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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 Politics and ChristiansPolitics really don't interest me all that much - mainly because I don't understand alot of it. But hopefully the "Family First" party will have some positive input. Unfortunately we have seen too many people suffer from the prosperity gospel angle - so hopefully this guy doesn't follow that way of thinking.We just recently had a guy in our church (who didn't last long with us as he thought that our minds were blinded) who said and wrote me heaps of letters that Jesus was rich, and we should be rich. We should never be sick, etc etc. Wilf (my husband - he's a Pastor)gets only $19,000 a year, and we have experienced first hand the Lord's enabling. We have been in the same church for 22 years now. We have never gone hungry, and our kids were clothed in second hand clothes for years that would be given to us (by the way - some of the clothes you wouldn't give your dog to sleep on! we have to be careful when we give things to people in need - nobody wants to feel like a pauper!) How do these people justify saying that Christians should never be poor? My brother-in-law is in full time ministry in India as is my sister-in-law. They have no money at all. We visited them in 1985 (on a shoe string - it really was a miracle that we got there really) and along with my father there were seven of us visiting. Our kids at the time were 1, 3, 5, & 7. We stayed in two rooms with George & Rose and their four kids!(in New Delhi)They certainly weren't rich and their whole lives have been in Christian ministry. My sister-in-law was in Madras at the time and they were also as poor as church mice. But the christian fellowship with these wonderful people was more than I have ever experienced in Australia. Back to Christians in politics - I just hang on to the example of Joseph in the Bible. He served in the courts of Pharoah - God enabled him to keep honest in his position along with being true to his faith. By the way - I didn't vote for Howard or Latham! # posted by shellymac @ 6:56 pm 0 comments
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