Obama: Will You Pray For Me?
Apparently there is a little controversy over Rick Warren accepting Obama’s invitation to pray at the inauguration. The reason is simple, policy differences. Albert Mohler who is the president of Southern Seminary wrote an article stating that he would not accept the invitation because he does not agree with Obama on abortion and stem cell research. I understand that this is one of those issues where genuine, intelligent, and deep thinking Christian-types will disagree. And I also think that we need to be gracious to one another on this. However, I cannot help but think that we will never be able to bridge the divide between conservative Christians and liberal Christians if we separate ourselves from people who do not agree with us. I do not agree with Al Mohler on this (as well as other issues such as singles and marriage). But the man has his convictions and who can fault him for standing by them.
Even though I did not vote for the man, if Obama asked me to deliver the prayer at his inauguration I would do it in a heartbeat. Call me crazy. But if you were asked to deliver the prayer at the inauguration of a president with whom you disagree on some very serious issues, what would you do?
Robert
I love theology and the challenge of making deep teachings non-boring. Let's face it, most of the time we hear theological teaching, it really is boring. Does it really have to be that way? Nope.
