A great topic for sunday morning sermons

Another helpful observation from Wilson concerning the Christians involvement in public policy. Some of this we were just talking about last Sunday in church. Yes, that should be a primary place where we talk about this type of thing.

What We Need Around Here Is a Good Steak Knife
Topic: Politics
...The problem is that Obama is singing a song that many conservative evangelicals also sing, all while trying to bring their faith into the public square...My faith can motivate me to get involved, but once I am in the middle of debate, no fair quoting Moses or Jesus directly (as though they had any authority here in America)....

Of course, this rigs the system in favor of every form of unbelief. The atheist has veto power over everything because he "just can't see it." Moreover, taking a cue from Christopher Hitchens, he won't see it.

Part of the difficulty is that we are so confused anymore that we don't understand the differences between sectarian groups (Presbyterian and Baptist) and religions (Islam and Hinduism). In the founding of America, no sect was permitted to become the establishment, but the truth of the Christian faith was everywhere presupposed.

But unlike the founders, we no longer understand that a unified culture and society are impossible apart from a shared religious consensus. In America, that consensus was once Christian and it is now Cash -- and no, not Johnny. Our new secular consensus insists that all the other religions be treated as mere sects in the great city governed by the sky god Mammon and his many-breasted consort, Compound Interest.

Every time Christians get a little too close to the center of the public square for comfort, as Dobson frequently does (and good for him), this argument is going to be trotted out. We need to deal with it. We need to answer it...

..So here it is. All attempts by Christians to influence public policy must be conducted in the name of Jesus, in the power of the Holy Ghost, and to the greater glory of God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. When we take our light into the dark public square in order to shine it there, what sense does it make to take our bushel basket along with us?...entire article

Emphasis was mine, David