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 |  Subject: Afraid and Angry  Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:02 pm | |
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- Afraid and Angry / FEB 21
by Pastor Alan Kraft
They are a fairly frequent occurrence in my e-mail inbox—impassioned descriptions of some imminent crisis threatening our Christian faith. Sometimes it’s the alleged FCC petition that atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair is aggressively pushing to end Christian radio. (It doesn’t seem to matter that O’Hair has been dead for years and that this whole thing is a hoax. The e-mails keep coming.)
Other times, it’s a video presentation describing the birthrates of Muslims and how, within decades, our world will be taken over.
And then, of course, during election seasons, it is the repeated assertion that this is “the most important election of our lifetime.”
These e-mails are usually forwarded to me by a sincere Christian who is extremely upset and worried. These days, anger and fear seem very much a part of many people’s Christian experience, including Christian leaders.
Prior to the fall 2010 election, I listened to a sermon CD someone had given me. In this message, the pastor’s two main points were: One, why I am angry and two, why I am afraid for our nation.
He wore those two things like a badge of honor as he railed against big government, federal deficits, health care and the president. His words made me feel neither angry nor afraid. They made me sad—sad that this “sermon” offered nothing more than what a talk radio host might offer by stirring anger and fear in order to get a response.
All of this has left me wondering, Are we missing something here? Does God really want us living in anger and fear? | |
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