Political Gospel

This Sunday at College Wesleyan Pastor Steve used the phrase "today in America." I have been going to College Wesleyan for 11 years now and that phrase is about as political that Pastor Steve will ever get from the pulpit. However, every time I turn on my TV i see some Pastor making the news for some controversial material he presented in his sermon most of the time the material presented is 100% political and has little to do with the Christian message at all!

Growing up in a christian home I was taught to listen to my pastor. I was taught that a pastor is someone who I could look up to and go to for advice. My pastor was supposed to be a Godly man. For the most part of my life I have never had a pastor that wasn't any of these things. A pastor is called to the pulpit by God to preach scripture the way he understands it through extensive prayer, tradition, and his education in general. But when I see these pastors all over the country preaching this political gospel I can see why the church is slowly dying with this country. The parishioners of these churches take this political gospel to heart and begin to think just as these pastors do and the rest of us look in on them and say if that's what Christianity is all about I don't want any part of it.

I think that the church will survive and thrive in this country but because of pastors and anyone who buys into this political gospel are not going to take over the church and they aren't going to kill it either. They are bringing about the end of Christendom.

I am not all sure that loosing Christendom is all bad. In fact I believe its more good than bad. Christianity was never meant to rule the world, God was! So the end of Christendom is only the end of the Christian supremacy in the world. I think that without the Christian supremacy we as Christians can get back to preaching the Gospel in the manner that it was meant to be taught. We can get back to Jesus. We can get back to the Death and Resurrection. Under the right teaching and studying of the Scripture the Church could prosper as a whole once again.

I want to make it clear that I am in no way preaching against the church. I am the first one that says we need more Church and less Individualism. I am only pointing out that the perception of Christians is because the Christians that are getting attention are the ones that are preaching this political gospel.

"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."
John 3:17

"For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does."
2 Corinthians 10:3