Posted by Meredith Flynn
(New Orleans) Former Arkansas governor and U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee posed for photos and shared warm words with Southern Baptists who happened upon him in the convention center’s Starbucks.
Huckabee is in town to speak at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s alumni luncheon today.
In this political season, he urged Southern Baptists to vote, and encouraged pastors to endorse Jesus, rather than any political candidate, from their pulpits.
“I would never encourage a pastor to endorse a candidate from the pulpit; they need to endorse Jesus from the pulpit. But they absolutely need to endorse God’s word and his principles, and make sure that people apply those principles to the candidates,” Huckabee said.
“And far more than asking Christians to gravitate to a candidate, ask the candidates to gravitate towards God’s truth. Don’t vote and support people that don’t support the sacredness of every life, and the autonomy and independence of people of faith.”
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