John McCain informed media that he is not “’born again.’”
He’s not been baptized. However, McCain said to reporters that he’s “’just a Christian.’”
To be fair to McCain and his not being baptized, there are countless others who claim to be “just a Christian” who have never gone through the rite of baptism. In fact, the Salvation Army does not even practice the two Protestant sacraments of communion and baptism.
He has attended an Arizona Baptist Church and defends the Judeo-Christian heritage of America.
At the same time, he has a foul mouth and torpedo of a temper when tampered with.
Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson really doesn’t want to have anything to do with him as far as McCain’s political ambitions are concerned.
Dobon said he would not endorse McCain “under any circumstances. . .I pray that we will not get stuck with him.”
Those words were spoken prior to the McCain win as the Republican man for President. Dobson was disappointed that McCain would not support an Constitutional amendment for traditional marriage.
McCain and Jerry Falwell once had a falling out but then patched things up. McCain even adddressed Falwell’s Liberty University commencement audience.
When the matter of immigration and illegals was brought up months ago, McCain went easy on illegals by appealing to America’s Judeo-Christian backdrop.
He said: “’There are situations where we have to look at this issue from a humane and compassionate fashion. We are a Judeo-Christian valued nation. These are God’s children. But also, our first priority has to be our nation’s security and that will be my first and foremost priority.’”
While attending with his family a Baptist congregation, he was reared in the Episcopal Church, attended elitist Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, and attended chapel regularly—as expected—at the US Naval Academy.
When a POW, he recalls his reaching out to God: “’We all silently said the Pledge of Allegiance, we repeated the 23rd Psalm and the Lord’s Prayer, and anything else you’d want to [say] in there that would get us some help – but not out loud. If we were heard talking, they would come in and start torturing us.’”
McCain is pro-life and anti-homosexual match-ups of any definition.
Time will tell how much McCain wants to inform biblical believers—evangelicals of all denominations—how much God really does mean to his personal life. Evangelicals would like to know something about his devotional life—if there in fact is any. What does “Judeo-Christian” mean to McCain in his soul, in other words?
In that regard, McCain’s words to media may help: “’I pray regularly, and I don’t have to be getting ready for bed, to be getting up in the morning. I seize opportunities throughout the day.’ McCain often prays in thanks for a full life, he says.”
Richard Jackson, pastor emeritus of North Phoenix Baptist where McCain attends, says of his parishioner: “’I’m concerned about a person’s relationship with Christ and I am convinced he had that personal faith.’ McCain, he judges, ‘is not a biblically versed, mature Christian. He’s a novice scripturally.’
“Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth, a former North Phoenix member who has prayed with McCain, contends that the candidate’s trademark candor extends to his faith. ‘You read the Psalms, you see how David is brutally honest with God. That’s John. He doesn’t keep anything from the Creator any more than from the rest of us’” per Time’s David Van Biema.
