Sunday Message: flags and crosses

I used to be one of those people, as some of you may be, that thought you can drape the flag around the Cross and it means the same thing.  When I grew up, most of us thought that way.  With the events of the last few months, I've come to see differently.  Maybe if we had put things in their proper perspective 'back then' the flag wouldn't be so far away from the Cross right now.

Yesterday, I 'snoozed' three 'meme warrior' Christian friends.  And I want to give you all a new perspective on why.  There are just some people who you would swear, if you opened up their skulls and looked inside, you'd find the belief that when Jesus came to earth, He overthrew Rome, caught a flight to Philadelphia, and signed the Declaration of Independence before His trip to Golgotha.  Jesus was not born to earth in Philadelphia, New York, or Washington.  He was born in Bethlehem, a sleepy little podunk that cared not one whit about events 2 millennia in the future.  And yet, all the things He did, He did starting from there, not here.

Politics has never been anything but division.  Working together has been few and far between, and usually only when directed at an 'outside agent'.  Why then do you think Christ has a GOP card?

A flag needs a pole to hang from; the Cross stands on its own.  Let that sink in.  I'm not saying you should keep your faith out of your politics;  I'm saying you should keep politics out of your faith.  When Peter said, "“We must obey God rather than men", he hadn't got stopped on the way to the voting booth or a protest march.