He doesn’t want to disrupt DC churches with gawkers displacing the members of the church and he doesn’t want to choice between the many black churches that were vying for his attendance. He’ll be going to the same church that Bush attended and will be able to worship in peace.
The chaplain is the grand-nephew of Johnny Cash:
Camp David’s current chaplain, Lieut. Carey Cash, leads the services at Evergreen. If the White House had custom-ordered a pastor to be the polar opposite of Jeremiah Wright, they could not have come as close as Cash. (As it is, the White House had no hand in selecting Cash. The Navy rotates chaplains through Camp David every three years; Cash began his tour this past January.) The 38-year-old Memphis native is a graduate of the Citadel and the great-nephew of Johnny Cash. He served a tour as chaplain with a Marine battalion in Iraq and baptized nearly 60 Marines during that time. Cash earned his theology degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth — and, yes, that means Obama’s new pastor is a Southern Baptist.
But according to the article he won’t be his spiritual adviser, Obama already has men to fill that role:
Obama has a small group of pastors he contacts for prayer and spiritual support (including two men who played the same role at times for Bush).
Those two, Kirbyjon Caldwell and T.D. Jakes, are both African-American ministers from Texas. Caldwell offered a prayer at Bush’s first inauguration and in 2008 he officiated at Jenna Bush’s wedding.
I’m glad he’ll be attending a church that avoids anti-Semitic and racially charged language and sticks with the solid biblical teaching. I pray his faith is strengthened and he comes to a better understanding of the God he serves.
Though, from a Christian perspective it’s a shame that one of his advisers is a heretic (T.D. James is a Oneness Pentecostal and denies the Trinity and the unique personhood of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit).
posted June 29, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Heretic? *Holds head in disgust* Incapable of seeing the mote in your own eye. Consider, just for a second, that you might be wrong about something.
posted June 29, 2009 at 5:06 pm
(T.D. Jakes is a Oneness Pentecostal and denies the Trinity
As Jakes denies this, you might be better off hitting him with the prosperity gospel stuff.
Sounds like a good choice for him.
posted June 29, 2009 at 8:40 pm
The Obama’s needed to be where they would be comfortable. It seems that that has happened.
posted June 29, 2009 at 9:20 pm
We have had at least five Unitarian Presidents and Lincoln never professed faith in Christ as the Son of God, though the argument that he was an atheist falls flat if you read his towering Second Inaugural speech.
Despite their lack of faith in the Trinity, these Presidents managed to keep the nation from disintegrating…and I point this out as a Trinitarian Christian.
Jakes can be taken to task for hawking the Prosperity Gospel, which I think is a more destructiver heresy. But, I see no evidence that Obama has ever bought into the claptrap, any more than anyone can produce a shred of evidence that he is anti-Semitic or anti-white because of the fulminations of Jeremiah Wright, who went over the deep end when the TV light focused on him.
posted June 29, 2009 at 10:08 pm
I am glad that President Obama is making plans to spend quality time with God. This will be a blessing not just for him, but for all of us. Let’s remember to keep President Obama in our prayers.
posted June 29, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I am glad that President Obama is making plans to spend quality time with God. This will be a blessing not just for him, but for all of us. Let’s remember to keep President Obama in our prayers.
posted June 30, 2009 at 10:30 am
The saddest part of this post is that Michele believes that she has some credibility to judge who the president meets with for spiritual guidance. Michele is a joke. She would bash anyone that Obama would meet, because its Obama. I think Michele needs to seek spiritual advice.
posted June 30, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Yes, modalism is a heresy.
posted June 30, 2009 at 2:30 pm
“The saddest part of this post is that Michele believes that she has some credibility to judge who the president meets with for spiritual guidance. Michele is a joke. She would bash anyone that Obama would meet, because its Obama. I think Michele needs to seek spiritual advice.”
I do get spiritual advice all the time, it’s called the Bible and I can make a comment on T.D. Jakes because I understand from the Christian perspective (you know, naming Christ by calling yourself a Christian as our president does) that Jakes is a heretic. There’s nothing wrong with mentioning that because it’s true.
posted June 30, 2009 at 2:33 pm
“I am glad that President Obama is making plans to spend quality time with God. This will be a blessing not just for him, but for all of us. Let’s remember to keep President Obama in our prayers.”
I agree with you Madelynne that it’s good for the president and his family to find a church they can feel comfortable in. Where they can grow closer to the Lord and strengthen their faith. And hopefully get a chance to participate in community which is an important aspect of church.
posted June 30, 2009 at 2:36 pm
“We have had at least five Unitarian Presidents and Lincoln never professed faith in Christ as the Son of God,”
I’m sorry, did you think I cared about it because he’s our president? I cared about it because he calls himself a Christian. Being a Trinitarian has no bearing on his ability to lead this country. Obviously, as you have pointed.