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Before you read this I need to put a very large Caveat in here: Our God is Sovereign, Jesus is the only Saviour, Our God is in control. The Gospel of the grace of God is our priority. But we are also citizens, tax payers if you will, and as such we ought to be involved at some level in the political discussion. After all, we will be asked to vote in the next General Election. If our tick is good enough at the ballot box then so should our comments be good enough now.

Had an update on this come through the post from The Christian Institute yesterday morning (Saturday 16/11/13). We are being encouraged to write again to our Member of Parliament (MP). Just the other day I received a reply from my MP to a previous letter – not connected to the CI.

In it he extolled the virtues of our countries past history blah blah blah. Then he talked about how he supported Christians winning the right to wear a crucifix. (but as I argued before on this blog, what use is it to be allowed to wear a crucifix if you can’t preach the Cross of Christ –  Two very different things!) But the final sentence took it all away. Here’s his last sentence. This MP by the way is ‘Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice’. A friend then of Theresa May if he wants to keep his job. He writes:

Likewise it is legitimate for political leaders to speak about religious institutions as they see them affecting our society, not least in the vital area of equality and tolerance.

There are many ways to unpack that. Am I right to be very concerned about what he has written? The words ‘equality’ and ‘tolerance’ are very loaded words depending on who uses them and how they are used. The letter from my MP arrived a few days before the announcement by Theresa May. He must have known she was going to announce this. We know the words ‘equality’ and ‘tolerance’ mean nothing of the sort.

Who would have thought in our day we would be seeing such things. Truth has already fallen in the streets – Parliament doesn’t want to hear any truth that conflicts with its agenda. It’s an agenda that doesn’t want God or Christians except mealy-mouthed platitudes. It doesn’t want the Gospel and you can be sure it won’t get it from the established church either! I’m sure he’s a nice bloke and I’m told that he is a Christian but if only Justin Welby would forget the politics, forget the economy and get on with preaching the Gospel to sinners (all of us) – but he won’t. Or at least not the unadulterated Gospel of the Bible. He will preach – and many like him do – what the Bible calls another Gospel and not the Gospel at all. Remember it’s not just what is said that we need to guard against but what is NOT said.

To read more on this subject go here and for resources from the Christian Institute go here.

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