Posted on 01/29/2016 5:34:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump is failing to gain support among American church leaders, new research has found, with just five per cent of Republican Protestant pastors saying they would vote for him.
Results of a survey conducted among ministers were released by Lifeway research, where senior church leaders were asked: "If the 2016 presidential election were held today, for whom would you vote?"
Ted Cruz won the race among pastors who identified as Republican, with 29 per cent of those polled saying they would vote for him. More than a third (39 per cent) were undecided, but one in ten said they would vote for Ben Carson, while eight per cent chose Marco Rubio. Just five per cent named Donald Trump as their top choice, which suggests there is a "huge gap between the pulpit and the pew," said Ed Stetzer, Lifeway's executive director.
"One of the few religious groups that national polls track are evangelical Christians, and it is hard not to notice a surprising gap between them and their pastors," he explained....
(Excerpt) Read more at christiantoday.com ...
Cruz for the next Pastor of a needed church. I think he would be very successful. Good Luck Ted.
Hillary as a Pastor? No thanks. So Cruz gets my vote as America’s Pastor.
There are a lot of negative, vile, disreputable Trumpets here, but I think you take the cake.
Thank you. A badge of honor from you.
He was mocking whoever wrote the ambiguous grammar of the headline, not the persons mentioned in the headline.
>>”One of the few religious groups that national polls track are evangelical Christians, and it is hard not to notice a surprising gap between them and their pastors,”
The congregation is there because of the work of the Holy Spirit. In far too many cases, the pastor is there because it is a job, benefits, retirement, and power.
>>There are a lot of negative, vile, disreputable Trumpets here, but I think you take the cake.
Your posts remind me of the story about the cop who pulled over the car with the Jesus fish, a “Honk if you love Jesus” bumper sticker, and window decal for a local evangelical church. He approached the car and told the driver that he thought the car was stolen because there’s no way that the person driving that car put all those stickers on the back.
Preach the gospel always, 2ndDiv. Use words if necessary.
This title says a lot about the state of pastors in the US today. It also says even more about the state of churches today.
Between our public education and our religious education, it is pretty easy to see why the USA is no longer recognizable from what it was in 1950, just for a starting point.
When you are named in the same sentence with Hillary it’s not a complement
I didn’t know we were the enemy. 2ndDivisionVet
There are two major political parties in the United States, so of course they’re going to write the story that way.
Did I mention you? I’ll admit there are Cruz supporters that go over the edge as well.
The job skills for President and pastor are entirely different. The President is a part of the Gov’t, and it’s roll is described in Romans One-Three: encourage those that do good and punish those that do evil.
“One-Three” in Trumpspeak is 13.
How could any pastor support Hillary when she is all out for aborting — killing babies.
Don’t these pastors know the Ten Commandments?
“That shalt not kill.”
I think you left something out; something about the driver being really abusive to other drivers or some such thing?
>>I think you left something out; something about the driver being really abusive to other drivers or some such thing?
Its the short version. It was implied when I said that “there was no way the person driving that car...” The person I wrote it to, who claims to have “strong principles” and who will only vote for a “Godly man” should have caught it.
Gotcha. Thanks.
When you hire someone for a job you try to hire the person most qualified for that job. You have a family member that is gravely ill so you hire the best doctor you can regardless of how pious he/she is. You need a lawyer your hire the best not the most godly. We are hiring a president not preacher. Go Trump!
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