Correspondence related to “Don’t Waste Your Vote”
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008From Josh Harris’ blog at Covenant Life Church
Recently a couple pursuing membership in our church wrote me a very thoughtful, humble letter with questions generated by the recent sermon “Don’t Waste Your Vote.” In particular, they took issue with the emphasis placed on the issue of abortion. While pro-life themselves, they felt that by highlighting abortion we were essentially endorsing a particular party. I wrote them back and sought to share the perspective of the pastoral team, why we did what we did and how we view this issue.
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We believe our role as pastors is to speak clearly to those areas that God’s word clearly addresses. When it comes to other areas where there is freedom in Scripture to hold different views, we don’t want to pretend that our viewpoint—mine or Robin’s or anyone else’s—holds some sort of special authority. So for example, I think the issue of the environment is very important. But I can’t say that God’s word speaks to a specific policy or political platform. But I can say that God’s word condemns the taking of innocent human life. And because of that, I think I have the responsibility to speak to it very clearly.
