I POSTED THIS QUESTION YESTERDAY........ HERE ARE SOME RESPONCES Woody Pendleton: MANY PASTORS WILL NOT BE WILLING TO TALK POLITICS IN THE CHURCH. MANY PASTORS HAVE ALREADY BEEN CONSCRIPTED BY FEMA TO HELP PLACATE THEIR CONGREGATIONS IN THE EVENT OF ...
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This question was posted on a FB post and this is my response to that post. I thought it made an excellent question for discussion and thought...
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I am a practicing Roman Catholic. The priests will not talk politics from the pulpit. I have seen some of the older ones talk about biblical principles and will talk only a little about aligning our biblical view with the political view of today. If preachers and pastors had preached as they ought, we would not have a communist marxist in the white house. I do believe that liberals have infused themselves into today's seminaries. Anymore, just because a guy says he believes in Jesus and wants to preach the good news, that doesn't mean that he believes in the same Jesus you do or actually believes the Word of God as it is printed. They do not all pray for insight into God's word from the Holy Spirit. They can talk the talk and answer all the right buzz questions like Rick Warren but it doesn't mean they are all good guys. People will say that according to the Word of God these men were called to be pastors and therefore we are to heed them, listen to their interpretations and come under their shepherding in accordance with Romans chapter 13. I too want to live my life in accordance with Romans 13 but not at the risk of throwing away all other commands of the Bible, I will not submit myself to a pastor or preacher who makes up their own interpretation that is in direct conflict with Jesus.
I am a practicing Roman Catholic. The priests will not talk politics from the pulpit. I have seen some of the older ones talk about biblical principles and will talk only a little about aligning our biblical view with the political view of today. If preachers and pastors had preached as they ought, we would not have a communist marxist in the white house. I do believe that liberals have infused themselves into today's seminaries. Anymore, just because a guy says he believes in Jesus and wants to preach the good news, that doesn't mean that he believes in the same Jesus you do or actually believes the Word of God as it is printed. They do not all pray for insight into God's word from the Holy Spirit. They can talk the talk and answer all the right buzz questions like Rick Warren but it doesn't mean they are all good guys. People will say that according to the Word of God these men were called to be pastors and therefore we are to heed them, listen to their interpretations and come under their shepherding in accordance with Romans chapter 13. I too want to live my life in accordance with Romans 13 but not at the risk of throwing away all other commands of the Bible, I will not submit myself to a pastor or preacher who makes up their own interpretation that is in direct conflict with Jesus.
Priests and Pastors of all walks of faith speak about turning the other cheek but speak little about guarding your house from the thief in the night. They will speak about becoming docile and helpless as a lamb as Jesus was before Pilot but will not acknowledge that Peter and the disciples all carried swords and Jesus never chastised them for doing so, only pointed out that such items have their particular place and use. Jesus came in accordance with prophecy and died in accordance with prophecy. He came to fulfill the law, the law of penitence and payment for sins. He fulfilled the letter of the Law of God by offering himself as payment for sins of the whole world John 3:16-19. He never once told his followers to lay down their life and die exactly as he did. He only told Peter that when the time came he would go where he did not want to and be told to do want he did not want to and Jesus told him, "Follow me." But he also told Peter to feed my lambs, watch my sheep, feed my lambs. Jesus was and is the First Sheep Dog and no one gets by him to harm the sheep and not one will slip from his grasp to be lost forever.
What Jesus did for us and the entire world he did to protect us, to save us, to open a way for re-connecting with us because He made us and He loves us. He is our protector, our Father and our friend. He said his way is the narrow path and not many are able to travel it and that He is the gate by which all would pass through, that He sleeps at the entrance in order to protect the sheep. All this speaks of defiant love, defiant in the face of true, pure evil. That is what we are to do, not let evil have its way with this world because God the Father created this world and to hand it over to the devil is like throwing away a precious pearl of great worth. If pastors and priests tell us to become docile and lay soft and quiet for the jack booted thugs to take us over like sheep to the slaughter then for me I am sorry but I'm not built that way and Jesus knew it when he formed me in the palm of His hand. Jesus was no sheep, he went where he willed, lived as a free man whose heart is one with God and he did not just die, he spoke to His father and said it was finished, and took his last breath and died. He called the time, he called the place and he chose to spend out the last hours of his life as he willed, that is not the person of a sheep that is the person of a radical, a revolutionary and a conqueror.
