1 Timothy 3 is not about civil leaders but rather leaders within the church. BIG difference.
I’m in that place too. But man, when the President is withholding aid to countries unless they dig up dirt on his political opponents, I just don’t see how any American couldn’t have serious issues with that.
Oooh an Evangelical Publication leaning on The Word! @ least 10 pages! Proverbs 3:5-6!
Every American has issues with that, as long as the President is in the other party.
You had a Democrat switch to the Republican party because he thought impeachment was wrong. When you have a party openly stating that they are going to try to impeach the man before he is even sworn into office then everything they do has no credibility. It is nothing but a witch hunt.
No. This is not a binary choice. It is not Trump or a liberal democrat. All Christians (and republicans for that matter) have to do is stand up and quit being cowards. Speak out against him. Heck, if he is convicted in the Senate, Mike Pence is your President, not Nancy Pelosi or Elizabeth Warren.
Foreign issues bother much less than domestic ones: what my church is allowed to teach, if I’m allowed to protect myself and my family, if I’m allowed to say (or even think) things that go against the popular rhetoric. I think Trump is mostly a disgusting person, and see him in no way a role model. But as long as he leaves me tf alone, I would rather have him than some of the alternatives.
You aren’t listening, my dude. Unless your threshold for those things is lower than mine.
When you say "what my church is allowed to teach" it touches on the #1 reason I, as a Christian, am so outspoken against him. Why does it matter what your church is allowed to preach if no non-believer is going to be willing to hear what you have to say in the future because you didnt publicly speak out against someone you rightfully describe as a "disgusting person" and someone you say you see "in no way a role model". By not speaking out you need not worry about the liberals silencing you and your church, you have already silenced yourself to those non-believers who are watching.
This attitude is why he got elected and will get reelected. Hillary is a socialist traitor. The things I care about in a candidate are their desire to minimize government, leave me alone, and protect the freedoms I am afforded by the Constitution. Hillary Clinton is for none of that. She wants big government and socialism, she wants to tell me how to live my life, and she wants to destroy the Constitution. Not to mention she abandoned Americans and directly led to their deaths in Bengahzi, and then made up a story to try to justify it. So no, all of Trumps warts don't come close to all of that.
Ha. I’m not listening to the talking points from the GOP. I’m listening to the Dem presidential candidates saying “hell yes I will take your” guns. And that they want to take away the nonprofit status of churches who don’t believe they same way they do. Or that certain speech (that isn’t inciting violence) should be illegal. Nah - I’m out.
Man, that’s great! And I appreciate your conviction and more power to you. But, I don’t think morality can be legislated. I think freedom to discuss ideas and to disagree and to persuade is more important than the person who is in office for 4 or 8 years and then is gone. People had these same gloom and doom conversations about every president since I’ve been alive and we’ve survived. Just don’t take away the fundamental rights that precede government, and I’m all good.
