The importance of the evangelical vote

[nashvillegoldenflash]

BBJ, although you and I think very much alike on politics and religion, with the exception of Mike, I don't believe there is anyone else who agrees with our views on this forum. Obviously, we are very conservative on social issues but is that because we are older than most of the posters and most younger people typically hold less traditional values than the preceding generations or is there another explanation for it? As you know, many people claim to be conservative and/or Christian but don't follow conservative Christian principles. The truth of the matter, there are a large number of Christians who call themselves that because their parents told them they were. And we both know that there are the Obama and Jeremiah Wright Christians out there, but most of these "Christians" aren't fooling any committed Christians. As we saw in the last presidential election, traditionally Republican groups such as white evangelicals and weekly churchgoers strongly backed Romney, while traditionally Democratic groups such as black Protestants, Hispanic Catholics, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated backed Obama by large margins (see link). But how can any truly spiritual person vote for a party that boos God? When you consider that 95% of black Protestant/other Christians voted for Obama in 2012, it just makes you want to cringe. Yes, they may call themselves Christian but most of them are Obama and Jeremiah "G-D America" Wright Christians so the analysis that shows how many Christians voted for Obama is skewed. As you know, many evangelicals chose to sit out the last election rather than vote for a Mormon. If a large number of evangelicals choose to sit out this coming election, Hillary will win easily. But the way that I look at it, the American people deserve what they get. Romney proved that southern Christians would not vote for a Mormon so instead they stayed home and we got a Muslim instead. The same thing could very well happen again with Hillary next year unless the American people begin to wake up.

Below are some observations and points that someone else made regarding the 2012 election that are worth sharing.

1. It is stunning to think that more than 6 million self-described evangelical Christians would vote for a President who supports abortion on demand; supported the same-sex marriage ballot initiatives that were approved in Maryland, Maine and Washington; and was on the cover of Newsweek as America’s “first gay president.” Did these self-professed believers surrender their Biblical convictions in the voting booth, or did they never really have deep Biblical convictions on the critical issues to begin with?
2. Whatever their reasons, these so-called evangelicals doomed Romney and a number of down-ballot candidates for the House and Senate.
3. This is what happens when the Church is weak and fails to disciple believers to turn Biblical faith into action.
4. Given the enormous number of evangelical Christians in the U.S., this bloc could still affect enormous positive change for their issues if they were to unify and vote for the pro-life, pro-marriage candidate as a bloc.
5. What will it take to educate, register and mobilize Christians to vote on the basis of Biblical principles, and what kind of candidates could best mobilize them? This is a critical question that Christian political leaders as well as pastors must seriously consider. As we have seen, just a few million more evangelicals voting for pro-life, pro-marriage candidates could offset other demographics that are becoming more liberal.
6. That said, we need national candidates who take values issues as seriously as economic and fiscal issues, and have strong credentials on these values issues, and can talk about these issues in a winsome, compassionate, effective manner.
7. We need pastors registering voters in their churches and teaching the people in their congregations the importance of the civic duty of voting.
8. None of this should come, however, at the expense of pastors and other Christian leaders clearly, boldly and unequivocally teaching and preaching the Word, proclaiming the Gospel, and making disciples, and helping believers learn to live out their faith in a real and practical way in their communities, including being “salt” and “light” to preserve what is good in society. What we need most in America isn’t a political revival but a sweeping series of spiritual revivals — a Third Great Awakening. As men and women’s hearts are transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they will, in time, vote for the values they are internalizing from the Bible. As I wrote about in Implosion, if we don’t see a Third Great Awakening soon, I’m not convinced we will be able to turn this dear nation around in time.

http://www.pewforum.org/2012/11/07/how-the-faithful-voted-2012-preliminary-exit-poll-analysis/

https://flashtrafficblog.wordpress....xit-polls-tell-us-about-how-christians-voted/

 

[bigbadjohn45]

"What we need most in America isn’t a political revival but a sweeping series of spiritual revivals — a Third Great Awakening. As men and women’s hearts are transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they will, in time, vote for the values they are internalizing from the Bible."

Flash, this is precisely what I've been saying and advocating on here for the longest. It is at the very heart of all of our problems.