It’s the Monday night before the presidential election. I don’t know what’s going to happen between the time that I finish this blog post and the time that it posts on Tuesday morning. My guess is that Obama will win.
But I don’t need to know what happens on Tuesday to know the following will still be true on Wednesday morning:
- Abortion will still be legal, still be taking place, and the desire for abortions will still be rampant.
- Gay Marriage will still be widely-illegal, but thousands will still be living in that lifestyle
- Marriage may or may not have been defined as between a man and a woman, but marriages and families will still be breaking apart, needing the love of Christ to reconcile them.
- Roughly only 3% of the church will be tithing, leaving $140 billion a year on the table to address welfare, education and, oh what was it…evangelism and missions!
- Thousands of babies need adoption.
- Materialism and consumerism still grip our nation.
#1 by portorikan on November 5, 2008 - 8:41 am
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3% is so sad man. That’s it?
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#2 by Tiffany on November 5, 2008 - 9:00 am
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…and God will still be in control. Thanks for the real issues Clayton. Hope in Christ!
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#3 by Jessica on November 5, 2008 - 9:16 am
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Pray for God to bring REVIVAL! REVIVAL is so key! Regardless of who wins. If the morality of a nation is almost non-existent then we as a lovers of God would have failed if the hearts of people aren’t changing. I think with the new president, people will be even more desperate and focused on the fact that we need REVIVAL!
#4 by Clayton Bell on November 5, 2008 - 9:21 am
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@Jessica- I must be honest, I do not pray for revival in the classic sense of the word. There have been many revivals over the last few hundred years that have come and gone, but there was one reformation 500 years ago that shook the very foundation of the church and all of western culture. My prayer is that the church would first reform to what it is called to be, and my belief is that revival will be a natural byproduct of such reformation. The difference would be that we would have the wineskins ready to hold all of the new wine instead of having it wastefully spill on to the ground, or poured into old wineskins that will burst, again letting the wine wastefully run to the ground.
We may be only using different words for the same ideal, but I tend to be over-analytical.
#5 by Jessica on November 5, 2008 - 11:14 am
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That’s what I meant. LOL!
#6 by randy bohlender on November 5, 2008 - 12:42 pm
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I’ll be doing what I’ve been doing. Praying for our leaders (yes, all of them) and working to raise the water level of adoption in the church. We have adopted three newborn infants in two years – the myths that it’s hard or fiscally impossible must be shattered and the church must wake up to the flood of children that are her inheritance if she wants them.
#7 by Clayton Bell on November 5, 2008 - 12:50 pm
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@randy- That’s just straight-up awesome. The wife and are I most likely going to be going down the adoption path ourselves, as our plans for natural children has been “creatively deviated” by God. Keep up the great work, brother!
#8 by shaunBass on November 5, 2008 - 12:55 pm
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thank you! I’ll skip all I want to say, just to make this one point. Obama and McCain’s camp were able to ignite their supoorters to act. People knocking door to door and holding rallies making the case for their candidate.
Our God has true solutions, TRUE change for every situation. He has every right answer! It is time to campaign for our God with the same sense of urgency! These issues that we are looking to a president to correct, are symptoms. The root cause is a world’s desire to be whole. Sin separates us from God. It’s looking to fill the ever increasing void. But unfortunately it’s found the wrong answer. They need our Jesus. They need to fill this void with His perfect love. Homosexuality is a symptom. Abortion is a
symptom. When we concentrate on the root cause by excersising love and being a light, the symptoms are no longer an issue! We won’t need a president or congress to clean up the mess.