Re: Who is Behind the Renewal Project?

Andrew — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:32:17 -0000

You wrote: "it distracts the church from its purpose, which is to help people in need and to be a loving presence in the community. This idea of being the moral guardian of all truth and light is just wrong, and it’s more wrong when the church becomes a voice in the secular voting process."

I agree that churches should not be primarily focused on organizing and engaging the political process, and thus I get frustrated every time I see a political candidate make a speech or a photo op at a church, Republican or Democrat.

But the church is not a social welfare organization either. It is the living embodiment of Jesus Christ, and it has this command: "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you" (Matthew 28). Part of how you help people who are needy is by giving them the truth and restoring them to their Father God who loves and cares for them in the way no idol, of Biblical times or present days, ever will. When the church loses its focus on Christ and his gospel of salvation, and aims solely to help the needy without pointing them to Christ, it loses its essence and its purpose.

I haven't said "Neglect the needy." But the church has a larger purpose, and that does include moral teaching of right and wrong.

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