FLAWED PEOPLE

Christianity Today wrote that President Trump should be impeached because of his lack of moral character/fiber. Some so-called Christian leaders jumped on their case and said ‘God used flawed people’ to accomplish His will. Three thoughts:

(1) All of us are flawed. We are born sinners. We inherited a sin nature from Adam and until God regenerates us, we are lost. We are flawed even after we are regenerated. Being flawed is a universal trait.

(2) All of us lack moral character/fiber. We fall short of God’s standard and whether it is by a foot or a mile, it’s still short. It makes little difference when God measures us against the righteousness of Christ. CT’s editor falls short, the defenders of Trump fall short, Trump falls short.

(3) All of this brew haha is temporal. It will pass and another so-called political crisis will take it’s place. As John MacArthur says, “the kingdom of darkness will do what the kingdom of darkness will do.” When believers take their eyes off the eternal and begin to focus on changing their culture by becoming RELEVANT and not REVERENT their culture is doomed. .

God did use many flawed leaders, sometimes wicked leaders, to lead His people and Trump is definitely flawed, but so was Obama, Bush, and every other president before them. But God used them in spite of their flaws and not because of them. When Christians ignore and excuse Trump’s foul mouth and continual insults in the name of political expedience, they are practicing situational ethics. They are excusing misbehavior/flaws/sin. That doesn’t mean the other side is better. In this case, the left leaning politicos feign outrage when they practice what they condemn. But believers should never lower God’s standards and excuse misbehavior on their side.

CT was wrong to ask for Trump’s impeachment and removal because being a rude, crude, socially unacceptable blowhard is not an impeachable offense. Congress can’t constitutionally get rid of a president because they don’t like him or what he says and that was what CT was saying. But their admonition to believers to be careful to not excuse sin is a good one.