Warren-Obama: A Threat to What?

Rick Phillips

There is so much irony wrapped up in Rick Warren's invitation to invoke God's blessing on the inauguration of Barak Obama that I am astonished that Carl Trueman has not written more about it.  The news is that the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender (can they really say this with a straight face?) community is incensed that an anti-GLBST evangelical is participating in such a meaningful way.  But can anyone really believe that Rick Warren is a serious threat to neo-pagan sensualism?  By far the greater threat is that which Warren will pose to the gospel, especially at an event that is bound to take state-as-savior idolatry to a new stratosphere.  In my view, this is what will really be interesting: how far will the Obama-Messiah pageantry and rhetoric be taken?  With this in mind, I am not excited that an "evangelical" "leader" will be invoking God's blessing.  Here's why I am more worried for the gospel than for the GLBST agenda: