Interesting article about President-Elect Obama. As a Christian, it bothers me that other Christians don't think that Democratic leaders can be Christians as well. It also baffles me that his name and father are enough for people to believe that he is Muslim. I'd love to hear some thoughts from other people out there in the cyber-world!
Praying with the President-elect
Posted: 07:05 PM ET
From CNN Producer Eric MarrapodiCNN)
— Before he delivered his victory speech on Tuesday night in Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama took a call and bowed his head in prayer. Dr. Joel Hunter, pastor of Northland Church in Orlando, Florida and Otis Moss Jr. from Mount Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio joined him in that prayer.
Speaking with CNN today by phone, Dr. Hunter says the prayer was intensely personal and private but did say “I prayed for his family and for him and for the country. I had no agenda other than trying to create an environment in which he felt the presence and could receive wisdom from God.” Dr. Hunter, a conservative evangelical who delivered a prayer at the Democratic National Convention this summer, says the President-elect “…feels the weight of this responsibility. He [Obama] doesn’t take upon himself of having to have all the answers but he certainly realizes the huge challenges this nation faces. He feels the personal weight of the potential to guide us through these difficult times. I don’t think he’s oppressed by it though.” Dr. Hunter says he thinks it set in for Obama last night and led to the sober tone of the victory speech.
Evangelicals have long been a force in American politics but many wondered with the defeat of Sen. John McCain what role they will play in the Obama administration. Eric Sapp is one of the founders of The Eleison Group which works specifically with Democratic campaigns to mobilize Christian voters he says, “There is a new generation of white evangelicals. They are less partisan and it all plays to Barack Obama’s favor.” Sapp puts Hunter in that category and thinks the Obama administration will be inclusive of evangelicals. “I think it’s an early indication of the way he’s going to govern. For something as personal as who he wants praying for him is a good indicator of how he wants to be president.”
For Hunter, it wasn’t the first time the two men had prayed together and says the prayer before Obama's speech Tuesday night was in keeping with the next president's character, “Obama is a big picture person. His big picture includes God and he wanted to do that as it’s just the right thing to do at that moment.”
2 comments:
The biggest thing I feel is that a majority of the Dems, Obama included, like or "don't mind" liberal policies. The big ones are obviously are gay marriage and adoption of children by gay couples. These are in direct contradiction of Biblical principles. Thank goodness California, or all the states CALIFORNIA, approved the gay-marriage ban.
I for one feel that Obama is not totally "clean" on the take of his religion. His old pastor, even if he did renounce him early this year, was an extremist. Why did Obama stick around his congregation so long if he was so extremist?
Vicki,
I think it is the social issues. The biggest is abortion and partial birth abortion. Obama is in favor of both and in Illinois was the only voice for killing a baby that survived partial birth abortion. I cant as a christian support a candidate that holds such an extreme view of life. The other issue is marriage. I feel God ordained marriage as between a man and wife. I read one blog where they said poverty is a moral issue and that is why they support Obama. I cant stomach that povery is a moral issue but human life is not.
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