I thought this was a cool testimony...
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CNN.com

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ... also expressed his admiration for Barack Obama, saying he told the new U.S. president at a recent White House meeting that he prays more for the American leader than for himself "because although I face many problems, he has much more delicate problems than I."

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Hi all,

Let me venture in where angels fear to tread. :-)

It feels like several our of our recent Congregational Prayers were about political rather than theological issues. I am of two minds about this, as I believe we need to be in the world but not of it. What I am certain of is that there is plenty of room for grave mistakes.

So, how do you think we can/should best handle political issues as a congregation, particularly on Sunday morning? What do we need to achieve? What must we avoid?

Last weekend, I attended a conference in Menlo Park called Conversational Evangelism.
The basic idea of the conference was to inform us that old forms of evangelism are no longer useful/effective in our current post-christian, post-modern culture, and then to "sell" some new methods of evangelism.