Barack Obama affirms his Christian faith

It's interesting to see that Obama has decided to be fairly explicit about owning up to a Christian faith. No doubt that will please some, perplex others and enrage others. Pleased will be those, like myself, who think that Christian faith has a somewhat 'progressive' agenda in wanting to be pro-active in helping people. Perplexed will be those who really thought he was Muslim -hopefully this may help them to reappraise the sources of their information for accuracy. Enraged will be the right who will see an obstacle to their attempted hijacking of Christian values and language to serve the agenda of Empire.#

But I'm even more interested in this:

"It was Obama's involvement as a community organiser, 'working with pastors and laypeople, trying to heal the wounds of hurting neighbourhoods', that had first led him to see himself as a Christian."

Not least because it seems to affirm a way of disciple-making that coheres with Raymond Fung's Isaiah Vision and Anne Morisy's Beyond the Good Samaritan: that as we go about trying to make a difference for Good, people want to be a part of it. That's very like calling attention to God's desire for love, peace justice which is under construction in lives near you and inviting people to join in. Ie. "Repent for the Kingdom of God is near". Yes, it is near in works of service and generous empowerment, in lives making Good flow into the bloodstream of life among those least able to grasp it from the System.

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