Ministry Today

There is one race--the human race; there are many ethnicities that make up the Face of God. What we are dealing with in this country is humanism and how it has been called many things, e.g. universalism. What we are dealing with in church is unitarianism. What we are called to be as Christians is apolitical; about the Sublime. This is best exemplified by Jesus speaking that we need to give onto Caesar what is Caesar's and onto God what is God's. We are called to be in the world, but not of it. How many times are we of it?

We are called to be under the authority as all authority comes from Him, all the while being asked to call a spade a spade and do this when it is timely and in love. The woman at the well is what comes to mind.

What we have in this country is the vote. What we must vote in as Christians is not the perfect candidate, but rather the better candidate. Point for point who did you vote for? Did your objectivity rest in Him?

Did you vote from the Spirit or your own thinking? Did you lean on your own understanding? Was it out of pride? Was it of God? Was it of man?

I have never believed that you could be a racist and be a Christian at the same time, but maybe I was wrong. I have always fought against prejudice, even to the point of terminating friendships with people who used racist remarks. And, when this election process started, I was 100% sold out for Alan Keys because he was the candidate that best represented my Christian values as a candidate. I even used to attend a predominately black church, about 90% of the membership and all of the leadership was black. Out of about 5000, I was one of about 20 to 30 whites there. I really believed in the pastor and his messages were always right in line with what I believe a Christian's principles should be. He used to always stand up for the unborn's right to life, and the sanctity of a Godly, heterosexual marriage.

But on the night that Hillary Clinton announced that she was conceding the democratic nomination to Barack Obama, He call for the church to stand up for the first African-American candidate and and proclaimed that we should work to elect the first black American president. As I say and looked around, I saw very few others who, like I, refuse to stand in celebration. Frankly, I was shocked to see so many who I had believed that Christianity outweighed race in who I could call my brothers and sisters in Christ.

I learned something that night. I learned that the words of Martin Luther King Jr., less than 24 hours before his death were in vain. I'm talking about when he said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. " Well that obviously doesn't apply when African-Americans have the opportunity to have a president that they think "Looks like us" as I keep hearing them say.

Oh, it's not that I was excited to see John McCain as the other choice. He used to be "pro-choice" on the abortion issue. But at least, he had always been against partial birth abortion and Obama has fought to prevent any any care for children who survived an abortion attempt, preferring to allow them to die a slow painful death. It was only after McCains choice of Sara Palin as his VP running mate. Of course, I had prayed for a miracle like him choosing Alan Keys, but Palin was more experienced in public office.

So now any of my former friends who hears that I didn't support this man who denies the words of Christ, who mocks His Holy Word, who has just promised to put people from the gay-lesbian-bisexual&transgend ered community in key Whitehouse positions, and a confirmed socialist and pro-abortion advocate, well, that means that I must be a racist.

And to the minister who commented before me, please remember how God gave in to his people and gave them Saul, even though it "grieved God" to do so. God has always given in and let His people learn the hard way.