Thursday, October 16, 2008

A "single-issue" vote

In a message he titled "Joseph Is a Single-Issue Evangelical," Russell Moore directly challenged those who would de-emphasize the importance of abortion. Denny Burke quoted part of the message on his blog:
There are churches, and there are pastors, and there are young evangelical leaders who are saying to us, "We ought not be single-issue evangelicals. We ought to be concerned about more issues than simply abortion." Which means that we ought to be willing to join ourselves and to vote for and to support candidates who will support legalized abortion, who will deny the personhood of children who are still in the womb, because we are able to support them on other issues . . . Many of them are in a desperate quest to say to their congregations and to people potentially in their congregations, "I’m not Jerry Falwell." And many of them believe that it is missional to speak to people while blunting or silencing a witness about the life of children so that you can reach them with the gospel. . . Some will tell us there are many other issues: economics, global warming—issues I’m very concerned about too. Previous generations have said that as well. Previous generations of preachers have stood in the pulpit and preached until they were red in the face about card-playing and movie-going and tax-policy and personal morality and tobacco-smoking and a thousand other issues, but would not speak to the fact that there were African-American brothers and sisters of the Lord Jesus swinging in the trees! And there is judgment of God upon that. And there is here too.
Link to an mp3 of the message.

Denny Burk » Joseph Is a Single-Issue Evangelical

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