I expect my pastor to preach the Good News (Gospel) of Jesus Christ, and Him crucified, the Good News of Forgiveness and Redemption through faith in the vicarious atonement, which faith is itself a gift from God and not of my doing.
It is not the job of my pastor to fight my battle in the realm of worldly politics. It is my personal responsibility to draw the appropriate inferences from the Word of God and apply them to the affairs of the world.
Moreover, I am wary of endangering the tax exempt status that religious organizations (i.e., local congregations) have been granted.
Ephesians 2:8-10
Will be starting home a church this Sunday. Very much looking forward it.
“It is not the job of my pastor to fight my battle in the realm of worldly politics.”
I will have to respectfully disagree with you on this one. The pastor is the shepherd of his flock, and by necessity, as any good leader, he must lead by example to be believed. We need someone to go into the temple of the elites and overturn a few tables.
Chuck Baldwin gets it.
This reply was meant for you:
Read the link in post #7. It was Christian pastors who led movements against tyranny in the past—especially during the founding of our nation. Don’t be deceived into thinking that Christians and pastors are called to be feckless sheep. Jesus is anything BUT that!
Luckily, the pastors of the abolitionist era didn’t shrink from the fight in the realm of worldly politics.
Today’s “men of the cloth” are, by and large, cowards, wed to their tax-exempt status and the nice, hefty cash streams they collect from the “faithful” who don’t demand too much from their “leaders.”