The President of the United States, Joe Biden, participated in the traditional Annual Prayer Breakfast, an event that brings together religious leaders and political authorities in his country. On the occasion, he quoted verses from the Bible and encouraged the maintenance of faith in God, as well as Christian practice.
Biden began his speech by quoting Matthew 22:37: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind and all your soul. And love your neighbor as yourself”, he declared, revealing that this is the “most difficult” biblical passage in his opinion, referring to his political experience with opponents.
“My prayer for this prayer breakfast is that we begin to see each other again, looking at each other again; travel with each other again, argue fiercely with each other again, but then go out to lunch together,” Biden said.
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The participation of Biden, who is Catholic, in the annual coffee of prayers, is a gesture that signals his desire to seek the support of the Christian community, considering that his bias in favor of leftist agendas is a reason for criticism on the part of the conservatives, especially evangelicals.
The US president, for example, is a defender of gender ideology, and has already made statements in favor of the fallacious “sex change” for minors, including children (see here), something that does not have the support in biblical doctrine. Christian.
Despite this, interestingly, Biden called for Americans to be practitioners of the Word of God. “My message to all of you and the nation as we move forward, move forward together,” he said, according to CBN News.
“Let us be doers of the Word. Let’s keep the faith, let’s remember who we are… we are the United States of America,” added the president. Also present at the event, Pastor Jim Cymbala of the Brooklyn Tabernacle spoke about the importance of prayer.
“Everyone that humbles himself and comes to God, and says God help me, God gives him His word: ‘I will never, ever turn you away, I’m going to give you just what you need.’ If someone needs to pray for wisdom, isn’t it personal? [Então ore] every day, every hour,” he said.