"blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness ..."
No.
We praised Jesus.
My church doesn’t get into politics. Thats one of the reasons I like it.
“My church doesn’t get into politics. Thats one of the reasons I like it.”, I guess that Your Church doesn’t “Get into” THAT “Salt and Light “Thing”” Either.
Wow! I feel extremely sorry for you.
>>My church doesn’t get into politics. Thats one of the reasons I like it.
That’s like saying “we don’t talk about sewage” when the toilets are all backed up. When it gets deep enough, you have to talk about it and by then, the problem is much worse.
“My church doesn’t get into politics. Thats one of the reasons I like it.”
You. Will. Be. Made. To. Care.
Make no mistake, at some point soon, the left will force you and your church to take one side or another.
From Erick Erickson — not my own original thought, but 100% true.
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
Then the government will get into your lukewarm church.
Will you use fat black markers or whiteout to blank the passages they tell you to?
Marriage is also religious and therefore why can’t he mention it then? Unless he cares nothing about marriage.
The issues here are spiritual issues and spiritual warfare issues, not politics. These issues with the SCOTUS ruling have very much to do with family and child-rearing and child education, whic are BIBLE issues.
It is always correct to praise the Lord Jesus Christ (make sure the "Jesus" you are praising isn't "another Jesus"--2 Corinthians ch. 11), AND there is a whole lot more than that to a Scriptural ministry and church.
And when politics treads all over theological issues what should your Church do? ...stay silent? If it does I’d consider it to be pandering to a politically correct audience, which isn’t what it should be doing.
Neither did John The Baptist. However he preached a sermon to Herod concerning his sins which cost him his very life for doing so. A church silent on issues was the full intention of the man who wrote the bill tieing churches tax exempt status to the teachings of the pulpit to silence preachers from speaking out. The man then a congressman was Lyndon Baines Johnson.
The USSC ruling wasn't a political one as much as it was a moral one trying to force Judeo/Christians to comply to the demands of homosexuals and likely either give them church rites {weddings and pulpit etc} or loose exempt status.
Marriage is a sacred act ordained from GOD for man and woman only. They opened the door wide too turn church and states rights into federal mandated religious Rites which churches must perform. Silence of churches and church leaders is consent.
“We stay out of politics.”
Like those churches where people used to plug their ears and sing louder so they couldn’t hear the Jews screaming in the boxcars going by? That kind of “politics”?
“Politics” is if the preacher says, “Vote for my brother-in-law for Mayor!” It isn’t when the preacher denounces CRIME being committed by people in public offices.