by Ingrid Schlueter and Rev. Wayne Sedlak
Excerpts from Renegade Prophet? A Look at the Teachings of Tony Campolo
to be released by VCY America Press. Copyright 1997 VCY America, Inc.

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Tony Campolo thinks highly of President Bill Clinton. He is deeply impressed with Clinton's spirituality.

      "If I were to posture Bill Clinton, I would have to say he's about halfway between Baptist and Pentecostal. He really has a deep sensitivity for the excitement of Pentecostal spirituality. Um, a lot of people say when they go to meet with the President, I prayed with the President. I don't. Whenever I'm with the President I always ask him to pray and he prays with deep intensity, and I always come away excited, because I sense something there, I sense something alive there. People always ask me, well, what about his personal life? I don't know a thing about his personal life; I just know the man I met about four years ago, and I love him and he's my friend and I've seen him interact with the First Lady and with Chelsea. I've been to dinner there and I feel a loving relationship between people. I sense, much to my critics chagrin, the presence, the presence of God there. So, I, uh, sense a man who is really seeking to know God, who really wants to follow Christ in his everyday walk. I know a man who knows the Bible , who quotes it, who understands it, and uh, so that's my appraisal of where he's coming from."1 (emphasis added)

Tony Campolo is very defensive of the President, especially when Christians bring attention to issues such as Clinton's protection for the butchering of pre-born babies, his promotion of the radical homosexual rights agenda and his persecution of pro-life Christians through the Justice Department and the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance legislation. Campolo was so incensed with Dr. Jerry Falwell for distributing the video, The Clinton Chronicles, he demanded that Dr. Falwell grant him equal time to defend Clinton. Falwell refused.

Dr. Campolo talks about his first meeting with the President back in October of 1993:

      "I sensed a hurt about the President. Many of the mean things that have been said about him and his wife by some radio preachers and TV evangelists have hit their target. There was obvious pain over the absence of kindness, and even truth, in many of the things that have come from so many of us."

He continues:

      "In his searching eyes, I felt him asking if we would join hands with him in his struggle to rescue urban youth from the plague of violent crime. Would we partner with him to do what needs to be done to cut back on the sexual promiscuity that has led to the dramatic rise in premarital pregnancies? Was there anything that we could do together to help rebuild the shattered American family? And could we join hands in doing something good for the homeless?"

Campolo then states the obvious. He believes that Christians should join together to support Clinton:

      "The ball is in our court now. We can reject Mr. Clinton's overtures and embrace the skepticism that will only lead to destructive tensions between him and the evangelical community. Or we can act in faith and believe that together there is much that we can do to rekindle the spiritual fires that once provided the dynamism of our nation. I think that we have no other option but to take hold of his outstretched hand and ask, 'Mr. President, what can we do together?'"2

There are millions of Christians who have refused to join hands with President Clinton. They will not because the President's hands are covered with the blood of innocent children.

Note: As of the printing of this publication, President Cinton is poised to once again veto the ban on partial- birth abortions. He has always outspokenly defended the killing of pre-born children at every stage of development. Dr. Campolo states in his book 20 Hot Potatoes that he found preschoolers engaged in killing ants to be "demonic." Dr. Campolo feels that a President who defends the law that allows abortionists to cut open a baby's head and suck out its brains can exude the "presence of God."3 The long overdue question we must ask is, which "god" is he talking about?

They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.
Proverbs 28:4

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
I Corinthians 10:21