Yesterday while driving I had a chance to catch some conservative talk radio ... and one particular host was especially pessimistic about the next four years. He said, "As a patriot, as an American, as a conservative, and as a Christian, I'm against everything in Obama's licentious left-wing agenda." Then he said that he hopes that our new President fails miserably.
Sadly, his words echo what I have heard from a number of evangelicals in the last few months -- though it's usually not expressed quite so explicitly.
It reminds me of how some church members act when a pastor they didn't want got called or appointed/voted in to their church. Maybe it's his age or his accent or his theology, but some decide they're not going to like the new guy no matter what. It's happened to just about all of us, I would imagine.
Since most of us are fairly conservative in our political persuasions it's easy to become less than enthusiastic about the recent change in leadership. However, I encourage you to put your "lack of enthusiasm" on hold.
Let's give our new President the same fair chance we would want others to give us.
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The amazing thing is that as a Conservative Christian, the radio host must not trust in God. God allowed the people of America to put this man in office. It seems to me this concervative talk show host is really lacking in faith. Hoping he fails shows how small minded he/she really is. We must pray for our leaders and hope that God leads us in the right direction whether it's the president of the United States, Governor of NJ, Pastor of CLC, or the new manager on our jobs.
I cannot say I was a negative as that announcer, but I was not feeling very positive. Then I read a blog by another pastor, Dan Scott, of Christ Church Nashville. He wrote "Yesterday, young Senator Obama became president of the United States. We are unsure of what sort of president he will become. He may become a wicked and despicable leader; he may become a godly and great leader. We all have our opinions but the story is not yet told. We have to wait. We have to pray. As Americans, none of us will benefit from him becoming a bad leader. As Christians, we are forbidden to anticipate that he will become bad. Rather, we are called to do all we can to help him become good." That really was a wake up call for me. We are called to help President Obama to become good. WOW! That is the kind of attitude adjust we all need to make.
Most conservative Christians are happy and understand that people who previously felt oppressed and ashamed of America are now feeling patriotic and inspired because of Pres. Obama.
On the other hand, it is not hateful or anti-Obama for conservative Christians to strenuously oppose laws and decrees pushed by Pres. Obama which seem to fly in the face of Christ-centered beliefs and principals.
Opposing bad policies is not the same thing as hate.
I've prayed for Pres. Obama every day this week, asking God to give him direction and courage.
We need to look at the truth here and identify a problem. the church has been asleep at the stick for a long time. Due to our lack of a fight and standing up for truth, and the weakness of our influence in society, society has done exactly what we expect.
This President will do some great harm to the Morals of America, and it already began with 2 issues in his first week, Abortion, and Stem Cell Research.
We should not so much worry about who he is or what he is, but rather the church standing up and holding this president accountable.
It is time for the church to be just that THE CHURCH, we need to raise our people up, build Bible taught Christians who are Christ Followers and do as Jesus did.
Mr. Obama is the 44th sinner to be elected President of the United States. It profits us nothing to put our hope in a man, unless that man is Christ who is also God.
It is too easy in this country to see the government as an arm of the church, but the true church is concerned with a different kingdom. Some have taken this to mean that Christians should not be involved in politics which I find foolish. But neither should we wring our hands when we have leaders who make ungodly decisions. Are we less in need of a Savior than they?
The Bible calls on us to pray for our leaders, and this in the context of the debauched empire of Rome. John the Baptist lost his head preaching righteousness to Herod which leads me to believe that we need to declare righteousness to our leaders.
But to wring our hands and lose hope because of any governmental leader is NOT an option.
That's my two cents. You can keep the change :-)
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