You cannot be a Christian and be a Democrat<\/strong>.”\u00a0 Christians do not cavort with, socialize with, nor maintain the fellowship with those who defend murder.\u00a0 And that is what the Democratic Party does by what it publicly and clearly affirms and advocates under the cover euphemistically named “abortion rights.”<\/p>\nCan I get a witness?<\/p>\n
To reiterate and clarify matters:\u00a0 It is not as absurd as it might appear.\u00a0 Certainly the follower of Jesus must associate with a raw heathen in the bush whom he is attempting to convert from pagan indiscretions. \u00a0But once the brute is converted and civilized, his manners are improved as he conforms his life to the Law and is both willing and able to discriminate between Right and Wrong.\u00a0\u00a0 In that state, the convert \u00a0is expected to mind the Rules and live civilly on pain of censure, punishment, or banishment.\u00a0\u00a0 And the Christian associates with the convert as the latter grows in faith and lives as member of the Christian family.<\/p>\n
The civil laws of Christian society uphold our “one nation under God” – that God whose name we invoke as we swear men into offices of authority.\u00a0 But there is a renegade party among us which rejects the Law and the fundamental doctrine around which all laws are oriented, the Right to Life.\u00a0 The Right to Life forbids murder (not capital punishment).\u00a0 It forbids and execrates the murder of innocents:\u00a0 “Thou shall do no murder.”\u00a0\u00a0 They have apostatized from a basic Truth which we hold to be self-evident, again, the Right to Life.\u00a0 That party is the Democrats (DNC).<\/p>\n
Now how do we play that out with due honesty, integrity, and discipline?\u00a0 We make it clear to our members that it is sin to support and participate with those who advocate and uphold evil.\u00a0 We have no fellowship with darkness.\u00a0 We simply excommunicate any members who identity as Democrats just as we would do the same for members who were advocates of racism, theft, or\u00a0 adultery as well the false teaching of Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Ku Klux Klan.\u00a0 We would call that teaching false and execrate those who advocated the same.<\/p>\n
What hesitation is there in calling out the Democratic party and inveighing against it? \u00a0 What prevents excommunication for heresy regarding those Church members who continue in this sin?<\/p>\n
I hope that it is not merely the fiduciary matter of avoiding “political issues” in order o maintain a “tax exempt status.”<\/p>\n
To give up the proclamation of truth for the sake of peace and prosperity would be a scandal, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
30 January, 2018 It’s true i!\u00a0 In times past that would have been a “narrow minded” and foolishly “partisan” slur. Not any more.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2018 it is Right On. As Micaiah Bilger writes in Lifenews (30 Jan, 2018): “Just three Democrats in the U.S. Senate supported a bill on Monday that would prohibit abortions after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,9,15,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actors-in-the-kingdom-selections","category-apostasy-cowardice-or-buffoonery","category-elections","category-political-ministry-of-the-churches-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}