This week President Obama gave a passionate, vulnerable, teary eyed press conference to announce new guidelines for gun ownership. It provided some of the rawest, most authentic expressions of compassion and grief ever shared by a sitting American President.
It was also another example of a man’s religion speaking loudly without needing to be referenced at all.
You see, faith isn’t real faith until it’s walked out and most people know this. Without a life attached to it all theology is just theory. It’s so often (for both politicians and pew sitters alike) merely flowery language and religious window dressing designed for maximum curb appeal from a distance. But unless and until it shows up in the every day of a person—well it’s worth little more than zero.
Even before Barack Obama took office the attacks on his spiritual beliefs by his detractors were fierce and incessant, calling him a closeted Muslim whose religious convictions were more about the demise…
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I have been saying to some of the people–who have been posting truly hateful, unchristian things about Pres. Obama—many of the same things that Mr. John Pavlovitz is saying in his “President Obama’s Tenure Has Been More “Christian” Than His Critics Will Ever Admit” WordPress article. May God richly bless you, Mr. Pavlovitz, for writing this WordPress article.
Hear ye, hear ye!
EXCERPT:
“But a really funny thing has happened over the course of President Obama’s two-term tenure. This man has quietly, consistently crafted a platform and a legacy that reflect Christ far more than those across the aisle like or will ever admit to.
In many ways, he has in effect out-Jesused many of his Conservative Christian critics.
. . .Many Evangelicals either don’t like to admit this or they simply no longer recognize the kind of life Jesus was actually calling his followers to live when they see it.
That’s because there’s a stylized, bastardized Christianity that many politicians and celebrity pastors have peddled for years; one that has slowly but surely become our American template. It’s a bloated, opulent, consumerist, aggressive, nationalistic, might is right amalgam that really doesn’t resemble Jesus much at all…”.