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500 Evangelical Leaders to Meet Trump to Test His Faith, Values
Christian Post ^ | 5/23/16 | ANUGRAH KUMAR

Posted on 05/23/2016 8:15:13 AM PDT by georgiegirl

As many as 500 top evangelical and social conservative leaders, including Dr. Ben Carson and Tony Perkins, will have a closed-door meeting with Donald Trump on June 21 in New York City to ascertain what he has to offer to the country...

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Those leading the efforts include Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, Faith and Freedom Coalition's Ralph Reed, Penny Nance of Concerned Women for America, Bob McEwen, Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association, Kelly Shackleford of First Liberty, American Values President Gary Bauer, Family Leader President Bob Vander Plaats, and megachurch pastors Jack Graham and Ed Young.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; evangelical; faith; newyork; trump
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To: georgiegirl

Just so you know:

When I said “you must be kidding”, I meant the Evangelicals, amd not you personally.


21 posted on 05/23/2016 8:45:01 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: georgiegirl
I would hope that these evangelical leaders come to the realization that we don't necessarily need a President that thumps the Bible and inserts scripture into daily press releases.

What we DO need is a POTUS that is respectful toward all religions...we can do the evangelizing.

22 posted on 05/23/2016 8:45:19 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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"...to Test his Faith" is rather a deceptive headline, as I don't see that verbage in the text of the article. This is their goal:

"Our goal is to be able to have a conversation that could lead to a better understanding of what Donald Trump has to offer to the country," said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, according to Fox News, which says Trump has agreed to meet with the evangelical and social conservative leaders.
23 posted on 05/23/2016 8:45:39 AM PDT by georgiegirl
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To: soycd
“Test His Faith” ?

Faith is a personal trait. How on Earth can it be tested? Do the testers just dictate “You either believe as we do or you fail”?

The only person that can test their own faith is themselves.

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Well said.

24 posted on 05/23/2016 8:46:56 AM PDT by adaven
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To: MichaelCorleone

thought so! :D (make it the Evangelical LEADERS)


25 posted on 05/23/2016 8:47:21 AM PDT by georgiegirl
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To: georgiegirl

I think this meeting has a lot more to do with 500 religious leaders than it does about Donald Trump. I guess if it helps unify the party then it is good enough.


26 posted on 05/23/2016 8:48:26 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: georgiegirl

Trump has already won over the majority of evangelicals, so this event will serve as more of a rally than a conversion.

There will be some idiot who tries to grandstand against Trump, of course, and he’ll end up getting all the media attention. Said idiot should realize that he will be rejected by the LORD for grandstanding against His servant.


27 posted on 05/23/2016 8:59:48 AM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: cornfedcowboy

Trump wants the churches to have the strength of lobbyists, as Prez Johnson took away their teeth in the 1960’s. Trump wants to restore their teeth so that Christian values can be fought by evangelical leaders themselves and taken out of the hands of the politicians. Maybe some of their zeal to test Trump should be re-directed to themselves and what they could have been doing all these decades as they simply watched our country lose its Godly values.


28 posted on 05/23/2016 9:03:48 AM PDT by georgiegirl
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To: georgiegirl
"test his faith"


29 posted on 05/23/2016 9:06:43 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: samtheman

Look at that thick OT III file they were keeping on him... and that’s just ONE of the many auditing files they have stored away with all his secrets.


30 posted on 05/23/2016 9:09:32 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Liz

Evangelicals remember Jimmy Carter...... ;)


31 posted on 05/23/2016 9:23:16 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Boogieman

And look how young he is. He’s been a big fool for a long time.


32 posted on 05/23/2016 9:24:13 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: georgiegirl

Are we Electing a Pope or a President?

The difference is the Smoke. When Electing a President, especially a DemoncRat, they blow the Smoke up your A$$.


33 posted on 05/23/2016 9:28:11 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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To: georgiegirl; Tennessee Nana; Dilbert San Diego; Liz; soycd

Truly, they have no choice. The contrast between liberty and tyranny is too obvious for words.

It almost makes their side of the meeting comical.

The religion industry now loves carrots.

What TRUMP is doing is raising their status among their various flocks and they are enjoying the self importance the moment offers.

TRUMP may be a secular man, but he is not a ghoul and is the only choice, if they wish to survive at all in the USA constitutionally, freely, judicially, federally, and institutionally.

It is almost comical if not tragic, that the religion industry has behaved as they have toward TRUMP, who is an answer to there every prayer but one, and Hillary who is prayed against fervently and in every way.

If they were praying all this time for a pastor to prez, then TRUMP


34 posted on 05/23/2016 9:40:58 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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To: Liz

Well said.


35 posted on 05/23/2016 9:42:59 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: georgiegirl; Tennessee Nana; Dilbert San Diego; Liz; soycd

OOPS.. My sleeve interfered.

<< “ ....then TRUMP won’t satisfy the role of pastor. That is suppose to be their job.” >>


36 posted on 05/23/2016 9:45:58 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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To: georgiegirl

Just who are these “leaders” to judge anyone else’s faith? I don’t care about Trump’s faith! I care about how he would govern this country. Let them get back to bringing Christ to their flocks.


37 posted on 05/23/2016 9:49:15 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: georgiegirl

To test his faith? He’s already stated that he is not a Christian.


38 posted on 05/23/2016 9:49:53 AM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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To: Zathras

Smells like a set up.


39 posted on 05/23/2016 9:54:40 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Liz

Well, the majority of the southern evangelicals did NOT accept that Cruz after Iowa was the ‘face of God’... Lesson is do NOT mess with God... nobody cons God.


40 posted on 05/23/2016 9:57:29 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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