Necessary Roughness

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has hired a “faith guru” for her 2008 presidential campaign, The Hill reports.

This could be a good thing.

The worst case scenario is that the overt move to solicit people who care about moral issues results in a campaign that orchestrates what lies to tell the voters today. The best case scenario is that maybe the party of the Left realizes how different their supporters have been compared to the majority of voters, and it will moderate its stance on abortion, gay marriage, etc.

This is an opportunity to turn the limelight away from the candidate to religious supporters. What “Christian” religious leaders do support the left wing agenda, and why? Why do Dobson, Robertson, Falwell, Bauer, etc., seem to have thrown their hats in so completely with the Republican party?

Note to pulpit occupiers: If you are backing people rather than principles, you’re wrong. There is no Biblical directive to elect Obama, Clinton, Brownback, or Dan at Necessary Roughness. It is also pretty safe to say the same thing about legislation. I am glad that I didn’t see advocacy for the defeat of Missouri’s Amendment 2 from the pulpits of the confessional Lutheran blogosphere, only in their blogs.

That’s because they don’t see the pulpit as a tool for political exploitation. The pulpit is a delivery vehicle of the Word of God. If a pastor is spending time discussing things other than preaching Christ crucified for sinners, applying the Law and detailing how we sin, and applying the Gospel and how we are saved, at best he isn’t making the most of his time. At worst, he is preaching a contrary Gospel.

The fact that we have false teachers is not a good thing. What is good is that we have a method for finding them.