Lord, Save Us From Your Followers, Part II

A pastor of a church in Jonesville, S.C. is making a little stir with the message he chose to put on the church's sign. No, he didn't use "God Answers Knee-Mail, "Seven Days Without Prayer Makes One Weak" or even "Forbidden Fruit Creates Many Jams." However any of those may have been better than the "Obama, Osama, humm are they brothers?" that he decided to go with.

Pastor Roger Byrd said that the message wasn't meant to be racial or political. (Humm, indeed)

"It's simply to cause people to realize and to see what possibly could happen if we were to get someone in there that does not believe in Jesus Christ," he said.

Just wonderful Pastor Byrd. Thanks for the reminder. Because we all know how well Christians fair in office (ex: Presidents Nixon (Quaker), G.W. Bush (Methodist)) and how poorly those without Christ do (Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson-all known as Deists).

The church apparently is made of 70 members and while I realize that their 70 votes may or may not have a dramatic impact on the upcoming elections, I think the bigger issue is that this 70 member church is the church making news right now. It's the church non-religious people are thinking about and allowing to shape their own opinions about who the body of Christ really is.

I suppose this is just another reminder to me about the importance of using the pulpit to preach the love of Jesus Christ and not spreading my own views under the guise of what true Christian living looks like.