Above: Rudy Giuliani in drag and "The Donald" from a YouTube video.In 2008 an evangelical candidate emerged for the first time since who knows when that had the experience in government as a governor for 10 years as well as being a pastor. The Christian Coalition endorsed a New York mayor in fear of a 9/11 repeat. Fear is the key word here. To endorse out of fear and economics without considering what you flag wave to the public as a belief system is next to criminal. Many of the Religious Right backed a Mormon who waivered on abortion and gay rights. Focus on the family sat on the fence until it was all too late. A former Family Reaserch Council leader supported a TV star candidate and finaly a senator from Arizona. A GodTube™ poll indicated a swell of over 47% in favor of the pastor/govenor and 9% for the Arizona senator. Evangelical leaders started looking fearfilly at the secular polls and pundits and lost site of the charater of the candidates and themselves. The conservitive Club for Growth went as far as to hand out white papers against the pastor/govenor and spent close to $550,000 to campaign against the former govenor according the Los Angeles Times. A changing of the old guard is now on the move.
The pro-family movement and its ilk “has been” a paramount importance in establishing Christian values but that movement is passing to a new wineskin and no longer represents the Kingdom outside of its myopic vision. They have failed thier first love and mandate out of fear and concern for money. The fiscal conservitive can not sustain a vision outside of the social conservitive vision of total reliance upon God. Fiscal blessing comes from the top down not the bottom up. Its ironic also that prosperity is politicaly important but shunned from the pulpit. Prosperity is fine as long as you can do it under your own strength. If you say God wants to be envolved in doing that for you are are lible to a get a major tongue lashing from the churches anti-prosperity bunch.
It’s time to turn the campaign into a movememnt. No longer will the David be mocked for his small stature and left for dead when he is the only one that can stand against a Goliath. This is why a new paradigm of Christian ways and means must emerge in the world today. Some serious myth busting needs to take place. It is imperative to deconstruct Christianity and assemble it back using the illustrated directions. On the wing is a process of social, cultural, and political Christ in [r]evolution. You can’t reform what we have since reform is based on rebuilding on an old foundation. A revolution needs to be taking the old foundation out to build on the rock for a taller stronger building.
The pro-family movement and its ilk “has been” a paramount importance in establishing Christian values but that movement is passing to a new wineskin and no longer represents the Kingdom outside of its myopic vision. They have failed thier first love and mandate out of fear and concern for money. The fiscal conservitive can not sustain a vision outside of the social conservitive vision of total reliance upon God. Fiscal blessing comes from the top down not the bottom up. Its ironic also that prosperity is politicaly important but shunned from the pulpit. Prosperity is fine as long as you can do it under your own strength. If you say God wants to be envolved in doing that for you are are lible to a get a major tongue lashing from the churches anti-prosperity bunch.
It’s time to turn the campaign into a movememnt. No longer will the David be mocked for his small stature and left for dead when he is the only one that can stand against a Goliath. This is why a new paradigm of Christian ways and means must emerge in the world today. Some serious myth busting needs to take place. It is imperative to deconstruct Christianity and assemble it back using the illustrated directions. On the wing is a process of social, cultural, and political Christ in [r]evolution. You can’t reform what we have since reform is based on rebuilding on an old foundation. A revolution needs to be taking the old foundation out to build on the rock for a taller stronger building.
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