Sunday, October 7, 2018

Should Politics be in The Sermon on Sunday Morning?

   I have been quiet about this . But when I go to my Sunday Service as a good Christian should, I expect to hear from the pastor a well thought out sermon from the Bible. I don't go to service to hear political views or rants about what is happening in the Senate or Supreme Court of the United States.
   Not even in the introduction to the sermon.
    I was taught the sermon outline goes from the secular to the sacred.  To rant about Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford and the addition  of Kavanaugh to the nine judges, and then go into a sermon on the church is just not something I think belongs in the pulpit.
     A person goes to the service on Sunday to hear from God and His Word as researched and developed by a man who has made the ministry his profession.
    Very few , if any, preachers are also political-science experts. And the congregation should not be going to the service to get their weekly politics from.
     A wise wife has been reported to have said to her husband who was the pastor of a church, "you are the pastor. Many pastors have lead their congregations to hell.' Which may mean people tend to follow the pastor and what he says, feeling that he must know.
     Politics should not be... let me say it again,.. must not be mixed in with the sermon.
     In conversation, yes. Politics can be spoke of.