Unfortunately I attended a church for 6 months, where the Paster mixed biblical teaching from the bible with political endorsements. The fact that he never connected the biblical teaching directly with the political endorsement never bothered him. I remember asking him a couple times about something that was clearly not in the bible, but was a held belief. For example he believed, he knew in detail from the bible how our world was created. The fact is we don't know from the bible. He loved cars and truly believed it was our right as Christians to own and drive cars. Owning and driving a car has absolutely nothing to do with sharing God's love with your neighbour in need.
It makes me sick as a Christian to think he was member of the denotations national/international governing board. And every time he came back from a national or overseas meeting he was even more religiously assured of his political beliefs. Its unfortunate but Christian leaders like this make me want to run away from God. They believe that a Liberal Christian is not Christian. I am not in favour of homosexual Christian marriages, but otherwise I am not against non-Christian homosexuals. There are far worse crimes against humanity in my eyes. Because of this spoken view I am not a Christian in their eyes. Am I?, I feel my spirit taken away. I know I cannot give my life to care for others who may careless about me, without God's spirit caring my burden. I search the bible for answers, try to understand its teaching, listening to others for many times I am wrong, and asking God's spirit of caring love to live within me guiding me to a responsible life.
Thankfully I now have a Paster who ran away from the American bible belt. He understands when I said, sometimes I feel as a Christian trying to live my life without deceit, I have more in common with Atheist. Atheist are not religiously assured of their political believes.”
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