Cleric

"Hey, you're a pastor, right?" That question came from my approaching neighbor as I exited my car yesterday afternoon. He attends CNU & was working on an assignment for a Religion class. He needed to interview a "cleric" and you know me - I'm definitely a cleric! (lol) He recorded our interview with his spiffy green IPOD Nano (nice). Anyway, he asked a series of very interestig questions and I rambled off my answers. Here is the gist of a few (answers not included)...

• Do you believe the Bible literally?
• Do you think we (the U.S.) should attempt to get other nations to embrace our form of Goverment?
• What are your views regarding separation of church & state?
• Do you believe your religion is the only correct one?
• Who would you prefer handle benevolent/charity type efforts - government or private organizations?
• How do I feel about religious "hot button" isues like homosexual marriage, abortion & stem cell research?
• Do you address social/political issues at church?

It was a really good conversation and I got to proclaim Christ. I could tell we had a lot in common at least politically. He's a Republcan moving toward Libertarian (like me). He's a Political Science major (I was too before switching to the most intellectually demanding major: Sociology!). He's a CNU student and I'm an alumnus. We supported the same candidate for Governor here in Virginia and, right now, we have the same mayoral candidate's sign in our respective front yards. There was much more, but the sum of the discussion was better than the details. How cool was it to have a college age guy sit in my living room and discuss with me the important issues of our day? VERY COOL. Now I need to figure out how to make that happen again.