Evangelicals Urged to Consider Election Issues
During Monday’s Focus on the Family radio broadcast, Dr. Albert Mohler said Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) is one of the most charismatic presidential candidates in recent memory. He also stated that Obama, if elected, would be the most liberal president in the history of the country — and shared his belief that the presidential hopeful’s call for change resonates with many younger Evangelicals because of its focus on social issues such as poverty.
“There is a sense among younger Evangelicals who are firm in the faith, conservative in doctrine, that the evangelical movement has gained a bad reputation as being against things rather than for them,” said Mohler. “I think the younger generation of Evangelicals looks at a lot of older Evangelicals and says, ‘You just don’t get it. You’re not connecting with the issues, you’re too happy, you’re too consumerist, you’re too materialist[ic], you’re living in an evangelical subculture’ — and they’re not all wrong about that,” he contends.
Dr. Mohler encouraged Evangelicals to think biblically through the issues and engage the culture. “Not only do we have something to say, I think we have something that’s biblical, that makes sense in terms of Christian truth, and that will be compelling if Christians just begin to think through the issues,” he maintains. “But that’s the great challenge…of the 2008 election. We’re going to have to think,” said Mohler.
According to Dr. Mohler, Evangelicals will have to be prodded to think because it is not going to be an “automatic reflex.”
(Source: OneNewsNow.com)
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