Lobbying for Jesus
-
- October
- 13
I’ve written a few times in the past about the work of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, a conservative, evangelical lobbying group in Albany.
I just noticed a new motto on an email alert from the group: “Influencing Legislation and Legislators for the Lord Jesus Christ.”
That cuts to the chase, no?
Among other things, the email includes this: “On Tuesday, October 13, A State Senate Select Committee on Budget and Tax Reform will meet in Albany. The purpose of the meeting is to evaluate the need for and costs of New York State property tax exemptions. Christians should be paying attention to what sounds like a very droll subject, because it could have great impact on ministries across the State of New York.”
NYCF probably feels that it’s swimming against the tide these days. One of the group’s lobbyists, the Rev. Tom Stiles (that’s him with his wife, Barb), writes on the website that “America is becoming a socialist state.”
*****
Socialism does not work because it provides no real incentive to work hard or produce, because no matter how hard you work, you get no extra pay or reward. People stop exerting themselves and become dependent on the State. Government replaces God.
The Federal government under President Barack Obama has taken over the banking, finance, and auto industries, and is now looking at the environment and health care. Both the President and Congress continue to push our country further in debt in an attempt to buy our way out of the recession.
It won’t work – America needs to come back to God and Biblical principles. But the evidence suggests that we are moving in the opposite direction. American Christians should heed the words spoken to Israel by the prophet Jeremiah, “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water” (Jeremiah 2:13).
*****
NYCF has banquets coming up across New York State, in Painted Post, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Oneonta, Binghamton and Long Island.
But none in NYC or the Lower Hudson Valley.
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 1:48 pm by Gary Stern.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Print
| 
Email
The world of religion, we don't have to tell you, is vast. The purpose of this blog is for Stern to note, flag and comment on some of the more interesting religious developments on the scene – weighty and quirky, somber and laughable, far away and just down the road. He won't interpret Scripture, take sides in conflicts or judge anyone. But he will take advantage of the journalist's license to observe.
