To continue from my last blog, church and state 'overlap' too much when a pastor becomes a mayor. If the argument is that pastors should not preach about politics, nations and the world we live in, I disagree. Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a kook. However that does not mean all pastors are kooks and that they all lead their flock astray. If a pastor does not lead his congregation in a certain area, who does? CNN, Newsweek? Yikes!! To expand on my earlier point...is Wright only a kook when he talks about the 'state'? Safe to say no. No matter what he is preaching on, he could be leading the flock astray. That is for the people who attended his church to decide and judge…we are commanded to…
19Do not put out the Spirit's fire; 20do not treat prophecies with contempt. 21Test everything. Hold on to the good. 22Avoid every kind of evil. 1 Thessalonians 5 (New International Version)
The biblical references for the type of pastors I am talking about are the prophets Amos and Jeremiah. They spoke against the political establishment of their day. Their message was "knock off the sin, thus sayeth the Lord. God's judgment with fall on all of us!" We need pastors who speak the truth and declare the need for repentance to our political leaders. After all, who else will?
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