Huckabee stands by 'Christ' comment

[Suzie]

Huckabee stands by 'Christ' comment

<!-- END HEADLINE --> <!-- BEGIN STORY BODY --> By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press WriterSun Dec 30, 5:19 PM ET

Mike Huckabee, a Republican relying on support from religious conservatives in Thursday's hard-fought presidential caucuses, on Sunday stood by a decade-old comment in which he said, "I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."
In a television interview, the ordained Southern Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor made no apologies for the 1998 comment made at a Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Salt Lake City.
"It was a speech made to a Christian gathering, and, and certainly that would be appropriate to be said to a gathering of Southern Baptists," Huckabee said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
He gave the speech the same year he endorsed the Baptist convention's statement of beliefs on marriage that "a wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ." Huckabee and his wife, Janet, signed a full-page ad in USA Today in support of the statement with 129 other evangelical leaders.


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I don't mind submitting.:dancers:

[DesertFox]

Huckster.

[PrezLeefun]

Ya see..... he shows this side and I am tempted to vote for him all over again.


I have a love/annoyed relationship with this man.

[DesertFox]

He's Clinton. Don't fall for him.

[Teenager]

If he wins the nomination, then I'll vote for him. But until/if/ever/ then, I'm pulling for Thompson.

[UnkHiram]

Call me Petty, Call me smallminded but I have a real problem voting for an Ex-Govenor of Arkansas. Not to mention when we invited him to attend our Hunt County Picnic last June (135 miles from Arkansas) he turned us down to go speak in New Hampshire. 8 People were at that meeting in New Hampshire, 150 at our picnic BUT NH votes first. So he ignored us.

[UnkHiram]

Yes I do carry a grudge, like I said call me petty if you want

[PrezLeefun]

petty.....


nah I messin with ya. We all have our biases when it comes to certain candidates.

[DoctorDoom]

"I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."If the Church in America hadn't gone into a coma, this nation would never have fallen away from Christ.

"American Christians take the Bible literally but not seriously."
-- Observation by a saleslady in Jerusalem

"If the church were to live only one week as if they believed the Bible, sinners would melt down before them."
-- Charles Finney, Lectures on Revivals of Religion, Lecture IX

[jayson]

"Hold on... I have a call.

Hello?

God, is that you?"

http://bp3.blogger.com/_u97BTowDbMQ/RoGo-5ddDlI/AAAAAAAAASI/HDDZt_ZIaFI/s400/Huckabee+Phone.jpg

Don't fall for this political opportunist... what a sham.

By the way, for those of you who don't get the joke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yj_okz7ZwI

[DoctorDoom]

That's a joke? Hmmmm .......... I wonder how I missed that.

[dajoga]

"If the church were to live only one week as if they believed the Bible, sinners would melt down before them."
-- Charles Finney, Lectures on Revivals of Religion, Lecture IX

I'm not so sure Charles' statement is very biblical. If the church really lived more biblically, it would suffer more persecution. Now persecution always strengthens the church and causes it to grow, but I don't think it's ever been in the majority in any country. Revelation tells us that even after 1000 years of peace under the rule of Jesus Christ, Satan is able to stir up a final rebellion against Him. Also, how could thousands of people see Christ do miracles and yet only 120 or so are true disciples when the church begins on Pentecost.

Most, maybe all the candidates claim to be Christians, but I look for evidence to support their claim, and there's not much to look at.:sad:

[DoctorDoom]

I'm not so sure Charles' statement is very biblical. If the church really lived more biblically, it would suffer more persecution.This is only because the Church has forsaken its directive to be the light on the hill, and the world has moved en masse away from God. And the apostasy was obviously ongoing in Finney's time, or he'd not have said that.

IAC, the world might persecute the Church, but sinners come to a saving knowledge of Christ Jesus when the Church preaches God's pure word without fear or favor.

Also, how could thousands of people see Christ do miracles and yet only 120 or so are true disciples when the church begins on Pentecost.The fact that they witnessed Jesus' mighty works does not mean that they committed their lives to Him. Quite the contrary, the Bible tells us that the vast majority of His followers deserted Him (John 6:66). Head knowledge does not necessarily mean heart knowledge.

IAC, the saved will be a small minority.

Matt 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

[dajoga]

This is only because the Church has forsaken its directive to be the light on the hill, and the world has moved en masse away from God. And the apostasy was obviously ongoing in Finney's time, or he'd not have said that.

IAC, the world might persecute the Church, but sinners come to a saving knowledge of Christ Jesus when the Church preaches God's pure word without fear or favor.

The fact that they witnessed Jesus' mighty works does not mean that they committed their lives to Him. Quite the contrary, the Bible tells us that the vast majority of His followers deserted Him (John 6:66). Head knowledge does not necessarily mean heart knowledge.

IAC, the saved will be a small minority.



My point exactly! I felt Finny seemed to say that if the church lived biblically, there'd be mass conversions all over the place, but maybe I misunderstood. I've heard preachers say: "If we'd all get (put in your qualification), we could take this city for Christ." It's great sounding rhetoric, but not realistic as your scripture verses point out. Our job is to be faithful sowers of the seed.

[federalisthoosier]

Mike is playing the Jesus card like a renaissance pope; politically clever, but more Machiavelli than Christ.