So Pastor Steven Anderson prays for President Obama’s death, huh?
Here’s an excerpt of the above story. What Biblical commands and injunctions is this guy violating anyway?!
Pastor Steven Anderson said he and his congregation have received death threats after a controversial sermon earlier this month.
“Guns are a great deterrent,” said Anderson. “We haven’t had any violence because people know if they come down here swinging a baseball bat, we’re ready to protect ourselves.”
On August 16th, Anderson delivered a sermon titled “Why I Hate Barack Obama.”
In it, Anderson admitted he prays for the president’s death.
It is a position he reiterated Sunday.
“If you want to know how I’d like to see Obama die, I’d like him to die of natural causes,” said Anderson. “I don’t want him to be a martyr, we don’t need another holiday. I’d like to see him die, like Ted Kennedy, of brain cancer.”
Then there’s this from Fox News:
He called his message “spiritual warfare” and said he does not condone killing.
[…]
In Anderson’s controversial sermon, delivered at his Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe before Obama arrived for a speech in Phoenix earlier in the month, the pastor said he wants the president to “melt like a snail” with salt on it.
“I’m gonna pray that he dies and goes to hell when I go to bed tonight. That’s what I’m gonna pray,” he told his congregation.
So, what do you say? Which New Testament rules for Christian living is Mr. Steven Anderson disobeying?
Let’s compile a Christianity 101 lesson outline for him (and for us) on this subject. Maybe after we get something together here, I’ll post it as a separate post called “A Biblical Sermon Outline for Steven Anderson” — or something like that. And link to it at some free sermon outlines web site.
Meanwhile, I call on God’s people to pray for the President. Pray for God’s protection over President Obama and his family. Not only that, pray for God’s blessing on them.
(Just so you know, right now I can’t think of any part of President Obama’s agenda as I know it that I would call righteous. But that’s not what this post is about!)