Article entitled: “Reaching the Liberal Next Door: Are conservative politics a barrier to the gospel?”
Again (CT) Christianity Today (July 21) addresses an Evangelical problem that few are willing to address. They write: “
Wading into the turbulent political waters this time is Wes Haddaway, pastor of evangelism at Harmony Bible Church in Danville, Iowa. Haddaway sees an urgent need to create Christian communities that transcend the Blue State/Red State divide.”
Pastor Haddaway observes: “One night after visiting a family that was new to our church, it occurred to me that no matter what walk of life a person came from to our church, there was one thing that I could be sure of; they had all watched the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News within the last week. They all voted for the same candidates and had conservative social views.” He ponders: “Why would God build the church of people who all thought the same?” ….Somehow we’ve mixed politics, ideology, and our vision for our country, with who we are as Christians… We need to face the fact that many people of our community and our world will not even listen to the gospel because of the political and ideological bias of the evangelical church.”
Here we see the more much needed concerned self-reflection in CT. Having read this magazine and website for many years, I can hardly imagine then NOT being concerned. The question must be how to approach the issue without alienating all those Christian readers who have as their main info source “O’Reilly Factor on Fox News”.
along with several much several bold comments from several Evangelical readers.
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