by God (but still has personal desires and ambitions) it will end up ruining the reputation of Christ-followers in the public.
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My Pastor is AMAZING in this regard. He recently spoke on abortion, as KY was voting on an abortion bill. He spoke to scripture that says God new us and had a purpose for us before we were conceived. And you believe scripture, abortion is murder, even in the case of rape. He was passionate and caring, and poured into the pain a woman must feel if she gets pregnant because of rape or incest. His message was unquestionable.