{"id":1713,"date":"2009-09-01T17:38:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T00:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2009-09-01T17:38:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T00:38:56","slug":"steven-anderson-wrong-wrong-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/steven-anderson-wrong-wrong-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Anderson: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href='http:\/\/primebuzz.kcstar.com\/?q=node\/19782' title=\"Steven Anderson hates President Obama\">Pastor Steven Anderson prays for President Obama&#8217;s death<\/a>, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt of the above story. What Biblical commands and injunctions is this guy violating anyway?!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pastor Steven Anderson said he and his congregation have received death threats after a controversial sermon earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guns are a great deterrent,&#8221; said Anderson.  &#8220;We haven&#8217;t had any violence because people know if they come down here swinging a baseball bat, we&#8217;re ready to protect ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On August 16th, Anderson delivered a sermon titled &#8220;Why I Hate Barack Obama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In it, Anderson admitted he prays for the president&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>It is a position he reiterated Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to know how I&#8217;d like to see Obama die, I&#8217;d like him to die of natural causes,&#8221; said Anderson.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t want him to be a martyr, we don&#8217;t need another holiday. I&#8217;d like to see him die, like Ted Kennedy, of brain cancer.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s this from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/08\/31\/phoenix-pastor-draws-protests-telling-church-prays-obamas-death\/\" title=\"Pastor Steven Anderson wants President Obama dead!\">Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He called his message &#8220;spiritual warfare&#8221; and said he does not condone killing. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In Anderson&#8217;s controversial sermon, delivered at his Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe before Obama arrived for a speech in Phoenix earlier in the month, the pastor said he wants the president to &#8220;melt like a snail&#8221; with salt on it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna pray that he dies and goes to hell when I go to bed tonight. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m gonna pray,&#8221; he told his congregation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, what do you say? Which New Testament rules for Christian living is Mr. Steven Anderson disobeying?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s compile a Christianity 101 lesson outline for him (and for us) on this subject. Maybe after we get something together here, I&#8217;ll post it as a separate post called &#8220;A Biblical Sermon Outline for Steven Anderson&#8221; &#8212; or something like that. And link to it at some free sermon outlines web site.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I call on God&#8217;s people to pray for the President. Pray for God&#8217;s protection over President Obama and his family. Not only that, pray for God&#8217;s blessing on them.<\/p>\n<p>(Just so you know, right now I can&#8217;t think of any part of President Obama&#8217;s agenda as I know it that I would call righteous. 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