Amen to that, very well stated bishop.
According to a 2004 study I read there are roughly 190 million people in the US who are members of or attend at least 12 services per average year at either a Catholic, evangelical/fundamentalist, or mainline protestant denomination or church. If that figure is anywhere within the general area of being even half way accurate, why in God's holy name do we have a majority of pro-abortion members of Congress and the judiciary? How did those pro-abort lawmakers get where they are without the votes of millions of supposed-to-be Christians? Answer, they didn't.
For millions of professing Christians their union or the size of their their paycheck or the price of gas has more influence over who they vote for than their pastor's or priest's sermons on the ungodly evil of abortion, and for millions more "Christians" it's their investment portfolio, their business, or the state of the national economy that decides their vote. How are they any more obedient to the teaching of Christ and the church than the other 100 million Americans who make no pretense of being Christians?
My aunt was the pastor's secretary at a large suburban Protestant church when Clinton was running against Bush 41 in 1992. A prominent local businessman who was an official of some kind in the church asked her who she intended to vote for. Although she didn't think it was proper for him to ask she told him Bush, and then asked if he was for Bush as well and he said no, he was voting for Clinton. She then asked why he would vote for a pro-abortion president who would put pro-abortion judges and USSC Justices on the bench, and he said, look, my business is in trouble because of the bad economy and I need a president who can get the economy going again or I could lose my business.
My aunt was too polite to say what the was thinking, but I have to wonder how well his explanation will go over with Jesus Christ when he stands before His judgment seat.
Matt 8:36, " For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?"
BTW, the figure I quoted in #11 of 190 million nominal Christians in the US seems too high to me even though it came from what purports to be a well researched study. I probably should have checked out the people or organization who made the study, but even if you reduce it by 1/4 or 1/3 it’s still a very large percentage of the total population.
This is an excellent commentary on the state of affairs amongst ALL christians today. While at church, they may profess one belief, once home, they exercise their total distrust in God, as evidenced from the story you cited. Thank you for the post!