Agenda

I’m terribly afraid that the leaders of the evangelical community, in their rush to have their agenda inacted by President Bush, just don’t get it.

“The president could have paused to thank all those good people who poured in and gave him power again,” James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, told U.S. News & World Report. “The GOP has been given four years to deliver on marriage and life and family, and if they fumble it … (we’ll) stay home next time.”

The Rev. Jerry Falwell announced plans to form a new organization called The Faith and Values Coalition. Modeled after Moral Majority, the now-defunct group he founded in 1979, one of its missions will be to lobby the Bush administration to take ever-firmer stances against abortion, gay marriage, limits on prayer in schools and other hot-button Christian issues.

As an evangelical Christian, I want judges in our courts that are strict constructionists; not judicial activists. I am solidly pro-life and am opposed to gay marriage and civil unions (a discussion for another time) of any kind, homosexual or heterosexual. And, I want Christians to have a place at the table when public policy is the issue. Contrary to what many on the left would have people believe, we are not ignorant bumpkins that just fell off the turnip truck last night. We are American citizens; and , as such, are entitled to voice our opinion on all matters of public policy.

That having been said, if the Christian community attempts to have it’s morals and values enforced by legislative fiat, we run not only the risk of alienating the remainder of the citizenry; but, more importantly, we are at risk of being in direct oppostion to many of the teachings of Jesus Christ. God’s word, in several different places, gives us very clear instructions as to the role that we, as God’s people, are to play in society. II Chronicles 7:14, Matthew 5:13-16, II Corinthians 10:3-5, and Philippians 1:27 are all very clear in their instructions to the Christian.

In conclusion…Yes, we as Christians need to play a very definite role in the application of a Christian world view, as it pertains to a cultural agenda, for our country. However, if we are to have any success at all in influencing society over the long haul, we must, at all costs, adhere to the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.