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On Campaign Convictions
By Jeremy | November 4, 2008
- By Guest Blogger Christopher Butler (from 20/20 Vision Chicago)
Yesterday, I spent a good part of my day in the Obama headquarters in Chicago. I met Mark Zuckerberg, the “self made†billionaire creator of Facebook who is running New Media for the campaign. I got some insights into the world class Get Out The Vote (GOTV) operation that the campaign is running this morning. I saw hundreds of volunteers (representing millions around the country) taking time out their lives to make calls, knock doors and do whatever they could to help their candidate become president of the United States of America.
I expected to leave Obama HQ amazed, energized, and perhaps even a little proud. After all, I coordinated youth and young adults for the ’04 senate primary, when hardly anyone in America had heard his name. I am a registered political junkie and I make a living working on campaigns. I expected that my visit to the gem of all campaigns would leave me awestruck. Instead, it left me convicted.
I wrestled inside with that conviction all evening yesterday. I went to bed wrestling with it. This overwhelming sense of conviction had grabbed me, and squeezed me and would not let me go. Finally, this morning, I allowed conviction to do for me what it always does for me; throw me on my face before God.
There in my living room, I prayed to the Lord that he would explain this conviction to me, and lift the burden of it. The question that plagued me was this: “Why are we as believers not this excited about and committed to spreading the Gospel� Would not the apostles and the early believers, about whom it was said, “You have filled our city with your teaching,†have contributed millions of dollars and thousands of hours to an effort to spread the Gospel? Instead of this nation being filled with our teaching about the Gospel, it has been filled with teaching about John McCain and Barack Obama.
Brothers and sisters, I totally get the historical and political seriousness of this of election. But in the grand scheme, it is at very best a minor change and at worst, a huge distraction. Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain is going to call this nation to repentance. Neither of them will incite a movement of prayer and prophetic preaching across the land. Neither man is the answer for what is ailing America. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34).
Perhaps we should take a page from the politicians. Maybe we should have a “campaign.” Not a campaign for a political agenda, but one for the Gospel. We must allow our desire to see Christ glorified to be much greater than any desire to see a political revolution. Then we could captivate the nation with Gospel. Some will reject us, some will believe. But like the presidential campaigns, no one will be able to ignore us.
For Christ’s glory alone.
Christopher Butler
Topics: barack obama, campaigns, christpher butler, evangelism, gospel, john mccain, mark zuckerberg, politics | 1 Comment »
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