The Tulip Driven Life

There was a whole theology behind the altar call. It found its origins in Charles Finney's (1792-1875) "anxious bench," where those who felt convicted to change the way they lived their lives would come forward and sit to make their intent known. Finney epitomizes the revivalist, emotionalist leaven that is sickening our nation. Indeed, many of his followers in the 19th century fell into full-blown apostasy, and Finney was quite heretical himself, denying original sin. He fed the masses the lie that they had enough goodness in themselves to desire God, His righteousness, and produce saving faith without the need for the Holy Spirit. The man practically reduced the cross of Christ to nothing but a wonderful moral example to follow, an encouragement rather than atonement. Finney himself admits to producing false converts by the droves: I was often instrumental in bringing Christians under great conviction, and into a state of temporary repentance and faith . . . . ...

There is one issue that most Christians decide their vote on: Abortion. I suppose I am one of those types of people too, I mean, voting for someone who is okay with murder isn't very ideal for anyone, is it? No, it's not. And welcome to reality. We live in a non-ideal world, marred with sin and wickedness. In our two-party system, we have two candidates, one who supports abortion openly and freely, and the other who is mostly against it. You can vote for one of them, not vote, or vote third party, but as it stands it will be either Romney or Obama who will be elected President for the next four years.  You don't like the two party system? Fine, I don't either. So don't like it, but for heaven's sake, at least cast a vote that could deter evil. What am I saying? I am saying that less abortion is better than abortion on demand, that less taxes are better than more taxes, that a bit smaller government is better than a bit larger government.  You d...