{"id":5394,"date":"2008-06-11T10:46:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T10:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/the-matthew-25-network.html"},"modified":"2008-06-11T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T10:46:06","slug":"the-matthew-25-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/the-matthew-25-network.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Matthew 25 Network\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new PAC<\/a> that is trying to generate support for Obama in the Christian community:<\/p>\n

A fund-raiser is being held tonight in Washington for a nascent political action committee that is hoping to reach out to Christian communities on behalf of Senator Barack Obama.
\nCalled \u201cThe Matthew 25 Network,\u201d the new organization, which is still in its earliest stages, is being spearheaded by Mara Vanderslice, who was director of religious outreach for the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004 and did similar work for several statewide Democratic candidates, including Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio, Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Governor Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas.
\nMr. Obama, the presumed Democratic nominee, is beginning to step up his outreach to the religious community, and met Tuesday in Chicago with a group of about 30 leaders, including the Rev. T. D. Jakes, the black mega-church pastor.
\n[…]
\nThe new group\u2019s name takes its inspiration from the 25th chapter of the gospel of Matthew in which Jesus talks about how he will select people like a shepherd separating sheep from goats, saying, \u201cFor I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meeting with pastors in Chicago? Isn’t that a little dangerous?
\nAn interpretation of this post from the Reformed perspective<\/a>:
\nSince when is it the governments job to do what Jesus is saying the church should be doing? Christians are the ones who are supposed to be helping the poor and the sick but we appear to have no problem stepping out of the way and letting the state do it. What makes the church think that they will be among the sheep if we do that? We’re not helping the poor the state is. Are they saying that the state will be among the sheep?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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