PONG
Hmmm...sort of like our own pastor who says if you don't get in and back his "pupose driven" program, you should leave...
I wonder how accurately this is being reported.
All the preacher is doing is connecting truth to reality. So no problemo here. Love to see more of it. Not everyone has to agree but they should at least have choices. We need more diversity after all.
I guess he figures that Democrats can't be saved, and they have been "turned over to a reprobate mind"?
That's pretty extreme. Even my pastor wouldn't say that.
If the preacher owns the building and everything is in his name, there's nothing anyone can do about it, either.
FYI
Well, it is hard to disagree with the Pastor.....just kidding....sounds like there maybe more to this story than what is being reported.
Sounds like a bunch of disgruntled Democrats who didn't like the preaching about one topic or another.
This is the fourth thread on this subject.
There is something wrong with this story. Bush was elected back in November, now it's may. He can't run again. But the story says the preacher is (present tense) telling his congregation they have to repent and agree to vote for Bush.
More likely (if there is any truth to this story) he preached about some moral issue for which the democrat party seems to have a firm platform plank against, and when challenged spoke out about it.
The pastor said it wasn't political, and that people were upset because he named names. Sounds like a moral disagreement, not a political one.
Baptists "excommunicate"????
Fah.
What a fruitcake.
more information about the specifics of this situation would be nice. There's a big difference between saying that one cannot support a particular candidate or party to be a member of a church and saying that one has to support a specific candidate. The former is fine and may even be necessary for a pastor to do. The latter is crossing the line IMO.
And besides, from some of the posts on this site, its obvious many conservatives don't have a clue who Jesus is either.
Romans 5
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
2 Peter 3
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
That's like excluding unsaved people from church.
My former pastor would ask you to leave if you were talking and distracting others. Colonel R.B Thieme, one of the best Bible teachers ever.
This does NOT help...
Jesus said that his kingdom was not of this world..