Norefund said:Read his current blog post. He refers to the actions of Jack Hyles many times. Curiously, I don't see any Bible verses or guidance from the teachings of Jesus in this post. huh.
Norefund said:Read his current blog post. He refers to the actions of Jack Hyles many times. Curiously, I don't see any Bible verses or guidance from the teachings of Jesus in this post. huh.
Norefund said:Read his current blog post. He refers to the actions of Jack Hyles many times. Curiously, I don't see any Bible verses or guidance from the teachings of Jesus in this post. huh.
Norefund said:Read his current blog post. He refers to the actions of Jack Hyles many times. Curiously, I don't see any Bible verses or guidance from the teachings of Jesus in this post. huh.
bgwilkinson said:Makes no difference what Bro. Hyles said, this is a 501(c)(3) issue.
Churches put themselves in jeopardy when they endorse political candidates, unless you are a black church, then you get a pass.
Norefund said:Yes, but it would be hard to get an entire fawning JH blog post out of just pointing out the obvious legal and financial reason, wouldn't it?
bgwilkinson said:Makes no difference what Bro. Hyles said, this is a 501(c)(3) issue.
Churches put themselves in jeopardy when they endorse political candidates, unless you are a black church, then you get a pass.
bgwilkinson said:Makes no difference what Bro. Hyles said, this is a 501(c)(3) issue.
Churches put themselves in jeopardy when they endorse political candidates, unless you are a black church, then you get a pass.
Walt said:bgwilkinson said:Makes no difference what Bro. Hyles said, this is a 501(c)(3) issue.
Churches put themselves in jeopardy when they endorse political candidates, unless you are a black church, then you get a pass.
I don't know how long the 501(c)(3) rule has been on the books; I also don't know why it was passed; if the thinking was that people are not smart enough to think for themselves, and will vote for whomever the priest says to vote for, that's just insulting. I'm not sure that the 501(c)(3) rule serves any useful purpose.
Historically, pastors would certainly get involved in "politics".
In Scripture, I cannot think of a verse one way or the other, so this may be an area where the Bible is silent.
Of course (it seems to me) that the real reason for the blog is to take a swipe at Jeff Fugate - I think BG still desires to have the position that JH had of being able to dictate to a (large?) segment of the IFB world.
Walt said:I don't know how long the 501(c)(3) rule has been on the books; I also don't know why it was passed; if the thinking was that people are not smart enough to think for themselves, and will vote for whomever the priest says to vote for, that's just insulting. I'm not sure that the 501(c)(3) rule serves any useful purpose.