{"id":24790,"date":"2020-09-28T20:01:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T01:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24790"},"modified":"2020-09-28T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T01:06:56","slug":"pastoring-through-a-contested-election-a-kenyan-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24790","title":{"rendered":"Pastoring Through A Contested Election: A Kenyan Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I\u2019m about to talk about a topic as precious to us as politics, allow me to make a clarification as I begin. Contrary to popular opinion\u2014perhaps even including that of the editors of this article\u2014this is not <em>the<\/em> African perspective, nor is it <em>the<\/em> Kenyan perspective. In fact, what I\u2019m about to say might not even be the perspective of the members of our congregation. I\u2019m simply sharing one pastor\u2019s best efforts to lead his congregation through a season of political turmoil. So draw any counsel you might from the words below with caution. This is simply what Ken from Kenya thinks; Africa has not approved this message.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m yet to witness a Kenyan election that was not contested, save the General Elections of 2002 where we all got what we wanted: the ousting of the incumbent who had ruled for 24 years and the installment of a coalition government which we all believed would usher in the kingdom. Five years later, the elections were bitterly contested, and the country stratified yet again along tribal lines. Promises were broken, alliances were redrawn, and lives were lost. Beaming optimism devolved into bitter cynicism. The evil of our tribalism that we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s ever a time to trust in the sufficiency of God\u2019s Word, it\u2019s in the midst of political turmoil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[3028,312,1376],"class_list":["post-24790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-church-unity","tag-leadership","tag-politics","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24792,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24790\/revisions\/24792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}