We've got about a week to try to save this nation from the disaster of the Godless Reprobate Kamala Harris.
Posted on 10/30/2024 2:34:27 AM PDT by SaveFerris
At a recent rally in Juneau, Wisconsin, Donald Trump urged evangelical Christians to vote, saying:
"I’ll tell you another one that don’t vote — I love these people — evangelical Christians. The Christian community doesn’t vote as much as they should. They go to church. So now what we are going to do is go to church and we are to get out and vote. ... If they did vote, we couldn’t lose an election."
Trump’s concerns are echoed by a recent article in The Jerusalem Post, which cites a recent report from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University. The study revealed that “approximately 104 million people of faith, including 32 million self-identified Christians who regularly attend church, may abstain from voting this November.”
The report cites lack of interest in politics among both congregants and pastors, as well as lack of engagement with social issues. Some pastors even refuse to encourage congregants to vote.
A deeper reason many evangelicals (and other Christians) are not voting is that many churches and church leaders over the last few decades gradually have absorbed the left’s draconian secularist view of separation of Church and State. In essence, the agenda requires the total submission of the former to the latter. Worse, in the past and even in the present, secularist totalitarian regimes like the CCP seek to eliminate the Christian religion altogether, replacing it with anti-God ideology.
Unfortunately, many Christians have not adequately understood, much less defended the history of or the original meaning of the separation of Church and State as understood by the writers of the Constitution: that the state would not establish a particular denomination as the official church of the land.
Those who fought in the American Revolution knew they were fighting a government that was allied with
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Our pastor preaches the Bible from the pulpit.
A few Sundays ago he announced that they would be doing a Q&A conversation (of submitted questions) on Tuesday evening. (It was videoed and available for members).
He said something like “This pulpit is for preaching the Holy word of God. And it is reserved for that.”
It was a two-hour long discussion. He told the story of how in another church a new-comer had visited numerous times and wanted to become a Christian. “Except Pastor - I’m very involved in the Democrat campaign. I’m concerned that based on your sermons I have to be a Republican.”
The pastor assured him that he didn’t have to change parties. You just need to follow the Bible.
It was very clear that our pastor was for Trump. Said that both candidates are flawed and have sinned in the past. Like we all have. You need to look at their policies, and as Christians, from that viewpoint.
To him the primary thing was who will allow the word of God to be freely preached? He told the story of when Hillary Clinton was thinking that Romans 1 (the sin of homosexuality) should be banned as hate speech, and one could be arrested for preaching it. “Yeah - guess what my sermon was about the following Sunday when I heard about that?”
Secondly - do the policies promote the family and children. (He has given numerous sermons about abortion and how of course it is a life at conception, and more importantly that it has a soul and is loved by God.)
There it is.
Exactly - good catch
[A deeper reason many evangelicals (and other Christians) are not voting is that many churches and church leaders over the last few decades gradually have absorbed the left’s draconian secularist view of separation of Church and State.]
And so, unwilling to be the Salt of the Earth, they are often perplexed why things are bad and getting worse.
DUH
Matthew 5:13
King James Version
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205%3A13&version=KJV
If we are not the Salt of the Earth, we will be trodden under foot of Godless men and Godless women.
Their very own faith depends on it. Inaction will be their own destruction.
“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” John Stuart Mill
Bttt
Some Christians who say, ‘I don’t vote b/c I dont want to be involved
in a corrupt system; to have to choose between ‘the lesser of two evils.’
Cheers of approval greeted him when Ben Carson pointed out,
“Unless Christ is on the ballot, you’re always choosing ‘the lesser of two evils.’”
I have a cousin that got brainwashed by his Leftist sister that said something similar
So....his choice was.....Hillary.....good gosh
He’s been a clean-living church boy (no drugs, no smoking, no alcohol that I know of) all of his life.....in 2016, he was voting for unrestricted abortion and homosexual marriage
sigh
(he’s a little slow though - his brothers are fairly sharp)
A deeper reason many evangelicals (and other Christians) are not voting is that many churches and church leaders over the last few decades gradually have absorbed the left’s draconian secularist view of separation of Church and State.
There it is.
I hadn’t heard this, but what we/they should consider is that without Trump our ability to practice and live out our faith is under attack.
If their inaction causes harm to others then they are just as selfish, evil, and immoral.
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. Deuteronomy 1:13
It’s very true. They have believed the lie that if they dare mention politics they will lose their 501c3 status.
Notwithstanding that democrats preach politics in churches all the time, pastors with a conservative bent are scared witless about a nothing threat. No church has ever lost their 501c3 over this issue.
And so what if they do? Are we a church simply because it’s a tax break?
“If their inaction causes harm to others then they are just as selfish, evil, and immoral.”
Yes. I’m disappointed that our pastor isn’t more overtly involved in this election. Our pastor in CA actually passed out large yard signs for Bush (I know ... when we thought he was good) during morning service. He dared anyone to arrest him — which they didn’t.
The church family, though, is 100% MAGA, and 100% voting.
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Christians Must Vote
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I’ve often been skeptical of the suggestion that “Christians don’t vote.” But more and more, statistics from both sides of the political isle enforce this opinion. If it is true (and I don’t say this lightly), then those Christians are unworthy of the freedoms that they have (And they actually enable and invite their own abuse). It makes it tough to have sympathy for such a group of people.
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