{"id":27243,"date":"2016-10-12T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=27243"},"modified":"2016-10-12T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:18:46","slug":"voices-southern-baptist-leader-trump-lost-soul-must-repent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=27243","title":{"rendered":"Other Voices:   Southern Baptist Leader \u2014 Trump &#8220;Lost Soul&#8221; Who Must Repent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cbn.com\/tv\/embedplayernews.aspx?bcid=4926235143001\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>(RNS) (CBN News)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Published June 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore has not been shy about mixing it up with Donald Trump, and now Moore is at it again, telling an interviewer that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is a \u201clost person\u201d who needs to find Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMy primary prayer for Donald Trump is that he would first of all repent of sin and come to faith in Jesus Christ,\u201d Moore told David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network in a video posted Friday (June 3). \u201cThat\u2019s my prayer for any lost person.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Moore, who as head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention is the denomination\u2019s chief policy spokesman, has been one of the most stalwart evangelical critics of Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Moore has for months blasted what he sees as Trump\u2019s boorish behavior and character flaws, and last month he ramped it up with pointed comments in an op-ed in The New York Times and an appearance on \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13638 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Donald-Trump-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Donald-Trump-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Donald-Trump.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/>Trump\u2019s campaign was \u201creality television moral sewage,\u201d he told \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d and in the Times he criticized Trump\u2019s followers \u2014 many of whom are Moore\u2019s fellow evangelicals \u2014 for using racist \u201cthreats and intimidation\u201d tactics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Trump, who is hardly shy about attacking his critics, struck back on Twitter \u2014 where Moore is also no shrinking violet \u2014 and the social media war was on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking to CBN\u2019s Brody, Moore said he would also pray that a conversion for Trump \u2014 who says he is a Christian \u2014 would translate into a change in his public policies in terms of \u201cthe principles of justice\u201d and the \u201cAmerican constitutional framework.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Moore added that would also mean a change \u201cnot only in terms of the way in which he (Trump) is changing the moral character of people, including the people that are supporting him and getting on the bandwagon, having had to excuse things that they\u2019ve never had to excuse before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">That appeared to be a reference to the many Republican leaders \u2014 like former candidate Marco Rubio and, most recently, House Speaker Paul Ryan \u2014 who were once staunchly anti-Trump but have since embraced the likely nominee, often awkwardly given the public record of their earlier opposition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Trump, who enjoyed strong support from white evangelicals during the primaries, has also been winning over many conservative Christians leaders, to the chagrin of Moore and other #NeverTrump diehards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Trump will continue that lobbying effort this month when he addresses a major conference of social conservatives in Washington on Friday (June 10).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Then on June 21, some 500 conservative Christian leaders will meet with Trump in New York City for a \u201cguided discussion\u201d to solidify their support for him or win over any skeptics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Moore has said he could not support either Trump or Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee; 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