I recently read this article online and wanted to share it with my readers.  I have heard many argument from Christians for reasons to vote for Obama and have not heard one yet that holds water.  One argument states we simply can not impose morality on people.  This has to be on of the most absurd things I have ever heard.  We do this very thing every day.  Secondly I have heard people say that abortion should not be an issue because the laws will not change once again how absurd.  I am sure many thought the same way over slavery.  Come one.

In this article Dr. Robert P. George dealing with the arguments that Christians are giving in favor of voting for Obama. Please read the whole article here.    Dr. George’s conclusion:

 

What kind of America do we want our beloved nation to be? Barack Obama’s America is one in which being human just isn’t enough to warrant care and protection. It is an America where the unborn may legitimately be killed without legal restriction, even by the grisly practice of partial-birth abortion. It is an America where a baby who survives abortion is not even entitled to comfort care as she dies on a stainless steel table or in a soiled linen bin. It is a nation in which some members of the human family are regarded as inferior and others superior in fundamental dignity and rights. In Obama’s America, public policy would make a mockery of the great constitutional principle of the equal protection of the law. In perhaps the most telling comment made by any candidate in either party in this election year, Senator Obama, when asked by Rick Warren when a baby gets human rights, replied: ”that question is above my pay grade.” It was a profoundly disingenuous answer: For even at a state senator’s pay grade, Obama presumed to answer that question with blind certainty. His unspoken answer then, as now, is chilling: human beings have no rights until infancy – and if they are unwanted survivors of attempted abortions, not even then. 

In the end, the efforts of Obama’s apologists to depict their man as the true pro-life candidate that Catholics and Evangelicals may and even should vote for, doesn’t even amount to a nice try. Voting for the most extreme pro-abortion political candidate in American history is not the way to save unborn babies.

After watching this video I was deeply moved.  Man how often do we just play the game and put on the face.  How many in our churches may be doing this every sunday.

Have you seen this video yet.  In it the Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan calls Obama the Messiah.  There is one Messiah and he has come and will come again and it is not Barak Obama.

I recently read this 

Adolescence is achieved after the long and painful season of doing the hard work it takes to get a church functioning with healthy systems, competent leaders, and clear expectations of people.  This season is marked by a number of critical beginnings, such as getting the wrong people out of the church and getting the right people to commit to the church and to doing whatever it takes to accomplish the mission.  Getting to this phase is exhausting, and if the leaders’ plans fail, they lose credibility and the church settles into a lethargic state of decline.

The emphasis has been added by me this quote is from Mark Driscoll’s book “Confessions of A Reformission Rev.”  I read this quote over and over again.  Many times churches struggle with both competent leaders and clear expectations of the people.  Some churches will have competent leaders but the people have no clue what is going on.  Others may communicate well and the people may know expectations but the leaders are not competent.  There are also cases where neither is true the leaders are not competent and the people really know nothing of the expectations.  

Sadly many churches go with the warm body mentality when it comes to leadership and as long as a person is willing they are cast into a leadership role with very little discipleship.  I feel strongly it would be far better to not have leaders then to have leaders that are not competent to perform the task.  Why do we get so caught up into this idea that we need an Elder or a deacon that really is not qualified to do the job.  Why do we not disciple them first and I am not talking about taking them through a book.  Though there is nothing wrong with book studies but what is wrong with the pastor or another leader inviting someone to be a part of their life,  and discipling similar to how Christ discipled and therefore qualifying someone for a leadership position.  Many churches today are failing to have competent leaders.

In addition many churches are not giving clear communication to their people.  They muddy the water with unnecessary detail or they fail to communicate clear vision.  For that matter some churches even fail to tell the whole truth of what goes on behind closed doors and in essence lie to their people.  The people dont know what to expect and dont know what they are supposed to do and have no common vision, mission, or values.  Because of this many churches are floundering, and instead of the people being informed of expectations the people begin to gossip and they substitute their own expectations in place of expectation that should already have been stated by the leadership.  Instead of trying to please everyone leadership needs to give clear expectations and you know what some people may leave but is that wrong?  Which leads into whats next.

Sometimes people need to leave the church.  Some people enter the church and they want the church to only please them and if you dont do it their way they get upset and they want to manipulate others and in many cases they want to manipulate the leadership.  Why are those with the narcissistic personalties never confronted.  Why are those that complain the most and find the most problems never confronted, why does the squeaky wheel always get the grease.  Is there anything wrong with telling these people straighten up or leave.  To often people are allowed to destroy the church for their own selfish desires.  I am afraid we may need to be tough with those that want it their way.

Finally I am afraid many leaders have lost credibility.  Not only because their plans have failed but because they have failed to have a plan.  Sadly I have been in a church where I watched this very thing happen.  Where I sat and watched as the leaders of the church lost credibility with people in the church.  Many people left because of this very issue.  Without credibility the church will indeed fall into a lethargic state of decline.

I am thankful that right now I am in a church where I have seen none of this.  Is the church perfect? No but I have seen God do some great things here and I pray He continues to do so.  I am rarely impressed with a business meeting and though I thought it was somewhat long I was impressed with a Church that saw God’s vision and was willing to move forward with that vision even without knowing how it would be accomplished.

After lastnights VP debate Obama decided he had to change his tactics because of Sarah Palin so this is what he came up with.

This is satire.