tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34075051.post7867159272221823721..comments2023-06-18T10:11:36.565-06:00Comments on Ralph Harris: The Antidote For RacismRalphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13191358912351995744noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34075051.post-80927544724611759532008-03-20T22:38:00.000-06:002008-03-20T22:38:00.000-06:00I welcome and appreciate your comments.I think tha...I welcome and appreciate your comments.<BR/><BR/>I think that we (Christian leaders) have done a relatively poor job lately of assisting people to what is most important--knowing God. Christianity is not just about Jesus, it IS Jesus. And knowing Him is our highest goal, as well as the biggest target of the enemy.<BR/><BR/>I suppose it is no wonder that history shows great swings in the church--during one era, Jesus Himself is everything to the church; and the next, the church is everything to us. A terrible mistake, one that I believe is strategized by the devil.<BR/><BR/>If my finger in the wind is at all sensitive, we're beginning to blow back to Jesus being everything.<BR/><BR/>-RalphRalphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13191358912351995744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34075051.post-72930795242245824582008-03-20T17:24:00.000-06:002008-03-20T17:24:00.000-06:00Man, do we ever need to hear this.Thanks you!Man, do we ever need to hear this.<BR/><BR/>Thanks you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34075051.post-69828067843696876962008-03-20T13:58:00.000-06:002008-03-20T13:58:00.000-06:00Thank you for sharing your thoughts about this. I...Thank you for sharing your thoughts about this. I think that it is really healthy for talk about politics to be on the agenda in conversations about faith. Especially when it is done in a healthy open way such as this post. <BR/><BR/>I think there is a lot of thinking and praying and talking that needs to be done amongst the faith community concerning our country. It is almost like for the past ten years or so, we've decided to let the loud voices in Evangelical Christianity think for us, instead of praying and conversing and thinking (with Jesus) for ourselves. I've felt this pressure from the evangelical community that if you don't vote pro-life, you can't be a Christian. But it just didn't ring true in my spirit. I am deeply grieved by the practice of abortion, but surely that is not the *only* thing that matters in a vote!? And so I think that instead of encouraging God's children to pray about our political choices and responsibilities, the issue gets vastly over-simplified. There is no candidate that is perfect, there will always have to be a choice among priorities. It is up to us to prayerfully consider political decisions. And to talk about them! But hopefully not to tell each other that there is only one clear candidate or position that a Christian can vote for. <BR/><BR/>Thank you for broadening the conversation and opening it up for the faith community to *think* again.The Stoutshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16594580348073717356noreply@blogger.com