statueman's Blog

I was glad to find on youtube the videos mentioned on the news of Sarah Palin talking to the discipleship program students involved with the Master Commission.  Apparently Sarah Palin is a woman who has grown up in an Assemblies of God Church.   Through the years I've attended services at pentacostal Churches that featured prophecies that in the cases I know of did not come true.  I've seen many things in the services of pentecostal churches through the years that were beyond flakey and I've met folks in those churches that were infinately more practicle than the church itself.  They were in that church because they loved somebody in that church and not necessarily because the agreed with everything that goes on there.

Now I'm linking the video of Governor Sarah Palin sharing with the Masters Commission students because it is the strait uncensored video.  I want to say only that I find nothing controversial or inherently wrong with what Sarah Palin says in this video given the audience she is addressing.  I think that I have a point of reference on this that speaks to the fact that Sarah Palin is being the best she can be for her church and the young people who have decided to be a part of the Masters Commission.  She ask for prayer that it be Gods Will that is done on the pipeline in Alaska and for the missions given to our soldiers in Iraq. 

I just want to say that the video I've linked and part two of that video show quite simply... a woman who grew up in her church encouraging young people and asking that Gods good will be done.  I've watched the video twice and for my part I have to defend this woman who is obviously simply being part of something that is larger than herself... being of service... suiting up and showing up.  I do not believe that this is in itself evidence that she holds any grandios ideas that will be ascribed to her because of her involvement with that church. 

This is why I didn't like the Rev Wright thing... if I had a dime for everytime I heard some pastor make some off the wall do a double take comment I'd be richer than Bill Gates.  Looking at that video tells me why Sarah was mayor and then Governor of Alaska.  I see a practical, tough, caring and friendly woman going to a church where there are people that she loves.  That's it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGOu-X76rR0&NR=1

http://www.masterscommission.com/index2.html>