Religion and Politics

Now there's a title for you: Religion and Politics. Do those two things have anything in common? I think so. Perhaps more than they should.

Yesterday our national leaders reached "agreement" on a 789 billion dollar economic stimulus bill. But to read the quotes from many this morning, it seems that there is at least as much disagreement as agreement.

It seems that the compromises necessary to get enough votes lined up for passage of the bill do not sit well with either side. But there was compromise and it does seem that the stimulus bill will get signed by President Obama sometime very soon.

Compromise. Politics could not work without it. Religion has embraced it.

There is, in our world today, a great effort to get people to compromise on matters of religion.

The aims are good, I suppose, but the results are not.

I cannot be true to my Christian faith and bless the beliefs of someone else who happens to believe that there are other ways to Heaven than through Jesus Christ.

I can stand by and observe and even confess another's right to worship whomever and whatever he or she desires.

But I cannot compromise my beliefs by saying that another faith is just as good as mine, that another God is okay as long as another person believes in some sort of higher power.

The teachings of Almighty God have made it clear: religion is not the answer. Relationship with Christ is.

Our Christ, the Head of the Church, the Savior of our souls, has taught us with no room for compromise that He is "the Way, the Truth and the Life" and that "no one comes to the Father but through" Him.

It is and will continue to become more and more difficult to hold the conviction that Jesus is the Only Way in the world we live in. But we must. To compromise any at all on that most important point is to make our Christianity into something else entirely.

The adherents of any belief system based on any belief but Christ and Christ alone will end up in Hell.

Religion desires to compromise. Relationship does not and will not.

Pray for our world today. Pray for yourself. Pray that you will remain strong in your faith and never, ever compromise. Jesus is the Way.

Pray also for revival. Please.

In His Love
Walter