8:45 AM
I’m sure you’ve noticed how some believers enjoy discovering there’s a Rottweiler asleep under their neighbor’s porch, and then administering a good swift kick or two to the poor animal’s ribs. Could be they think kicking sleeping dogs is good fun … (and it might also subtlety remind the neighbor who’s in charge).
Dog-kickers seem not to ever learn (a) Rottweiler’s have teeth, and relish in the sensation of squeezing live flesh between them; (b) kicking a neighbor’s dog shows disrespect to your neighbor; and (c) the old adage about leaving sleeping dogs lie makes often makes perfectly good sense.
So let’s talk politics.
Should a believer support a Democrat or a Republican nominee for president? How should a believer feel about health care or raising the minimum wage? What about immigration, gun control, lowering capital gain taxes and tighter restrictions on carbon monoxide emissions?
Might help if a nation-wide committee representing every Christian denomination in the country could be assembled for a convention, spent all the time they needed hashing through all the details, and published a comprehensive doctrine on The Approved Way for Believers to Vote Politically. Then we’d have all the answers and would know exactly how to think about the issues. We could even carry The Approved Way to Vote with us to the polls (unless the committee determined Real Believers shouldn’t vote in the first place).
Or, what if we spent less time arguing over issues, and spent our time praying for discernment, listening to the Holy Spirit, remembered that God is in control and shared the gospel with non-believers instead?
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