I’d go to this man’s church. Think of the exegesis coinciding with incredible on stage theatrics. Breath taking.
The message of the gospel isn’t low taxes and privatized social security.
I saw this video over at Christian Nightmares:
And I have to say it depresses me every time I see something like this. It’s one thing to have certain ways you feel the government should work, but it’s another thing entirely to slam that square peg into your faith. Immediately I’m reminded of Matthew 22:15-22, which ends with Jesus saying about taxes,
“So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
But more than getting into that, I say how terrible this whole thing gets when we start making our faith about being aligned with a certain political party.
Back in 2009 I wrote two articles about this:
“Christianity is not a political party, and Republican is not a religious faith”
“It’s not about turning Republican Christians into Democrat Christians“
And if you don’t feel like reading them, here is the gist of it: Jesus didn’t want to be king of this place. It was never God’s plan, not in the Old Testament and not in the New.
Leave that business alone and reconcile your faith with the reality of the gospel that tells you to take care of one another, to give up yourself for Christ, and make your life about sharing the hope and love of our savior. These stupid arguments about taxes and “socialism” are getting ridiculous.
The message of the gospel isn’t low taxes and privatized social security.
It is about how God himself paid the debt we owed on our lives, and now all people can have a relationship with him. Let’s stop getting confused about this, please. And maybe the Christian faith won’t fall into irrelevancy in the 21st century.
Why the Constitution Should Have Been Read at the Super Bowl
This past Sunday, as is their custom since 9/11 (though I can’t remember ever seeing it before this Sunday), the Declaration of Independence was read on television before the Super Bowl. And I’m not sure why.
Maybe immediately following the attacks of 9/11 there was a connection in reminding Americans we are a people who fight tyranny in whatever forms it takes. However, almost ten years after that event, I say that the Constitution is a more appropriate document to be read annually on a highly (maybe most highly) watched television program.
I say this because after more than 200 years, our government has changed in many respects since its initial founding. And after almost a decade of perpetual war where we have given, or had taken from us, freedom for “security,” it would do well to remind us what freedoms we are guaranteed.
Don’t remember much of what’s in the Constitution? There are seven articles, three establishing the power of the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch. There is an article about the states’ powers and limits and another establishing federal power (which includes a clause stating no religious test can be required for holding political office). Want to know how or why the government can or cannot do something? Answers begin here. The most famous section of the US Constitution, however, is the amendments (the first 10 of which we know as The Bill of Rights). Continue Reading…
