What a week and a phone call!

Well, my first week at BCBC has come and gone. I still feel like it is last Tuesday. That is how fast the week went by. Man was it fun!! The only thing that really stunk was the fact that Kristi and Emery could not stay and be here with me, boo.

I hope this blog is helpful and well, if I'm honest...kept up! There is so much planning and other stuff that I have to get out of the way before I can begin the real fun stuff.

Some of the post on this blog will be light and hopefully humorous, while others will make you think. There is a reason that Christians must begin thinking. That reason is because you never know when you will need to respond to other world views. It is time the world sees intelligent Christians that can offer a reason for the hope that they have.

On Saturday I answered the phone at my parents house and on the other end was a person representing a particular presidential candidate. Naturally, He wanted me to vote for his candidate.

I replied that I could not because of several issues, the main issue being that his candidate was not willing to stand up for the rights of unborn children. He then went on to inform me that his candidate was in fact against abortion himself. He told me that his candidate believed that life began at conception, but that women should have the right to choose.

It is at this point that all Believers should stand up and respond. I replied that he was essentially saying that his candidate believes that abortion is murder, (if life begins at conception) and that it is okay for women to choose to murder their unborn children.

He said, and I quote, "you make a good point."

Well, he still wasn't convinced and our conversation went on for a good ten more minutes as he tried to "use" Scripture to support several other views. Finally, he concluded "I think it best we pray for our country." We finally agreed.

Well this story is good enough in itself but today Dr. Mohler posted an article on his web page containing this candidates vp running mate making the same argument. What is even better is Dr. Mohler is making some of same arguments that I tried to make to the guy on the phone.

I wish I had read Dr. Mohler's post before the call because he obviously argues the point much better than I ever could. So here in this last week both the presidential candidate and the vp candidate both made this same unlogical argument.

This kind of thinking and unwillingness to stand up for their own beliefs makes me very uneasy about voting for them.

You can go to Dr. Mohler's blog to read a very solid defense and model for intelligent conversation.