This (D) candidate brought to you by The United Methodist Church
I realize that Kansas is a long way from our regular stomping grounds. But this piece about the current state of the US Senate race in Kansas jogged more than a few memories for me.
Apparently, Democrat Adam Hamilton is leading incumbent Republican Roger Marshall in the recent polls.
Kansas has long been a reliably Republican state. But, in recent years, they’ve taken on a growing RINO problem that has led to regular significant defections over to Democrats at election time. To that crowd, a DEM is better than a conservative Republican.
If you’ve ever attended a United Methodist Church, you’ve likely heard the name Adam Hamilton. He’s long been the pastor of the nation’s largest UMC congregation headquartered in the Kansas City area.
I used to attend a Methodist Church in my area. During that time, the church offered regular book studies on stuff Hamilton authored. Sunday school lessons featured video curriculum starring Hamilton. Pastors even managed to quote Hamilton occasionally in sermons. And this was in North Carolina.
I remember one particular Sunday school lesson during the first Trump administration. Leftist were all bent out of shape over the border wall. We watched a video featuring Hamilton at the border between Mexico and California. The video showed Mexicans on the US side reaching through the wall to try and touch and console relatives on the Mexican side. Hamilton made us believe, via the video, that this wall was no better than the old Berlin Wall. I guess he’s never heard stories of people crossing the border regularly to make daily visits to each country.
Apparently, Hamilton is now the Democrat nominee opposing incumbent Roger Marshall (R) in November. The sickening thing is: The United Methodist Church – a tax exempt entity — has been helping Hamilton raise his name ID for years via all of their churches across Kansas and the nation.
The United Methodist Church – like the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA), the Unitarians and the Quakers — has been quite active in left-wing political causes over the years. Know any Vietnam veterans? Get some of them to tell you about the aid and comfort the UMC gave the Viet Cong and war protesters. A PCUSA church in our area – a few years ago – hosted a symposium straight out of the Black Lives Matter playbook.
At the fall of the Soviet Union, it leaked out that the KGB considered the Catholic church in Eastern Europe its most potent foe. The church inspired and gave hope to anti-government activists in the struggle to knock down the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain.
The far left apparently learned their lessons about the power of the church and is stepping up their game to infiltrate and control denominations top-down. These days it’s rare to find an honest-to-God conservative pastor. Seminaries – like most colleges – lean left and so do a lot of the graduates they spit out. I like my pastors politics-free.
Granted, Georgia already has a pastor serving as a Democrat in the US Senate. But Adam Hamilton and his story ought to give you some food for thought the next time you’re attending a major denomination church and the plate gets passed.
He’s a good example of where the money in the plate is going.
I grew up as a United Methodist myself, but in high school realized the leftwing political nature of the church’s “social gospel” ideology. My family had historically been Lutheran for generations, so in college I became a Missouri Synod Lutheran. My parents had been married in the Lutheran Church, but neighbors had convinced them to switch to a local Methodist congregation.
I have been pleased that there is now a breakaway from the United Methodist Church that rejects their political “social gospel” ideology. It is called the Global Methodist Church, and many eastern NC congregations of the United Methodist Church have switched their affiliation from the United Methodist Church to the Global Methodist Church. That is a very positive development.
As to that Kansas candidate, I have seen videos of where he has been caught on camera admitting he is not telling voters the truth about his positions. That says a lot when someone claims to be a minister of the gospel.
Thanks for this excellent column. The United Methodist Church has indeed become nothing more than an adjunct of the Democrat Party. So has the PCUSA (the liberal Presbyterian Church). Also operating as fronts for the Democrats are the Epsicopalians, ECLA (Lutherans) and the UCC, (United Church of Christ). Even Baptists have reason to worry—the so-called Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, trying to pose as fake “moderates,” have gone full-bore leftwing in their theology and politics. If you’re in a CBF Baptist church, find another Baptist church without delay.
I concur about the ELCA Lutherans, who are way too into social gospel. A conservative Lutheran should consider either the Missouri Synod Lutherans or Wisconsin Synod Lutherans, both of which have congregations in North Carolina.
See TTB.org for examples of God-fearing pastors. They aren’t in establishment churches. Dr. Vernon McGee is heard daily in over 200 languages and is responsible for remarkable growth in Christianity, even in countries where it is dangerous to own a Bible.
I completely agree with the comment above about so-called “moderate” Baptist churches. Pastors of these churches are hiding their liberal politics and beliefs from many of their own members. Look into a group known as “AWAB” which is infiltrating Baptist churches with LGBT ideology and personnel. You would be shocked to know what is going on with this group and Baptist churches right here in NC supporting them.