Posted on 01/01/2016 7:15:58 AM PST by Isara
He is unafraid and steadfast in his Christian beliefs and how they apply to the way America should be led…and it’s quite frankly, pissing Liberals off.
"If we awaken and energize the body of Christ- if Christians and people of faith come out and vote our values- we will win and we will turn the country around," Cruz told volunteers on a conference call Tuesday.
"We're working to have a lead pastor in each of the 99 counties in Iowa, 99 pastors are organizing other pastors," Cruz said. "We're doing the same thing in South Carolina, organizing pastors in 46 counties to motivate and organize other pastors."
Cruz warned that, as the election nears, the attacks on his campaign will become more vicious."I want to tell everyone to get ready, strap on the full armor of God, get ready for the attacks that are coming," he warned. "Come the month of January we ain't seen nothing yet."
Cruz predicts that the nomination will come by the end of the March and said that his campaign is now in a "90-day sprint to win this nomination.""There is a very good possibility that the Republican primary will be decided by the end of March," he told them.
USA needs to reverse the course we’re on, stop the corrupt liberal-rot and return to our founding fathers plan for this country. THIS is what we know! Is Cruz the man to do it?
Ted Cruz Presidential candidate for all people?
or
Elmer Gantry bible thumper?
and it’s quite frankly, pissing Liberals off.There's some real Christian language there...Hypocrites!
“Cruz wants Jesus to play second fiddle to his candidacy.”
I feel much the same. I’m uneasy and very uncomfortable with a politician calling on The Body of Christ to mobilize for any cause except the saving of souls and the spreading of the Gospel. I don’t object to anyone proclaiming their faith, just not to procure votes. Fervent prayers for both candidates should be engaged in daily by their supporters and ministers of the faith shouldn’t be shy about supporting their candidates. I fully agree with that. However, Trump is also a believer, although of a different denomination than Cruz. My uneasy feeling is that this tactic just boils down to a “my church is more Christian than yours” type of thing.
Supporting Trump does not make one an agent of the Unbelievers which sounds like what Cruz is trying to suggest.
But God wants us say those glorious words for Him, not some political movement.
The only possible justification for stirring up the love and energy of the body of Christ is to accomplish the commission with which Jesus tasked us. Energizing the body of Christ for political ends is nowhere seen, taught, modeled or encouraged in the NT.
But maybe by his candidacy he is serving Jesus. Maybe he is responding to a call of leadership.. of the kind which we so desperately need.
I like Cruz best and I like Trump, too. I will vote for either unless one isn’t for stopping abortion.
I’m leaning towards your side.
I stand with Cruz, but I am devoted to Christ. I can part ways with Cruz but I have seen no reason yet. The other candidates? ‘Meh’ to ‘Blech’.
‘”The body of Christmas? Really?’
Couldn’t this have been the work of auto-correct?
This is now the 32nd umpteenthing time this factoid has been posted here; my response is the same as with the other posts:
Sadly enough, this strikes me as pandering, and worse, pandering to such a relatively small group as evangelicals, and even more worse, there are many groups bigger than evangelicals who are pretty much just automatically turned off by any politician who emphasizes their religion too much. Basically, pandering to evangelicals turns off way too many other people and limits Cruz’s broader appeal.
So is my mom, but she'd make a terrible president.
Well the whole constitution was written with God given inalienable rights in mind so might as well burn it now. Read the writings of the Founding Fathers at the National Archives online.
“We need a Christian to lead this country”
When were Presbyterians declared unchristian? Enlighten me.
lol! You got me, zerosix.
You've probably already seen my post after that one. I made many other typos there as well.
The Constitution was written to found the country, not to win one particular political campaign.
TODAY – Sen. Ted Cruz Tells Volunteers: We Can Win ‘If We Awaken And Energize The Body Of Christ” (link)
“PROSELYTIZE”: using faith to recruit someone to join one’s party, institution, or cause…
There is a strategy, albeit a rather divisive strategy, which can be deployed politically by those intentionally selecting a very specific gathering of supporters.
In a highly fractured presidential bid, this proselytizing strategy may even garner enough of a base to mount a bid amid a larger field of candidates. However, it is exceptionally narrow -hence works only amid large numbers of possible options- and can ultimately only gain the advocate a small percentage of the overall audience.
The strategy can NEVER win a general election.
Current evidence reflects this approach is the preferred direction of Team Ted Cruz and the presidential campaign therein.
When such a strategy is deployed amid the reality of an increasingly toxic and divisive anti-religious populist leftism – the approach is strengthened. Indeed, the narrow appeal, when contrast against examples of football coaches unable to bow their heads in prayer, actually broadens the base of sympathy from an objective audience.
There is a market for the approach; religion can be quite an effective business model as evidenced by the scope of many evangelical organizations.
However, in the larger political deployment the polarization becomes self-defeating and presents with risks that should be consequentially avoided.
The alignment of Ted Cruz with Glenn Beck and David Barton speaks to both a profitable business branding/marketing approach, and simultaneously affords candidate Cruz an almost captive audience.
The intersection of religion as a business (2015 Beck Media) and presidential politics (2015 Cruz campaign) is a road that narrows with each mile traveled. It would serve all non-Cruz candidates, and specifically Donald Trump, to avoid the pitfalls within it.
Ceding ground to an opponent willing to stake their campaign almost exclusively on religious based affiliations is not only prudent, it is wise.
Candidate Cruz has isolated himself from effectiveness within the very institution he holds membership, the Senate. In essence, for the sake of a nail -which may or may not be- based upon purity, he has diminished his influence. Senator Cruz, by his chosen approach, is now relegated to the echo-chamber of his own inconsequential staff.
Unfortunately, Cruz’s constituents are now the victims of this decision-making; and if history serves any predictive sense, he will be challenged and defeated based on an ineffectual record. How can candidate Ted Cruz attack Marco Rubio on his ability to be effective, when Cruz’s approach to legislation has made him the most ineffective Senator in DC.
Thus we fully understand both the praise and admonition from former Harvard Law Professor Alan Derschowitz who cast Cruz as a brilliant mind, but warned of an inability to accept, or move toward, counter positions. Put another, more familiar, way: “at what cost do you desire to be right“?
There is no doubt that 5 to 8% of the “conservative” electorate will support a Cruz campaign. It is also entirely possible for that figure to grow to around 15% when you add those willing to provide a faith-based opportunity.
However, beyond that element – you hit a dead end where the crowd evaporates, and expenditures to garner additional support are weighed amid the law of diminishing returns. We are not selecting a Preacher-in-Chief, we are nominating a candidate for the Executive Office.
Glenn Beck has carved out a business model, a media-market, where an audience is willing to accept a soccer ball and teddy bear, illegal alien compassion tour/campaign almost entirely on faith alone. The religious community is very generous and provides Glenn Beck, Ted Cruz and Benny Hinn with great wealth, affluence.
Candidate Cruz is following a business model, which can provide affluence, but cannot provide presidential influence – there is absolutely no winning presidential road map there; nor is there a reason to chase it.
Stick with what works 100% of the time….
This Donald Trump rally -pictured above- was in Michigan a week ago with approximately 6,000+ supporters. The MSM would like to advance a narrative that women, or minorities, or ( ___ fill in the blank ___) don’t support Trump. However, if you want a good idea of how broad candidate Trump’s base of support is….
…..Look at the Picture Gallery HERE
Cruz isn’t making, he’s asking? Their is nothing wrong in Cruz asking the body of Christ for it’s blessing and help. My family and my church are always asking Christ for his blessing to continue on us, that is what christians are to do.
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