Saddleback Civil Forum

I watched the interview of Obama and McCain by Rick Warren last night.  They held the civil forum at the Saddleback church.  I’m not sure what I was expecting but I did enjoy the questions Rick asked.  Some of them included:

  • Name 3 leaders that have shaped you or those that you listen to.
  • What does it look like to be a Christian in everyday life?
  • Define marriage.
  • What do you think about stem cell research?
  • At what point do a baby in the mothers womb gain human rights?
  • When is someone considered rich?
  • Does evil exist?

Obama danced around the issues on several of the questions and McCain was very direct and straight forward with his answers.  What can I say? “Normal politics.”

I will say this though it appeared that both the candidates have read Rick’s book because they both answered the question about what a christian looks like today with “It’s not about me.”  I wonder if they only read the first paragraph or did they read the whole book?

I dislike politics so this will probably be my last post about this.  The only reason I bring it up now is because I was totally fascinated with the idea of having a forum with two political leaders at a church.  All in all it was a great forum.

Did you get a chance to watch it?  What did you think?

Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Politics

Viewing 1 Comment

    • ^
    • v
    Or they were blessed to have a staffer that was paid to read the book who said, "make sure you say something like, It's not about you. That's like the most famous line of the book or something and apparently these Christian types really dig it."

    I didn't get to see the whole thing, but my perspective was changed a little with what I saw. I appreciate Warrens ability to steward the leadership God has given him and to not be throwing it at himself. We need someone to fill the shoes of Graham when it comes to being a voice for the politicians in the Christian arena. But I'm sticking to my, "Let's not mix the two worlds mentality." Fight for social justice, fight for the poor, the needy, the broken, but let's sacrifice our own time living and breathing with these people rather than all duddied up in a church building telling how we are going to help them.

    I am officially off of my soap box.
 

Trackbacks

(Trackback URL)

close Reblog this comment
Powered by Disqus · Learn more
blog comments powered by Disqus

Archives