Amen. It is easy to get discouraged about the direction of our country. We need to be in prayer for her... and us.
Yes — we are all in the boat of something larger. It’s getting to a point where we need an “answer for the hope that is in us, with meekness and respect.”
Remember where our modern version of “liberal” came from. It was a distortion and distension of earlier ideas of godly generosity, whose purpose was to help people who had strayed back into the God groove, as it were. Once it forgot about God, it also forgot its way. Does it mean that the root idea was wrong? No, no, no, no, no! A million times no! We are going to have to be willing to see past the foolishness of these people in appealing to them to embrace a true-Christ vision. DO be liberal... FOR the sake of the Lord, i.e. don’t just use Jesus to wag your fingers at us, but SHOW us all what it means when YOU play this sport with YOUR skin in the game! Ah, they’ve often been hypocrites, bad ones. Jesus will forgive and bless.