Preach Jesus, not your presidential candidate

[Michie]

While political pundits do their jobs in analyzing the presidential debate, I’ll do my job as a spiritual leader and encourage us to keep our priorities straight. In short, as I posted earlier this year, preach Jesus and vote for your presidential candidate of choice, based on scriptural principles. But do not preach your candidate. To do so is to defile your witness.

All too often, we become better known for the candidate we support than the Lord we serve, declaring our allegiance to a party or a person far more passionately than we declare our allegiance to the Savior. And to what end? For what purpose?

Better that we keep our priorities straight and our focus clear, being careful not to allow anything to taint our testimony for our Lord. And then, as responsible citizens, we get involved in the political process.

For all of us, this should mean informed voting. For some, it will also mean donating to candidates. Or raising awareness about issues. Or working to get out the vote. Or even running for office. Let everyone find their place.

But let none of us get so caught up with the elections that we allow our social media pages or spheres of influence to become partisan political cesspools, filled with ugly attacks, mocking memes, and nasty rhetoric. And all this side by side with our favorite Scripture of the day!

Continued below.

Preach Jesus, not your presidential candidate

Preach Jesus and vote for your presidential candidate of choice, based on scriptural principles But do not preach your candidate

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[Offline4Better.]

Amen to this. For myself, I might not even vote this year, cos none of the candidates align with scripture in the right way, but I might vote. Not sure, cos I will feel pangs of guilt voting.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Amen to this. For myself, I might not even vote this year, cos none of the candidates align with scripture in the right way, but I might vote. Not sure, cos I will feel pangs of guilt voting.

They used to say that if you are in your 20s and don't vote Democrat you were heartless. And if you are in your 40s and you don't vote Republican you were brainless. We've come a long way so that doesn't necessarily hold any more. We do have to put our hearts and brains into it though to not waste our votes.

The central thing is that political allegiance is secondary. We are to be Christians first and all of that other stuff comes afterwards. That's not how the politicians want it though. They want to own us.

 

[Offline4Better.]

They used to say that if you are in your 20s and don't vote Democrat you were heartless. And if you are in your 40s and you don't vote Republican you were brainless. We've come a long way so that doesn't necessarily hold any more. We do have to put our hearts and brains into it though to not waste our votes.

The central thing is that political allegiance is secondary. We are to be Christians first and all of that other stuff comes afterwards. That's not how the politicians want it though. They want to own us.

That is so true. Politicians want to own us all, same with the corporations. Seems that Satan is trying to expand his kingdom here on Earth, however, we all know that Jesus won.