Albert Mohler announced earlier this year that he intends to vote for Trump in this year’s election. Unsure of what the future holds after the election and where the pastor was going to go next, Mannes who has pastored for over 30 years, said at least he has his conscience.Ī recent study conducted by PRRI shows that white evangelicals approve of the job Trump is doing at a rate of 76%, as compared to 52% of white mainline Protestants and 49% of white Catholics. President we’re calling you to better than that and you need to call our nation to better than that.’ ” “I don’t know that a church who believes in Jesus as we do, can abandon its conscience and not say, ‘Mr. Mannes told the Holland Sentinel, “We’re supposed to be the conscience of the president and we have refused to do that,” speaking about Christians. “Do some serious soul searching,” he said, “about who you’re serving and how you’re trying to accomplish that purpose in the world.” “I would just implore anybody who claims Christ to just look very seriously at the core things Jesus called us to do and be,” Mannes said referring to Christians who will vote for Trump to continue his presidency for the next four years. It was really crushing because I’ve given my life to the church, and thankfully so.” I love these people, I love God, I love Jesus, I love the church, but there’s something happening here.”Īfter a meeting with the Elders at Christian Reformed Church, praying together, and discussing the tensions Pastor Mannes had been feeling, he said, “It was time for me to lovingly and with great peace and loss separate from the church. He’s not the only one feeling this way, Mannes said, “It’s not only me, but quite a number of pastors I know are just like, ‘This is it? All this preaching we did about Jesus and there’s this big of a disconnect?’ I think that’s a real burden on a lot of pastors’ hearts. Pastor Keith Mannes has served as East Saugatuck Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan for the last four years.ĭivision due to political tension continued to increase and Mannes told the Holland Sentinel that “the church as a whole has ‘abandoned its role’ as the conscience of the state in support of Trump.” He quoted Martin Luther King saying, “The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.” Pastor Mannes followed King’s quote by expressing, “That just hit me hard because I think, broadly, the white evangelical community in our country has abandoned that role.” To support Paul's work by supporting his church give here.On October 11, 2020, Pastor Mannes preached his final sermon at East Saugatuck Church because he feels the congregation supports President Donald Trump too much. To support this channel/podcast with Ethereum (ETH): 0xd3F649C3403a4789466c246F32430036DADf6c62īlockchain backup on Lbry Church Content at Living Stones Channel To support this channel/podcast with Bitcoin Cash (BCH) qr3amdmj3n2u83eqefsdft9vatnj9na0dqlzhnx80h To support this channel/podcast with Bitcoin (BTC): 37TSN79RXewX8Js7CDMDRzvgMrFftutbPo This is is one (free to you) way to support my videos. Amazon pays me a small commission at no additional cost to you if you buy through one of the product links here. If you need the RSS feed for your podcast player Īll Amazon links here are part of the Amazon Affiliate Program. There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. Grim Griz on Jordan's B Peterson wing and a prayer ĭiscord link. Pastor thought Trump was evil so he quit evangelical church Trump is tearing evangelical church apart Agenda with Steve Paikin why we disagree politically Randos on the Rise and Fall of Mars Hill ĬRCNA begins its leadership search Beth Stuckey on Big Eva
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