Posted on 12/29/2006 7:14:59 AM PST by teddyballgame
Like a dutiful dancing partner, Senator Barack Obama has begun courting the evangelical right, and some are already waltzing along in perfect time.
With his attendance at Rick Warren‘s church, Saddleback Valley Community, a mega-church in California for a large conference about AIDS, Obama has begun to align himself with an important base of voters to gain what conservatives lost this last year. Already lauded by some prominent evangelical publications for his outstanding "Christian faith" and a person Rick Warren called a "good friend" and a someone he'd like to work with on important issues, Obama is in perfect position, if he can keep the momentum, to use an unusual strategy for political gain.
Obama has become well-known not only for his charisma and sudden rise to fame in the last few months, but for his outspoken Christian faith to which he refers regularly.
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Rick Warren and Jim Wallis do not represent the Evangelicals. They are both in for a big surprise if they think they do.
huh????? I guess you meant to say EVER AGAIN??? Since 3 of the last 4 were ardently anti
OH PLEASE!
The interesting thing is the question why us he getting the "rock star" treatment by the DBM?
Really? I didn't know Brownback was there. If Brownback accepted, he got absolutely no press.
In his case it would be "allah"
One good "phony" deserves another.
He's winning the evangelicals one dead fetus at a time, apparently.
More and more of the Evangelicals, especially in blue states, are falling for Aids, poverty, and global warming as the top issues they should be concerned with.
Sources?
Check this out.
Check "Church Growth Movement" sites. You will learn way more than you ever wanted to know.
AMEN !! The "Christian Left" is growing in amazing numbers and under the banner of "social justice" they will embrace Obama's preaching from the gospels of Marx and Engels.
If this is true, then "the Evangelicals" have to be pretty damn stupid.
That's the basic.
EvangelIST is the one that proclaims the witness to others ... a preacher. John, the baptist was a preacher .. an evangelist.
(an) Evangelical is someone that believes in the message, but generally speaking, isn't really active in the spreading of the Gospel. IMO .. it was a combination of heathan and evengelical that attended Herod's party, watched "Solome does Herod" on the Spice channel, and tsk tsk'ed that John just wouldn't 'tone it down' and be a little more PC. ..... for his own good, of course.
So
anyone in my opinion, that uses or utilizes EVANGELICAL in any way (and especially a 'mega church') is a wolf in sheep's clothing and is to be exposed.
"Rick Warren and Jim Wallis do not represent the Evangelicals. They are both in for a big surprise if they think they do."
You mean, "Rich" Warren? I loved the "Purpose Driven Life", but his support of Syria's Assad as a "moderate" leader is outrageous. Rick Warren is entitled to his opinion and his support of Obama, but he leaves himself open to critisism if he does.
"He's winning the evangelicals one dead fetus at a time, apparently."
Amen!
I think you are right. The endless media push about haw "mean" conservatives are is having an impact on weary evangelicals. We need Christian leaders to hang tough and remind their congregations that people who do the truly right thing are often scorned by the world.
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