CNN: Brian McLaren, Advisor to Obama - Obama Seeking Emerging Church Voters

[Sing4Him]

CNN: Brian McLaren, Advisor to Obama - Obama Seeking Emerging Church Voters


Obama hopes to gain support of emerging church generation

CNN
July 1, 2008

(CNN) -- Democrats have usually conceded the evangelical vote during presidential elections, but Sen. Barack Obama is trying to change that by mobilizing what some call the "Christian left."

As part of his outreach to evangelical voters, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee will tour the Eastside Community Ministry in Zanesville, Ohio, on Tuesday and give an address on how he plans to builda "real" partnership between faith-based organizations and the White House if he becomes president.

Obama's outreach to evangelical voters has also included private summits with pastors, an effort to reach out to young evangelicals and a fundraiser with the Matthew 25 political action committee. It describes itself as a group of moderate evangelicals, Catholics and Protestants committed to electing the Illinois Democrat president....Brian McLaren, a former pastor who spent 24 years in the pulpit and is now an informal adviser to the Obama campaign, believes that a significant portion of evangelical voters are ready to break from their traditional home in the the Republican Party and take a new leap of faith with Obama....

"I think there's a very, very sizable percentage -- I think between a third and half -- of evangelicals, especially younger [evangelicals], who are very open to somebody with a new vision," McLaren said. Click here to read this entire article by CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/01/obama.evangelicals/index.html


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[JoelH]

He doesn't need to actively seek their votes even at this stage - they are already in his pockets given Obama's outspoken postmodern leftism (it must be noted Obama is not the older Marxist type of materialistic leftist). And from first day the post-evangelical Emergent Church people have been shown to be one of the reliably true-left bloc on secular political science.

The IMHO more interesting question is to check if those self-declared professing orthodox Emerging Church people, like Mark Driscoll and Co, will throw their lot in with Barak Hussein Obama? The Emerging Church people's intellectual buddies are "hipsters" in Seattle, New York, Paris, Berlin, and Barcelona and so on. And their secular mates are diehard Obama supporters.

[OnceWasLost]

Easy to support a guy like obama, when you have a distrust of the Word, and are free from moral restraint it demands.

[His Bride]

One day we will all give an answer to Jesus when we stand before Him. I try to examine my faith and what I do with it to keep myself honest before Him. The thought that I would be the cause for many falling away gives me the chills. However, I suppose if you don't believe in Hell and repentance and such, it wouldn't matter...until you are face to face with Him. And then it will be too late.

[Janh7]

I just left an EC and as I have said before its like one day we looked around in the parking lot at the cars and almost all of them had a CoEXist bumber sticker next to the Obama 08 sticker. My poor little Honda's fish eating the darwin symbol sure looked out of place.