In Search of Godly Leadership

So we continue to obviously be at this period of time in which many of us are pretty heavily focused on examining candidates who hope to be a nominee for and indeed the next President of the United States. There are a lot of people siding with a particular candidate for various reasons and there are a lot still undecided. I wanted to spend some time today talking about what makes a good Godly leader, as best I can as this is the most important aspect of a leader to me and no doubt for many other Christians as well. I'll be utilizing Scripture and doing my best to highlight some key aspects. You can listen today live at 4:30 Eastern time or anytime afterward on the archives.

I want to express by paraphrasing what my priest said at Mass the day Reagan died, it was a small weekday Mass with the usual attendees.

He said Reagan was divorced and remarried, whose father was
a lapsed Catholic, and ex wife was Catholic, so if politics and religion went together as some people like to think they should, Reagan would have been someone for Catholics to not vote for.

But Reagan did his job, as president, protecting our freedom to practice Catholicism, and for that, he deserves praise and respect.

I’m not going to get into the Catholic faith because I’m certainly not an expert on it. What I do know of it, there are things I don’t really agree with.

But what I will say, is what I see is maybe a problem even with denominationalism or church doctrine, any church doctrine that, in my view, would supersede or take precedence over the overwhelming mercy and grace of God and Jesus Christ.

I don’t say that to disrespect your priest or anyone else. And by those same standards I understand why such a statement would be made.

At the same time, if ANYONE is going to hold it against someone because they’ve sinned, or backslid, or someone else in their family backslid, well join the club, in terms of none of us are perfect.

I guess in that sense, politics and “religion” don’t go hand in hand because religion in that sense seems tied in legalism, church doctrine, and being still in bondage in a sense of “do not this and do not that”.

I tend to believe more in the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ that offered living water, i.e. eternal life to the woman at the well who’d been married 5 TIMES and who lead most of the people in her town to believe on Him as Messiah than I do in saying, “Don’t vote for him because he’s been divorced.”

But that said, Reagan indeed protected freedom, religious liberty, and to me he exhibited some qualities of a Godly leader.

“But that said, Reagan indeed protected freedom, religious liberty, and to me he exhibited some qualities of a Godly leader”

That was my point

I’ll add this quote from Sheen:

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
Fulton J. Sheen

True. I saw an article, from a few months back, that quoted Franklin Graham. Graham asked and answered kind of a rhetorical question when he spoke of why he’s encouraging involvement into politics while say his father Billy Graham, did not so much get into that realm.

He said that when his father was a kid the 10 Commandments were on the wall of every school and teachers lead their classes in the Lord’s Prayer.

We’ve fallen a long way from that, and if you take a look around, it’s not hard to see that the blessings have dried up, the culture has declined, and we’ve become a nation that brings shame on ourselves as we accept more and more that which is evil and kick out that which is good and holy or just.

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