Job on Romney

September 10, 2007, 9:30 am; posted by
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Yeah, I get it. A lot of my fellow conservative Christians support Mitt Romney for President. Ya want a cookie?

Snap out of it.

I’ll say it again — the reason conservative Christians support Romney is for his support of Biblically-based causes like the pro-life movement and the defense of marriage act. But when it comes to defending the actual Bible?

If I were to the San Francisco Giants what I am to Christianity, I would want our home runs to be fueled — only — by our true sweat and grit, not powered by something artificial like steroids. To think it’s all okay just so long as the ball gets over the fence and we put some runs up? It cheapens the home run and it would cheapen our defense of the unborn if it’s traced back to our willingness to defend it with a mercenary/avatar, rather than our own soldiers. Shameful.

I guess I view my vote as an extension of my witness. The reason I have the stamina to argue, the reason I’ve got a library card, and the reason I campaigned aggressively for W is because I passionately want to defend the unborn, defend Christianity against Islamofascism, and defend the institution of marriage (among other issues). But I didn’t just wake up one morning with this passion. I harbor and dispatch it because I’m saved by the grace of Jesus Christ and I want to, in all things, prosecute the Gospel…even with my vote.

Mike Huckabee is electable, didn’t have his conservative credentials suddenly hatch one night in 2002, is an ordained minister and will never have to parse his beliefs with carefully articulated speeches.

But we pull our support from him much like the early Christians pulled their support from Christ…because they weren’t convinced He could win.


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2 Comments to “Job on Romney”

  1. David on September 10th, 2007 1:09 pm

    “But we pull our support from him much like the early Christians pulled their support from Christ:because they weren’t convinced He could win.”

    Job

    No, no, no Job. They took Jesus by force and tried to make him a King and he quietly slipped away and hid from them. He stated unequivicably that his kingdom was NOT of this world but if it was his followers would come and fight for him. Historically the church has always been at its worst when it holds temporal power and at its best when it is persecuted and hated. I disagree vehemently with the idea that we are here to make the United States a Christian nation. It was never the plan of God to have a temporal kingdom and it only confuses the issue of why we are here when we try to accomplish that.

  2. Steve on September 10th, 2007 1:43 pm

    Agreed. I don’t need my president to “defend the actual Bible,” although it might be nice if he did. I need him (or her) to defend the laws and Constitution of the United States, as the Oath of Office requires. Advancing the Kingdom of God and leading this nation need not necessarily conflict, but neither can we pretend they should be identical. I submit that viewing a vote as a “prosecution of the Gospel,” depending on what precisely that’s supposed to mean, might betray a misunderstanding of the purpose of government.

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