{"id":4875,"date":"2020-10-23T10:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michigancog.org\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2020-10-23T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:22:59","slug":"special-blog-election-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michigancog.org\/special-blog-election-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Blog: Election 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>This blog is an excerpt from Pastor Jentezen Franklin\u2019s message \u201cFast Pray Vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour million. That\u2019s how many evangelical Christians didn\u2019t vote in the last presidential election. You may think ONE individual vote doesn\u2019t make a difference-but 4,000,000 individuals can determine an election.<\/p>\n<p>Are you in the silent majority? Even though we are the majority in America-our values, our morals, and our beliefs represent the majority-yet we have grown to believe our vote doesn\u2019t count, or worse we have allowed a handful or elite social icons to silence our voices.<\/p>\n<p>I want to stir in your hearts such indignity that none of us can continue watching from the sidelines. I believe America is crying out to the Church . . . Our country has come knocking at the threshold of our door looking for truth and life. It\u2019s time we answer the call to respond.<\/p>\n<p>I am fully aware of the horrendous acts of violence and religious genocide taking place in countries across the globe while you and I still have the right to worship. But don\u2019t fool yourself, as a nation we are not exempt from such horror, and it begins with silencing the Church. I believe that is where we are. We are moments away from losing our religious liberties.<\/p>\n<p>Pray has become a four-letter word in our schools and government functions. The sanctity of life has been reduced to a line item in a party platform under the guise of a woman\u2019s rights. And now racism rears its head in violent, murderous acts. So many people are asking what can I do?<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I believe our first action is to VOTE. There are non-negotiable issues we as Christians must stand behind. I not think either presidential candidate is perfect, I believe, like you and me, they are both flawed. I will make my choice based on what the Bible says about the issues I feel are urgent to protecting the future of our nation. We must vote pro-life, pro-Israel, pro-morality based on God\u2019s Word. When you do not vote, you\u2019re silencing the voice God gave you. Your one vote counts. It matters!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And may God bless America &#8211; Bishop Box<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is an excerpt from Pastor Jentezen Franklin\u2019s message \u201cFast Pray Vote.\u201d \u201cFour million. That\u2019s how many evangelical Christians didn\u2019t vote in the last presidential election. You may think&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michigancog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michigancog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michigancog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michigancog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michigancog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/michigancog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michigancog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michigancog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michigancog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}