Why? Because you have abandoned your calling to be a spokesman for God, his messenger, and become instead a spokesman for a political party. You have moved away from your calling as a Pastor/Teacher to become a politician’s surrogate.
By so doing, regardless of your political viewpoint, you have turned your back on the Word of God which calls you not to endorsements of politicians but to proclamation of the Word of God, which stands against all human systems and which therefore demands that the representatives of his Word do the same.
Your task isn’t to act as cheerleader for fallen human politicos. And if you think it is, and you must or you wouldn’t allow yourself to be co-opted by human ideology, then you most assuredly have cut yourself off from the Word which you are commanded to proclaim. Indeed, you don’t even know that Word sufficiently well to know your own task: you surely aren’t in a position, then, to tell others what it says.
So, again, if you stood in your pulpit yesterday and told your congregation that you were voting for so and so and endorsing so and so for the office of the Presidency, quit today. You are no longer a Pastor.
I think it’s very sad that a bunch of pastors have participated in the lie that freedom lies in the world.
Freedom would be not caring about the purely-worldly concerns and not letting it control our lives. They should have called the event Pulpuit Slavery Sunday, since they allowed their pulpits to be enslaved by the world in a way that the IRS regulations never did.
And the idea that a bunch of Christian pastors used the occasion to endorse a guy who openly mocks Christianity is beneath contempt. As you said, they should resign as the frauds that they are.
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1st Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils,…….
indeed- and they will heap up for themselves teachers who do nothing but tickle their ears. so you’re right. liars abound and deceivers too- deceiving christians into thinking that their primary responsibility is to support politicians when in fact by doing so they lose that which makes them christians- adherence to christ ALONE.
I have the joy, the pleasure and the undisguised honor, which means that I am honored in the open and flaunt it, to have made my Non-profit (and non-prophet) organization and have not asked the IRS for a 501(c3) letter. Anyone who gives to me has to give with the sole motivation of helping our ministry in Brazil and the small part we do in America. You want a tax exempt letter in the end of the year? Give it to the Kwanis club, the local lodge, or there is plenty of TV ministers that will be happy to send you such letter in the end of the year!
Otherwise, ask your attorneys, there is no constitutional right for the IRS to deem Churches not a Church… The 501(c3) letter is what it is: a letter of RECOGNITION.
Man I cannot imagine Paul going through the Churches (2 Cor 9: 6,5) and telling them: “He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall receive also bountifully in the form of a tax exemption from their local Internal Revenue Service. Send me your offering or the negro in Africa will die without Jesus and I will go off the air for lack of funds. The phone number is on the bottom of your screen.”
It is true that “Jesus called tax collectors to be preachers; now the government is calling preachers to be tax collectors”, but what these guys are doing is departure from the jobs in teaching people the real reason for giving!
Amen, Jim, amen.
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