Posted on 08/04/2024 12:07:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A drive to create a Christian political presence he calls “shaped by Jesus, not a partisan political ideology” led Leavitt, now 29, to seminary and then to pastoring a church filled with congregants who vote differently from one another but all share his goal. The people at Midtown Presbyterian Church in Phoenix say their political existence has been reduced to which party or candidate Christians must choose. They are “exhausted,” they tell him. Or “tired.”
So Leavitt, preparing for a bruising 2024 election season, joined a new national group of theologically conservative pastors who talk weekly about how to reject polarization and religious nationalism and to defend democracy. Last month, his congregation began a slick new six-part interactive video series aimed at reshaping evangelicals’ relationship to politics. Called “The After Party,” the curriculum, which has been used by some 75,000 people since it was released in April, says Christians should focus less on partisanship and more on how to relate to others so that they “better reflect Jesus … in 2024 and beyond.”
“More than anything, it’s about asking: ‘How do I allow the values and virtues and viewpoints of the kingdom of God to be my guiding principles?’” said Leavitt, whose church sees about 60 people each Sunday.
The Midtown church’s “After Party” sessions have been made more intense recently by the attempted assassination of Trump and the response to it by many of...
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took a look at the guy’s church and personal web site.
his denomination is Presbyterian, specifically ECO, a denomination that split off from the VERY liberal PCUSA. They were apparent conservative Presbyterians who rejected the LGBTQ lifestyle celebrated by the PCUSA, which seems to have become a heretical organization.
The ECO, however, does think it is okay to have women pastors. So they seem to have a different take than most conservative Presbyterian denominations.
His personal web site shows he went to Fuller Seminary, which is a seminary that has gone pretty woke.
I do think this fella, whether willingly or unwittingly, is working to lead evangelicals down the path of ignoring the dangers of leftist politics and condemning the social conservatism that has been a hallmark of evangelical engagement in the public square.
Beware.
JESUS IS MY SAVIOR!
TRUMP IS (merely) MY PRESIDENT
But tell you what — after ALL the man has endured and sacrificed for eight long years, including miraculous deliverance from an assassin’s bullet, only the most hardhearted and undiscerning fail to see the hand of Providence upon President Trump, who WAS raised up by GOD for such a time as this.
Thank GOD and praise Christ the King for giving us Donald Trump!
“More than anything, it’s about asking: ‘How do I allow the values and virtues and viewpoints of the kingdom of God to be my guiding principles?’” said Leavitt, whose church sees about 60 people each Sunday.
Hey if I offered free pizza I bet I could get 60 people to join the Bookshelf Church.
Given the percecution of Christians under Islamic rule I'd say Mad Moe has earned that title. Obama's very name is Islamic .
No one is worshipping Trump. Evangelicals my butt.
>> I’m catching a whiff of liberal evangelicals.
You know, I THOUGHT it kinda smelled like Russell Moore or Mark Tooley or David Watson in here! Phew-ee!
thanks.
We are in a war. Not a metaphorical war, a true war with each side wanting to destroy the other.
You need leadership to win a war.
Accepting someone as a leader is not “worship.”
That there is political. Why not just do a 6 part program on, I don’t know, ...a topic in the Bible?
Trump worshipper here. LOVE that man!
Interesting. Thanks
We are now watching the far-left,”media” turd rollers turning Cameltoes into the Second Coming. Geez. This clown’s train is completely off the tracks.
Supporting someone does NOT equate to *worshipping* them.
Precisely.
Voting platform and not personality is the issue, but others like to conflate voting platform for someone’s opinion of the person.
Elections are NOT supposed to be popularity contests.
As if there are any other kind of people for God to use.
Could there better men than Trump?
Sure. But where are they?
Preachers and politics; a bad mix.
Only the democrats who literally worshiped Obama could believe Trump is worshiped. This is a fake Christian gasliting real Christians.
I remember when the Left worshiped Obama. They made songs and dances for him. Children in schools worshiped him.
It was sickening
What is Christian Nationalism?
Maybe they should become Mormons like mitt Romney the traitor
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