Why Christians Vote Republican Despite It All

[Reformed]

What church are you referring to?

There is only one Church - the body of Christ.

Ephesians 5:25-27 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

Everything in bold is speaking of the Church.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

There is only one Church - the body of Christ.

Ephesians 5:25-27 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

Everything in bold is speaking of the Church.

Is that the same one that ignores Mark 16:15

 

[supersoldier71]

Those who say that we should condemn California would do well to read Jonah.

There is no evil on earth that is greater than the power of the Holy Spirit.

Nor are we at liberty to condemn our lost neighbors.


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[Yeshua1]

I do not think any Christian with a right-thinking mind is oblivious to the social and moral ills that California practices and perpetuates. But SR is right, California is a mission field. California is indicative of where our nation will be in 10 years. The Church better get used to that idea and full the mandate of Matthew go into the all the world (including California) and make disciples.

We might have to do the Escape from LA route, and have big walls erected around CA to keep it apart from rest of USA!

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Those who say that we should condemn California would do well to read Jonah.

There is no evil on earth that is greater than the power of the Holy Spirit.

Nor are we at liberty to condemn our lost neighbors.


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Does that include today’s evangelicals cause they think they are excluded

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

We might have to do the Escape from LA route, and have big walls erected around CA to keep it apart from rest of USA!

Spoken like a true trumpeter. Is Detroit also a wall up candidate?

 

[Salty]

California has gone (past tense) to Hell in a hand basket. There is no hope for that evil place.
My pastor used to say "I'll be glad when God slides that Hell hole off into the ocean." I disagree with him. The eastern 2/3rds of the State is OK. Sliding the western third into the ocean would be sufficient.

Well, then Jonah must have been a Republican as that is how he felt about Nineveh.
Good thing he never went.

 

[Yeshua1]

Spoken like a true trumpeter. Is Detroit also a wall up candidate?

nope, as the liberal Democrats destroyed it decades earlier!

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

nope, as the liberal Democrats destroyed it decades earlier!

NJ is well on its way also.... ie unconstitutional gun laws, big Planned Parenthood center, high taxes, heavy foreclosures yada yada. Of course it is all for the children.

 

[Yeshua1]

NJ is well on its way also.... ie unconstitutional gun laws, big Planned Parenthood center, high taxes, heavy foreclosures yada yada. Of course it is all for the children.

First time visited NJ was when married, as Inlaws lived there at the time. It reminded me of Flint, Mi, all grimy and oily...

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

First time visited NJ was when married, as Inlaws lived there at the time. It reminded me of Flint, Mi, all grimy and oily...

Where was that?

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

First time visited NJ was when married, as Inlaws lived there at the time. It reminded me of Flint, Mi, all grimy and oily...

Home

warren county nj - Google Search

 

[church mouse guy]

Spoken like a true trumpeter. Is Detroit also a wall up candidate?

You can buy a palace of a house there for a thousand dollars. Detroit is a candidate for bulldozing, not a wall.

 

[Yeshua1]

You can buy a palace of a house there for a thousand dollars. Detroit is a candidate for bulldozing, not a wall.

Some getting rich here by buying cheap, fixing up, and renting out!

 

[Calminian]

Your suggestion is a good one. However, a better one is for you Easterners to start thinking of California as a viable mission field. In my experience, Eastern parents would rather have their children go off to Lower Slobovia as missionaries than go to California. And not come here necessarily as paid church staff. We need workers of all sorts.....

Missionaries to CA? Domestic missionaries? Hmmm.

Building on this, what about age group missionaries? Reaching 12-17 years olds with creationism?

 

[Squire Robertsson]

"Home" missions have a long established tradition in the US. FWIW, it was a home missions question that was the proximate cause that split the Northern Baptists from the Southern.

Missionaries to CA? Domestic missionaries? Hmmm.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

You can buy a palace of a house there for a thousand dollars. Detroit is a candidate for bulldozing, not a wall.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

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Missionaries to CA? Domestic missionaries? Hmmm.

Building on this, what about age group missionaries? Reaching 12-17 years olds with creationism?

i don’t see kids today, particularly that age group, truly listening to adults in any significant way. In short, we have spoiled them

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

"Home" missions have a long established tradition in the US. FWIW, it was a home missions question that was the proximate cause that split the Northern Baptists from the Southern.

I don’t understand that dynamic... could you elaborate?

 

[Squire Robertsson]

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the sending of church planting missionaries to the western "frontier" or lightly settled areas was a well-established practice. At one time, there was a Northern Baptist Home Missionary Society. The Triennial Convention for Missions supported both foreign and home missionaries. However, in the 1820s and 30s, anti-slavery sentiment grew in strenght amoung the Norther and Midwestern Baptists. So, they came to a point that they did not want to support slave holding missionaries. Keep in mind at that time, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas were considered "frontier." The economies in those areas were such that any domestic help (maids, cooks, or housekeepers) or farm help (one or two hands) were more than likely slaves. Added to other issues and the split develops.

I don’t understand that dynamic... could you elaborate?