Rick Warren has just released this statement about being invited to give the invocation at the inauguration:<\/p>\n
“I commend President-elect Obama for his courage to willingly take enormous heat from his base by inviting someone like me, with whom he doesn’t agree on every issue, to offer the Invocation at his historic Inaugural ceremony.
\nHopefully individuals passionately expressing opinions from the left and the right will recognize that both of us have shown a commitment to model civility in America.
\nThe Bible admonishes us to pray for our leaders. I am honored by this opportunity to pray God’s blessing on the office of the President and its current and future inhabitant, asking the Lord to provide wisdom to America’s leaders during this critical time in our nation’s history.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rick Warren has just released this statement about being invited to give the invocation at the inauguration: “I commend President-elect Obama for his courage to willingly take enormous heat from his base by inviting someone like me, with whom he doesn’t agree on every issue, to offer the Invocation at his historic Inaugural ceremony. Hopefully…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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