Blackhacker

Evangelical Outpost

If after spending a quarter of a century in the church, a Christian woman can uphold the most unjust ruling since Dred Scott, then we have failed as a church. If the best we can say about an evangelical is that she “brings donuts” rather than that she brings a passion for justice, then the blood of the innocent will be on our hands. We will have failed to fulfill the calling of the church.

So why do we have this strange feeling in our stomachs about this nomination? Because deep down we know that being a member of a “conservative evangelical church” may make you an evangelical, but it doesn’t make you a disciple.

I am very tired of those on the right defining what it means to be a Christian by what your beliefs are on hot button issues. THIS is the calling of the Church. And This is how you can tell a disciple. The Christian Right are neither masters of Heaven nor Hell. They are squirrels like me just trying to get a nut. It is apparent to me that too many Christians have lost focus on what the mission of the Church is. It is NOT to overturn Roe v Wade. It NOT to see that gay marriage is banned from America. It is NOT see that prayer is returned to public schools. It is not even to feed the poor, or provide relief for the homeless, or ANY of the stuff that we find churches doing these days. It is preach the Gospel. That is the mission. ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL the other stuff is only a means to that end. If your end Goal is not to proclaim the Gospel you are NOT doing the work of the Church.

They Took Prayer out the Schools and Let the Devil in.

I could really careless if “under God” is in the Pledge, or if the Commandments are displayed on a stone monument in front of a court house. This is immaterial to me. It is more important to God that the Commandments be in your heart than on some hunk of rock. It didn’t work for the children of Israel. They carried the ORIGINAL Stones, and for 40 years and grumbled and complained the whole time. So much so that God had to smite them with one thing or another from time to time, just remind them of what God has done for them. And when they finally came into the Promised Land they couldn’t stay right for more than 1 generation at a time before God had to allow an enemy to come in and oppress them for a while. These where God’s CHOSEN people.

I said all of that to say this. If we are worried about how God is represented in American life then BE LIGHT, BE SALT. The healing of America is in the hearts and minds of the Christians.

I find it very ironic and hypocritical that Christian Conservatives want the Government to do what Christians should be doing. They want the Government to advocate for Christ and stand for Christian principles. But when the rocks cry out they the Government but for Christians who refuse to glorify Christ in the manifestations of his love.

What we see a lot of today is patriotism, disguised as a genuine love for Christ. We should stop trying to be a Christian Nation and be strive to be a Nation of Christians. In the end it will not matter from which nation you come from anyway. America is part of the WORLD and if you read the end of the Bible the fate of the world is sealed.