Viral Faith

The past few weeks, I have taken a couple of President Obama's statements regarding of his faith and posted them on facebook.  Taken at face value, it is clear that the President expresses an evangelical Christian faith.  However, there is a large segment of evangelical Christians who reject his confession and many, like Evangelical Christian leader, Franklin Graham (son of Evangelist Billy Graham) even question his identity as a Christian person. The reason is due to the President's stance on a single issue that has become the standard for understanding faith. The President was asked a question in 2010 about how he could say he is a Christian and support the legal right for abortion.  He responded by saying that Abortion should be: "safe, legal and rare, allowing families -- not the government -- should be the ones making the decision" He then went on to say that although his faith is Christian, he leads a nation that is not. Regardless of whether you supp...

 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (I Corinthians 1:23-24)  "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." GK Chesterton Its not practical..... Its not feasible.... Religion is a private matter, that has no bearing on the public sphere... The Bible was written at a different time and the story it tells is no longer relevant to the complexities of today... So called Christians have messed up the name of Christianity so badly, that we are embarassed.... These are the statements that I commonly hear from other Christians when I ask why Christians do not press for a Kingdom priorities in the public sphere.  There is a sense in which the church has been thoroughly secularized, whereby our faith pertains to smaller and smaller spheres of our lives.  Fa...