I am
a Church guy. But I am not a circle-the-wagons type. By that I mean the Church
needs to fulfill the Great Commission by breaking up its protective circle and getting
out of the pews to make a positive influence by expanding God’s Kingdom. I
believe that the church as a whole is falling way too short in this mission. It
has become more concerned with building its own local kingdom, rather than
God’s greater Kingdom. The church building should be a place where people come to learn to know God, have their faith strengthened, be discipled, and worship God. But the local church is not the end all: the Great Commission is. We Christians need to be an influence for God in our everyday lives.
One way that comes to mind is in the political arena. The facts are that huge numbers of Christians still do not vote. As I look at the news, the battle is within our two party system. In Washington, truth is no longer a sacred ethic, but rather getting elected is the primary goal. Career politicians who get rich in their livelihoods enjoy a fine life and become more concerned with their lifestyles and power than with the jobs that they are commissioned to do. All this I attribute to our liberal government system that assigns God to the four walls of the church, and relentlessly fights to keep His people from influencing society.
Most
of the country is fed up with government. In my opinion the democrats are way
too Godless, taking on a humanistic philosophy that believes in subjective
truth. Republicans are too gutless to stand for their values, at least the
values that they claim to have. President
Obama, on the other hand, single handedly is demolishing the pillars that our
once great country stands on.
Though
it is very early to talk about the 2016 elections, I believe there is a man who
is coming to the forefront who would make an excellent president, Dr. Ben
Carson. He is not a politician, and does
not care about his own success (something that he achieved already), but
genuinely cares for the good of the people in our nation. Raised by a poor single mother in Detroit, he
became a prominent physician who climbed to the ranks of Director of Pediatric
Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, by hard work and education. He is a
Christian who believes in Biblical truth but also believes in the constitution,
one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I
first heard him speak at a worldview conference where he was the key-note
speaker. Though soft spoken and polite, he captivated the audience through his
logic, intelligence and wit. He is not afraid to be unpolitically correct, and
is not afraid to take on the status quo. He spoke at the 2013 National Prayer
Breakfast standing a few feet from president Obama. Through his intelligence
and impeccable logic he warned the people of the dangers facing the country and
called for a return to the principles that made America great. At the end of
his speech he received vigorous applause, except for a few, Obama and his
cronies.
Let’s
educate ourselves on all who are going to run for President and look past the
personal polish and the fluff of empty hopeful words. Let’s vote for the person who truly stands up
for truth and Godly values. Though not yet vetted, so far Ben’s my man.
