In a city that trumpets change at every turn, billboard and subway advertisement, a call has rung out for honest coverage of the now idolized Obama administration.Things felt so one sided that Time Magazine felt the need to featured this article.
The March for Life was here in DC a few weeks ago. I missed it because I was working at a soup kitchen outside of central DC.
On my way home from the kitchen, a little boy walking past me in Union Station yelled "Vote for life not Obama!" I watched a few heads turn. Feeling ashamed of the image he was portraying, I couldn't help but want to quiet him. I wanted everyone around him to know that not all Christians polarize political issues like that. I wanted to say that Jesus wasn't just a moralistic code, that he didn't have a political party. I wanted to tell the little boy not to make a sensitive situation more sensitive.
Along the 7 block walk home, my friends and I discussed the need for caution as those representing Christ in a place where people have fallen in love with a man that has given them hope, promised them newness of life and provided them what they believe to be concrete evidence he can pull it off.
A fellow WJCer mentioned that what that little boy yelled was morality, rather than Jesus. Jesus was concious of his culture while preaching truth that, in itself, appeared as foolishness "to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God" (1 Corinthians 1:18 NASB).
If one is to ever have a voice in a city fallen head over heels with a president that has taken a strong stance on issues such as abortion, there is a need for speech "with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person" (Colossians 4:6 NASB).
*Picture taken by Sarah Breen
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