Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?" He said, "The one who showed him mercy." And Jesus said to him, "You go, and do likewise." - Luke 10:36-37 (ESV)
With two months to go, all of the apostate church media, headed up by Charisma News, is deluging the church with political propaganda thinly disguised as a Christian imperative. Charisma has trotted out one false teacher after another to threaten Christians with literally going to hell if they do not vote for their morally bankrupt candidate. Yesterday however, there was a brief ray of light from the Evangelical world as 300 Evangelical pastors and leaders signed a joint statement of faith regarding the utter bastardization of Christianity that we see underway from the apostate church. The statement is linked above and contains seven points. What is refreshing as you will see is not only the wholesale rejection of the political idolatry gripping the church but a clear scriptural repudiation of what these snake oil salesmen leaders are selling. I pray that you listen intently, as this might be the only source reminding you of what God actually says. So, let us reason once more together beloved.
"ONE: We give our allegiance to Jesus Christ alone. We affirm that Jesus Christ is God's Son and the only head of the Church (Colossians 1:18). No political ideology or earthly authority can claim the authority that belongs to Christ (Philippians 2:9-11). We reaffirm our dedication to his Gospel which stands apart from any partisan agenda. God is clear that he will not share his glory with any other (Isaiah 42:8). Our worship belongs to him alone (Exodus 20:3-4), because our true hope is not in any party, leader, movement, or nation, but in the promise of Christ's return when he will renew the world and reign over all things (1 Corinthians 15:24-28).
We reject the false teaching that anyone other than Jesus Christ has been anointed by God as our Savior, or that a Christian's loyalty should belong to any political party. We reject any message that promotes devotion to a human leader or that wraps divine worship around partisanship." - Evangelical Confession
The first observation is the use of scripture to defend the point. That is sorely lacking from Charisma News and their theological flunkies. What they do, is leverage the bible to try and shoehorn their candidate into scripture. We end up being regaled with fanciful comparisons of Donald Trump to King Cyrus or King Jehu. In the run up to 2020, Charisma floated the notion that Trump had a Deborah anointing and an Elijah mantle, ugh. The point made about wrapping divine worship around partisanship is spot on and describes Charisma perfectly. Steven Strang has platformed absolute theological lunatics like Greg Locke and Mario Murillo, who are on record as saying that people who vote Democratic are hell bound and unredeemable. Even the once respected Jack Hibbs has now lost his biblical mind, writing last week for Charisma that we will answer when we stand before Christ for our voting record. Can you imagine? Being judged on what carnal liar we voted for, based upon promises they made that in all likelihood, they never kept. If that was even remotely true, nobody gets into heaven, except maybe those that do not vote at all. Our loyalty is to the Savior. Neither party cares for the cause of Jesus Christ, but one pretends to, and the church bows down to them.
"TWO: We will lead with love not fear. We affirm that God's saving power revealed in Jesus is motived by his love for the world and not anger (John 3:16). Because God has lavished his love upon us, we can love others (1 John 4:19). We acknowledge that this world is full of injustice and pain, but we are not afraid because Jesus Christ has promised to never abandon us (John 16:33). Unlike the false security promised by political idolatry and its messengers, the perfect love of God drives away all fear (1 John 4:18). Therefore, we do not employ fear, anger, or terror as we engage in our mission, but instead we follow the more excellent way of Jesus which is love (1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13).
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