Day Of Protest
Ban on Political Endorsements by Pastors Targeted
By Peter SlevinWashington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 8, 2008; Page A03
CHICAGO — Declaring that clergy have a constitutional right to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, the socially conservative Alliance Defense Fund is recruiting several dozen pastors to do just that on Sept. 28, in defiance of Internal Revenue Service rules.
what do you guys think about this?
i understand what they’re trying to do, but i worry about the way Jesus Christ might be represented in this attitude.
give me an opinion or two.
bibling, know what you believe, ministry, music, politique | September 25th, 2008
I don’t know if I totally understand it, but I am not sure it is a fight the church needs to fight. I think it is more critical for pastors to teach the word and through that allow its members to make an informed decision in the vote.
If churches get wrapped up into political campaigning it could get ugly real quick. It almost seems this is could be a divider that turns the church on itself in many ways with one side for and one against.
Bad News…these churches make the assumption that there is only one right way to vote, and that it is their way…very dangerous & very divisive.
Gene,
I think that it is Jesus that needs to be preached at the pulpit and not political causes. Jesus, not Obama, not McCain, not republican, not democrat, not independent, but solely Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior, Master, Redeemer, and Prince of Peace. The Great Shepherd to Whom belongs all Glory and all Honor.
The division this could cause, and the harm this could do to the Church is so obvious that every preacher approached should rebuke these aweful men who would push self-involved selfish politics over proclaiming Jesus Christ our Lord in the pulpits.
Jude warns us against the creeps who enter in to distort the Gospel for their own aims…what is going on here if not that? These men who are attempting to recruit pastors to preach the word of politics and not the Word of the LORD (a work to which these pastors have been called), should be reprimanded in love and shown the error of their selfishness and the danger it poses to the Body.
Any pastor who gives into these creeps should be lovingly reminded of the reason they stand at the pulpit every Sunday. That Jesus is far greater, and far more important than any political matter.
Blessings,
Michael