May 9, 2005
No Wonder It's A Small Church
In the just plain wrong department file this story: A Baptist church in North Carolina kicked nine members out for voting for John Kerry. Protestant churches have a bad habit of making all kinds of stupid stuff (i.e. unbiblical) tests of faith or fellowship and this is just another. Making political affiliation a test of fellowship is wrong. I'm not a big fan of the milquetoast Jesus, nor of the political Jesus. He was neither, although some try to portray Him that way now.
As a lifelong Protestant, I have to agree with you. We have three creeds (Apostle's, Nicene, and Athanasian) that are supposed to contain the essence of our Biblical faith. I don't see political parties or voting mentioned anywhere in those creeds.
What I do see is a lot of words about Jesus.
