{"id":11693,"date":"2020-12-11T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=11693"},"modified":"2020-12-11T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T23:34:00","slug":"politics-and-believers-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/11693\/politics-and-believers-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics and Believers -1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

I received and read your tract on Politics & Believers<\/a>.\u00a0 I am sorry to say that it is this unbiblical approach that has contributed to the state of our country.\u00a0 The country that has been entrusted to us by God. The country that we have a small corner of stewardship responsibility.\u00a0 The very practice of avoidance, silence, inaction is the very disposition that has also contributed to the continued slaughter of 60 million innocent unborn children over a 47 year period.\u00a0 They are unable to speak or defend themselves.\u00a0 That is the churches roll and it has been abandoned.\u00a0 So no a believer is not let off the hook because\u00a0 the government may come and go.\u00a0 There is nothing in scripture that supports your view that we should not join the military or be involved in political activity.\u00a0 It is our God who gave us this political system\u00a0 the political leaders and military defense . Your approach is tremendously irresponsible, but more importantly unbiblical.\u00a0 We are entrusted with a responsibility in our system of government.\u00a0 Romans chapter 13 does not relieve us of that\u00a0 . There are many versus that have been used to justify silence inaction and apathy regarding this subject.\u00a0 They include “we are citizens of heaven”\u00a0 “we struggle not against flesh and blood ” we are ambassadors of heaven” and each of these are absolutely true but none of these gives us justification to ignore our role as good citizens to this country.\u00a0 In fact that is one component, of many, responsibilities. I do not desire a political pastor.\u00a0 The state of our government, the morality or lack thereof has to be shared from the pulpit.\u00a0 Pulpit Silence has contributed to the immorality of our government corruption.\u00a0 I just hope it has nothing to do with the preservation of tax exempt status that churches enjoy.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

James D.<\/span><\/p>\n

South Carolina<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi James.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I am thankful that you read and understood my gospel tract, \u201cPolitics and Believers\u201d.\u00a0 It is a blessing to hear from those who are interested in spiritual things so that I can be improved in my faith.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I started to get out my Bible to study the scriptures you sent to help me correct my \u201cunbiblical\u201d position, but when I read your email, I noticed that you sent me no scriptures that I might use to that end.\u00a0 Instead, you quoted scriptures that confirm what I teach.\u00a0 That was disappointing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I would be happy to study your biblical position if you would send me the scriptures that enjoin God\u2019s children to become entangled with the political affairs of this life.\u00a0 I humbly ask that you do that if you have the time.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In closing, I should correct one misrepresentation of my tract that I noticed in your letter.\u00a0 You criticized me for teaching inaction and silence in the face of evil.\u00a0 That is not the case.\u00a0 The tract plainly exhorts God\u2019s children to pray for all who are in authority and to proclaim the gospel.\u00a0 Those who have God\u2019s Spirit have mighty weapons at their disposal if they would use them, instead of resorting to the useless weapons of flesh, such as earthly weapons of war and majority rule.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you again for writing.\u00a0 I look forward to considering the scriptures that I hope you will send.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pastor John, I received and read your tract on Politics & Believers.\u00a0 I am sorry to say that it is this unbiblical approach that has contributed to the state of our country.\u00a0 The country that has been entrusted to us by God. The country that we have a small corner of stewardship responsibility.\u00a0 The very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}