Thank you Dewey and Sharon! We love you both!
Pastor Dewey Moede: The American Church is doing a poor job of building bridges of love and trust with many Americans. This is one of the main reasons Church attendance continues to fall. To many Christians show HATE. I saw on Facebook last night a young lady saying she was glad ‘so and so’ won……..then all these people attacked her, many call themselves Christians, but some folks need a good spanking, a trip to the wood shed!…… what an awful example of the Love Jesus shows us all. George Barna: “People have become more selfish, churches have become less influential, pastors have become less Bible-centric”
After I first posted this the Lord called to my attention what happened yesterday in a phone call. A man who calls himself a Christian, said the most awful things about Kamala Harris to me on the phone. Things that I will not repeat. My point is, If you are a Christian you should not be a racist, a person of extreme hate. Calling a woman or man bad names no matter if she or he is white or black is so ungodly. You think that is ‘JESUS LIKE?’ Both the DEMS and GOP need to clean themselves up! My goodness people! My Facebook page is mostly made up of Christians! Now, after this election I can add another chapter to me book, “Christians Behaving Badly.” God will have the final say on all this mess.
So many Christians chase people away from God, instead of building bridges of love and trust. Christians are to hold themselves to the standard of God, not politics. I am not a man of the GOP or DEMS. I am an independent Man of God.
Denison Forum
Dr. Ryan Denison
In the wake of Tuesday’s election, members of the Democratic Party have spent a great deal of energy trying to explain why Kamala Harris lost and Donald Trump won. And while most perspectives have covered the gamut from “America is racist and sexist” to “President Biden should have dropped out sooner,” some less beholden to the party line are urging Democratic leaders to take a step back and be a bit more introspective.
Brett Stephens, for example, perceptively assigns blame to “three larger mistakes of worldview”:
First, the conviction among many liberals that things were pretty much fine, if not downright great, in Biden’s America — and that anyone who didn’t think that way was either a right-wing misinformer or a dupe. Second, the refusal to see how profoundly distasteful so much of modern liberalism has become to so much of America. Third, the insistence that the only appropriate form of politics when it comes to Trump is the politics of Resistance — capital R.
There is truth to all three, but the first point in particular seems crucial to any objective understanding of Tuesday’s results.
You see, America has always been a divided nation to some extent. While we can, at times, unite around a common goal, even then, the diversity that exists within our society will inevitably lead to some fairly clear lines between the various groups that make up the nation.
And that’s all right. After all, diversity cannot exist without differences, and God made each of us unique. However, he also intended for us to share a common foundation as people made in his image (Genesis 1:27).
It should not come as a surprise that, as our culture increasingly rejects that foundation, we’re struggling to keep our differences from becoming divisive.
As a result, we’re facing what David Brooks calls “a crisis of respect.” And while he sees those issues as playing out primarily on the left, I think it’s fair to say that all of us struggle at times to show respect to those who think differently than we do on the issues we find most important.
Fortunately, we’re not the first group to struggle with that problem. More Here