Pastor/Televangelist John Hagee embraces John McCain for President
Most of us know by now that Mega Pastor Hagee has publicly given his support to the McCain camp... Very interesting, who evangelicals are supporting these days.. Twenty years ago, John McCain would never have received endorsments for president from evangelical pastors.. I know that our culture has rapidly changed over the last 50 years...My question is this! Are we still accountable to God for our votes as Born Again Christians even though the culture continues to change and become more accepting of compromise? Here is a video you all might find interesting...
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Hagee gives me the creeps. always has. he contends that if we or Israel go to war against Iran, then Russia & allies will get involved, then he turns right around and recommends a pre-emptive strike against Iran...HUH?
gotta make the rapture happen somehow i guess.
Hagee has some big skeletons in his closet. I've read where he divorced his first wife and married the woman who is presently his wife. After he had an affair while still married to wife number one! Figures Kenny Copeland would have him on as a guest.
Yes, he keeps that closet drum tight! The words mini-pope come to mind..He answers only what he wants to answer and he answers to no one.
by the way, welcome to the bloggy-sphere Scott!!!
I may not vote this time around and I'm not the only one who has thought the samething. If an unbeliever can rule better than a believer than let the unbeliever do so as Luther said(im paraphrasing badly).
We've had so many Republicans in office and they still haven't changed our Abortion Laws and they were voted in as Pro-life by many Christians!
When the church gets into politics like Hagee it's a sign of liberalism and fundamentalism.
The church's priority is to Preaching the Good News. The problem is that the American Church isn't doing that, but giving other messages.
Now vocation is another thing and if one is called to serve as their vocation in government, etc they should. But things get funny when church and state mix as in politics.
Ken, I'm in the same boat. I do not see how I will be able to vote in this election.
Maybe Hagee, can birth forth the rapture, then I would not have to worry about the vote thing :0 I'm sure him and Kenny Copeland can figure something out.
Ken you said:
"When the church gets into politics like Hagee it's a sign of liberalism and fundamentalism.
The church's priority is to Preaching the Good News. The problem is that the American Church isn't doing that, but giving other messages."
I could not agree more!
Please vote. But not because your faith is in the political machine. Even if it means "writing in" a vote, say for Ken or Scott or the Constitution Party candidate. We aren't stuck with just two parties and their anointed perpetrators.
read the parable below and consider what action you can take:
Once a father and son were watching the news together, and since it was political season—a primary was looming in their state—not only was the news crammed full of information about the candidates, so also half the commercials were paid political ads, crammed full of lack of information about the candidates.
Staring glumly at the screen, the son asked his father. "Dad, what are you wishing for right now?"
"A Doritos commercial," he replied.
"You know, Dad, I know exactly how you feel. You have taught me well. If I see one more congressman with his shirt sleeves rolled up by some consultant, I think I will run from the room screaming. But what you haven’t taught me yet is why we should bother voting, when these are the only options. Why go to the restaurant, if this is the menu?"
His father grinned at him, and said, "Son, I can’t say that what you are suggesting has not occurred to me. But this is what I have worked out. It is not exactly like a restaurant, but more like a meeting where we all give our counsel and advice. Multiple meals are not ordered and consumed, but rather multiple perspectives are offered, where only one of them can be followed."
"Okay," his son said.
"And not only are we in the minority, as far as the two main parties are concerned, but we frequently are in the position of voting for obscure, third-party candidates, or, as I frequently do, writing in the name of your uncle. Don’t tell him."
"Okay," his son laughed. "I won’t tell him. But this is my question. Why do you bother driving down there to cast a vote that nobody will count?"
"Because while the people running this system have an idolatrous faith in their system, I am participating in it as a believer in God. I don’t care if they count my vote. I would actually rather they didn’t. I want God to count my vote."
"What will He do when He counts the votes?"
"That’s up to Him. But when He does whatever it is He will do to our nation, there are two places I don’t want to be. I don’t want to be among those who took ten talents from Him and squandered them. Neither do I want to be the one who took and buried the one talent because I was a quitter. He is not a hard master, but He is to those who think Him so."
"So when He intervenes . . ."
"I want to be found at my station, doing my duty. Whether or not it makes any sense." ~ Doug Wilson
The only way I could vote is by a write in. I guess so many times we think of party lines... It is true we are not stuck with the 2 parties. I will consider your comment Sam and Doug's parable, it makes sense. What I am sure of is that the Republican party for the first time will not get my vote.
I agree Bill,when it comes right down to it the GOP spends just as much as the Dems.
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