Image from Intercessors for America guide to the 2018 midterm elections.
If you need some motivation to be involved and vote the midterm elections, here it is!
IFA’s vision is “to see God’s purposes for America fulfilled through sustained prayer and Spirit-led obedience.” Kyle noted last month that IFA’s director, Dave Kubal, had posted a video talking about the 2018 midterms and the importance of “aligning intercessors with elected officials” in order “to see great advances of the kingdom of God” enacted “through our government.”
IFA’s 2018 guide touts the importance of getting engaged before primary elections, and it’s talking specifics.
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It’s important to note that IFA wants people to do more than pray: It wants them to get actively involved in election campaigns. The midterm guide links to an IFA publication on “intercessory activism,” which it defines as “promoting and releasing God’s kingdom values in today’s political process by adding action to intercession, joining in political campaigns and elections, positioning intercessors alongside elected officials to support them in prayer.”
IFA’s “Intercessory Activism Guide” encourages people to volunteer in campaigns and to consider running for office. “Ask God how He might want you to become more actively involved in campaigns and elections in your area,” the guide suggests. It also suggests praying for protection for “God-fearing candidates” and asking that “those who are truly called of the Lord would stand out among the rest.”
These assholes don’t care whether or not a person running for office is actually qualified to hold said office, all they care about is if the person is an asshole christian. They’re supporting Cynthia Dunbar in a bid for congress, FFS.
When your enemies start depending on the power of prayer, that’s a good sign.
If that’s all this was, yes, but it’s not -- they are actively getting people to campaign, vote, and run for office. Ignoring this kind of thing didn’t work out so fucking well last time, did it?
Ignoring this kind of thing didn’t work out so fucking well last time, did it?
Definitely not advocating ignoring it.
I keep hoping it’s an “extinction burst” but clearly it’s not.
That puts me in mind of this.
Joseph, that’s appropriately scary.
From my outsider point of view, I cannot fault them for encouraging people sharing their professed* values to become more involved in politics.
But, yeah, they are not my favorite brand.
*note I did say “professed”. As to the reality of these values and of their sharing…
Well, on one hand, in the usual wishful thinking of the religious-inclined, being a proper god-fearing believer is qualification enough (see any theocracy).
OTOH, were I living in the US, that would be a very compelling argument for counter-advocacy. Definitively not my favorite brand.
In my country, the French communists and left unionists were once the ones walking in the suburbs, listening to people’s grievances and advocating for people to become and stay involved in politics. That was in the 70’s-80’s, before the French’s leftish “vague rose” with president Mitterrand.
Nowadays, they have been replaced by people from Le Pen party. Or other equally less savorous characters. And a lot of people are just blasé and cynical with everything political. Our elections tend to reflect this state of street advocacy…
Athaic:
Yes, but at least most of your people had the sense to keep Le Pen out. A lot of people here became so petty they refused to vote out of spite, rather than just sucking it up and doing the right thing.
They say “Midterms” and my brain defaults to “exams”, which means I spent a nice collection of minutes staring at that poster and wondering why the heck does it matter who’s donating for your exam?