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A Prayer for Politicians  

11/25/2000

 
It's been over two weeks since our national election, and we still don't know who our new president will be. The judges, journalists, and politicians are all trying to sort it out. Needless to say, it's a mess. It seems particularly important to pray for the politicians right now. I couldn't do better than to offer the following prayer given earlier this year in the Florida Senate (where else?)  by  Donald L. Roberts, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries Manasota, Inc.:
Holy and Eternal God, it must be great to be God, to get what you want-when you want it-how you want it. We mere mortals are not that lucky. We are always having to compromise to get what we want. We call the process "politics". You see, O Lord, we find Senator Jennings' priority number one is Senator McKay's priority number five and Governor Bush's priority number ten; and Senator Carlton doesn't even know it's on the agenda while Secretary of State Kathryn Harris is busy closing down shop. In the midst of all this "politicking" during Session, we know we are supposed to "Be still and know" your will for our lives and all the people of the State of Florida-with every lobbyist in the world bugging us to death. So, God, while we acknowledge you never said discipleship would be easy, we do call upon you to come and be in these Senate Chambers today. Thank you, Lord, the Session is almost over, the budget deal is cut, education got some more money, we cut a few taxes and in the end, most everyone in this chamber didn't get everything they wanted. And that's the good news. That's politics, Lord, and unless you want to move over and give us the job of being God, which some of us think is our birthright, we will have to muddle along being satisfied with being the best politicians you can create. It's the fun part of being human. In the name of the God of all things, even politics and politicians and in rare instances a lobbyist or two, Amen.
May God help the politicians and all of us muddle through the aftermath of this election--for the next few weeks and for the next four years

©2000 C. David Hess

Cloning Jesus?

11/1/2000

 
Scientists have cloned sheep and other animals. Everyone is wondering when they are going to clone the first human. Now there is a group which is going to attempt to clone Jesus. They refer to it as “The Second Coming Project.” Here’s the explanation on the group’s website:
The Second Coming Project is a not-for-profit organization devoted to bringing about the Second Coming of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, as prophesied in the Bible, in time for the 2,000th anniversary of his birth. Our intention is to clone Jesus, utilizing techniques pioneered at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, by taking an incorrupt cell from one of the many Holy Relics of Jesus' blood and body that are preserved in churches throughout the world, extracting its DNA, and inserting into an unfertilized human egg (oocyte), through the now-proven biological process called nuclear transfer. The fertilized egg, now the zygote of Jesus Christ, will be implanted into the womb of a young virginal woman (who has volunteered of her own accord), who will then bring the baby Jesus to term in a second Virgin Birth.

If all goes according to plan, the birth will take place on December 25, 2001...

No longer can we rely on hope and prayer, waiting around futilely for Jesus to return. We have the technology to bring him back right now: there is no reason, moral, legal or Biblical, not to take advantage of it. In order to save the world from sin, we must clone Jesus to initiate the second coming of Christ.
Despite the fact that this was reported as real news by Fox News and several leading newspapers, the whole thing is a hoax. (You can read about this and other famous religious hoaxes on the web at http://www.snopes.com/religion/religion.htm)

Of course, it got me thinking. Isn’t that what the gospel is all about, cloning Jesus? It’s not done with transplanted DNA inserted into a human egg but with his Spirit inserted into a human heart. That’s what God is trying to do with you and me. What a difference it might make in our community, to the whole world, if this experiment is successful.

©2000 C. David Hess

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