‘Lean on Jesus’ in fight against COVID-19, Gov. Greg Abbott says
This is one of the best governors in our country. One who has the right priorities unlike the ones in Virginia and Michigan. He has the right balance between executive power and individual and religious liberty and is well grounded in his beliefs. His life is an exemplary example to many people. He is one of the least restraining of individuals liberty who did have to set limits and he’s among the first to begin the restart of the economy. This man should be President one day.
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In an interview with Pastor Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Texas on his faith and response to the COVID-19 disease, Gov. Greg Abbott told the viewers they have “support you can lean on that will always be there for you, and that’s Jesus Christ.”
The interview took place during the church’s weekend services. Graham thanked Abbott for leading the fight against an unprecedented crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and asked if he had a personal story of a crisis.
Abbott said his experience of the crisis in his own life was helping him lead in the crisis today.
“When I was just 26 years old, I suffered, literally, a back-breaking injury,” Abbott explained to Graham, who is on President Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board. He said the injury left him paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair.
“It’s a test of your faith,” the governor said. “Why would God allow something like this to happen?”
“But,” he added, “very importantly, I found in the aftermath, that I continued to reach out to God. I found God reach back out to me. And my relationship with God and Jesus Christ grew even closer after that accident.”
Abbott said everybody is going through a testing and challenging time due to the coronavirus pandemic. But there is a solution, he added, and “support you can lean on that will always be there for you, and that’s Jesus Christ, God Almighty.”
“The growth of the coronavirus in Texas is slowing by people staying at home, by people reducing interaction with others,” he continued. “God’s hand is working through the scientists across this great nation by coming out with fast, innovative drugs that would lead to therapeutic remedies.”
Assuring him that the churches in Texas would fully cooperate with his plans, Graham said the church is also praying for “the greatest comeback that we’ve ever known.”
It’s going to be great “in God’s time,” the pastor said.
Earlier during the interview, Abbott said Texas wants to lead the way for Americans to return to their lives and livelihoods, as he begins to open up the state in a phased manner in May. He said the priority is to save lives and protect people’s health.
Graham called for prayers "for our leaders" and asked everyone to "work together to bring our nation out of this crisis. As a church, we believe that God is at work in our moments of crisis and He will see us through this pandemic.”
Prestonwood says it is providing relief to the community by distributing meals, hosting blood drives and providing career and financial advice for people facing unemployment, among other services.
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I'll stick to science and medicine to deal with Covid. That offers far more tangible "hope" than mere belief.
"Lean on Jesus"
That's not social distancing !
LMAO. Unlike others I get that you were joking.
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I (not you, but me) was amused by the seeming juxtaposition of performing a non social distancing function during these times of supposed required social distancing
Already did
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No worries, we all make mistakes
LOL
My belief is that you are once again mistaken
As they say opinions are like assholes everyone has one
Yet here you still are
they don't care who they infect...
right after proof is provided that they haven't...
This is one of the best governors in our country.
Color me not impressed with this fool.
Some people have to work really hard to appear to be such a fool. For others, there is no effort required.
Yeah sure. Abbott leaned on Jesus when he went jogging during a tornado warning. The tornado arrived, blew limbs from trees, one of them struck him which crippled him for life. Perhaps he leans the wrong way.
Partly True
Technically, tornado season ends June 1 in TX which is also the beginning of Hurricane season.
Normally, we suffer persistent winds and gust for many hours even days after a storm passes.
Every life long Texan knows this.
Abbott was injured by the falling tree in mid July of 1984. He sued the homeowner and a tree service, settling with an insurance company for adjustable lifetime payments which, when last discussed with Abbott, were $14,000 a month.
This is on top of an annual lump sum payment.
In his "defense" Abbott claims there are expenses which the settlement doesn't cover. He has also said he would give back every penny if he could walk again.
$8 million is the figure I heard
To quote your earlier complaint, "GOOD GRIEF"
My statement was to bbl-1.
His statement was wrong, there was no tornado. Good guess, maybe, but bad assumption.
Do you think tornadoes behave on schedules? For the record 1984 was the first year since 1957 that Texas reported zero tornadoes in July...
No where did I say there was a hurricane. Why react to things I did not state? Isn't that one of your most common complaints?
Wind storms however are a common occurrence along the Gulf Coast and wind storm insurance is a common rider in 14 Gulf Counties and
Harris County where Abbott was injured.
The quoted article was a 2013 pre-election interview about his background which questioned the generosity
of the type of settlement he benefited from, while publicly expressing a desire to create tort reform expressly to limit
the same kind of settlement for future victims. Hence, he was 'defensive' about discussing his finances.
Depends on how long he lives, the lump sum payments get phased out while his monthly payments increase annually. I believe the article states that the insurance payout will get to 11 million sometime in 2022.
The hurricane season starts June 1 and ends November 30
Fascinating because you accuse others of doing it to you so often, you then attribute something to me I did
not say.
Would you?
The topic is Abbott.
The Lord works in mysterious ways. According to the Governor, God has chosen to allow this virus to reach a pandemic level but is inspiring scientists to (slowly) work to try to defeat this virus.
People should stop trying to infer what God is 'doing'. It is ridiculous for the Governor to make such a claim. Not only is it illogical on its face, but it presumes knowledge that the Governor simply could not have (short of God Himself confiding in him).
Sickening is it not? It just kills me that people believe this slimy liar.
Kenneth Copeland (shown here), the richest 'prosperity televangelist' (~$1B) also claims to control the weather.
That just goes to show how ignorant and/or foolish and irrational people can really be. It's not surprising such qualities is so largely associated with religion & religious belief either. And yet, some people seem to take pride in that. Go figure.
He looks like a psycho.
Trump's spiritual adviser Paula White is a prosperity gospel preacher.
Are you saying Trump bows to a false god ?
You have said that God chose Trump to be president.
Why would he choose Trump when Trump's spiritual adviser is a false preacher?
Try to have a little internal consistency in your thinking.
The problem is the concept of faith: belief without evidence. If one merely accepts as true what another human being (including ancient ones) merely claims then one could believe anything.
The followers of Kenneth Copeland believe. How do you know they are wrong?
One could believe anything and some apparently do, no matter how ludicrous or illogical.
They are all false.
Most adults keep those personal things to themselves.
Have at it. The Mafia's have their roots in the Vatican and by comparison, many of the popes were much worse.
You would sit in judgment over a PotUS who did not have religious beliefs?
So if their religion was say Satanism, Wiccan, or some other "nature" based religions, then that's ok according to you?
Free will?
Note the lack of response to the questions.
I never expect a direct, thoughtful response Gordy.
Neither do I. The intellectual cowardice is most glaring.
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